Explore 182 historical events from 1720–1729.
Jean-Georges Noverre was a French dancer and ballet master, and is generally considered the creator of ballet d'action, a precursor of the narrative ballets of the 19th century. Hi…
Jean-Georges Noverre, French actor and dancer (died 1810)
Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Baron de l'Aulne, commonly known as Turgot, was a French economist and statesman. Sometimes considered a physiocrat, he is today best remembered as an e…
Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune, French economist and politician (died 1781)
Thomas Gainsborough was an English portrait and landscape painter, draughtsman, and printmaker. Along with his rival Sir Joshua Reynolds, he is considered one of the most important…
Thomas Gainsborough, English painter (died 1788)
Catherine I was Empress of Russia from 8 February 1725 until her death in 1727. She was previously empress consort of Russia from 1721 to 1725 as the second wife of Peter the Great…
Catherine I of Russia (born 1684)
Juan Francisco Buenaventura de Ayala y Escobar was a prominent Spanish soldier and administrator who governed Spanish Florida from October 30, 1716, to August 3, 1718. The succeedi…
Juan de Ayala y Escobar, Governor of Spanish Florida (1716–1718) (born 1635)
August Hermann Francke was a German Lutheran pastor, theologian, philanthropist, and Biblical scholar. His evangelistic fervour and Pietism got him expelled as lecturer from the un…
August Hermann Francke, German-Lutheran pietist, philanthropist, and scholar (born 1663)
George I was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 1 August 1714 and ruler of the Electorate of Hanover within the Holy Roman Empire from 23 January 1698 until his death in 1727. …
George I of Great Britain (born 1660)
Victor-Maurice, comte de Broglie was a French Royal Army officer.
Victor-Maurice, comte de Broglie, French general (born 1647)
William Croft was an English composer and organist.
William Croft, English organist and composer (born 1678)
Simon Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt, PC of Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire, was an English Tory politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons from 1690 until 1710.…
Simon Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt, English politician, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (born 1661)
Francis Cotes was an English painter who was one of the pioneers of English pastel painting and co-founded the Royal Academy in 1768.
Francis Cotes, English painter and academic (died 1770)
James Hutton was a Scottish geologist, agriculturalist, chemical manufacturer, naturalist and physician. Often referred to as the "Father of Modern Geology," he played a key role …
James Hutton, Scottish geologist and physician (died 1797)
Maria Teresa Rafaela of Spain, Dauphine of France, was the daughter of King Philip V of Spain and Elisabeth Farnese and the wife of Louis, Dauphin of France, son of King Louis XV a…
Infanta Maria Teresa Rafaela of Spain (died 1746)
Thomas Pennant was a Welsh naturalist, traveller, writer and antiquarian. He was born and lived his whole life at his family estate, Downing Hall, near Whitford, Flintshire, in Wal…
Thomas Pennant, Welsh ornithologist and historian (died 1798)
Margaret Clap, better known as Mother Clap, ran a coffee house from 1724 to 1726 in Field Lane, Holborn, Middlesex, a short distance from the City of London. As well as running a m…
Five men arrested during a raid on Mother Clap's molly house in London are executed at Tyburn
Victor Amadeus III was King of Sardinia and ruler of the Savoyard states from 20 February 1773 to his death in 1796. Although he was politically conservative, he carried out numero…
Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia (died 1796)
Acharya Bhikshu was the founder and first spiritual head of the Śvetāmbara Terapanth sect of Jainism.
Acharya Bhikshu, Jain saint (died 1803)
James Bowdoin II was an American politician from Boston, Massachusetts who was active during the American Revolution and the following decade. He initially gained fame and influenc…
James Bowdoin, American banker and politician, 2nd Governor of Massachusetts (died 1790)
Francesco Cetti was an Italian Jesuit priest, zoologist and mathematician.
Francesco Cetti, Italian priest, zoologist, and mathematician (died 1778)
Johann Becker was a German organist, teacher, and composer, born in Helsa-Wickenrode near Kassel. He studied with Johann Sebastian Bach in Leipzig from about 1745 to 1748. He taugh…
Johann Becker, German organist, composer, and educator (died 1803)
François-André Danican Philidor, born François-André Danican and often referred to as André Danican Philidor during his lifetime, was a French composer and chess master. He contrib…
François-André Danican Philidor, French chess player and composer (died 1795)
Thomas Pitt was a British merchant, colonial administrator and politician who served as the president of Fort St. George from 1698 to 1709. Born in Blandford Forum, Dorset, he even…
Thomas Pitt, English merchant and politician (born 1653)
Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St. Albans, KG was an illegitimate son of King Charles II of England by his mistress Nell Gwyn.
Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans, English soldier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Berkshire (born 1670)
Francesco Antonio Mamiliano Pistocchi, nicknamed Pistocchino, was an Italian singer, composer and librettist.
Francesco Antonio Pistocchi, Italian singer (born 1659)