1724 - Definition and Overview

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
• November 16 – Jack Sheppard hanged in London
• China expels foreign missionaries
• Königsberg founded
• 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, oldest publishing house in England, is founded

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 (born 1655)
• June 15 - Henry Sacheverell, English churchman and politician (born 1674)
• October 29 - William Wollaston, English philosophical writer (born 1659)
• November 16 - Jack Sheppard (executed)