- 1723
Year 1723 (MDCCXXIII) was a
common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of theGregorian calendar (or acommon year starting on Tuesday of the 11-day slowerJulian calendar ).Events of PAGENAME
January - July
*February 16 -Louis XV of France attains his majority.
*May 23 - TheFreemasonry lodge "Theodor zum guten Rath" is founded inMunich ,Bavaria .July - December
*July - The Russian army, under Matyushkin, capturesBaku .
*September 1 - The Treaty of St. Petersburg is signed.
*November 23 - The Province of Carolina incorporates New Bern as Newbern (the town later becomes the capital ofNorth Carolina ).Undated
* The
Province of Carolina incorporates Beaufort,North Carolina as the "Port of Beaufort", making it the third incorporated town in the province.
*Christian von Wolff is banned fromPrussia on a charge ofatheism .Births
*January 12 -Samuel Langdon , American President of Harvard University (d.1797 )
*February 15 -John Witherspoon , American signer of the Declaration of Independence (d.1794 )
*February 17 -Tobias Mayer , German astronomer (d.1761 )
*February 21 -Louis-Pierre Anquetil , French historian (d.1808 )
*February 23 -Richard Price , Welsh philosopher (d.1791 )
*February 24 -John Burgoyne , British general (d.1792 )
*March 22 - Charles Carroll, American lawyer and Continental Congressman (d.1783 )
*March 23 -Agha Mohammad Khan Ghajar , Iranian king (d.1778 )
*March 31 - KingFrederick V of Denmark (d.1766 )
*April 20 -Cornelius Harnett , American Continental Congressman (d.1781 )
*April 30 -Mathurin Jacques Brisson , French naturalist (d.1806 )
*June 3 -Giovanni Antonio Scopoli , Italian-born physician and naturalist (d.1788 )
*June 5 - (baptised)Adam Smith , Scottish economist and philosopher (d.1790 )
*June 11 -Johann Georg Palitzsch , German astronomer (d.1788 )
*June 20
**Adam Ferguson , Scottish philosopher and historian (d.1816 )
**Theophilus Lindsey , English theologian (died1808 )
*July 1 -Pedro Rodríguez, Conde de Campomanes , Spanish statesman and writer (died1802 )
*July 10 -William Blackstone , English jurist (d.1780 )
*July 11 -Jean-François Marmontel , French historian and writer (d.1799 )
*July 16 -Sir Joshua Reynolds , English painter (d.1792 )
*September 11 -Johann Bernhard Basedow , German educational reformer (d.1790 )
*October 4 -Nikolaus Poda von Neuhaus , German entomologist (d.1798 )
*November 8 -John Byron , English admiral (d.1786 )
*November 30 -William Livingston , American politician and journalist (d.1790 )
*December 22 -Carl Friedrich Abel , German composer (d.1787 )
*December 26 -Friedrich Melchior, baron von Grimm , German writer (d.1807 )Deaths
*February 25 -Sir Christopher Wren , English architect, astronomer, and mathematician (b.1632 )
*February 26 -Thomas d'Urfey , English writer (b.1653 )
*March 15 -Johann Christian Günther , German poet (b.1695 )
*March 31 -Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon , British Governor of New York and New Jersey (b.1661 )
*April 11 - John Robinson, English diplomat (b.1650 )
*May 11 -Jean Galbert de Campistron , French dramatist (b.1656 )
*July 14 -Claude Fleury , French historian (b.1640 )
*July 26 -Robert Bertie, 1st Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven , English statesman (b.1660 )
*August 10 -Guillaume Dubois , French cardinal and statesman (b.1656 )
*August 17 -Joseph Bingham , English scholar (b.1668 )
*August 23 -Increase Mather , American Puritan minister (b.1639 )
*August 26 -Anton van Leeuwenhoek , Dutch scientist (b.1632 )
*October 10 -William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper , Lord Chancellor of England (b. c.1665 )
*October 19 -Godfrey Kneller , German-born artist (b.1646 )
*October 31 -Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b.1642 )
*November 19 -Antoine Nompar de Caumont , French courtier and statesman (b.1632 )
*December 1 -Susanna Centlivre , English dramatist and actress (b.1669 )
*December 2 -Philip II, Duke of Orléans , regent of France (b.1674 )
*December 7 -Jan Santini Aichel , Czech architect (b.1677 )
*December 20 -Augustus Quirinus Rivinus , German physician and botanist (b.1652 )
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