1726
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| Years: | 1723 1724 1725 – 1726 – 1727 1728 1729 |
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| Gregorian calendar | 1726 MDCCXXVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 2479 |
| Armenian calendar | 1175 ԹՎ ՌՃՀԵ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6476 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -118–-117 |
| Bengali calendar | 1133 |
| Berber calendar | 2676 |
| British Regnal year | 12 Geo. 1 – 13 Geo. 1 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2270 |
| Burmese calendar | 1088 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7234–7235 |
| Chinese calendar | 乙巳年十一月廿八日 (4362/4422-11-28) — to —
丙午年十二月初九日(4363/4423-12-9) |
| Coptic calendar | 1442–1443 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1718–1719 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5486–5487 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1782–1783 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1648–1649 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4827–4828 |
| Holocene calendar | 11726 |
| Igbo calendar | |
| - Ǹrí Ìgbò | 726–727 |
| Iranian calendar | 1104–1105 |
| Islamic calendar | 1138–1139 |
| Japanese calendar | Kyōhō 11 (享保11年) |
| Juche calendar | N/A (before 1912) |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 11 days |
| Korean calendar | 4059 |
| Minguo calendar | 186 before ROC 民前186年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2269 |
Year 1726 (MDCCXXVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar.
Events []
January–June []
- February 8 – Supreme Privy Council is established in Russia
- April 15 – Isaac Newton tells William Stukeley the story of how he developed his theory of gravity.
- May 1 – Voltaire begins exile in England.
July–December []
- July 11 – André-Hercule Cardinal de Fleury, recalled from exile by King Louis XV of France, banishes Louis Henri, Duc de Bourbon, and Madame de Prie from court.
- August 7 – Pirate Nicholas Brown captured near Xtabi, Jamaica
- November – Mary Toft allegedly gives birth to 16 rabbits in England; the story is later revealed to be a hoax.
- December 24 – The city of Montevideo is founded by the Spaniards.
Date unknown []
Gullivers travels by Jonathan Swift.
- Jonathan Swift published Gullivers travels
- The Supreme Privy Council is established in Imperial Russia.
- The Gujin tushu jicheng, an immense Chinese encyclopedia, is printed using copper-based movable type printing.
- The remaining ruins of Liverpool Castle are finally demolished.
- Muhammad bin Saud becomes head of the House of Saud.
Births []
- January 14 – Jacques-Donatien Le Ray, French supporter of the American Revolution (d. 1803)
- March 8 – Richard Howe, British admiral (d. 1799)
- April 5 – Benjamin Harrison V, signer of the American Declaration of Independence (d. 1791)
- April 8 – Lewis Morris, American landowner and developer, signer of the United States Declaration of Independence (d. 1798)
- April 12 – Charles Burney, English music historian (d. 1814)
- April 20 – Joseph de Ferraris, Austrian cartographer of the Austrian Netherlands (d. 1814)
- May 12 – Alexander Hood, British naval officer (d. 1814)
- June 3 – James Hutton, Scottish geologist (d. 1797)
- June 14 – Thomas Pennant, Welsh naturalist (d. 1798)
- June 20 – Louise Henriette de Bourbon, mother of Philippe Égalité (d. 1759)
- July 30 – William Jones (1726–1800), (d. 1800)
- August 7 – James Bowdoin, American Revolutionary leader and politician (d. 1790)
- August 9 – Francesco Cetti, Italian Jesuit scientist (d. 1778)
- September 1 – François-André Danican Philidor, French composer and chess player (d. 1795)
- October 16 – Daniel Chodowiecki, Polish painter (d. 1801)
- date unknown
- John H. D. Anderson, Scottish scientist (d. 1796)
- Le Quy Don, Vietnamese philosopher, poet, encyclopedist, and government official (d. 1784)
- Cyprian Howe, Colonel in the American Revolutionary War (d. 1806)
- Katsukawa Shunsho, Japanese woodblock artist (d. 1792)
- Jedediah Strutt, English businessman (d. 1797)
Deaths []
- January 2 – Domenico Zipoli, Italian composer (b. 1688)
- January 25 – Guillaume Delisle, French cartographer (b. 1675)
- February 26 – Maximilian II Emanuel, elector of Bavaria (b. 1662)
- March 5 – Evelyn Pierrepont, 1st Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull, English politician
- March 26 – John Vanbrugh, English architect and dramatist (b. 1664)
- April 26 – Jeremy Collier, English theatre critic, non-juror bishop and theologian (b. 1650)
- April 28 – Thomas Pitt, British Governor of Madras (b. 1653)
- May 10 – Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans, English soldier (b. 1670)
- June 18 – Michel Richard Delalande, French organist and composer (b. 1657)
- July 8 – John Ker, Scottish spy (b. 1673)
- July 22 – Hugh Drysdale, British Colonial Governor of Virginia
- July 31 – Nicolaus II Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (b. 1695)
- November 23 – Sophia, Princess of Zelle, queen of George I of Great Britain (b. 1666)
- December 2 – Samuel Penhallow, American colonist and historian (b. 1665)
