1723
Years:
1720 1721 1722 - 1723 - 1724 1725 1726Decades:
1690s 1700s 1710s - 1720s - 1730s 1740s 1750sCenturies:
17th century - 18th century - 19th century
1723 in topic:
Arts
Architecture - Literature - Music
Other topics
Canada - Science
Lists of leaders:
Colonial governors - State leaders ---- From Categories:
births - deaths
Events
- February 16 - Louis XV of France attains his majority
Births
- February 24 - John Burgoyne, British general (d. 1792)
- March 23 - Agha Mohammad Khan Ghajar, Iranian king (d. 1778)
- March 31 - King Frederick V of Denmark (d. 1766)
- April 30 - Mathurin Jacques Brisson, French zoologist and natural philosopher (d. 1806)
- June 5 - (baptised) Adam Smith, Scottish economist (d. 1790)
- July 10 - William Blackstone, English jurist (d. 1780)
- July 11 - Jean-François Marmontel, French novelist and dramatist (d. 1799)
- July 16 - Sir Joshua Reynolds, English painter (d. 1792)
- November 8 - John Byron, English admiral (d. 1786)
- November 30 - William Livingston, American politician and journalist (d. 1790)
- December 22 - Karl Friedrich Abel, German composer (d. 1787)
Deaths
- February 25 - Sir Christopher Wren, English architect, astronomer, and mathematician (b. 1632)
- February 26 - Thomas d'Urfey, English writer (b. 1653)
- March 15 - Johann Christian Gunther, German poet (b. 1695)
- March 31 - Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon, British Governor of New York and New Jersey (b. 1661)
- April 11 - John Robinson, English diplomat (b. 1650)
- May 11 - Jean Galbert de Campistron, French dramatist (b. 1656)
- July 14 - Claude Fleury, French historian (b. 1640)
- July 26 - Robert Bertie, 1st Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English statesman (b. 1660)
- August 10 - Guillaume Dubois, French cardinal and statesman (b. 1656)
- August 17 - Joseph Bingham, English scholar (b. 1668)
- August 23 - Increase Mather, American Puritan minister (b. 1639)
- August 26 - Anton van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch scientist (b. 1632)
- October 10 - William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper, Lord Chancellor of England
- October 19 - Godfrey Kneller, German-born artist (b. 1646)
- October 31 - Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1642)
- November 19 - Antoine Nompar de Caumont, French courtier and statesman (b. 1632)
- December 1 - Susanna Centlivre, English dramatist and actress
- December 2 - Philip II, Duke of Orléans, regent of France (b. 1674)
- December 7 - Jan Santini Aichel, Czech architect (b. 1677)