1723
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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 |
| 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 | |
| - Bikram Samwat | 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 |
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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.
[edit] Events
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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).
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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)
[edit] 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)
