• English soldier Robert Clive.
• Italian adventurer and writer Giacomo Girolamo Casanova.
• Virginia planter (slaveowner) and statesman George Mason.
• English hymn writer John Newton, author of "Amazing Grace".
• Corsican rebel leader Pasquale Paoli.
• English physician and physicist John Robinson.
• French mathematician Jean Étienne Montucla.
• French painter Jean-Baptiste Greuze.
• English livestock breeder Robert Bakewell.
• French inventor Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot.
• French doctor and geologist Nicholas Desmarest.
• English painter Thomas Patch.
• British politician Charles Townshend, notorious for certain Acts he pushed through Parliament when he was Prime Minister.
• British politician John Wilkes.
• English poet Richard Gifford.
• Japanese artist Suzuki Harunobu.
• Korean painter Kim Yusong.
• Japanese artist Ippitsusai Buncho, aka "Soyoan".

• Italian composer Alessandro Scarlatti.
• Italian librettist and poet Silvio Stampiglia.
• Tsar Peter I of all the Russias.  The boyars put his wife Catherine I on the throne as their puppet.
• (approx.) Bolivian creole painter Melchor Pérez Holguín.
• Japanese Confucian scholar and politician Arai Hakuseki.
• Japanese dramatist Chikamatsu Monzaemon.
• Afghan shah Mir Mahmud, murdered by his army after going mad. Nadir Ashraf takes over Afghanistan and Persia.
• Murshid Quli Khan Ala' ad Daulah, Nawab of Bengal. Shuja ad Daulah succeeds him.

• Johann Sebastian Bach publishes his Clavier-Büchlein for his daughter Anna.
• (Kansa?) Indians destroy the French outpost Fort Orleans, near present-day Jefferson City, Missouri.  The French abandon the exploration of the Upper Missouri River, which Europeans will not visit again until Lewis and Clark.
• British King George I revives The Order of the Bath as a vehicle for Prime Minister Robert Walpole's patronage.
• Diamonds are discovered in Brazil, which replaces India as the leading producer of the stones.
• French King Louis XV marries the daughter of A Polish nobleman.
• Spain and Austria settle some territorial claims left over from the War of the Spanish Succession with the Treaty of Vienna.
• Great Britain, France, Prussia, Sweden, Denmark and The Netherlands form a military alliance with the Treaty of Hanover.

1724 - 1725 - 1726

How They Were Made - 18th Century