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Centuries: 17th century - 18th century - 19th century
Decades: 1670s 1680s 1690s 1700s 1710s - 1720s - 1730s 1740s 1750s 1760s 1770s
Years: 1719 1720 1721 1722 1723 - 1724 - 1725 1726 1727 1728 1729
Events
- January 14 - King Philip V of Spain abdicates the throne
- February 20 - The premiere of Giulio Cesare, an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel, takes place in London
- June 23 - Treaty of Constantinople signed. Partitioned Persia between the Ottoman Empire and Russia
- 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
- Catherine I was named czarina by Peter the Great in Russia
- The Austrian Netherlands agree to the Pragmatic Sanction
- Mahmud of Afghanistan goes insane
- Pierro Orsini become Pope Benedict XIII
- Longman's, oldest publishing house in England, is founded
Year in topic
Births
- April 22 - Immanuel Kant, philosopher (died 1804)
- June 8 - John Smeaton, civil engineer (died 1794)
- July 2 - Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, poet (died 1803)
- August 25 - George Stubbs, painter (died 1806)
- John Michell, English natural philosopher and geologist (died 1793).
- Franz Aepinus
Deaths
- March 7 - Pope Innocent XIII
- June 15 - Henry Sacheverell, English churchman and politician (born 1674)
- October 29 - William Wollaston, English philosophical writer (born 1659)
- November 16 - Jack Sheppard (executed)
