Decades: 1670s 1680s 1690s 1700s 1710s - 1720s - 1730s 1740s 1750s 1760s 1770s
Years: 1718 1719 1720 1721 1722 - 1723 - 1724 1725 1726 1727 1728
Events February 16 - Louis XV of France attains his majority Year in topic 1723 in literature 1723 in science Births February 24 - John Burgoyne, British general. March 31 - King Frederick V of Denmark April 30 - Mathurin Jacques Brisson, French zoologist and natural philosopher (died 1806) June 5 - Adam Smith, Scottish economist (baptized this day, exact date of birth unknown) (died 1790) July 11 - Jean-François Marmontel, French novelist and dramatist (died 1799) July 16 - Sir Joshua Reynolds, English painter (died 1792) November 8 - John Byron, English vice-admiral, grandfather of the poet Lord Byron (died 1786) November 30 - William Livingston, American politician and journalist (died 1790) December 22 - Karl Friedrich Abel, German baroque composer (died 1787) William Blackstone, English jurist (died 1780) Deaths February 25 - Sir Christopher Wren, architect, astronomer, mathematician (born 1632) March 15 - Johann Christian Gunther, German poet (born 1695) March 31 - Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon, Governor of New York and New Jersey ( born 1661) August 10 - Guillaume Dubois, French cardinal and statesman (born 1656) October 19 - Godfrey Kneller, artist (born 1646) December 2 - Philippe II of Orleans (born 1674) December 7 - Johann Santin Aichel, architect Anton van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch pioneer of microscopic research (born 1632) Increase Mather, American colonial and religious leader (born 1639)
