May 3 – The coronation of King
Frederick I of Sweden takes place in Stockholm, six weeks after his rule began.
May 20 – The
Treaty of The Hague, signed between Spain and the Quadruple Alliance (Britain, France, the Netherlands and Austria) on February 17, goes into effect. Spain renounces its claims to the Italian possessions of the French throne, and Austria and the Duchy of Savoy trade
Sicily for
Sardinia.
May 25 – The British privateer Speedwell, captained by
George Shelvocke, is wrecked on the uninhabited island of
Más a Tierra, the same island where Alexander Selkirk was marooned for five years; the island off of the coast of
Chile is later called
Robinson Crusoe Island. The crew is marooned for five months but is able to build a boat from timbers salvaged from the wreck, and is able to escape the island on October 6.
June 1 – British silversmiths are once again allowed to use
sterling silver after 24 years of being limited to a higher quality (but softer)
Britannia silver.
June 11 – The British Parliament approves the
Bubble Act (officially the Royal Exchange and London Assurance Corporation Act 1719), prohibiting the formation of joint-stock companies without prior approval by royal charter.
June 19 – At
Burhanpur (in the modern-day Indian state of
Madhya Pradesh), the Nizam-ul-Mulk of Hyderabad survives an attempted ambush by
Mughal Empire forces dispatched by the Sayyid brothers (Syed Abdullah Khan and Syed Husain Ali Khan Barha) and goes on to establish a rival state in southern India.
June 25 – The "
South Sea Bubble", the phenomenal growth of the
South Sea Company, reaches its peak as South Sea stock is priced at £1,060 a share. By the end of September, as panic sales are made, the price falls to £150.
July–September
July 12 – Under the authority of the
Bubble Act, the Lords Justices in Great Britain attempt to curb some of the excesses of the stock markets during the "
South Sea Bubble". They dissolve a number of petitions for patents and charters, and abolish more than 80 joint-stock companies of dubious merit, but this has little effect on the creation of "Bubbles", ephemeral joint-stock companies created during the hysteria of the times.[2]
July 27 – The
Battle of Grengam takes place in the Ledsund strait between the island communities of Föglö and Lemland. It is the last major naval battle in the Great Northern War taking place in the Åland Islands, marking the end of Russian and Swedish offensive naval operations in Baltic waters.
September 30 – "South Sea Bubble": The English stock market crashes, with dropping prices for stock in the
South Sea Company.[3]
October–December
October 8 –
Sayyid Hussain Ali Khan Barha, one of the powerful
Sayyid brothers of the Mughal Empire in India, is stabbed to death by Turkish nobleman Haider Beg Dughlat after Dughlat distracts him by giving him a petition to read. The assassination is ordered by Nizam ul-Mulk in retaliation for Sayyid Hussain's attempted ambush on June 19.
October 15 –
Muhammad Ibrahim, a grandson of the late Emperor
Bahadur Shah I, is freed from prison by conspirators and declared the Mughal Emperor as a rival of his brother
Muhammad Shah, beginning a 32-day reign that is described as being "like a drop of dew upon a blade of grass".
February 5 –
James Stanhope, chief minister of Great Britain, dies a day after collapsing while vigorously defending his government's conduct over the "South Sea Bubble" in Parliament.
April 21 – The deadliest
outbreak of smallpox in the history of
Boston begins when the British ship HMS Sea Horse arrives in Boston Harbor with a crew of sailors who had survived a smallpox epidemic. One of the Seahorse crew who had cleared quarantine develops symptoms the next day and infects other people in a lodging house. Over the next 10 months, 5,759 cases of smallpox are recorded in Boston and 844 people die of the disease.
June 26 – Dr. Zabdiel Boylston of the
Harvard University School of Medicine begins the first public inoculation campaign in order to slow the
smallpox epidemic in Boston, giving a vaccine to his own son, and then to his slave and the slave's infant son. [7]
July –September
July 31 – The Spanish expedition led by Coahuila Governor
José de Azlor y Virto de Vera, sent to recapture Texas from the French, encounters
Neches River the smaller French force of
Louis Juchereau de St. Denis, who had led the French expansion westward from the Louisiana territory. Realizing that his forces are badly outnumbered, St. Denis abandons hope of colonizing the east Texas territory and Azlor retakes the area. [8]
February 10 – The
Battle of Cape Lopez begins off of the coast of
West Africa (and present-day
Gabon), as the Royal Navy brings an end to the piracy of
Bartholomew Roberts, nicknamed "Black Bart". Captained by
Chaloner Ogle of the
Royal Navy,
HMS Swallow fires its cannons as Roberts sails his ship Royal Fortune toward the oncoming Swallow in order to gain time by forcing Swallow to turn around. Standing on the deck, Roberts and two of his crew are killed by the second wave of cannon fire. The remaining 272 pirate crew are captured.
