1721

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century – 18th century – 19th century
Decades:	1690s 1700s 1710s – 1720s – 1730s 1740s 1750s
Years:	1718 1719 1720 – 1721 – 1722 1723 1724

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1721 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar	1721 MDCCXXI
Ab urbe condita	2474
Armenian calendar	1170 ԹՎ ՌՃՀ
Assyrian calendar	6471
Bengali calendar	1128
Berber calendar	2671
British Regnal year	7 Geo. 1 – 8 Geo. 1
Buddhist calendar	2265
Burmese calendar	1083
Byzantine calendar	7229–7230
Chinese calendar	庚子年 (Metal Rat) 4417 or 4357 — to — 辛丑年 (Metal Ox) 4418 or 4358
Coptic calendar	1437–1438
Discordian calendar	2887
Ethiopian calendar	1713–1714
Hebrew calendar	5481–5482
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1777–1778
- Shaka Samvat	1643–1644
- Kali Yuga	4822–4823
Holocene calendar	11721
Igbo calendar	721–722
Iranian calendar	1099–1100
Islamic calendar	1133–1134
Japanese calendar	Kyōhō 6 (享保６年)
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar	4054
Minguo calendar	191 before ROC 民前191年
Thai solar calendar	2263–2264

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Events

January 6 – The Committee of Inquiry on the South Sea Bubble in England publishes its findings.
March 24 – Johann Sebastian Bach's Brandenburg concertos completed and dedicated to Christian Ludwig of Brandenburg-Schwedt.
April – Pirates John Taylor and Olivier Levasseur capture the 700-ton Portuguese galleon Nossa Senhora do Cabo at Réunion. The total value of treasure on board (from Goa) is estimated as between £100,000 and £875,000, one of the largest pirate hauls ever.^[1]
April 4 – Robert Walpole becomes the first Prime Minister of Great Britain (although this is more a term of disparagement at this time).^[2]
May 8 – Pope Innocent XIII succeeds Pope Clement XI as the 244th pope.

September 10 – The Treaty of Nystad is signed, ending the Great Northern War.
November 2 – Peter I is proclaimed the first Emperor of All the Russias. This replaces the 176-year-long Tsardom of Russia with the Russian Empire. It collapses in 1917.
December 22 – Philip V of Spain signs in Lerma a Royal Decree transforming the Seminary of Saint Rose of Lima in Caracas into the Universidad Real y Pontificia de Caracas.

José de Azlor y Virto de Vera, Marquis of San Miguel de Aguayo and governor of Spanish Texas, establishes the fort of Presidio La Bahía at its original location on the ruins of the failed French Fort Saint Louis.
Regular mail service between Long Island and New England is established.^[3]
A suggestion box is developed under the eighth shogun of Japan, Yoshimune Tokugawa.

January 10 – Johann Philipp Baratier, German scholar (d. 1740)
February 3 – Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz, Prussian general (d. 1773)
February 21 – John McKinly, American physician and President of Delaware (d. 1796)
March 19 – Tobias Smollett, Scottish physician and author (d. 1771)
April 11 – David Zeisberger, Moravian missionary (d. 1808)
April 15 – Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, English military leader (d. 1765)
April 19 – Roger Sherman, signer of the American Declaration of Independence (d. 1803)
July 9 – Johann Nikolaus Götz, German poet (d. 1781)
July 14 – John Douglas, Scottish Anglican bishop and man of letters (d. 1807)
August 4 – Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford, English politician (d. 1803)
August 31 – George Hervey, 2nd Earl of Bristol, British statesman (d. 1775)
September 14 – Eliphalet Dyer, American statesman and judge (d. 1807)
October 19 – Joseph de Guignes, French orientalist (d. 1800)
November 9 – Mark Akenside, English poet and physician (d. 1770)
November 22 – Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres, Swiss-born cartographer and Canadian statesman (d. 1824)
December 6
- James Elphinston, Scottish philologist (d. 1809)
- Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes, French statesman (d. 1794)
December 27 – François Hemsterhuis, Dutch philosopher (d. 1790)
December 29 – Marquise de Pompadour, mistress of King Louis XV of France (d. 1764)

February 16 – James Craggs the Younger, English politician (b. 1686)
February 24 – John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby, English statesman and poet (b. 1648)
March 16 – James Craggs the Elder, English politician (b. 1657)
March 19 – Pope Clement XI (b. 1649)
March 29 – Charles Vane, English pirate
April 14 – Michel Chamillart, French statesman (b. 1652)
April – Mary Read, English pirate (b. c. 1695)
July 8 – Elihu Yale, American benefactor of Yale University (b. 1649)
July 18 – Antoine Watteau, French painter (b. 1684)
August 3 – Grinling Gibbons, Dutch-born woodcarver (b. 1648)
August 13 – Jacques Lelong, French bibliographer (b. 1665)
September 8
- Michael Brokoff, Czech sculptor (b. 1686)
- Henri Arnaud, French pastor and leader of the Waldenses (b. 1641)
September 11 – Rudolf Jakob Camerarius, German botanist and physician (b. 1665)
September 18 – Matthew Prior, British poet and diplomat (b. 1664)
September 20 – Thomas Doggett, Irish actor (b. c. 1670)
October 11 – Edward Colston, English merchant and philanthropist (b. 1636)
December 13 – Alexander Selkirk, Scottish sailor (original "Robinson Crusoe") (b. 1676)
December 17 – Richard Lumley, 1st Earl of Scarbrough, English statesman (b. 1650)
date unknown – Sultan Abdullah Khan Abdali, Persian Governor of Herat, Shah of Herat (b. 1670)

↑ Breverton, Terry (2004). Black Bart Roberts: The Greatest Pirate of Them All. Gretna, LA: Pelican Publishing. p. 57. ISBN 1-58980-233-0.
↑ "Sir Robert Walpole". 10. HM Government. Retrieved 2011-11-16.
↑ Clear, Todd R.; Cole, George F.; Resig, Michael D. (2006). American Corrections (7th ed.). Thompson.