1723
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Year 1723 (MDCCXXIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).
Events of 1723
Undated
- The Province of Carolina monica incorporates Beaufort, North Carolina as the "Port of Beaufort", making it the third incorporated town in the province.
- Christian von Wolff is banned from Prussia on a charge of atheism.
- The Four Seasons, a set of violin concertos by Antonio Vivaldi, was composed.
Births
- January 12 – Samuel Langdon, American President of Harvard University (d. 1797)
- February 15 – John Witherspoon, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1794)
- February 17 – Tobias Mayer, German astronomer (d. 1761)
- February 21 – Louis-Pierre Anquetil, French historian (d. 1808)
- February 23 – Richard Price, Welsh philosopher (d. 1791)
- February 24 – John Burgoyne, British general (d. 1792)
- March 22 – Charles Carroll, American lawyer and Continental Congressman (d. 1783)
- March 23 – Agha Mohammad Khan Ghajar, Iranian king (d. 1778)
- March 31 – King Frederick V of Denmark (d. 1766)
- April 20 – Cornelius Harnett, American Continental Congressman (d. 1781)
- April 30 – Mathurin Jacques Brisson, French naturalist (d. 1806)
- June 3 – Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, Italian-born physician and naturalist (d. 1788)
- June 5 – (baptised) Adam Smith, Scottish economist and philosopher (d. 1790)
- June 11 – Johann Georg Palitzsch, German astronomer (d. 1788)
- June 20
- Adam Ferguson, Scottish philosopher and historian (d. 1816)
- Theophilus Lindsey, English theologian (died 1808)
- July 1 – Pedro Rodríguez, Conde de Campomanes, Spanish statesman and writer (died 1802)
- July 10 – William Blackstone, English jurist (d. 1780)
- July 11 – Jean-François Marmontel, French historian and writer (d. 1799)
- July 16 – Sir Joshua Reynolds, English painter (d. 1792)
- September 11 – Johann Bernhard Basedow, German educational reformer (d. 1790)
- October 4 – Nikolaus Poda von Neuhaus, German entomologist (d. 1798)
- November 8 – John Byron, English admiral (d. 1786)
- November 30 – William Livingston, American politician and journalist (d. 1790)
- December 22 – Carl Friedrich Abel, German composer (d. 1787)
- December 26 – Friedrich Melchior, baron von Grimm, German writer (d. 1807)
Deaths
- February 25 – Sir Christopher Wren, English architect, astronomer, and mathematician (b. 1632)
- February 26 – Thomas d'Urfey, English writer (b. 1653)
- March 15 – Johann Christian Günther, German poet (b. 1695)
- March 31 – Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon, British Governor of New York and New Jersey (b. 1661)
- April 11 – John Robinson, English diplomat (b. 1650)
- May 11 – Jean Galbert de Campistron, French dramatist (b. 1656)
- July 14 – Claude Fleury, French historian (b. 1640)
- July 26 – Robert Bertie, 1st Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English statesman (b. 1660)
- August 10 – Guillaume Dubois, French cardinal and statesman (b. 1656)
- August 17 – Joseph Bingham, English scholar (b. 1668)
- August 23 – Increase Mather, American Puritan minister (b. 1639)
- August 26 – Anton van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch scientist (b. 1632)
- October 10 – William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper, Lord Chancellor of England (b. c. 1665)
- October 19 – Godfrey Kneller, German-born artist (b. 1646)
- October 31 – Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1642)
- November 19 – Antoine Nompar de Caumont, French courtier and statesman (b. 1632)
- December 1 – Susanna Centlivre, English dramatist and actress (b. 1669)
- December 2 – Philip II, Duke of Orléans, regent of France (b. 1674)
- December 7 – Jan Santini Aichel, Czech architect (b. 1677)
- December 20 – Augustus Quirinus Rivinus, German physician and botanist (b. 1652)