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Everything about 1721 totally explainedYear 1721 ( MDCCXXI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).
Events of 1721
January - June
July - December
September 10 - Treaty of Nystad is signed, bringing an end to the Great Northern War.
November 2 - Peter I is proclaimed Emperor of All the Russias.
Undated
Johann Sebastian Bach composes the Brandenburg Concertos.
Regular postal mail between Long and New England is established.
Ongoing Events
Great Northern War (1700-1721).
Births
January 10 - Johann Philipp Baratier, German scholar (died 1740)
February 3 - Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz, Prussian general (died 1773)
February 21 - John McKinly, American physician and President of Delaware (died 1796)
March 19 - Tobias Smollett, Scottish physician and author (died 1771)
April 3 - Roger Sherman, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (died 1793)
April 11 - David Zeisberger, Moravian missionary (died 1808)
April 15 - Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, English military leader (died 1765)
April 19 - Roger Sherman, signer of the American Declaration of Independence (died 1803)
July 9 - Johann Nikolaus Götz, German poet (died 1781)
July 14 - John Douglas, Scottish Anglican bishop and man of letters (died 1807)
August 4 - Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford, English politician (died 1803)
August 31 - George Hervey, 2nd Earl of Bristol, British statesman (died 1775)
September 14 - Eliphalet Dyer, American statesman and judge (died 1807)
October 19 - Joseph de Guignes, French orientalist (died 1800)
November 9 - Mark Akenside, English poet and physician (died 1770)
November 22 - Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres, Swiss-born cartographer and Canadian statesman (died 1824)
December 6 - James Elphinston, Scottish philologist (died 1809)
December 6 - Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes, French statesman (died 1794)
December 27 - François Hemsterhuis, Dutch philosopher (died 1790)
December 29 - Marquise de Pompadour, mistress of King Louis XV of France (died 1764)
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Deaths
February 16 - James Craggs the Younger, English politician (born 1686)
February 24 - John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby, English statesman and poet (born 1648)
March 16 - James Craggs the Elder, English politician (born 1657)
March 19 - Pope Clement XI (born 1649)
April 14 - Michel Chamillart, French statesman (born 1652)
July 8 - Elihu Yale, American benefactor of Yale University (born 1649)
July 18 - Antoine Watteau, French painter (born 1684)
August 3 - Grinling Gibbons, Dutch-born woodcarver (born 1648)
August 13 - Jacques Lelong, French bibliographer (born 1665)
September 8
September 11 - Rudolf Jakob Camerarius, German botanist and physician (born 1665)
September 18 - Matthew Prior, British poet and diplomat (born 1664)
September 20 - Thomas Doggett, Irish actor (born c.1670)
October 11 - Edward Colston, English merchant and philanthropist (born 1636)
December 13 - Alexander Selkirk, Scottish sailor (born 1676)
December 17 - Richard Lumley, 1st Earl of Scarbrough, English statesman (born 1650)
Sultan Abdullah Khan Abdali, Persian Governor of Herat, Shah of Herat (born 1670)
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