This article is about the year 1726.
Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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Centuries: | 17th century – 18th century – 19th century |
Decades: | 1690s 1700s 1710s – 1720s – 1730s 1740s 1750s |
Years: | 1723 1724 1725 – 1726 – 1727 1728 1729 |
1726 by topic: | |
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Gregorian calendar | 1726 MDCCXXVI |
Ab urbe condita | 2479 |
Armenian calendar | 1175 ԹՎ ՌՃՀԵ |
Assyrian calendar | 6476 |
Bahá'í calendar | −118 – −117 |
Bengali calendar | 1133 |
Berber calendar | 2676 |
British Regnal year | 12 Geo. 1 – 13 Geo. 1 |
Buddhist calendar | 2270 |
Burmese calendar | 1088 |
Byzantine calendar | 7234–7235 |
Chinese calendar | 乙巳年 (Wood Snake) 4422 or 4362 — to — 丙午年 (Fire Horse) 4423 or 4363 |
Coptic calendar | 1442–1443 |
Discordian calendar | 2892 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1718–1719 |
Hebrew calendar | 5486–5487 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1782–1783 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1648–1649 |
- Kali Yuga | 4827–4828 |
Holocene calendar | 11726 |
Igbo calendar | 726–727 |
Iranian calendar | 1104–1105 |
Islamic calendar | 1138–1139 |
Japanese calendar | Kyōhō 11 (享保11年) |
Juche calendar | N/A |
Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 11 days |
Korean calendar | 4059 |
Minguo calendar | 186 before ROC 民前186年 |
Thai solar calendar | 2269 |
Year 1726 (MDCCXXVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar.
Events
January–June
- February 8 – Supreme Privy Council is established in Russia
- April 15 – Isaac Newton tells William Stukeley the story of how he developed his theory of gravity.
- May 1 – Voltaire begins exile in England.
July–December
- July 11 – André-Hercule Cardinal de Fleury, recalled from exile by King Louis XV of France, banishes Louis Henri, Duke of Bourbon, and Madame de Prie from court.
- August 7 – Pirate Nicholas Brown captured near Xtabi, Jamaica
- October 26 – Jonathan Swift's satirical novel Gulliver's Travels is first published (anonymously) in London; it sells out within a week.
- November – Mary Toft allegedly gives birth to 16 rabbits in England; the story is later revealed to be a hoax.
- December 24 – The city of Montevideo is founded by the Spaniards.
Date unknown
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Gullivers Travels by Jonathan Swift
- The Supreme Privy Council is established in Imperial Russia.
- The Gujin Tushu Jicheng, an immense Chinese encyclopedia, is printed using copper-based movable type printing.
- Muhammad bin Saud becomes head of the House of Saud.
- The remaining ruins of Liverpool Castle in England are finally demolished.
Births
- January 14 – Jacques-Donatien Le Ray, French supporter of the American Revolution (d. 1803)
- February 7 – Margaret Fownes-Luttrell, British painter (d. 1766)
- March 8 – Richard Howe, British admiral (d. 1799)
- April 5 – Benjamin Harrison V, signer of the American Declaration of Independence (d. 1791)
- April 8 – Lewis Morris, American landowner and developer, signer of the United States Declaration of Independence (d. 1798)
- April 12 – Charles Burney, English music historian (d. 1814)
- April 20 – Joseph de Ferraris, Austrian cartographer of the Austrian Netherlands (d. 1814)
- May 12 – Alexander Hood, British naval officer (d. 1814)
- June 3 – James Hutton, Scottish geologist (d. 1797)
- June 14 – Thomas Pennant, Welsh naturalist (d. 1798)
- June 20 – Louise Henriette of Bourbon, Duchess of Orléans, mother of Philippe Égalité (d. 1759)
- July 30 – William Jones (1726–1800), (d. 1800)
- August 7 – James Bowdoin, American Revolutionary leader and politician (d. 1790)
- August 9 – Francesco Cetti, Italian Jesuit scientist (d. 1778)
- September 1 – François-André Danican Philidor, French composer and chess player (d. 1795)
- September 26 – John H. D. Anderson, Scottish scientist (d. 1796)
- October 16 – Daniel Chodowiecki, Polish painter (d. 1801)
- date unknown
- Lê Quý Đôn, Vietnamese philosopher, poet, encyclopedist, and government official (d. 1784)
- Cyprian Howe, Colonel in the American Revolutionary War (d. 1806)
- Katsukawa Shunshō, Japanese woodblock artist (d. 1792)
- Jedediah Strutt, English businessman (d. 1797)
Deaths
- January 2 – Domenico Zipoli, Italian composer (b. 1688)
- January 25 – Guillaume Delisle, French cartographer (b. 1675)
- February 26 – Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria (b. 1662)
- March 5 – Evelyn Pierrepont, 1st Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull, English politician
- March 26 – John Vanbrugh, English architect and dramatist (b. 1664)
- April 26 – Jeremy Collier, English theatre critic, non-juror bishop and theologian (b. 1650)
- April 28 – Thomas Pitt, British Governor of Madras (b. 1653)
- May 10 – Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans, English soldier (b. 1670)
- June 18 – Michel Richard Delalande, French organist and composer (b. 1657)
- July 8 – John Ker, Scottish spy (b. 1673)
- July 22 – Hugh Drysdale, British Colonial Governor of Virginia
- July 31 – Nicolaus II Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (b. 1695)
- November 23 – Sophia Dorothea of Celle, queen of George I of Great Britain (b. 1666)
- December 2 – Samuel Penhallow, American colonist and historian (b. 1665)