What Happened in 1726

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

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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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