1723

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

January - July

• February 16 - Louis XV of France attains his majority.
• May 23 - Freemasonry lodge "Theodor zum guten Rath" at Munich in Bavaria founded.

July - December

• September 1 - Treaty of St. Petersburg
• November 23 - The Province of Carolina incorporates New Bern as Newbern. The town would later become the capital of North Carolina.

Undated

• The Province of Carolina 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 with the charge of atheism.

Births

• January 12 - Samuel Langdon, American President of Harvard University (died 1797)
• February 15 - John Witherspoon, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (died 1794)
• February 17 - Tobias Mayer, German astronomer (died 1761)
• February 21 - Louis-Pierre Anquetil, French historian (died 1808)
• February 23 - Richard Price, Welsh philosopher (died 1791)
• February 24 - John Burgoyne, British general (died 1792)
• March 22 - Charles Carroll, American lawyer and Continental Congressman (died 1783)
• March 23 - Agha Mohammad Khan Ghajar, Iranian king (died 1778)
• March 31 - King Frederick V of Denmark (died 1766)
• April 20 - Cornelius Harnett, American Continental Congressman (died 1781)
• April 30 - Mathurin Jacques Brisson, French naturalist (died 1806)
• June 3 - Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, Italian-born physician and naturalist (died 1788)
• June 5 - (baptised) Adam Smith, Scottish economist and philosopher (died 1790)
• June 11 - Johann Georg Palitzsch, German astronomer (died 1788)
• June 20
  • Adam Ferguson, Scottish philosopher and historian (died 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 (died 1780)
• July 11 - Jean-François Marmontel, French historian and writer (died 1799)
• July 16 - Sir Joshua Reynolds, English painter (died 1792)
• September 11 - Johann Bernhard Basedow, German educational reformer (died 1790)
• October 4 - Nikolaus Poda von Neuhaus, German entomologist (died 1798)
• November 8 - John Byron, English admiral (died 1786)
• November 30 - William Livingston, American politician and journalist (died 1790)
• December 22 - Karl Friedrich Abel, German composer (died 1787)
• December 26 - Friedrich Melchior, baron von Grimm, German writer (died 1807)

See also Category: 1723 births.

Deaths

• February 25 - Sir Christopher Wren, English architect, astronomer, and mathematician (born 1632)
• February 26 - Thomas d\'Urfey, English writer (born 1653)
• March 15 - Johann Christian Günther, German poet (born 1695)
• March 31 - Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon, British Governor of New York and New Jersey (born 1661)
• April 11 - John Robinson, English diplomat (born 1650)
• May 11 - Jean Galbert de Campistron, French dramatist (born 1656)
• July 14 - Claude Fleury, French historian (born 1640)
• July 26 - Robert Bertie, 1st Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English statesman (born 1660)
• August 10 - Guillaume Dubois, French cardinal and statesman (born 1656)
• August 17 - Joseph Bingham, English scholar (born 1668)
• August 23 - Increase Mather, American Puritan minister (born 1639)
• August 26 - Anton van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch scientist (born 1632)
• October 10 - William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper, Lord Chancellor of England (born c.1665)
• October 19 - Godfrey Kneller, German-born artist (born 1646)
• October 31 - Cosimo III de\' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1642)
• November 19 - Antoine Nompar de Caumont, French courtier and statesman (born 1632)
• December 1 - Susanna Centlivre, English dramatist and actress (born 1669)
• December 2 - Philip II, Duke of Orléans, regent of France (born 1674)
• December 7 - Jan Santini Aichel, Czech architect (born 1677)
• December 20 - Augustus Quirinus Rivinus, German physician and botanist (born 1652)

See also Category: 1723 deaths.

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