What Happened In History Year 1726

Historical Events for the Year 1726

• 8th February » The Supreme Privy Council is established in Russia.

Famous Birthdays in 1726

• 6th February » Patrick Russell (herpetologist) known as Patrick Russell, Scottish surgeon (d. 1805)
• 20th February » William Prescott, American colonel (d. 1795)
• 8th March » Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe, English admiral (d. 1799)
• 6th April » Gerard Majella, Italian saint (d. 1755)
• 8th April » Lewis Morris, American judge and politician (d. 1798)
• 20th May » Francis Cotes, English painter (d. 1770)
• 3rd June » James Hutton, Scottish geologist and physician (d. 1797)
• 11th June » Infanta Maria Teresa Rafaela of Spain (d. 1746)
• 26th June » Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia (d. 1796)
• 7th August » James Bowdoin, American politician, 2nd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1790)
• 9th August » Francesco Cetti, Italian priest, zoologist, and mathematician (d. 1778)
• 1st September » Johann Becker (organist) e.g Johann Becker, German organist, composer, and educator (d. 1803)
• 7th September » François-André Danican Philidor, French chess player and composer (d. 1795)
• 14th October » Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham, Scottish-English admiral and politician (d. 1813)
• 16th October » Daniel Chodowiecki, Polish-German painter (d. 1801)
• 24th December » Johann Hartmann, Danish composer (d. 1793)

Famous Deaths in History for 1726

• 2nd January » Domenico Zipoli, Italian composer (b. 1688)
• 25th January » Guillaume Delisle, French cartographer (b. 1675)
• 26th February » Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria (b. 1662)
• 5th March » Evelyn Pierrepont, 1st Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull, English politician (b. 1655)
• 20th March » Isaac Newton, English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher (b. 1642)
• 26th March » John Vanbrugh, English playwright and architect, designed Blenheim Palace and Castle Howard (b. 1664)
• 28th April » Thomas Pitt, English merchant (b. 1653)
• 10th May » Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans, English soldier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Berkshire (b. 1670)
• 18th June » Michel Richard Delalande, French organist and composer (b. 1657)
• 8th July » John Ker, Scottish spy (b. 1673)
• 22nd July » Hugh Drysdale, English-American politician, Colonial Governor of Virginia
• 31st July » Nicolaus II Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician and theorist (b. 1695)
• 13th November » Sophia Dorothea of Celle (b. 1666)
• 2nd December » Samuel Penhallow, English-American historian and author (b. 1665)

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