1724

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1721 1722 1723 - 1724 - 1725 1726 1727\n|-\n| align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1690s 1700s 1710s - 1720s - 1730s 1740s 1750s\n|- \n| align="center" | Centuries:
17th century - 18th century - 19th century

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1724 in literature
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Table of contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths

Events

\n* January 14 - King Philip V of Spain abdicates the throne\n* February 20 - The premiere of Giulio Cesare, an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel, takes place in London\n* June 23 - Treaty of Constantinople signed. Partitioned Persia between the Ottoman Empire and Russia\n* November 16 – Jack Sheppard hanged in London\n* China expels foreign missionaries\n* Konigsberg founded\n* Blenheim Palace construction is completed. It is presented as a gift to the Duke of Marlborough for his involvement in the Battle of Blenheim in 1704\n* Catherine I was named czarina by Peter the Great in Russia\n* The Austrian Netherlands agree to the Pragmatic Sanction\n* Mahmud of Afghanistan goes insane\n* Pierro Orsini become Pope Benedict XIII\n* Longman, oldest publishing house in England, is founded

Births

\n* April 22 - Immanuel Kant, philosopher (died 1804)\n* June 8 - John Smeaton, civil engineer (died 1794)\n* July 2 - Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, poet (died 1803)\n* August 25 - George Stubbs, painter (died 1806)\n* John Michell, English natural philosopher and geologist (died 1793). \n* Franz Aepinus

Deaths

\n* March 7 - Pope Innocent XIII (born 1655)\n* June 15 - Henry Sacheverell, English churchman and politician (born 1674)\n* October 29 - William Wollaston, English philosophical writer (born 1659) \n* November 16 - Jack Sheppard (executed) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n