History
1726
General
Population: 685 Million*
- Entertainment: Writers include Jeremy Collier, Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift Gulliver's Travels, Voltaire banished from France and flees to England three years,
Johann Lorenz von Mosheim (ecclesiastical history)
Art includes G.B. Tiepolo creates Frescoes in the palace at Udine
Music includes Vivaldi "The Seasons", Handel becomes British subject, La Camargo the French ballerina makes debut at Paris opera, Rameau writes about new musical theories
- Medicine: Stephen Hales measures blood pressure
- Religion: St. John of the Cross canonized
- Technology: John Harrison the English clockmaker invents gridiron pendulum
- Deaths: Composer Michel de Lalande, Architect John Vanbrugh, Composer Domenico Zipoli, Author Jeremy Collier
Americas
- Uruguay: Spanish found city of Montevideo to stop Portuguese spread out of Brazil
Europe
- General: Alliance between Holy Roman Empire and Russia against Turkey
- France: Cardinal Andre Fleury governs France peacefully for 17 years
- German States: Treaty of Wusterhausen – Prussia guarantees Pragmatic Sanction
- Great Britain: Colin Campbell creates Compton Place in Sussex
"Lloyd's List" issued twice weekly in London
First circulating library established by Allan Ramsay in Edinburgh
General George Wade builds 250 miles of military roads in Scottish Highlands
First circulating library opens in Edinburgh
Mary Tofts of England convinces doctors she had given birth to sixteen rabbits
Middle East
- General: Persian armies defeat Ottoman Turks
East
- New York: John Peter Zenger opens print shop in New York (see 1733)