1724
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Template:C18YearInTopicX Year 1724 (MDCCXXIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Wednesday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).
Events of 1724
January - June
- January 14 - King Philip V of Spain abdicates the throne.
- January 28 - The Saint Petersburg State University was established.
- February 20 - The premiere of Giulio Cesare, an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel, takes place in London
- May 29 - Pope Benedict XIII, born Pierro Orsini, succeeds Pope Innocent XIII as the 245th pope.
- June 23 - Treaty of Constantinople signed. Partitioned Persia between the Ottoman Empire and Russia.
July - December
- July 27 - Wild Peter of Hanover captured near Helpensen in Hanover.
- November 11 - Joseph Blake (alias Blueskin), highwayman, is hanged in London.
- November 16
- Jack Sheppard hanged in London.
- Willem Mons, lover of Catherine I of Russia, is executed and his head preserved in alcohol.
Undated
- China expels foreign missionaries.
- 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 is officially named czarina by her husband, Peter the Great, in Russia.
- The Austrian Netherlands agree to the Pragmatic Sanction.
- Mahmud of Afghanistan goes insane.
- Longman, the oldest publishing house in England, is founded.
- The Celesta is invented By Auguste Mundel.
Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1724 MDCCXXIV |
| Ab urbe condita | 2477 |
| Armenian calendar | 1173 ԹՎ ՌՃՀԳ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6474 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1645–1646 |
| Bengali calendar | 1131 |
| Berber calendar | 2674 |
| British Regnal year | 10 Geo. 1 – 11 Geo. 1 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2268 |
| Burmese calendar | 1086 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7232–7233 |
| Chinese calendar | 癸卯年 (Water Rabbit) 4421 or 4214 — to — 甲辰年 (Wood Dragon) 4422 or 4215 |
| Coptic calendar | 1440–1441 |
| Discordian calendar | 2890 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1716–1717 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5484–5485 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1780–1781 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1645–1646 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4824–4825 |
| Holocene calendar | 11724 |
| Igbo calendar | 724–725 |
| Iranian calendar | 1102–1103 |
| Islamic calendar | 1136–1137 |
| Japanese calendar | Kyōhō 9 (享保９年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1648–1649 |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 11 days |
| Korean calendar | 4057 |
| Minguo calendar | 188 before ROC 民前188年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | 256 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2266–2267 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴水兔年 (female Water-Rabbit) 1850 or 1469 or 697 — to — 阳木龙年 (male Wood-Dragon) 1851 or 1470 or 698 |
- January 24 - Frances Brooke, English writer (d. 1789)
- February 28 - George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend, British field marshal (d. 1807)
- April 12 - Lyman Hall, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1790)
- April 22 - Immanuel Kant, German philosopher (d. 1804)
- April 29 - John Michell, English scientist and geologist (d. 1793)
- May 7 - Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser, Alsatian-born Austrian general (d. 1797)
- May 19 - Augustus Hervey, 3rd Earl of Bristol, British admiral and politician (d. 1779)
- June 8 - John Smeaton, English civil engineer (d. 1792)
- July 2 - Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, German poet (d. 1803)
- July 31 - Noël François de Wailly, French lexicographer (d. 1801)
- August 23 - Abraham Yates, American Continental Congressman (d. 1796)
- August 25 - George Stubbs, English painter (d. 1806)
- August 27 - John Joachim Zubly, Swiss-born Continental Congressman (d. 1781)
- September 3 - Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester, British soldier and Governor of Quebec (d. 1808)
- October 31 - Christopher Anstey, English writer (d. 1805)
- December 12 - Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood, British admiral (d. 1816)
- December 13 - Franz Aepinus, German scientist (d. 1802)
- December 18 - Louise of Great Britain, queen of Frederick V of Denmark (d. 1751)
- December 24 - Johann Conrad Ammann, Swiss physician and naturalist (d. 1811)
- December 30 - Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée, French painter (d. 1805)
- Ahmad Shah "Dorr-e Dorran", King of Kabul, King of Herat, King of Kandahar, King of Peshawar (d. 1772)
- See also Category: 1724 births.
Deaths
- February 12 - Elkanah Settle, English writer (b. 1648)
- March 7 - Pope Innocent XIII (b. 1655)
- May 3 - John Leverett the Younger, American President of Harvard (b. 1662)
- May 21 - Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, English statesman (b. 1661)
- June 15 - Henry Sacheverell, English churchman and politician (b. 1674)
- October 2 - François-Timoléon de Choisy, French writer (b. 1644)
- October 29 - William Wollaston, English philosophical writer (b. 1659)
- November 11 - Joseph "Blueskin" Blake, English highwayman (executed) (b. c. 1700)
- November 16 - Jack Sheppard, English criminal (executed) (b. 1702)
- November 18 - Bartolomeu de Gusmão, Portuguese naturalist (b. 1685)
- See also Category: 1724 deaths.