May 5 –
Pennsylvania colony enacts a statute, requiring all persons importing any person previously convicted of sodomy, to pay £5 for each such incoming person.
June 15 – Pirate
Edward Low and his men sail the stolen ship Rebecca into Port Roseway near modern
Shelburne, Nova Scotia, where 13 fishing boats from Massachusetts are anchored. Over the next few days, the pirates board the boats and lay siege to them. On June 19, Low confiscates the schooner Mary from its owner, Joseph Dolliber, outfits it with cannons and renames it the Fancy. Eight of the fishermen are taken hostage as the stolen vessel departs, including
Philip Ashton.[12]
September 6 – Wälättä Giyorgis, a 16-year-old who nursed Ethiopia's Emperor
Bakaffa back to health after he fell ill, marries the Emperor and begins her rise to power as the Empress
Mentewab. Upon Bakaffa's death in 1730, Mentewab becomes the regent for her son by Bakaffa,
Iyasu II.
September 23 –
La Nouvelle-Orléans (New Orleans), recently established by France as the capital of the
Louisiana Territory is hit by what is later called the "Great Hurricane of 1722", starting with 7 feet (2.1 m) high waves, followed by winds in excess of 100 miles per hour (160 km/h). By September 24, "Almost every public building in New Orleans, from the hospital to the cathedral" is "either unroofed or totally ruined."[15]
November 20 – The
Dutch East India Company cargo ship Schoonenberg runs aground in
South Africa's
Struis Bay and is looted by most of its 110 crew, beginning a legend and questions of whether the wreck was part of a conspiracy or simply an accident. Almost 300 years later, the event is reconstructed in detail by investigators.
A small group of Bohemian Brethren (the "Hidden Seed") from northern
Moravia are allowed to settle in a new village,
Herrnhut, on the
Berthelsdorf estate of the
pietist Count
Nicolaus Zinzendorf in Upper Lusatia (
Saxony), forming the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine, seed of the
Moravian Church's renewal.
January 25 – English-born pirate
Edward Low intercepts the Portuguese ship Nostra Signiora de Victoria. After the Portuguese captain throws his treasure of 11,000 gold coins into the sea rather than surrendering it, Low orders the captain's brutal torture and execution, then has the rest of the Victoria crew murdered. Low commits more atrocities this year, but is not certainly heard of after the end of the year.
April 1 – In
Switzerland, the attempt by Major
Abraham Davel to make the
canton of Vaud independent of the Swiss government, is put down, one day after he and 500 men had taken control of the Vaudois capital,
Lausanne. Davel is arrested, tortured and tried for treason; he is beheaded on April 24.
May 27 – The
Black Act 1723, intended to combat illegal hunting in Great Britain, comes into force and expands the number of crimes that are punishable by death, and remains in effect for 100 years.
July 12 –
Christian von Wolff holds a lecture for students and the magistrates at the end of his term as a rector,[19] as a result of which he is banned from
Prussia, on a charge of
atheism.
August 11 – The
Ostend Company is chartered by merchants and shipowners to establish trade for the
Austrian Netherlands in the East Indies and West Indies. Over the next two days, 54 major investors in
Antwerp purchase the shares of stock in the company.
October 23 –
Russia's Emperor
Peter the Great authorizes an incentive for men of
Serbia to join a new Russian Imperial Army unit, the
Serbian Hussar Regiment. The Emperor sends
Jovan Albanez to recruit new officers and troops with a grant of farmable land in Russia, and 1,070 take advantage of the offer over the next two years.
October 31 –
Gian Gastone de' Medici becomes the new
Grand Duke of Tuscany upon the death of his father Cosimo III; he will be the state's last ruler from the
House of Medici. During his reign, the state treasury is depleted and Tuscany becomes one of the poorest nations in Europe.
November 23 – The Province of Carolina charters
New Bern as Newbern (the town later becomes the capital of
North Carolina until Raleigh is founded).
