1726

Year 1726 (MDCCXXVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).

Events of 1726

January - June

• April 15 - Isaac Newton tells William Stukeley the story of how he developed his theory of gravity.

July - December

• July 11 - André-Hercule Cardinal de Fleury, recalled from exile by King Louis XV of France, banishes Louis Henri, Duc de Bourbon, and Madame de Prie from court.
• November - Mary Tofts allegedly gives birth to 16 rabbits in England; the story is later revealed to be a hoax.

• dates unknown
• Jonathan Swift publishes Gulliver's Travels.
• The city of Montevideo is founded.
• The Supreme Privy Council is established in Imperial Russia.
• The Gujin tushu jicheng, an immense Chinese encyclopedia, is printed using copper-based movable type printing.
• Remaining ruins of Liverpool Castle are finally demolished.
• Muhammad bin Saud becomes head of the House of Saud.
• A barb from Voltaire's sharp tongue leads a great French nobleman to have him beaten and arrested.

Births

• January 14 - Jacques-Donatien Le Ray, French supporter of the American Revolution (d. 1803)
• March 8 - Richard Howe, British admiral (d. 1799)
• April 5 - Benjamin Harrison V, signer of the American Declaration of Independence (d. 1791)
• April 12 - Charles Burney, English music historian (d. 1814)
• April 20 - Joseph de Ferraris, Austrian cartographer of the Austrian Netherlands (d. 1814)
• May 12 - Alexander Hood, British naval officer (d. 1814)
• June 3 - James Hutton, Scottish geologist (d. 1797)
• June 14 - Thomas Pennant, Welsh naturalist (d. 1798)
• July 30 - William Jones (ecclesiastic), (d.1800)
• August 7 - James Bowdoin, American Revolutionary leader and politician (d. 1790)
• August 9 - Francesco Cetti, Italian Jesuit scientist (d. 1778)
• September 1 - François-André Danican Philidor, French composer and chess player (d. 1795)
• October 16 - Daniel Chodowiecki, Polish painter (d. 1801)
• date unknown
  • John H. D. Anderson, Scottish scientist (d. 1796)
  • Le Quy Don, Vietnamese philosopher, poet, encyclopedist, and government official (d. 1784)

See also Category: 1726 births.

Deaths

• January 2 - Domenico Zipoli, Italian composer (b. 1688)
• January 25 - Guillaume Delisle, French cartographer (b. 1675)
• February 26 - Maximilian II Emanuel, elector of Bavaria (b. 1662)
• March 5 - Evelyn Pierrepont, 1st Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull, English politician
• March 26 - John Vanbrugh, English architect and dramatist (b. 1664)
• April 26 - Jeremy Collier, English theatre critic, non-juror bishop and theologian (b. 1650)
• April 28 - Thomas Pitt, British Governor of Madras (b. 1653)
• May 10 - Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans, English soldier (b. 1670)
• June 18 - Michel Richard Delalande, French organist and composer (b. 1657)
• July 8 - John Ker, Scottish spy (b. 1673)
• July 31 - Nicolaus II Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (b. 1695)
• November 23 - Sophia, Princess of Zelle, queen of George I of Great Britain (b. 1666)
• December 2 - Samuel Penhallow, American colonist and historian (b. 1665)

See also Category: 1726 deaths.af:1726

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