1726

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century – 18th century – 19th century
Decades:	1690s  1700s  1710s  – 1720s –  1730s  1740s  1750s
Years:	1723 1724 1725 – 1726 – 1727 1728 1729

1726 in topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology – Architecture –

Art – Literature (Poetry) – Music – Science

Countries:

Leaders:   State leaders – Colonial governors

Category: Establishments – Disestablishments

Births – Deaths – Works

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).

Contents 1 Events of 1726 1.1 January–June 1.2 July–December 1.3 Dates Unknown 2 Births 3 Deaths

Events of 1726

January–June

• April 15 – Isaac Newton tells William Stukeley the story of how he developed his theory of gravity.
• May 1 – Voltaire begins exile in England.

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.
• 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.

Dates Unknown

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

Births

1726 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1726 MDCCXXVI
Ab urbe condita	2479
Armenian calendar	1175 ԹՎ ՌՃՀԵ
Bahá'í calendar	-118 – -117
Bengali calendar	1133
Berber calendar	2676
Buddhist calendar	2270
Burmese calendar	1088
Byzantine calendar	7234 – 7235
Chinese calendar	乙巳年十一月廿八日 (4362/4422-11-28) — to — 丙午年十二月初九日 (4363/4423-12-9)
Coptic calendar	1442 – 1443
Ethiopian calendar	1718 – 1719
Hebrew calendar	5486 – 5487
Hindu calendars
- Bikram Samwat	1782 – 1783
- Shaka Samvat	1648 – 1649
- Kali Yuga	4827 – 4828
Holocene calendar	11726
Iranian calendar	1104 – 1105
Islamic calendar	1138 – 1139
Japanese calendar	Kyōhō 11 (享保11年)
Korean calendar	4059
Thai solar calendar	2269

• 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)
• date unknown
  • 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)

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 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)