Today in History for Year 1723

Months in Year 1723: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 5 of 5

Jan 12th - Handel's opera "Ottone" premieres, London
Jan 23rd - Georg Friedrich Handel's opera "Ottone," premieres in London
Apr 23rd - Cornelis Steenoven elected archbishop of Utrecht
Jun 26th - After a lasting siege and bombardment by cannons, Baku surrenders to the Russians.
Dec 6th - Emperor Karel VI's Pragmatic Sanctie declares Constitution

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 39 of 39

Jan 1st - Christian Friedrich Gregor, composer
Jan 11th - Prithvi Narayan Shah, began the unification of modern Nepal (d. 1774)
Jan 12th - Samuel Langdon, American college educator (d. 1797)
Jan 27th - Johann A Cramer, prime minister/poet
Feb 5th - John Witherspoon, clergyman/signed Declaration of Independence
Feb 17th - Tobias Mayer, "method of lunars" for longitude determination
Feb 21st - Louis-Pierre Anquetil, French historian (d. 1808)
Feb 23rd - Richard Price, Welsh philosopher (d. 1791)
Feb 24th - John Burgoyne, British general (d. 1792)
Mar 5th - Princess Mary of Great Britain (d. 1773)
Mar 22nd - Charles Carroll, American statesman (d. 1783)
Mar 23rd - Agha Mohammad Khan Ghajar, King of Iran (d. 1771)
Mar 25th - Kaat Mussel, [Catharina Mulder], Dutch demonstrater
Mar 31st - Frederik V, King of Denmark/Norway (1746-66)
Apr 14th - John Wainwright, composer
Apr 20th - Cornelius Harnett, American delegate to the Continental Congress (d. 1781)
Apr 25th - Giovanni Marco Rutini, composer
Apr 30th - Mathurin Jacques Brisson, French naturalist (d. 1806)
Jun 3rd - Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, Italian-born naturalist (d. 1788)
Jun 5th - Adam Smith, Kirkcaldy Scot, economist (Wealth of Nations) (baptized)
Jun 11th - J G Palitzsch, 1st saw Halley's comet on return, Prolitz
Jun 18th - Giuseppe Scarlotti, composer
Jun 20th - Adam Ferguson, Scottish sociologist/historian
Jun 20th - Theophilus Lindsey, English theologian (d. 1808)
Jun 30th - Christian Ernst Graf, composer
Jul 1st - Pedro R de Campomanes, Spanish economist/historian/literary
Jurist William Blackstone (Jul 10th) Jul 10th - William Blackstone, London England, jurist (Blackstone's Commentaries)
Jul 11th - Jean-François Marmontel, French historian and writer (d. 1799)
Jul 16th - Joshua Reynolds, England, portrait painter (Simplicity)
Jul 29th - Christleib Siegmund Binder, composer
Aug 2nd - Nicolas de Pigage, French classical architect
Sep 11th - Johann Bernhard Basedow, German educational reformer (d. 1790)
Oct 4th - Nikolaus Poda von Neuhaus, German entomologist (d. 1798)
Oct 16th - Johann Andreas Joseph Giulini, composer
Nov 8th - John Byron, British naval officer (d. 1786)
Nov 30th - William Livingston, revolutionary Governor of New Jersey (d. 1790)
Dec 19th - Susanne K von Klettenberg, German friend of Goethes mother
Dec 22nd - Carl Friedrich Abel, German/British viola-da-gamba-player/composer
Dec 26th - Friedrich Melchior, baron von Grimm, German writer (d. 1807)

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 29 of 29

Feb 2nd - Antonio M Valsalva, Italian anatomist, dies at 66
Feb 25th - Christopher Wren, England, astronomer/architect, dies at 90
Feb 26th - Thomas d'Urfey, English writer (b. 1653)
Mar 15th - Johann C Gunther, writer, dies at 27
Mar 31st - Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon, British-born American statesman (b. 1661)
Apr 5th - J Fischer von Erlach, Austrian architect (Hofburg, Vienna), dies at 66
Apr 10th - Claude F Tserclaes, South Neth earl of Tilly, dies at 74
Apr 11th - John Robinson, English diplomat (b. 1650)
May 11th - Jean Galbert de Campistron, French dramatist (b. 1656)
Jul 1st - Willem van de Pose, gov of Cape Colony (1699-1797), dies at about 59
Jul 14th - Claude Fleury, French historian (b. 1640)
Jul 26th - Robert Bertie, 1st Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English statesman (b. 1660)
Jul 28th - Mariana Alcoforado, nun (schreef no Lettres Portuguese), dies at 63
Aug 10th - Guillaume Dubois, French cardinal and statesman (b. 1656)
Aug 17th - Joseph Bingham, English scholar (b. 1668)
Aug 21st - Dimitrie Cantemir, philosopher/monarch of Moldova 1710-11, dies at 49
Aug 23rd - Antoine Mouque, composer, dies at 64
Aug 23rd - Increase Mather, New England Puritan minister (b. 1639)
Aug 26th - Thonis van Leeuwenhoek, biologist/inventor (microscope), dies at 90
Architect Christopher Wren (Feb 25th) Aug 30th - Anton van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch tradesman and scientist (b. 1632)
Oct 10th - William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper, Lord Chancellor of England (b. 1665)
Oct 31st - Cosimo III de' Medici, monarch of Florence (1670-1723), dies at 81
Nov 7th - Godfrey Kneller, English painter (74-77), dies
Nov 19th - Antoine Nompar de Caumont, French courtier and soldier (b. 1632)
Dec 1st - Susanna Centlivre, English dramatist and actress
Dec 2nd - Philip, French duke of Orleans/regent (1715-23)/PM (1723), dies
Dec 7th - Jan Santini Aichel, Bohemian architect (b. 1677)
Dec 20th - Augustus Quirinus Rivinus (b. 1652)
Dec 22nd - Jacques Basnage, French/Dutch historian/vicar, dies at 70