Explore 232 historical events from 1720–1729.
Arai Hakuseki was a Confucianist, scholar-bureaucrat, academic, administrator, writer and politician in Japan during the middle of the Edo period, who advised the shōgun Tokugawa …
Arai Hakuseki, Japanese philosopher, academic, and politician (born 1657)
Thomas King was an English professional soldier, lieutenant governor of Sheerness, Kent, and Member of Parliament for Queenborough, in Kent.
Thomas King, English and British soldier, MP for Queenborough, lieutenant-governor of Sheerness (born before 1660?).
Vittorio Amedeo Theodore of Savoy was a prince of Savoy and Duke of Aosta. He was born in the reign of his grandfather Victor Amadeus II, King of Sardinia.
Prince Vittorio Amedeo Theodore of Savoy (born 1723)
Philippe de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil was a French military officer who served as Governor General of New France from 1703 to 1725, throughout Queen Anne's War and Father Rale's…
Philippe de Rigaud Vaudreuil, French politician, Governor of New France (born 1643)
Franz Moritz Graf von Lacy was an Austrian military leader of Baltic German and Irish origins. He was the son of Count Peter von Lacy, and was a famous Austrian field marshal. Lacy…
Franz Moritz von Lacy, Austrian field marshal (died 1801)
Hans Herr was a Swiss-American Mennonite bishop. He was born in Zürich, Switzerland. In 1710, Herr was among a group of settlers who purchased 10,000 acres (40 km2) of land along P…
Hans Herr, Swiss-American bishop (born 1639)
Pietro Alessandro Gaspare Scarlatti was an Italian Baroque composer, known especially for his operas and chamber cantatas. He is considered the most important representative of the…
Alessandro Scarlatti, Italian composer and educator (born 1660)
Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period. He is known for his prolific output across a variety of instruments and forms, including the or…
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Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period. He is known for his prolific output across a variety of instruments and forms, including the or…
Johann Sebastian Bach first performed the church cantata Sie werden euch in den Bann tun, BWV 183 in Leipzig, Germany
Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period. He is known for his prolific output across a variety of instruments and forms, including the or…
Bach led the first performance of his cantata Ich bin ein guter Hirt, BWV 85, about Jesus as the Good Shepherd
Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period. He is known for his prolific output across a variety of instruments and forms, including the or…
J. S. Bach led the first performance of Lobe den Herren, den mächtigen König der Ehren, BWV 137, a cantata setting the…
Immanuel Kant was a German philosopher. Born in Königsberg in the Kingdom of Prussia, he is considered one of the central thinkers of the Enlightenment. His comprehensive and syste…
Immanuel Kant, German anthropologist, philosopher, and academic (died 1804)
Dagobert Sigmund, Count von Wurmser was an Austrian field marshal during the French Revolutionary Wars. Although he fought in the Seven Years' War, the War of the Bavarian Successi…
Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser, French-Austrian field marshal (died 1797)
Vice-Admiral Augustus John Hervey, 3rd Earl of Bristol, PC was a Royal Navy officer and politician. He commanded the sixth-rate HMS Phoenix at the Battle of Minorca in May 1756 as …
Augustus Hervey, 3rd Earl of Bristol, English admiral and politician, Chief Secretary for Ireland (died 1779)
Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock was a German poet. His best known works are the epic poem Der Messias and the poem Die Auferstehung, with the latter set to music in the finale of Gust…
Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, German poet and author (died 1803)
Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period. He is known for his prolific output across a variety of instruments and forms, including the or…
Johann Sebastian Bach leads the first performance of his cantata Du Hirte Israel, höre, BWV 104, illustrating the topic
Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period. He is known for his prolific output across a variety of instruments and forms, including the or…
Johann Sebastian Bach leads his cantata O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort (O eternity, you word of thunder), BWV 20, on the firs
The Nativity of John the Baptist (or Birth of John the Baptist, or Nativity of the Forerunner, or colloquially Johnmas or St. John's Day is a Christian feast day. It is observed an…
On the Feast of St
Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period. He is known for his prolific output across a variety of instruments and forms, including the or…
Johann Sebastian Bach leads the first performance of Nimm von uns, Herr, du treuer Gott, BWV 101, a chorale cantata on…
Eva Ekeblad was a Swedish agriculturist and salon hostess. She discovered a method to make alcohol and flour from potatoes, significantly reducing Sweden's incidence of famine. She…
Eva Ekeblad, Swedish noble and agronomist (died 1786)
Maria Antonia of Bavaria was a German princess, composer, singer, harpsichordist and patron of the arts, known particularly for her operas: Il trionfo della fedeltà and Talestri, r…
Maria Antonia of Bavaria, Electress of Saxony (died 1780)
Noël François de Wailly was a French grammarian and lexicographer.
Noël François de Wailly, French lexicographer and author (died 1801)
Alvise Foscari was a Venetian nobleman, naval officer, and administrator.
Alvise Foscari, Venetian admiral (died 1790)
Abraham Yates Jr. was an American lawyer, civil servant, and pamphleteer from Albany, New York.
Abraham Yates Jr., American lawyer and civil servant (died 1796)