January 18 – The
Dutch East India Company cargo ship Fortuyn, on its maiden voyage, departs from the
Cape of Good Hope in South Africa after a layover of 16 days following its arrival from the Netherlands. With a crew of 225 commanded by Pieter Westrik, the ship departs for
Batavia in the
Dutch East Indies and is never seen again.
March 7 –
Pope Innocent XIII dies at the age of 68 after less than three years as the Roman Catholic pontiff.
March 20 – The
1724 papal conclave opens in Rome, 13 days after the death of Innocent XIII. Starting with 33 electors and eventually having 53, the conclave deliberates for more than two months before selecting a successor.
April–June
April 7 – (Good Friday)
Bach leads the first performance of his St John Passion,""carefully designed with a great deal of musico-theological intent", on
Good Friday.
April 28 – The first of the seven Drapier's Letters, satirical pamphlets seeking to arouse public opinion in Ireland against the imposition by the British of a privately minted
copper coinage, is published by
Jonathan Swift,
Dean of
St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin and author, writing under the pseudonym "M. B., Drapier", identifying himself as a
drapier or seller of cloth.
May 13 – Cardinal
Giulio Piazza, the Archbishop of Faenza, comes within four votes of being elected the new Pope
May 29 – Cardinal Vincenzo Orsini, the Archbishop of Benevento, accepts the papacy, two days after being unanimously selected by the cardinals at the
papal conclave in Rome. He becomes the 245th pontiff as
Pope Benedict XIII.
September 4 –
José de Grimaldo, who had been Prime Minister for Spain's King Philip V until the latter's abdication in January, resumes office with the return of King Philip.
September 24 – The
Paris Bourse, the stock exchange for France, is created by order of King Louis XV on the advice of
Nicolas Ravot d'Ombreval, four years after a financial panic had shut down trading. Stock markets had already been set up in Lyon, Bourdeaux and Toulouse.
December 2 – The Metropolitan
Mojsije Petrović, leader of the Serbian Orthodox Church within the Habsburg monarchy, issues a 57-point decree to purge the church of the Turkish influence.
By order of the Nizam,
Hyderabad is made the permanent capital of the Indian princely state of the same name. It becomes capital of the Indian states of
Telangana and
Andhra Pradesh
December 14 – The
Viceroyalty of Zhili (modern-day
Hebei province) is recreated in the Chinese Empire by the
Emperor Yongzheng for the first time in 55 years, with Li Weijun as the first Viceory. Zhili exists as a viceroyalty until the fall of the Qing dynasty in 1912.
December 24 –
Francesco Valesio resumes writing his Diario di Roma, 13 years after he ceased his recording of daily life in Rome.
January 20 –
James Figg hosts the first recorded international boxing match, fought between English livestock
drover Bob Whitaker and Venetian
gondolier Alberto di Carni in London.[27][28]
January – In Japan, the policy of the
Gonin-gumi organizing groups of every five households in a town into units collectively responsible for the good behavior of everyone in the unit, goes into effect as the register of units is completed by the
Tokugawa shogunate. [29]
May 24 –
Jonathan Wild, fraudulent Thief-Taker General, is hanged at
Tyburn in London, for actually aiding criminals.
June 23 – The
Malt tax riots begin in
Scotland in
Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, after the price of beer and scotch whiskey increases. Earlier in the year, the British government extended the taxes in England on
malted grain to brewers and distilleries in Scotland. The rioting then spreads throughout Scot counties.
August 27 – At least 216 people die in the sinking of the
Chameau, a ship of the
French Navy, after the vessel is driven by a storm into rocks off of the coast of
Nova Scotia. Reportedly, 180 bodies wash ashore near
Louisbourg. The ship's cargo, which included a fortune in gold and silver coins, is discovered 240 years later in 1965.
September 5 – The day after they meet for the first time, the wedding ceremony of
King Louis and
Marie takes place in
Fontainebleau, making her the Queen Consort of France. Their marriage lasts for almost 43 years until her death in 1768.
October 23 – Russia dispatches 1,500 troops and 120 civilians to Russia's border with China, on a mission to survey the boundaries in order to make a treaty with the Chinese Empire. Serbian adventurer
Sava Vladislavich leads a group of cartographers to prepare maps in advance of traveling on to
Beijing.
