Explore 232 historical events from 1720–1729.
The Russo-Persian War of 1722–1723, known in Russian historiography as the Persian campaign of Peter the Great, was a war between the Russian Empire and Safavid Iran, triggered by …
After a siege and bombardment by cannon, Baku surrenders to the Russians
Ioan Giurgiu Patachi was Bishop of Fogaras and Primate of the Romanian Greek Catholic Church from 1721 to his death in 1727.
Ioan Giurgiu Patachi becomes Bishop of Făgăraș and is festively installed in his position at the St. Nicolas Cathedral…
António Manoel de Vilhena was a Portuguese nobleman who was the 66th Prince and Grand Master of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem from 19 June 1722 to his death in 1736. Unlike a …
Grand Master António Manoel de Vilhena lays down the first stone of Fort Manoel in Malta.
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 Erforsche mich, Gott, und erfahre mein Herz, BWV 136,…
The Treaty of Saint Petersburg of 23 September [O.S. 12 September] 1723 concluded the Russo-Persian War of 1722–1723 between the Russian Empire and Safavid Iran. It ratified Iran's…
Iran and Russia sign the treaty of Saint Petersburg. Iran is forced to cede all lands on the western and southern…
The Treaty of Saint Petersburg of 23 September [O.S. 12 September] 1723 concluded the Russo-Persian War of 1722–1723 between the Russian Empire and Safavid Iran. It ratified Iran's…
The treaty of Saint Petersburg is signed, in which Imperial Russia gains Derbent, Baku, and the coastal areas in…
Cornelius Harnett was an American Founding Father, politician, merchant, plantation owner, and slaveholder from Wilmington, North Carolina. He was a leading American Revolutionary …
Cornelius Harnett, American merchant, farmer, and politician (died 1781)
Giovanni Marco Rutini was an Italian composer. He is most known for his sonatas which influenced Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Joseph Haydn.
Giovanni Marco Rutini, Italian composer (died 1797)
Mathurin Jacques Brisson was a French zoologist and natural philosopher.
Mathurin Jacques Brisson, French zoologist and philosopher (died 1806)
Giovanni Antonio Scopoli was an Italian medical doctor and naturalist. His biographer Otto Guglia named him the "first anational European" and the "Linnaeus of the Austrian Empire"…
Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, Italian physician, geologist, and botanist (died 1788)
Johann Georg Palitzsch – 21 February 1788 in Prohlis) was a German astronomer who became famous for recovering Comet 1P/Halley on Christmas Day, 1758. The periodic nature of this c…
Johann Georg Palitzsch, German astronomer (died 1788)
Old Style (O.S.) and New Style (N.S.) indicate dating systems before and after a calendar change, respectively. Usually, they refer to the change from the Julian calendar to the Gr…
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Jean-François Marmontel was a French historian, writer and a member of the Encyclopédistes movement.
Jean-François Marmontel, French historian and author (died 1799)
Johann Bernhard Basedow was a German educational reformer, teacher and writer. He founded the Philanthropinum, a short-lived but influential progressive school in Dessau, and was t…
Johann Bernhard Basedow, German author and educator (died 1790)
Adam Smith was a Scottish economist and philosopher who was a pioneer in the field of political economy and key figure during the Scottish Enlightenment. Seen by many as the "fathe…
Adam Smith, Scottish philosopher and economist (died 1790)
Sir William Blackstone was an English jurist, justice, and Tory politician most noted for his Commentaries on the Laws of England, which became the best-known description of the do…
William Blackstone, English lawyer, judge, and politician (died 1780)
Sir Joshua Reynolds was an English painter who specialised in portraits. The art critic John Russell called him one of the major European painters of the 18th century, while Lucy P…
Joshua Reynolds, English painter and academic (died 1792)
Nikolaus Poda von Neuhaus is best known for his work in the field of entomology in the middle to late 18th-century.
Nikolaus Poda von Neuhaus, German entomologist and author (died 1798)
Claude Fleury, was a French priest, jurist, and ecclesiastical historian.
Claude Fleury, French historian and author (born 1640)
Robert Bertie, 1st Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven PC, styled 17th Baron Willoughby de Eresby between 1666 and 1701, and known as 4th Earl of Lindsey between 1701 and 1706, and as 1s…
Robert Bertie, 1st Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (born 1660)
Guillaume Dubois was a French cardinal and statesman.
Guillaume Dubois, French cardinal and politician, French Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (born 1656)
Joseph Bingham was an English scholar and divine, who wrote on ecclesiastical history.
Joseph Bingham, English scholar and academic (born 1668)
Increase Mather was a New England Puritan clergyman who served as the sixth president of Harvard College from 1685 to 1701. During his tenure, which coincided with the notorious Sa…
Increase Mather, American minister and author (born 1639)
William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper, was an English politician who became the first Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain. Cowper was the son of Sir William Cowper, 2nd Baronet, of Rat…
William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper, English lawyer and politician, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (born 1665)