1726

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Millennium:	2nd millennium
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Years:	1723 1724 1725 – 1726 – 1727 1728 1729

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April 15 – Isaac Newton tells William Stukeley the story of how he developed his theory of gravity.
April 19 – Premiere of the first Leipzig version of Johann Sebastian Bach's St Mark Passion pastiche BWV deest BC D 5b at the St. Nicholas Church, Leipzig
May 1 – Voltaire begins exile in England.

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.
August 7 – Pirate Nicholas Brown captured near Xtabi, Jamaica
November – Mary Toft allegedly gives birth to 16 rabbits in England; the story is later revealed to be a hoax.
December 24 – The city of Montevideo is founded by the Spaniards.

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.
The remaining ruins of Liverpool Castle are finally demolished.
Muhammad bin Saud becomes head of the House of Saud.

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)
June 20 – Louise Henriette de Bourbon, mother of Philippe Égalité (d.1759)
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)
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- John H. D. Anderson, Scottish scientist (d. 1796)
- Le Quy Don, Vietnamese philosopher, poet, encyclopedist, and government official (d. 1784)
- Cyprian Howe, Colonel in the American Revolutionary War (d. 1806)
- Katsukawa Shunsho, Japanese woodblock artist (d. 1792)
- Jedediah Strutt, English businessman (d. 1797)

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 22 – Hugh Drysdale, British Colonial Governor of Virginia
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)

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