Major Events
- Feb 8 The Supreme Privy Council is established in Russia
- May 5 French ballerina Marie de Camargo aged 16 makes her premiere at Paris Opera Ballets in "Les Caractères de la Danse"
- May 9 Three men arrested during a February raid on Mother Clap's molly-house (a coffee house catering to homosexuals) in London are executed by hanging at Tyburn, England
- Jun 11 Cardinal Fleury succeeds Duke of Bourbon as French premier
- Jul 23 Benjamin Franklin sails back to Philadelphia
- Aug 6 Treaty of Alliance between the Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI and the Russian Empire signed at Vienna
- Aug 9 Netherlands signs Covenant of Hannover
- Oct 11 Benjamin Franklin returns to Philadelphia from England
- Oct 28 "Gulliver's Travels" by Jonathan Swift is published by Benjamin Motte in London
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Who Died in 1726
- Jan 2 Domenico Zipoli, Italian organist and composer, dies at 37
- Jan 25 Guillaume Delisle, French cartographer (b. 1675)
- Feb 26 Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria and governor of the Spanish Netherlands (1691-1714), dies at 63
- Mar 5 Evelyn Pierrepont, 1st Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull, English politician
- Mar 26 John Vanbrugh, Dutch-English playwright (The Provoked Wife), dies at 62
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