1723

This article is about the year 1723.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century – 18th century – 19th century
Decades:	1690s  1700s  1710s  – 1720s –  1730s  1740s  1750s
Years:	1720 1721 1722 – 1723 – 1724 1725 1726

1723 by topic:

Arts and Sciences

Archaeology – Architecture – Art – Literature (Poetry) – Music – Science

Countries

Canada – Great Britain –

Lists of leaders

Colonial governors – State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Works category

Works

1723 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1723 MDCCXXIII
Ab urbe condita	2476
Armenian calendar	1172 ԹՎ ՌՃՀԲ
Assyrian calendar	6473
Bahá'í calendar	-121–-120
Bengali calendar	1130
Berber calendar	2673
British Regnal year	9 Geo. 1 – 10 Geo. 1
Buddhist calendar	2267
Burmese calendar	1085
Byzantine calendar	7231–7232
Chinese calendar	壬寅年十一月廿五日 (4359/4419-11-25) — to — 癸卯年十二月初五日 (4360/4420-12-5)
Coptic calendar	1439–1440
Ethiopian calendar	1715–1716
Hebrew calendar	5483–5484
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1779–1780
- Shaka Samvat	1645–1646
- Kali Yuga	4824–4825
Holocene calendar	11723
Iranian calendar	1101–1102
Islamic calendar	1135–1136
Japanese calendar	Kyōhō 8 (享保8年)
Korean calendar	4056
Minguo calendar	189 before ROC 民前189年
Thai solar calendar	2266

Year 1723 (MDCCXXIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar.

Events

January–June

• February 16 – Louis XV of France attains his majority.
• March 9 – Mapuche Uprising of 1723 begins in Chile.
• May 23 – The Freemasonry lodge Theodor zum guten Rath is founded in Munich, Bavaria.

July–December

• July – The Russian army, under Matyushkin, captures Baku.
• 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 of North Carolina).

Date unknown

• The Province of Carolina monica incorporates Beaufort, North Carolina as the "Port of Beaufort", making it the third incorporated town in the province.
• Christian von Wolff is banned from Prussia on a charge of atheism.
• The Four Seasons, a set of violin concertos by Antonio Vivaldi, was composed.

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 – King Frederick 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 (died 1808)
• July 1 – Pedro Rodríguez, Conde de Campomanes, Spanish statesman and writer (died 1802)
• 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)