1721

Year 1721 (MDCCXXI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).

Events of 1721

April 4: Walpole.

January - June

• May 8 - Pope Innocent XIII succeeds Pope Clement XI as the 244th pope.
• April 4 - Robert Walpole becomes the first prime minister of Britain.

July - December

• September 10 - Treaty of Nystad is signed, bringing an end to the Great Northern War.
• November 2 - Peter I is proclaimed Emperor of All the Russias.

Undated

• Johann Sebastian Bach composes the Brandenburg Concertos.
• Regular postal mail between Long and New England is established.^[1]

  Ongoing Events

  • Great Northern War (1700-1721).

  Births

  1721 in other calendars

  Gregorian calendar	1721 MDCCXXI
  Ab urbe condita	2474
  Armenian calendar	1170 ԹՎ ՌՃՀ
  Bahá'í calendar	-123 – -122
  Berber calendar	2671
  Buddhist calendar	2265
  Burmese calendar	1083
  Chinese calendar	4357/4417-12-4 (庚子年十二月初四日) — to — 4358/4418-11-13 (辛丑年十一月十三日)
  Coptic calendar	1437 – 1438
  Ethiopian calendar	1713 – 1714
  Hebrew calendar	5481 – 5482
  Hindu calendars
  - Vikram Samvat	1776 – 1777
  - Shaka Samvat	1643 – 1644
  - Kali Yuga	4822 – 4823
  Holocene calendar	11721
  Iranian calendar	1099 – 1100
  Islamic calendar	1133 – 1134
  Japanese calendar	Kyōhō 6 (享保6年)
  - Imperial Year	Kōki 2381 (皇紀2381年)
  Korean calendar	4054
  Thai solar calendar	2264
  v • d • e

  • January 10 - Johann Philipp Baratier, German scholar (died 1740)
  • February 3 - Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz, Prussian general (died 1773)
  • February 21 - John McKinly, American physician and President of Delaware (died 1796)
  • March 19 - Tobias Smollett, Scottish physician and author (died 1771)
  • April 3 - Roger Sherman, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (died 1793)
  • April 11 - David Zeisberger, Moravian missionary (died 1808)
  • April 15 - Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, English military leader (died 1765)
  • April 19 - Roger Sherman, signer of the American Declaration of Independence (died 1803)
  • July 9 - Johann Nikolaus Götz, German poet (died 1781)
  • July 14 - John Douglas, Scottish Anglican bishop and man of letters (died 1807)
  • August 4 - Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford, English politician (died 1803)
  • August 31 - George Hervey, 2nd Earl of Bristol, British statesman (died 1775)
  • September 14 - Eliphalet Dyer, American statesman and judge (died 1807)
  • October 19 - Joseph de Guignes, French orientalist (died 1800)
  • November 9 - Mark Akenside, English poet and physician (died 1770)
  • November 22 - Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres, Swiss-born cartographer and Canadian statesman (died 1824)
  • December 6 - James Elphinston, Scottish philologist (died 1809)
  • December 6 - Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes, French statesman (died 1794)
  • December 27 - François Hemsterhuis, Dutch philosopher (died 1790)
  • December 29 - Marquise de Pompadour, mistress of King Louis XV of France (died 1764)

  See also Category: 1721 births.

  Deaths

  • February 16 - James Craggs the Younger, English politician (born 1686)
  • February 24 - John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby, English statesman and poet (born 1648)
  • March 16 - James Craggs the Elder, English politician (born 1657)
  • March 19 - Pope Clement XI (born 1649)
  • April 14 - Michel Chamillart, French statesman (born 1652)
  • July 8 - Elihu Yale, American benefactor of Yale University (born 1649)
  • July 18 - Antoine Watteau, French painter (born 1684)
  • August 3 - Grinling Gibbons, Dutch-born woodcarver (born 1648)
  • August 13 - Jacques Lelong, French bibliographer (born 1665)
  • September 8
    • Michael Brokoff, Czech sculptor (born 1686)
    • Henri Arnaud, French pastor and leader of the Waldenses (born 1641)
  • September 11 - Rudolf Jakob Camerarius, German botanist and physician (born 1665)
  • September 18 - Matthew Prior, British poet and diplomat (born 1664)
  • September 20 - Thomas Doggett, Irish actor (born c.1670)
  • October 11 - Edward Colston, English merchant and philanthropist (born 1636)
  • December 13 - Alexander Selkirk, Scottish sailor (born 1676)
  • December 17 - Richard Lumley, 1st Earl of Scarbrough, English statesman (born 1650)
  • Sultan Abdullah Khan Abdali, Persian Governor of Herat, Shah of Herat (born 1670)

  See also Category: 1721 deaths.

  Notes

  1. ^ Clear, Todd R., Cole, George F., Resig, Michael D. (2006). American Corrections Seventh Edition. Thompson. 

  
  

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