Major Events
- Jan 1 Glassblower Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit proposes system for making thermometers and the Fahrenheit temperature scale in a paper to the Royal Society of London and is elected a fellow on its basis
- Jan 14 Spanish King Philip V abdicates throne, in favor of his son 17 year old son Louis; returns to rule in September when Louis dies of smallbox
- Jan 28 The Russian Academy of Sciences founded in St. Petersburg by Peter the Great, and implemented in a Senate decree. Called St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences until 1917.
- Feb 20 George Frideric Handel's opera "Giulio Cesare in Egitto" premieres at the King's Theatre in Haymarket, London
- Apr 1 Henry Pelham becomes English minister of War
- Apr 1 Jonathan Swift publishes "Drapier's Letters" a series of seven pamphlets against a privately minted copper coinage Swift saw as inferior and corrupt
- Apr 6 Thomas Pelham-Holles becomes British Minister of Foreign Affairs
- Apr 7 Johann Sebastian Bach's "St John Passion" premieres on Good Friday at St. Nicholas Church in Leipzig, Electorate of Saxony (now Germany)
- Jun 23 Russia and Turkey sign Treaty of Constantinople
- Oct 13 Jonathan Swift publishes last of Drapier's letters
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- Apr 7 Johann Sebastian Bach's "St John Passion" premieres on Good Friday at St. Nicholas Church in Leipzig, Electorate of Saxony (now Germany)
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Who Died in 1724
- Feb 12 Elkanah Settle, English poet and playwright, dies at 76
- Feb 13 Francisco Jose Coutinho, Portuguese composer, dies at 43
- Mar 7 Innocent XIII [Michelangiolo dei Conti], Italian 244th Pope (1721-24) tried to introduce frugal measures and end nepotism, dies at 68
- Mar 8 Enrico Giovanni Zuccalli, Swiss architect, dies at about 81
- May 3 John Leverett the Younger, American President of Harvard, dies at 61
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