1723

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century – 18th century – 19th century
Decades:	1690s  1700s  1710s  – 1720s –  1730s  1740s  1750s
Years:	1720 1721 1722 – 1723 – 1724 1725 1726

1723 by topic:

Arts and Sciences

Archaeology – Architecture – Art – Literature (Poetry) – Music – Science

Countries

Canada –Denmark – France – Great Britain – Ireland – Norway – Scotland –Sweden –

Lists of leaders

Colonial governors – State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Works category

Works

1723 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1723 MDCCXXIII
Ab urbe condita	2476
Armenian calendar	1172 ԹՎ ՌՃՀԲ
Assyrian calendar	6473
Bengali calendar	1130
Berber calendar	2673
British Regnal year	9 Geo. 1 – 10 Geo. 1
Buddhist calendar	2267
Burmese calendar	1085
Byzantine calendar	7231–7232
Chinese calendar	壬寅年 (Water Tiger) 4419 or 4359     — to — 癸卯年 (Water Rabbit) 4420 or 4360
Coptic calendar	1439–1440
Discordian calendar	2889
Ethiopian calendar	1715–1716
Hebrew calendar	5483–5484
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1779–1780
- Shaka Samvat	1645–1646
- Kali Yuga	4824–4825
Holocene calendar	11723
Igbo calendar	723–724
Iranian calendar	1101–1102
Islamic calendar	1135–1136
Japanese calendar	Kyōhō 8 (享保８年)
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar	4056
Minguo calendar	189 before ROC 民前189年
Thai solar calendar	2265–2266

1723 (MDCCXXIII) was a common year starting on Friday (dominical letter C) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday (dominical letter F) of the Julian calendar, the 1723rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 723rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 23rd year of the 18th century, and the 4th year of the 1720s decade. Note that the Julian day for 1723 is 11 calendar days difference, which continued to be used from 1582 until the complete conversion of the Gregorian calendar was entirely done in 1929.

Events

January–June

• February 16 – Louis XV of France attains his majority.
• March 9 – Mapuche Uprising of 1723 begins in Chile.

July–December

• July – The Russian army, under Matyushkin, captures Baku.
• July 12 - Christian von Wolff Wolff held a lecture for students and the magistrates at the end of his term as a rector,^[1] as a result of which he is banned from Prussia on a charge of atheism.
• August – The Peterhof Palace opens just outside Saint Petersburg.
• September 1 – The Treaty of St. Petersburg is signed.
• November 23 – The Province of Carolina incorporates New Bern as Newbern (the town later becomes the capital of North Carolina).
• December 26 – Darzu ist erschienen der Sohn Gottes, BWV 40 by Johann Sebastian Bach is first performed in Leipzig.

Date unknown

• The Province of Carolina incorporates Beaufort, North Carolina, as the "Port of Beaufort", making it the third incorporated town in the province.
• 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 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)
• Date unknown – Carl Albert von Lespilliez, German draftsman, architect and printmaker (d. 1796)

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)

References

1. Wolf, C. (1985). Michael Albrecht, ed. Oratio de Sinarum philosophia practica/Rede über die praktische Philosophie der Chinesen. Philosophische Bibliothek (in German). Hamburg, Germany: Felix Meiner Verlag. p. XXXIX.