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Calendar year
February 11 : The
Siege of Gibraltar begins.
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1727 .
1727 (
MDCCXXVII ) was a
common year starting on Wednesday of the
Gregorian calendar and a
common year starting on Sunday of the
Julian calendar , the 1727th year of the
Common Era (CE) and
Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 727th year of the
2nd millennium , the 27th year of the
18th century , and the 8th year of the
1720s decade. As of the start of 1727, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
Calendar year
Events
January–March
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 6 –
Martin Spanberg and two other members of the
First Kamchatka expedition arrive in
Okhotsk , after a journey from
Saint Petersburg of almost two years. After the end of winter, the 63-member group, commanded by
Vitus Bering , proceeds to the
Kamchatka River , to prepare for exploration of the Arctic.
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 .
January 12 – Abd el-Sayed of
Egypt is enthroned, as Pope
John XVII of Alexandria becomes the leader of the
Coptic Christian Church , as the 105th
Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the
Holy See of St. Mark . He will serve until his death on April 20, 1745.
February 2 –
Johann Sebastian Bach 's solo
cantata ,
Ich habe genug , BWV 82 , premieres in
Leipzig .
February 20 –
German composer
George Frideric Handel becomes a
British subject .
[1]
February 22 (February 11, 1726 O.S.) –
Spain
besieges the British-held territory of Gibraltar , in order to recapture it.
[1] Britain's
Royal Navy begins a blockade of Spanish ports and the unsuccessful siege ends with the signing of a truce on June 24.
February – The
First Saudi State is founded by
Muhammad bin Saud .
March 4 –
Battle of Halidzor in
Armenia : A small group of defenders overcomes a much larger
Ottoman Empire army.
March 9 – The west African
Kingdom of Dahomey , ruled by King
Trudo Agaja , conquers and annexes the
Kingdom of Xwéda , after King
Haffon is killed in battle (three years earlier, Agaja conquered the neighboring state of
Allada ).
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.
April–June
July–September
July 1 – In India,
Shuja-ud-Din Muhammad Khan becomes the new
Nawab of Bengal after the death of his father-in-law,
Murshid Quli Khan . At the time, Bengal consists of what is now the nation of
Bangladesh and the southeast Indian state of
West Bengal and is subservient to the
Mughal Empire .
July 23 – Seventeen
Ursuline Sisters from
France land in
New Orleans , in the
Louisiana territory of
New France , after a journey that began on February 22.
[3] They later create the orphanage which is the predecessor of
Catholic Charities and the
Ursuline Academy , the oldest
Catholic school in the
United States .
August 13 –
History of the Moravian Church: The 18th century renewal : The
Moravian Church community at
Herrnhut undergoes a
Pentecostalist experience.
August 14 –
Elections for the House of Commons begin in Great Britain and continue until October 17.
August 30 –
Anne , eldest daughter of King
George II of Great Britain , is given the title
Princess Royal .
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.
[4]
October–December
October 11 –
George II of Great Britain is crowned.
Handel 's
Coronation Anthems are composed for the event, including
Zadok the Priest , which has been played at every subsequent
Coronation of the British monarch .
[1]
October 17 – With
voting for the British House of Commons concluding, the
Whigs , led by Sir
Robert Walpole , increase their supermajority, winning 415 of the 558 seats. The
Tories share of Commons decreases from 169 to 128.
November 18 –
Tabriz earthquake ,
Persia kills 77,000.
November 21 – The
Netherlands signs the
Treaty of Seville .
November 27 – The foundation stone of the
Jerusalem's Church in
Berlin is laid.
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.
Date unknown
Births
James Wolfe
January 2 –
James Wolfe , British general (d.
1759 )
January 25 –
Aron Gustaf Silfversparre , Swedish baron (d.
1818 )
May 10 –
Anne Robert Turgot , French statesman (d.
1781 )
May 14 –
Thomas Gainsborough , English artist (d.
1788 )
July 26 –
Horatio Gates , retired British soldier who served as an American general during the
American Revolutionary War (d.
1806 )
August 14
August 22 –
Johann Joseph Gassner , German priest (d.
1779 )
October 23 –
Empress Xiaoyichun of China (d.
1775 )
November 26 –
Artemas Ward , American major general (d.
1800 )
December 6 –
Johann Gottfried Zinn , German anatomist, botanist (d.
1757 )
December 27 –
Arthur Murphy , Irish writer (d.
1805 )
Deaths
Isaac Newton
George I of Great Britain
March 31 [
O.S.
March 20 ] – Sir
Isaac Newton , English scientist (b.
1643 )
April 15 –
George Compton, 4th Earl of Northampton (b.
1664 )
May 17 – Empress
Catherine I of Russia (b.
1684 )
June 8 –
August Hermann Francke , German Protestant minister (b.
1663 )
June 11
July 9 –
Veronica Giuliani , Italian nun, mystic (b.
1660 )
July 23 –
Simon Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt ,
Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (b. c.
1660 )
August 4 –
Victor-Maurice, comte de Broglie , French general (b.
1647 )
August 14 –
William Croft , English composer (b.
1678 )
August 17 –
Louis, Duke of Rohan , French noble (b.
1652 )
August 27 –
Aert de Gelder , Dutch painter (b.
1645 )
September 6 –
George Hooper , Bishop of St Asaph Bishop of Bath and Wells (b.
1640 )
September 7 –
Glückel of Hameln , German businesswoman and diarist (b.
1647 )
September 8 –
Giuseppe Bartolomeo Chiari , Italian painter (b.
1654 )
September 25
October 2 –
Johann Conrad Brunner , Swiss anatomist (b.
1653 )
October 10
November 10 –
Alphonse de Tonty , French explorer and American settler (b.
1659 )
December 22 –
Louis Phélypeaux, comte de Pontchartrain (b.
1643 )
December 26
date unknown
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