1726

This article is about the year 1726.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
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:

Arts and Sciences

Archaeology – Architecture – Art – Literature (Poetry) – Music – Science

Countries

Canada –Denmark – France – Great Britain – Ireland – Norway – Russia – Scotland –Sweden –

Lists of leaders

Colonial governors – State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Works category

Works

1726 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1726 MDCCXXVI
Ab urbe condita	2479
Armenian calendar	1175 ԹՎ ՌՃՀԵ
Assyrian calendar	6476
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)
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar	4059
Minguo calendar	186 before ROC 民前186年
Thai solar calendar	2268–2269

1726 (MDCCXXVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (dominical letter F) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday (dominical letter B) of the Julian calendar, the 1726th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 726th year of the 2nd millennium, the 26th year of the 18th century, and the 7th year of the 1720s decade. Note that the Julian day for 1726 is 11 calendar days difference, which continued to be used from 1582 until the complete conversion of the Gregorian calendar was entirely done in 1929.

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

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)
• October 31 – Ichabod Crane, Historian (d. 1759)
• date unknown
  • Jean-Jacques Blaise d'Abbadie, Director-general of the Colony of Louisiana (d. 1765)
  • 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)