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Franklin Returns to America

Oct 11 Benjamin Franklin returns to Philadelphia from England

United States Founding Father Benjamin Franklin

Gulliver's Travels

Oct 28 "Gulliver's Travels" by Jonathan Swift is published by Benjamin Motte in London

Author, Poet and Satirist Jonathan Swift

Events in 1726

Famous Birthdays

  • Oct 14 Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham, English sailor and politician, born in Leith, Midlothian, Scotland (d. 1813)
  • Oct 16 Daniel Chodowiecki, Polish painter (d. 1801)
Born in 1726

Famous Deaths

  • Oct 16 Giovanni Maria Capelli, Italian composer, dies at 77


What Happened in 1726

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