Today in History for Year 1722

Months in Year 1722: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 15 of 15

Jan 24th - Czar Peter the Great begins civil system
Jan 24th - Edward Wigglesworth appointed 1st US divinity professor (Harvard)
Mar 8th - Afghan monarch Mir Mahmud occupies Persia
Mar 17th - Willem KH Friso appointed mayor of Drente
Apr 5th - Jacob Roggeveen discovers Easter Island
Apr 6th - Peter the Great ends tax on men with beards
Apr 22nd - 19 VOC "komplotteurs" in Batavia executed
Apr 30th - Game of Billiards is mentioned in New England Courant
May 3rd - Pierre de Marivaux' "La Double Inconstance," premieres in Paris
Jun 30th - Hungarian Parliament condemns emperor Karel VI's Pragmatic Sanctions
Jul 25th - The Three Years War begins along the Maine and Massachusetts border.
Sep 12th - Russian troops occupy Baku & Derbent on Persia
Oct 19th - French C Hopffer patents fire extinguisher
Nov 2nd - Willem KH Friso (11) appointed viceroy of Gelderland
Nov 7th - Richard Steele's "Conscious Lovers," premieres in London

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 34 of 34

Jan 3rd - Fredric Hasselquist, Swedish naturalist (d. 1752)
Jan 14th - Friedrich Gottlob Fleischer, composer
Jan 26th - Prestonpans
Jan 26th - Alexander Carlyle, Scottish church leader (d. 1805)
Jan 28th - Johann Ernst Bach, composer
Feb 19th - Tiphaigne de la Roche, French writer (d. 1774)
Apr 11th - Christopher Smart, English poet & journalist (Ceremony of Carols)
Apr 12th - Pietro Nardini, composer
May 11th - Peter Camper, Leyden Holland, anatomist/professor (Amsterdam)
May 21st - Wilhelm Gottfried Enderle, composer
May 22nd - Johannes Schmidlin, composer
May 29th - James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster, Irish politician (d. 1773)
Jun 6th - Adrien Trudo Sale, composer
Jun 8th - Jakob Friedrich Kleinknecht, composer
Jun 30th - Jiri Antonin Benda, composer
Jul 16th - Joseph Wilton, sculptor
Jul 22nd - Jean-Noel/Joannes Natalis Paquot, Belgian priest/historian
Aug 9th - Augustus William, Prince of Prussia (d. 1758)
Aug 11th - Richard Brocklesby, English physician (d. 1797)
Sep 5th - Frederick Christian, Elector of Saxony (d. 1763)
Sep 14th - Joseph Paul Ziegler, composer
Sep 16th - Gabriel Christie, British general (d. 1799)
Sep 22nd - John Home, Scottish writer (d. 1808)
Sep 27th - Samuel Adams, revolutionary rabble rouser/(Lt Gov-Mass, 1789-94)
Oct 2nd - Leopold Widhalm, Austrian luthier (d. 1776)
Oct 5th - Gregorio Sciroli, composer
Nov 5th - William Byron, 5th Baron Byron, English duelist (d. 1798)
Nov 11th - Johann Philipp Sack, composer
Nov 19th - Leopold Auenbrugger, Austrian physician (d. 1809)
Nov 19th - Benjamin Chew, Chief Justice of colonial Pennsylvania (d. 1810)
Nov 22nd - Hryhorii Skovoroda, Ukrainian poet (d. 1794)
Nov 30th - Theodore Gardelle, Swiss painter and enameler (d. 1761)
Dec 1st - A L Karschin, writer
Dec 30th - Charles Yorke, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (d. 1770)

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 19 of 19

Jan 7th - Antoine Coypel, French painter/poet, dies at 60
Jan 21st - Charles Paulet, 2nd Duke of Bolton, English supporter of William III of England (b. 1661)
Feb 10th - Bartholomew Roberts, Welsh pirate (b. 1682)
Mar 11th - John Toland, Irish philosopher (b. 1670)
Mar 31st - Campegius Vitringa, Dutch theologist/exegete, dies at 62
Apr 13th - Charles Leslie, Irish controversialist, dies
Apr 21st - Robert Beverley, Jr., historian of Colonial Virginia (b. 1673)
Apr 22nd - Pieter Erberfeld, German/Thais merchant on Java, dies
May 20th - Sébastien Vaillant, French botanist (b. 1669)
Jun 5th - Johann Kuhnau, composer, dies at 62
Jun 16th - John Churchill up Marlborough, English general strategist, dies at 72
Sep 3rd - Ivan Skoropadsky, Hetman of Ukraine (b. 1646)
Sep 18th - André Dacier, French classical scholar (b. 1651)
Oct 8th - Gerard Callenbach, Dutch admiral, dies at 80
Nov 12th - Adriaen van der Werff, Dutch painter/engraver/architect, dies at 63
Nov 24th - Johann Adam Reincken, German organist/composer, dies at 99
Dec 8th - Elisabeth C "Liselotte" van Palts, German/French duchess, dies at 70
Dec 20th - Kangxi Emperor of China (b. 1654)
Dec 23rd - Pierre Varignon, French mathematician (b. 1654)