History
1723
General
Population: 682 Million*
- Entertainment: Writers include Voltaire (history), Lodovico Antonio Muratori (medieval materials)
Music includes JS Bach "St. John Passion" - Appointed Thomascantor in Leipzig after Telemann refuses post, Handel (opera)
- Science: M.A. Capeller writes about crystallography
- Technology: German engineer Jacob Leupold publishes massive work on theory of mechanical engineering – designed many new machines
- Deaths: Antony van Leeuwenhoek, Architect Christopher Wren, Clergyman Increase Mather, Artist Godfrey Kneller, Architect Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach,
Poet Johann Christian Gunther, Cosimo III de Medici Grand Duke of Tuscany
Asia
- China: Encyclopedia written
Europe
- General: Treaty of Charlottenburg between England and Prussia – Gransdon of George I to marry Prussian princess – Prince Frederick to marry daughter of Princess of Wales
- France: Louis XV obtains majority
- German States: Prussia establishes ministry of war finance and domains
- Great Britain: John Thurmond has Dr. Faustus pantomime performed in London
Duty on tea reduced by Walpole
England allows Jews to take oaths without the words "On the true faith of a Christian"
- Italian States: Death of Grand Duke of Tuscany Cosimo III de Medici and rule of Gian Gastone de Medici
- Spain: Pedro de Ribiere builds Toledo bridge
South
- Louisiana: Hurricane strikes New Orleans