1724
Years:
1721 1722 1723 - 1724 - 1725 1726 1727Decades:
1690s 1700s 1710s - 1720s - 1730s 1740s 1750sCenturies:
17th century - 18th century - 19th century
1724 in topic:
Arts
Architecture - Literature - Music
Other topics
Canada - Science
Lists of leaders:
Colonial governors - State leaders ---- From Categories:
births - deaths
Events
- January 14 - King Philip V of Spain abdicates the throne
- February 20 - The premiere of Giulio Cesare, an Italian Opera by George Frideric Handel, takes place in London
- June 23 - Treaty of Constantinople signed. Partitioned Persia between the Ottoman Empire and Russia
- July 27 - Wild Peter of Hanover captured near Helpensen in Hanover
- November 16 - Jack Sheppard hanged in London
- China expels foreign missionaries
- Blenheim Palace construction is completed. It is presented as a gift to the Duke of Marlborough for his involvement in the Battle of Blenheim in 1704
- Catherine I was named czarina by Peter the Great in Russia
- The Austrian Netherlands agree to the Pragmatic sanction
- Mahmud of Afghanistan goes insane
- Pierro Orsini become Pope Benedict XIII
- Longman, oldest publishing house in England, is founded
Births
- April 22 - Immanuel Kant, German philosopher (d. 1804)
- April 29 - John Michell, English natural philosopher and geologist (d. 1793)
- June 8 - John Smeaton, English civil engineer (d. 1794)
- July 2 - Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, German poet (d. 1803)
- August 25 - George Stubbs, English painter (d. 1806)
- December 13 - Franz Aepinus, German natural philosopher (d. 1802)
Deaths
- January 6 - Chikamatsu Monzaemon, Japanese dramatist (b. 1653)
- February 12 - Elkanah Settle, English writer (b. 1648)
- March 7 - Pope Innocent XIII (b. 1655)
- May 3 - John Leverett the Younger, American President of Harvard (b. 1662)
- May 21 - Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, English statesman (b. 1661)
- June 15 - Henry Sacheverell, English churchman and politician (b. 1674)
- October 2 - François-Timoléon de Choisy, French writer (b. 1644)
- October 29 - William Wollaston, English philosophical writer (b. 1659)
- November 16 - Jack Sheppard, English criminal (executed) (b. 1702)
- November 18 - Bartolomeu de Gusmão, Portuguese naturalist (b. 1685)