1723
year
1723 (MDCCXIII) was a common year starting on Friday in the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday in the Julian calendar.
Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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Centuries: | 17th century – 18th century – 19th century |
Decades: | 1690s 1700s 1710s – 1720s – 1730s 1740s 1750s |
Years: | 1720 1721 1722 – 1723 – 1724 1725 1726 |
Gregorian calendar | 1723 MDCCXXIII |
Ab urbe condita | 2476 |
Armenian calendar | 1172 ԹՎ ՌՃՀԲ |
Assyrian calendar | 6473 |
Balinese saka calendar | 1644–1645 |
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 | 1644–1645 |
- Kali Yuga | 4823–4824 |
Holocene calendar | 11723 |
Igbo calendar | 723–724 |
Iranian calendar | 1101–1102 |
Islamic calendar | 1135–1136 |
Japanese calendar | Kyōhō 8 (享保8年) |
Javanese calendar | 1647–1648 |
Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 11 days |
Korean calendar | 4056 |
Minguo calendar | 189 before ROC 民前189年 |
Nanakshahi calendar | 255 |
Thai solar calendar | 2265–2266 |
Tibetan calendar | 阳水虎年 (male Water-Tiger) 1849 or 1468 or 696 — to — 阴水兔年 (female Water-Rabbit) 1850 or 1469 or 697 |
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Births change
- January 5 – Nicole-Reine Lepaute, French astronomer, mathematician (d. 1788)
- January 11 – Prithvi Narayan Shah, First Monarch of Nepal (d. 1775)
- January 12 – Samuel Langdon, American President of Harvard University (d. 1797)
- January 31 – Petronella Johanna de Timmerman, Dutch poet, scientist (d. 1786)
- 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)
- March 22 – Charles Carroll, American lawyer, Continental Congressman (d. 1783)
- March 25 – Catharina Mulder, Dutch organist (d. 1798)
- March 31 – King Frederick V of Denmark (d. 1766)
- April 5 – Catherine Charlotte De la Gardie, Swedish countess (d. 1763)
- 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, naturalist (d. 1788)
- June 11 – Johann Georg Palitzsch, German astronomer (d. 1788)
- June 16 – (baptised) Adam Smith, Scottish economist, philosopher (d. 1790)
- June 20
- Adam Ferguson, Scottish philosopher, historian (d. 1816)
- Theophilus Lindsey, English theologian (d. 1808)
- July 1 – Pedro Rodríguez, Count of Campomanes, Spanish statesman, writer (d. 1802)
- July 10 – William Blackstone, English jurist (d. 1780)
- July 11 – Jean-François Marmontel, French historian, 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)
- October 11 – Hedvig Strömfelt, Swedish psalm writer (d. 1766)
- November 8 – John Byron, English admiral (d. 1786)
- November 30 – William Livingston, American politician, 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)
- Eva Merthen, Finnish political activist (d. 1811)
Deaths change
- January 14 – Charles Henri, Prince of Commercy (b. 1649)
- February 23 – Anne Henriette of Bavaria, Duchess of Guise (b. 1648)
- February 25 – Sir Christopher Wren, English architect, astronomer, and mathematician (b. 1632)
- February 26 – Thomas d'Urfey, English writer (b. 1653)
- March 13 – René Auguste Constantin de Renneville, French writer (b. 1650)
- March 15 – Johann Christian Günther, German poet (b. 1695)
- March 30 – Filippo Bonanni, Italian Jesuit scholar (b. 1638)
- March 31 – Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon, British Governor of New York and New Jersey (b. 1661)
- April 5 – Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, Austrian architect (b. 1656)
- April 11 – John Robinson, English diplomat (b. 1650)
- May 2 – Christopher of Baden-Durlach, German prince (b. 1684)
- May 11 – Jean Galbert de Campistron, French dramatist (b. 1656)
- May 12 – Johannes Voorhout, Dutch painter (b. 1647)
- May 29 – Jean de La Chapelle, French writer and dramatist (b. 1651)
- June 4 – Léopold Clément, Hereditary Prince of Lorraine, French prince (b. 1707)
- June 8 – Isaac Chayyim Cantarini, Italian rabbi (b. 1644)
- June 14 – Richard Newport, 2nd Earl of Bradford, English politician (b. 1644)
- July 14 – Claude Fleury, French historian (b. 1640)
- July 26 – Robert Bertie, 1st Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English statesman (b. 1660)
- July 28 – Mariana Alcoforado, Portuguese nun (b. 1640)
- August 4 – William Fleetwood, Anglican bishop (b. 1656)
- August 10 – Guillaume Dubois, French cardinal, statesman (b. 1656)
- August 14 – Edward Northey (barrister), British barrister and politician (b. 1652)
- August 17 – Joseph Bingham, English scholar (b. 1668)
- August 21 – Dimitrie Cantemir, Moldavian linguist and scholar (b. 1673)
- August 23 – Increase Mather, American Puritan minister (b. 1639)
- August 26 – Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch scientist (b. 1632)
- September 19 – Robert Sutton, 2nd Baron Lexinton, English diplomat (b. 1662)
- October 1 – Frédéric Maurice Casimir de La Tour d'Auvergne, French prince (b. 1702)
- October 10 – William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper, Lord Chancellor of England (b. c. 1665)
- October 13 – Praskovia Saltykova, Russian tsarina (b. 1664)
- October 19 – Godfrey Kneller, German-born artist (b. 1646)
- October 28 – Christopher Vane, 1st Baron Barnard, English politician and peer (b. 1653)
- 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, actress (b. 1669)
- December 2 – Philippe 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, botanist (b. 1652)