Explore 108 historical events from 1720–1729.
Roger Sherman was an early American politician, lawyer, and a Founding Father of the United States. Representing Connecticut, he is the only person to sign all four great state pap…
Roger Sherman, American lawyer and politician (died 1793)
Johann Nikolaus Götz was a German poet from Worms.
Johann Nikolaus Götz, German poet and author (died 1781)
John Douglas was a Scottish scholar and Anglican bishop.
John Douglas, Scottish bishop and scholar (died 1807)
Maria Barbara Carillo was burned at the stake for heresy during the Spanish Inquisition. She was executed at the age of 95 or 96 and is the oldest person known to have been execute…
Maria Barbara Carillo, victim of the Spanish Inquisition (born1625)
Jean-Antoine Watteau was a French painter and draughtsman whose brief career spurred the revival of interest in colour and movement, as seen in the tradition of Correggio and Ruben…
Jean-Antoine Watteau, French painter (born 1684)
Elihu Yale was a British colonial administrator. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Yale lived in America only as a child, and spent the rest of his life in England, Wales, and India. …
Elihu Yale, American-English merchant and philanthropist (born 1649)
Elijah ben Solomon Zalman,, also known as the Vilna Gaon, was a Lithuanian Jewish talmudist, halakhist, kabbalist, and the foremost leader of misnagdic (non-hasidic) Jewry of the p…
Vilna Gaon, Lithuanian rabbi and author (died 1797)
William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, styled Lord Cavendish before 1729, and Marquess of Hartington between 1729 and 1755, was a British Whig statesman and nobleman who was br…
William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1764)
Maximilian Hell was an astronomer and ordained Jesuit priest from the Kingdom of Hungary. The lunar crater Hell is named after him.
Maximilian Hell, Hungarian priest and astronomer (died 1792)
Gilbert White was a "parson-naturalist", a pioneering English naturalist, ecologist, and ornithologist. He is best known for his Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne.
Gilbert White, English ornithologist and ecologist (died 1793)
Anthony Hamilton PC (Ire), also known as Antoine and comte d'Hamilton, was a soldier and a writer. As a Catholic of Irish and Scottish ancestry, his parents brought him to France i…
Antoine Hamilton, Irish-French soldier and author (born 1646)
Guillaume Amfrye de Chaulieu, French poet and wit, was born at Fontenay, Province of Normandy.
Guillaume Amfrye de Chaulieu, French poet and author (born 1639)