Explore 232 historical events from 1720–1729.
Antonie Philips van Leeuwenhoek was a Dutch microbiologist and microscopist in the Golden Age of Dutch art, science and technology. A largely self-taught man in science, he is comm…
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch microscopist and biologist (born 1632)
Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1st Baronet was a British painter of German origin. The leading portraitist in England during the late Stuart and early Georgian eras, he served as court paint…
Godfrey Kneller, German-English painter (born 1646)
Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period. He is known for his prolific output across a variety of instruments and forms, including the or…
Johann Sebastian Bach (pictured) assumed the office of Thomaskantor in Leipzig, presenting the cantata Die Elenden solle
Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period. He is known for his prolific output across a variety of instruments and forms, including the or…
Johann Sebastian Bach directed the first performance of his cantata Erforsche mich, Gott, und erfahre mein Herz in…
António Manoel de Vilhena was a Portuguese nobleman who was the 66th Prince and Grand Master of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem from 19 June 1722 to his death in 1736. Unlike a …
António Manoel de Vilhena, Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller, laid the first stone of Fort Manoel in Malta.
Dummer's War (1722–1725) was a series of battles between the New England Colonies and the Wabanaki Confederacy, who were allied with New France. The eastern theater of the war was …
Dummer's War begins along the Maine-Massachusetts border.
Lieutenant-General James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster, PC (Ire), styled Lord Offaly until 1743 and known as The Earl of Kildare between 1743 and 1761 and as The Marquess of Kil…
James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster, Irish soldier and politician (died 1773)
Georg Anton Benda was a Bohemian composer, violinist and Kapellmeister of the classical period.
Jiří Antonín Benda, Czech composer, violinist and Kapellmeister (died 1795)
Joseph Wilton was an English sculptor. He was one of the founding members of the Royal Academy in 1768, and the academy's third keeper. His works are particularly numerous memorial…
Joseph Wilton, English sculptor and academic (died 1803)
Prince Augustus William of Prussia was the son of King Frederick William I of Prussia and a younger brother and general of Frederick the Great.
Prince Augustus William of Prussia (died 1758)
Richard Brocklesby, an English physician, was born at Minehead, Somerset.
Richard Brocklesby, English physician (died 1797)
Frederick Christian was the Prince-Elector of Saxony for 73 days in 1763. He was a member of the House of Wettin. He was the third but eldest surviving son of Frederick Augustus II…
Frederick Christian, Prince-Elector of Saxony (died 1763)
Gabriel Christie was a British Army General from Scotland, who settled in Montreal after the Seven Years' War. Following the British Conquest of New France, he invested in land and…
Gabriel Christie, Scottish-Canadian general (died 1799)
Samuel Adams was an American statesman, political philosopher, and a Founding Father of the United States. He was a politician in colonial Massachusetts, a leader of the movement t…
Samuel Adams, American philosopher and politician, fourth Governor of Massachusetts (died 1803)
Robert Beverley Jr. was a historian of early colonial Virginia, as well as a planter and politician.
Robert Beverley, Jr
Sébastien Vaillant was a French botanist who was born at Vigny in present-day Val d'Oise.
Sébastien Vaillant, French botanist and mycologist (born 1669)
Johann Kuhnau was a German polymath, known primarily as a composer today. He was also active as a novelist, translator, lawyer, and music theorist, and was able to combine these ac…
Johann Kuhnau, German organist and composer (born 1660)
General John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, 1st Prince of Mindelheim, 1st Count of Nellenburg, Prince of the Holy Roman Empire was a British army officer and statesman. From a…
John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Oxfordshire (born 1650)
André Dacier was a French classical scholar and editor of texts. He began his career with an edition and commentary of Festus's De verborum significatione, and was the first to pro…
André Dacier, French scholar and academic (born 1651)
The Papal States, officially the State of the Church, were a conglomeration of territories on the Italian peninsula under the direct sovereign rule of the pope from 756 to 1870. Th…
In the Papal States, Cardinal Michelangelo dei Conti is elected Pope, and takes the name Innocent XIII
Shamakhi is a city in Azerbaijan and the administrative centre of the Shamakhi District. The city's estimated population as of 2010 was 31,704. It is famous for its traditional dan…
The city of Shamakhi in Safavid Shirvan is sacked.
Roger Sherman was an early American politician, lawyer, and a Founding Father of the United States. Representing Connecticut, he is the only person to sign all four great state pap…
Roger Sherman, American lawyer and politician (died 1793)
Johann Nikolaus Götz was a German poet from Worms.
Johann Nikolaus Götz, German poet and author (died 1781)
John Douglas was a Scottish scholar and Anglican bishop.
John Douglas, Scottish bishop and scholar (died 1807)