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Everything about 1726 totally explainedYear 1726 ( MDCCXXVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).
Events of 1726
January - June
dates unknown
The city of Montevideo is founded.
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.
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 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)
July 30 - William Jones (ecclesiastic), (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
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 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)Further Information
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