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Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century – 18th century – 19th century
Decades:	1690s 1700s 1710s – 1720s – 1730s 1740s 1750s
Years:	1718 1719 1720 – 1721 – 1722 1723 1724

This article is about the year 1721. For the number see 1721 (number).

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Events [edit]

January 6 – The Committee of Inquiry on the South Sea Bubble in England publishes its findings.
March 24 – Johann Sebastian Bach's Brandenburg concertos completed and dedicated to Christian Ludwig of Brandenburg-Schwedt.
April – Pirates John Taylor and Olivier Levasseur capture the 700-ton Portuguese galleon Nossa Senhora do Cabo at Réunion. The total value of treasure on board (from Goa) is estimated as between £100,000 and £875,000, one of the largest pirate hauls ever.^[1]
April 4 – Robert Walpole becomes the first Prime Minister of Great Britain (although this is more a term of disparagement at this time).^[2]
May 8 – Pope Innocent XIII succeeds Pope Clement XI as the 244th pope.

September 10 – The Treaty of Nystad is signed, ending the Great Northern War.
November 2 – Peter I is proclaimed the first Emperor of All the Russias. This replaces the 176 year long Tsardom of Russia with the Russian Empire.
December 22 – Philip V of Spain signs in Lerma a Royal Decree transforming the Seminary of Saint Rose of Lima in Caracas into the Universidad Real y Pontificia de Caracas.

Regular mail service between Long Island and New England is established.^[3]
A suggestion box is developed under the eighth shogun of Japan, Yoshimune Tokugawa.

January 10 – Johann Philipp Baratier, German scholar (d. 1740)
February 3 – Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz, Prussian general (d. 1773)
February 21 – John McKinly, American physician and President of Delaware (d. 1796)
March 19 – Tobias Smollett, Scottish physician and author (d. 1771)
April 11 – David Zeisberger, Moravian missionary (d. 1808)
April 15 – Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, English military leader (d. 1765)
April 19 – Roger Sherman, signer of the American Declaration of Independence (d. 1803)
July 9 – Johann Nikolaus Götz, German poet (d. 1781)
July 14 – John Douglas, Scottish Anglican bishop and man of letters (d. 1807)
August 4 – Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford, English politician (d. 1803)
August 31 – George Hervey, 2nd Earl of Bristol, British statesman (d. 1775)
September 14 – Eliphalet Dyer, American statesman and judge (d. 1807)
October 19 – Joseph de Guignes, French orientalist (d. 1800)
November 9 – Mark Akenside, English poet and physician (d. 1770)
November 22 – Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres, Swiss-born cartographer and Canadian statesman (d. 1824)
December 6 – James Elphinston, Scottish philologist (d. 1809)
December 6 – Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes, French statesman (d. 1794)
December 27 – François Hemsterhuis, Dutch philosopher (d. 1790)
December 29 – Marquise de Pompadour, mistress of King Louis XV of France (d. 1764)

February 16 – James Craggs the Younger, English politician (b. 1686)
February 24 – John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby, English statesman and poet (b. 1648)
March 16 – James Craggs the Elder, English politician (b. 1657)
March 19 – Pope Clement XI (b. 1649)
March 29 – Charles Vane, English pirate
April 14 – Michel Chamillart, French statesman (b. 1652)
April – Mary Read, English pirate (b. c. 1695)
July 8 – Elihu Yale, American benefactor of Yale University (b. 1649)
July 18 – Antoine Watteau, French painter (b. 1684)
August 3 – Grinling Gibbons, Dutch-born woodcarver (b. 1648)
August 13 – Jacques Lelong, French bibliographer (b. 1665)
September 8
- Michael Brokoff, Czech sculptor (b. 1686)
- Henri Arnaud, French pastor and leader of the Waldenses (b. 1641)
September 11 – Rudolf Jakob Camerarius, German botanist and physician (b. 1665)
September 18 – Matthew Prior, British poet and diplomat (b. 1664)
September 20 – Thomas Doggett, Irish actor (b. c. 1670)
October 11 – Edward Colston, English merchant and philanthropist (b. 1636)
December 13 – Alexander Selkirk, Scottish sailor (original "Robinson Crusoe") (b. 1676)
December 17 – Richard Lumley, 1st Earl of Scarbrough, English statesman (b. 1650)
date unknown – Sultan Abdullah Khan Abdali, Persian Governor of Herat, Shah of Herat (b. 1670)

^ Breverton, Terry (2004). Black Bart Roberts: The Greatest Pirate of Them All. Gretna, LA: Pelican Publishing. p. 57. ISBN 1-58980-233-0.
^ "Sir Robert Walpole". 10. HM Government. Retrieved 2011-11-16.
^ Clear, Todd R.; Cole, George F.; Resig, Michael D. (2006). American Corrections (7th ed.). Thompson.

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