1724
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 17th century – 18th century – 19th century |
| Decades: | 1690s 1700s 1710s – 1720s – 1730s 1740s 1750s |
| Years: | 1721 1722 1723 – 1724 – 1725 1726 1727 |
| 1724 in topic: |
| Subjects: Archaeology – Architecture – |
| Art – Literature (Poetry) – Music – Science |
| Countries: |
| Leaders: State leaders – Colonial governors |
| Category: Establishments – Disestablishments |
| Births – Deaths – Works |
Year 1724 (MDCCXXIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Wednesday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).
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Events of 1724
January–June
- January 14 – King Philip V of Spain abdicates the throne.
- January 28 – The Saint Petersburg State University is established.
- February 8 - Catherine I is officially named czarina by her husband, Peter the Great, in Russia.
- February 20 – The premiere of Giulio Cesare, an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel, takes place in London.
- May 29 – Pope Benedict XIII, born Pierro Orsini, succeeds Pope Innocent XIII as the 245th pope.
Blenheim Palace completed.
- June 23 – Treaty of Constantinople is signed, partitioning Persia between the Ottoman Empire and Russia.
July–December
- July 27 – Wild Peter of Hanover is captured near Helpensen in Hanover.
- November 11 – Joseph Blake (alias Blueskin), highwayman, is hanged in London.
- November 16
- Jack Sheppard is hanged in London.
- Willem Mons, lover of Catherine I of Russia, is executed and his head preserved in alcohol.
Undated
- 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.
- The Austrian Netherlands agree to the Pragmatic Sanction.
- Mahmud of Afghanistan goes insane.
- Longman, the oldest publishing house in England, is founded.
Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1724 MDCCXXIV |
| Ab urbe condita | 2477 |
| Armenian calendar | 1173 ԹՎ ՌՃՀԳ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -120 – -119 |
| Bengali calendar | 1131 |
| Berber calendar | 2674 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2268 |
| Burmese calendar | 1086 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7232 – 7233 |
| Chinese calendar | 癸卯年十二月初六日 (4360/4420-12-6) — to —
甲辰年十一月十六日(4361/4421-11-16) |
| Coptic calendar | 1440 – 1441 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1716 – 1717 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5484 – 5485 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Bikram Samwat | 1780 – 1781 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1646 – 1647 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4825 – 4826 |
| Holocene calendar | 11724 |
| Iranian calendar | 1102 – 1103 |
| Islamic calendar | 1136 – 1137 |
| Japanese calendar | Kyōhō 9 (享保9年) |
| Korean calendar | 4057 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2267 |
- January 24 – Frances Brooke, English writer (d. 1789)
- February 16 – Christopher Gadsden, American statesman
- February 28 – George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend, British field marshal (d. 1807)
- February 29 – Eva Marie Veigel, ballet dancer known as La Violette (d. 1822)
- April 12 – Lyman Hall, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1790)
- April 22 – Immanuel Kant, German philosopher (d. 1804)
- April 29 – John Michell, English scientist and geologist (d. 1793)
- May 7 – Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser, Alsatian-born Austrian general (d. 1797)
- May 19 – Augustus Hervey, 3rd Earl of Bristol, British admiral and politician (d. 1779)
- June 8 – John Smeaton, English civil engineer (d. 1792)
- July 2 – Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, German poet (d. 1803)
- July 10 – Eva Ekeblad, Swedish scientist (d.1786)
- July 31 – Noël François de Wailly, French lexicographer (d. 1801)
- August 23 – Abraham Yates, American Continental Congressman (d. 1796)
- August 25 – George Stubbs, English painter (d. 1806)
- August 27 – John Joachim Zubly, Swiss-born Continental Congressman (d. 1781)
- September 3 – Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester, British soldier and Governor of Quebec (d. 1808)
- October 31 – Christopher Anstey, English writer (d. 1805)
- December 12 – Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood, British admiral (d. 1816)
- December 13 – Franz Aepinus, German scientist (d. 1802)
- December 18 – Louise of Great Britain, queen of Frederick V of Denmark (d. 1751)
- December 24 – Johann Conrad Ammann, Swiss physician and naturalist (d. 1811)
- December 30 – Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée, French painter (d. 1805)
Deaths
- February 12 – Elkanah Settle, English writer (b. 1648)
- March 7 – Pope Innocent XIII (b. 1655)
- March 15 – Marie Jeanne of Savoy-Nemours, Regent of Savoy (b. 1644)
- March 19 – Lewis Watson, 1st Earl of Rockingham, politician (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 11 – Joseph "Blueskin" Blake, English highwayman (executed) (b. c. 1700)
- November 16 – Jack Sheppard, English criminal (executed) (b. 1702)
- November 18 – Bartolomeu de Gusmão, Portuguese naturalist (b. 1685)
- November 24 – Ernst Ludwig I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen (b. 1672)
- December 27 – Thomas Guy, English philanthropist (b. 1644)