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Wed Jan 17 2001 at 1:58:36
Born in 1726:
Scottish
philosopher
James Hutton
, founder of the science of
geology
.
Polish
painter
Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki
.
English
painter
Francis Cotes
.
Austrian composer
Josef Starzer
.
Russian rebel leader
Yemelyan Ivanovich Pugachev
.
English cabinetmaker
George Hepplewhite
.
English prison reformer
John Howard
.
English zoologist
Thomas Pennant
.
Connecticut
signer of the
Declaration of Independence
Oliver Wolcott
.
Virginia
signer of the
Declaration of Independence
Benjamin Harrison
, father of
one President
and great-grandfather of
another
.
English composer
Charles Burney
.
French composer
Michel-Richard de Lalande
.
Japanese painter
Katsugawa Shunsho
.
Died in 1726:
Italian
composer
Domenico Zipoli
.
French composer
Michel-Richard Delalande
.
English architect
John Vanbrugh
.
Elector
Maximilian II
of
Bavaria
.
English poet
William Culpeper
.
Italian painter
Antonio-Domenico Gabbiani
.
Swiss mathematician
Nicholas Bernoulli
.
Spanish painter
Acisclo Antonio Palomino y Velasco
.
Events of 1726:
16-year-old French King
Louis XV
appoints
Cardinal Fleury
to be his chief minister.
Jonathan Swift
's most famous work,
Gulliver's Travels
, is published (anonymously) for the first time.
Montevideo
is founded on
Rio de la Plata
.
The French build
Fort Niagara
on
Lake Ontario
.
Voltaire
is thrown in the
Bastille
for criticizing the Church.
Stephen Hales
discovers a way to measure
blood pressure
.
John Harrison
invents the first version of his
chronometer
.
1725
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1726
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1727
How They Were Made
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18th Century
1725
1727
Catherine Hayes
Richard Howe, Earl Howe
Montevideo
James Hutton
The philosophy of long hair
Voltaire
18th century
Catherine I
Moulin Rouge
George Mason
blood pressure
John Harrison
Beyond Belief: Why God Cannot Exist
1729
Gulliver's Travels
Benjamin Harrison
William Henry Harrison
Lake Ontario
Sweet Thames, run softly, for I speak not loud or long
geology