November 5 – The fourth and final treaty of the
1725 Peace of Vienna is signed to create an alliance between Austria and Spain.
December 12 –
Johan Willem Ripperda of the
Netherlands, the former Dutch Ambassador to Spain, arrives in
Madrid and claims that
King Philip V has appointed him as the new
Prime Minister. The bluff is successful and he is granted authority by the King's advisers, but after four months, he is forced to resign.
January 23 – (January 12
Old Style) The
Conventicle Act (Konventikelplakatet) is adopted in
Sweden, outlawing all non-Lutheran religious meetings outside of church services.
March 2 – In London, a night watchman finds a severed head by the
River Thames; it is later recognized to be that of the husband of
Catherine Hayes. She and an accomplice are later executed.[36]
March 10 – China's
Emperor Yongzheng issues a special edict instructing his "Vice Minister of Punishments" Huang Bing to interrogate Qin Daoran, who provides the evidence that Yongzheng's brothers
Yintang, Yin-ssu and Yin-ti, had conspired to overthrow the Emperor.[37]
March 29 – The first large shipment of slaves is brought to
New Orleans as the slave ship L'Aurore arrives with 290 black Africans captured in
Gambia.[38] During the 90-day voyage from
Gorée in
Senegal, 60 of the slaves had died.
March 30 – After
King Haffon of the
West AfricanKingdom of Whydah (now in
Benin) allows
Portuguese traders to build Fort
São João Batista in the capital at
Savi, mercenaries of the Dutch West India Company make a failed attempt to destroy the fort by "throwing two flaming spears over the walls". By 1726, traders from Britain, France, the Netherlands and Portugal are all competing to establish trade with Whydah, which supplies other West Africans to be used as slaves.
June 11 –
Louis Henri, Duke of Bourbon, is dismissed from being the
Prime Minister of France and
Jean Pâris de Monmartel is removed from his position as Guard of the Royal Treasury by King
Louis XV. The King selects his former tutor,
André-Hercule de Fleury to replace the Duke of Bourbon as his Chief Minister. Fleury and the Duke of Bourbon had clashed with each other in their services as adviser to the King, and Fleury's departure from the court in protest and led to his recall and the firing of the Duke[clarification needed].
September 6 – An explosion kills all but seven of the 700 passengers and crew on the Portuguese Navy galleon
HMFMS Santa Rosa as its cargo of gunpowder blows up. Historians speculate that of the 693 people on the ship, those who weren't killed by the explosion drowned or were killed by sharks as the ship went down off of the coast of
Recife.
January 1 – (December 21, 1726 O.S.) Spain's ambassador to Great Britain demands that the British return
Gibraltar after accusing Britain of violating the terms of the 1713
Treaty of Utrecht. Britain refuses and the
Thirteenth Siege of Gibraltar begins on February 22.
January 9 – The world-famous
Charité Hospital is established in
Berlin, to be used for research and to help the poor.
Prussia's
King Frederick William I had ordered the conversion of a 16-year old institution, originally built in anticipation of an epidemic of the
bubonic plague.
March 22 – After 55 years as
Sultan of Morocco,
Ismail Ibn Sharif dies at the age of 81, prompting a 30-year battle between seven of his sons, for succession to the throne.
September 8 – A barn fire during a puppet show in the village of
Burwell, Cambridgeshire, England, kills 78 people, many of them children. Another report says that all but six of the 160 persons assembled were killed in the accidental fire.[47]
December 8 – For the first time since the union of England and Scotland into
Great Britain, the
Royal Bank of Scotland, which still retains the right to print currency, issues its first
pound note, printing paper currency for twenty shillings. The Scottish pound note continues to be printed until 2001 and the smallest denomination now is a five pound note.
December 17 – The London Evening Post, a conservative newspaper, publishes its first issue. It continues in regular publication for 70 years.
April 29 –
John Essington, a member of the British House of Commons, is expelled from Commons after a successful petition to have him unseated. Essington, deep in debt, dies in Newgate Prison less than year later.
April 30 – The 82 survivors of the wreckage of the Dutch East India Company frigate
Zeewijk arrive in the new ship that they had built, Sloepie, at their original destination of
Batavia in the
Dutch East Indies (now
Jakarta in
Indonesia).
May 16 – Saint
Margaret of Cortona, the patron saint of the falsely accused, homeless people and mental illness sufferers, is canonized.
May 25 –
Pope Gregory VII (Hildebrand of Sovana), who served as pontiff from 1073 to 1085, is canonized as a Roman Catholic saint.
