1722

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Year '1722' ('MDCCXXII') was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).

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Events of 1722

January - June

July - December

Undated

Births

Deaths

Events of 1722

January - June

★ April 5 - Easter Sunday, Dutch admiral Jakob Roggeveen lands on what is now Easter Island.

★ May 5 - Pennsylvania colony enacted a statute requiring all persons importing any person previously convicted of sodomy to pay £5 for each such incoming person.

★ June 2 - Wapping, a male negro slave owned by a Mr. Heale, was hanged for murder in the colony of Virginia.

July - December

★ July 25 - Three Years War begins along Maine and Massachusetts border.

★ August 15 - William Battin, age 17, a white man, was hanged on that day for arson and murder in the colony of Pennsylvania.

★ December 20 - After the longest reign by a Chinese Emperor in history, the Kangxi Emperor dies and is succeeded by his son Yinzhen with the reign name Yongzheng.

Undated

★ Abraham De Moivre states De Moivre's theorem connecting trigonometric functions and complex numbers.

★ Publication of the first book of Bach's ''Well-Tempered Clavier''.

★ Fall of Persia's Safavid dynasty during a bloody revolt of the Afghani people.

★ The Silence Dogood letters appear, written by Benjamin Franklin.

★ Edenton is incorporated as the county seat of Chowan County, North Carolina. The governor and assembly of North Carolina move to Edenton, making it the de facto capital of North Carolina until 1746, when the government is moved to New Bern.

★ Thomas Guy helped found Guy's Hospital.

★ Russia and Persia start a one year war.

★ Peter the Great of Russia creates the Table of Ranks.

Births

★ January 3 - Fredric Hasselquist, Swedish naturalist (died 1752)

★ January 12 - Nicolas Luckner, Marshal of France (died 1794)

★ January 26 - Alexander Carlyle, Scottish church leader (died 1805)

★ February 19 - Tiphaigne de la Roche, French author (died 1774)

★ April - Joseph Warton, English poet and critic (died 1800)

★ April 11 - Christopher Smart, English poet (died 1771)

★ April 12 - Pietro Nardini, Italian composer (died 1793)

★ May 11 - Petrus Camper, Dutch anatomist (died 1798)

★ May 29 - James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster, Irish politician (died 1773)

★ July 16 - Joseph Wilton, English sculptor (died 1803)

★ August 9 - Augustus William, Prince of Prussia (died 1758)

★ August 11 - Richard Brocklesby, English physician (died 1797)

★ September 5 - Frederick Christian, Elector of Saxony (died 1763)

★ September 16 - Gabriel Christie, British general (died 1799)

★ September 22 - John Home, Scottish dramatist (died 1808)

★ September 27 - Samuel Adams, American revolutionary leader (died 1803)

★ October 2 - Leopold Widhalm, Austrian luthier (died 1776)

★ November 5 - William Byron, 5th Baron Byron, English dueler (died 1798)

★ November 19 - Leopold Auenbrugger, Austrian physician (died 1809)

★ November 19 - Benjamin Chew, Chief Justice of colonial Pennsylvania (died 1810)

★ November 30 - Theodore Gardelle, Swiss painter and enameler (died 1761)

★ December 30 - Charles Yorke, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (died 1770)

★ ''date unknown'' - Flora MacDonald, Scottish heroine (died 1790)

★ ''probable'' - Hyder Ali, Indian general and Sultan of Mysore (died 1782)
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Deaths

★ January 21 - Charles Paulet, 2nd Duke of Bolton, English supporter of William III of England (born 1661)

★ February 10 - Bartholomew Roberts, English pirate (born 1682)

★ March 11 - John Toland, Irish philosopher (born 1670)

★ April 13 - Charles Leslie, Irish Anglican theologian (born 1650)

★ April 21 - Robert Beverley, Jr., historian of Colonial Virginia (born 1673)

★ May 20 - Sébastien Vaillant, French botanist (born 1669)

★ June 5 - Johann Kuhnau, German composer (born 1660)

★ June 16 - John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, English general (born 1650)

★ September 18 - André Dacier, French classical scholar (born 1651)

★ November 20 - Johann Adam Reinken, German organist (born 1623)

★ December 20 - Kangxi Emperor of China (born 1654)

★ December 23 - Pierre Varignon, French mathematician (born 1654)
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