History
1724
General
Population: 683 Million*
- Entertainment: Writers include Daniel Defoe Roxana and tour of Britain, John Oldmixon (history of England), Charles Johnson (pirates)
Music includes Couperin, Handel (opera), Bach "St. John Passion"
- Religion: Death of Pope Innocent XIII – Pierro Francesco Orsini (Gravina) becomes Pope Benedict XIII
- Science: Hermann Boerhaave writes about chemical elements
- Deaths: Composer Johann Theile, Pope Innocent XIII, Historian Noel Alexandre, Highwayman Jack Sheppard executed
Africa
- West Africa: King Agaja of Dahomey temporarily disrupts slave trade - grows as partner of European slavers
Asia
- India: Asaf Jah, minister of the Moghul empire retires to the Deccan – becomes independent and declared first Nizam of the Hyderabad (Hyderabad independant from Moghals)
Start of collapse of Mogul empire
Europe
- France: Paris Course opens
- Great Britain: Longman's publishing house – oldest in England founded
James Gibbs builds in Cambridge
Three Choirs Festival founded for English colleges
Professorships of modern history and languages founded at Oxford and Cambridge
Gin drinking becomes popular
- Holy Roman Empire: Prince Eugene's Belvedere in Vienna finished by J.L. Hildebrandt
- Netherlands: Austrian Netherlands agree to Pragmatic Sanction - female rule
- Russia: Peter the Great founds Russian Academy of Sciences - mathematics emphasized
Czar Peter the Great crowns his wife Catherine Czarina
- Spain: Philip V of Spain abdicates – successor Luis I dies and Philip becomes King again
Leonardo de Figueroa builds
Middle East
- General: Russians and Turks agree to divide conquered Persian lands between them
- Afghanistan: Mahmud of Afghanistan becomes insane
South
- Louisiana: Slaves banned from carrying weapons, violence