May 31 –
The Royal Bank of Scotland invents the
overdraft, allowing
Edinburgh merchant William Hogg cash credit (in the amount of £1,000) for his creditors to be paid by the bank until Hogg receives expected revenue to repay the amount owed, plus interest.[51]
June 14 – The
Congress of Soissons opens at the French town of
Soissons to negotiate a treaty between
Great Britain and
Spain. [52] The treaty, which is concluded on November 9, 1729, recognizes the Spanish royal family's rule of parts of Italy, and Britain's possession of
Gibraltar and
Menorca.
July 17 – At the age of 8, Prince Teruhito, son of
Emperor Nakamikado, is named as the Crown Prince of Japan. Teruhito becomes the
Emperor Sakuramachi at age 15, upon his father's death.
July 18 – After a reign of only four months,
Abdalmalik is deposed as
Sultan of Morocco by his half-brother
Ahmad ad Dahabi, whom he had deposed on March 13. Abdalmalik is later captured and executed on March 2, 1729.
July 23 – At the conclusion of the
Szeged witch trials in the city of the same name in
Hungary, six men and six women are burned at the stake on the island of Boszorkány Sziget (Hungarian for "Witch Island").
August 16 – Because of advancing Arctic ice, the
First Kamchatka Expedition turns around after
Vitus Bering concludes (inaccurately) that it had reached the easternmost point of Russia and Asia, and fails to spot the coast of Alaska because of the weather.
September 15 – Persian physician
Mohammad Mehdi ibn Ali Naqi completes Zad al-musafirin, his treatise for travelers to Persia on preservation of their health. He notes the date as a postscript in his manual. [53]
January 8 –
Frederick, the eldest son of King
George II of Great Britain is made
Prince of Wales at the age of 21, a few months after he comes to Britain for the first time after growing up in
Hanover. For 23 years, Frederick is heir apparent to the British throne, but dies of a lung injury in
1751.
February 24 (February 13 O.S.) – In the city of
Resht in
Persia, Russian and Afghani leaders sign a peace treaty, with General Vasily Levashev for Russia and Muhammad Saidal Khan for Afghanistan.[57]
February 25 –
James Oglethorpe, a member of the British House of Commons, begins service as the
Chairman of the Gaols Committee to investigate the conditions of Britain's jails and prisons after the death in
Fleet Prison of his friend, Robert Castell. The Oglethorpe Committee's report propels Oglethorpe to fame and leads to the beginning of British penal reforms.[58]
March 5 –
Abdallah of Morocco becomes the new
Sultan of Morocco upon the death of his half-brother,
Abu'l Abbas Ahmad. Sultan Abdallah reigns for five years before being deposed for the first time, then returns to the throne five more times between 1736 and 1757.
March 19 –
John of Nepomuk (Jan Nepomucký) of
Bohemia is canonized by
Pope Benedict XIII more than 300 years after being tortured and drowned in 1393 by order of King Wenceslaus IV; John becomes patron saint of Roman Catholics in the
Czech Republic.
April 3 –
Benjamin Franklin, aged 23, writes the essay "A Modest Enquiry Into the Nature and Necessity of Paper Currency" and later applies the economic principles to backing of paper money used in the United States.[59]
April 26 – For the first time in its history, the
British House of Commons is adjourned for lack of a
quorum. On January 5,
1640, it had first fixed the number of members necessary — 40 — for parliamentary business to be transacted.[61]
May 8 – A fire breaks out inside the fully walled town of
Haiger within the
Holy Roman Empire (in the modern-day state of Hesse in Germany) and destroys all the buildings.
May 12 – Six English pirates, including
Mary Critchett, seize control of the sloop John and Elizabeth while being transported to America to complete their criminal sentences. They overpower their captors but are later captured in
Chesapeake Bay by HMS Shoreham and hanged in August.
June 8 – The
Botanic Gardens of Pamplemousses, one of the most popular tourist attractions on the island republic of
Mauritius, are started by Pierre Barmond, who sets aside thousands of acres for the purpose of preservation of the islands flora. The gardens come to occupy 97 square miles or 251 square kilometers.
October 5 – After seven days of battle, the Persians under Nader Khan Afshar make a daring attack through the center of the Emir Ashraf's battalions, killing 12,000 of the Afghans and forcing the remainder to flee, bringing an end to the Battle of Damghan.
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