History
1722
General
Population: 681 Million*
- Entertainment: Writers include Daniel Defoe, French painter Hyacinthe Rigaud publishes handbook for traveling, Phillis Wheatley (American slave) publishes her poems in England
Music includes JS Bach, Rameau, Johann Mattheson writes on musical criticism
- Science: Friedrich Hoffmann discovers that the base of alum is an individual substance
Maillet anonymously publishes work claiming earth must be 2 billion years old
- Technology: R.A. Ferchault de Reaumur writes about steel making
- Deaths: Emperor Kangxi Manshu of China, Duke of Marlborough John Churchill, Artist Jean Antoine Watteau, Architect Christoph Dientzenhofer,
Africa
- West Africa: Asante conquer kingdom of Bono-Bansu in Akan region
Americas
- Jamaica: Hurricane destroys 26 merchant vessels
Asia
- China: Death of Kangxi Manshu and Yongzheng named Manshu emperor - signs treaty with Russia and defines Siberian-Mongolian border
With Shih Tsung the Yung Cheng dynasty accedes in China
- India: Asian Marathas emerge as the strongest successors to the Mughals in India
Europe
- Denmark: Dramatist Ludvig Holberg begins his theater in Copenhagen
- German States: Herrnhut founded as Moravian settlement in Saxony by Count Zinzendorf
- Great Britain: James Gibbs builds St. Martin-in-the-Fields in London
British Parliament forbids journalists to report debates
London bookseller Thomas Guy dedicates 300,000 pounds for founding of Guy's Hospital
Workhouse Test Act passes to care for poor
- Holy Roman Empire: Hungary rejects Pragmatic Santion for female rule
Austrian East India Company founded
Middle East
- Afghanistan: Mir Mahmud conquers Afghanistan and becomes Shah
Pacific
- General: Dutch navigator Jacob Roggeveen reaches Samoa Islands and Easter Island
South
- Texas: End of Spanish occupation