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1722 (MDCCXXII ) was acommon year starting on Thursday of theGregorian calendar and acommon year starting on Monday of theJulian calendar , the 1722nd year of theCommon Era (CE) andAnno Domini 2nd millennium , the 22nd year of the18th century , and the 3rd year of the1720s decade. As of the start of 1722, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
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January 27 –Daniel Defoe 's novelMoll Flanders February 10 – TheBattle of Cape Lopez begins off of the coast ofWest Africa (and present-dayGabon ), as the Royal Navy brings an end to the piracy ofBartholomew Roberts , nicknamed "Black Bart". Captained byChaloner Ogle of theRoyal Navy ,HMSSwallow fires its cannons as Roberts sails his shipRoyal Fortune toward the oncomingSwallow in order to gain time by forcingSwallow to turn around. Standing on the deck, Roberts and two of his crew are killed by the second wave of cannon fire. The remaining 272 pirate crew are captured.February 16 –Peter the Great ,Emperor of All Russia , announces that his heir to the throne will be his 4-year old grandson,Prince Pyotr Alekseivich .February 21 –Nasir-ud-Din Muḥammad Shah , the Grand Mogul of north India'sMughal empire , namesNizam-ul-Mulk as his Grand Vizier. Three years later, the Nizam will rebel against the Grand Mogul and create his own independent nation as theNizam of Hyderabad , reigning as Asaf Jah.March 8 –Battle of Gulnabad inPersia : ThePashtun people ofAfghanistan , led byMahmud Hotak , decisively defeat forces of the PersianSafavid dynasty , precipitating its fall.April 2 – The firstSilence Dogood letter, written byBenjamin Franklin , is printed.[ 1] April 5 (Easter Sunday ) – Dutch admiralJacob Roggeveen lands on what is nowEaster Island .[ 2] May 5 –Pennsylvania colony enacts a statute, requiring all persons importing any person previously convicted of sodomy, to pay £5 for each such incoming person.May 9 – The1722 British general election (began March 19) closes with Prime MinisterRobert Walpole 's Whig Party increasing its majority in theHouse of Commons of Great Britain , capturing 48 additional seats from the Tory Party and having a 389 to 169 advantage.June 15 – PirateEdward Low and his men sail the stolen shipRebecca into Port Roseway near modernShelburne, Nova Scotia , where 13 fishing boats from Massachusetts are anchored. Over the next few days, the pirates board the boats and lay siege to them. On June 19, Low confiscates the schoonerMary from its owner, Joseph Dolliber, outfits it with cannons and renames it theFancy . Eight of the fishermen are taken hostage as the stolen vessel departs, includingPhilip Ashton .[ 3] July 26 : Start of theRusso-Persian War .July 25 –Father Rale's War (1722–1725) begins along theMaine andMassachusetts border.[ 4] July 26 (July 15 O.S.) – TheRusso-Persian War (1722–1723) begins withPeter the Great 's Persian campaign.August 24 –Francis Atterbury , AnglicanBishop of Rochester andDean of Westminster , is arrested in his deanery and confined in theTower of London for treason, accused of leading theJacobite "Atterbury Plot " in support of thepretender James Francis Edward Stuart [ 5] House of Hanover and KingGeorge I of Great Britain and restoring theHouse of Stuart by installing Prince James as "King James III".September 6 – Wälättä Giyorgis, a 16-year-old who nursed Ethiopia's EmperorBakaffa back to health after he fell ill, marries the Emperor and begins her rise to power as the EmpressMentewab . Upon Bakaffa's death in 1730, Mentewab becomes the regent for her son by Bakaffa,Iyasu II .September 23 –La Nouvelle-Orléans (New Orleans), recently established by France as the capital of theLouisiana Territory is hit by what is later called the "Great Hurricane of 1722", starting with 7 feet (2.1 m) high waves, followed by winds in excess of 100 miles per hour (160 km/h). By September 24, "Almost every public building in New Orleans, from the hospital to the cathedral" is "either unroofed or totally ruined."[ 6] Edenton is incorporated as the county seat ofChowan County, North Carolina . The governor and assembly ofNorth Carolina move to Edenton, making it the de facto capital of North Carolina until1746 , when the government is moved toNew Bern .Peter the Great of Russia creates theTable of Ranks A small group of Bohemian Brethren (the "Hidden Seed") from northernMoravia are allowed to settle in a new village,Herrnhut , on theBerthelsdorf estate of thepietist CountNicolaus Zinzendorf in Upper Lusatia (Saxony ), forming theHerrnhuter Brüdergemeine , seed of theMoravian Church 's renewal. TheChiesa del Purgatorio, Venafro , Italy, Catholic Church is built. The first public theatre in Denmark,Lille Grønnegade Theatre , is founded inCopenhagen . Modernmusic theory finds definition inJean-Philippe Rameau 'sTraité de l'harmonie réduite à ses principes naturels The "Brown Bess " muzzle-loading smoothboremusket becomes theBritish Army 's standard infantry firearm for land combat for more than a century. Johann Sebastian Bach composesThe Well-Tempered Clavier January 1 –Sir George Baker, 1st Baronet , British physician (d.1809 )January 3 –Fredrik Hasselqvist , Swedish traveller and naturalist (d.1752 )January 12 –Nicolas Luckner , German in French service rising to become a Marshal of France (d.1794 )January 15 –Herman Scholliner , German historian (d.1795 )January 18 –Antonio Rodríguez de Hita , Spanish composer (d.1787 )January 26 –Alexander Carlyle , Scottish church leader (d.1805 )January 29 –Duchess Luise of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel , Prussian princess (d.1780 )February 3 –Duchess Louise Frederica of Württemberg , German noble (d.1791 )February 4 –Antonio Greppi (1722–1799) , Italian banker (d.1799 )February 5 –Anders Rudolf du Rietz , Swedish general, count and politician (d.1792 )February 7 –Azar Bigdeli , Iranian anthologist and poet (d.1781 )[ 7] [ 8] February 14 –Georg Christian Füchsel , German physician and geologist (d.1773 )February 19 –Charles-François Tiphaigne de la Roche , French author (d.1774 )February 21 –Lord Robert Manners-Sutton , British politician (d.1762 )February 22 John Burgoyne February 24 –John Burgoyne , British army officer, playwright and politician (d.1792 )March 3 –Pietro Maria Gazzaniga , Italian theologian (d.1799 )March 6 –Johann Christian Brand , Austrian painter (d.1795 )March 7 –Louis-Jacques Goussier , French artist (d.1799 )March 15 –Gabriel Lenkiewicz , Belarusian Temporary Vicar General of the Society of Jesus (d.1798 )March 17 –William Wentworth, 2nd Earl of Strafford (1722–1791) , England (d.1791 )March 18 March 19 –Edmund Nelson (clergyman) , English priest (d.1802 )March 23 April 8 –Jakob Friedrich Kleinknecht , German composer (d.1794 )Christopher Smart April 11 –Christopher Smart , English poet (d.1771 )April 12 –Pietro Nardini , Italian composer and violinist (d.1793 )April 19 –Duke Clement Francis of Bavaria , German nobleman (d.1770 )April 22 (bapt.) –Joseph Warton , English poet and critic (d.1800 )April 25 –Mark Robinson (Royal Navy officer) , Royal Navy admiral (d.1799 )April 26 –George Coventry, 6th Earl of Coventry , English noble and politician (d.1809 )April 29 –Francesco Carafa di Trajetto , Italian Catholic cardinal (d.1818 )May 2 –Gerhard Schøning , Norwegian historian (d.1780 )May 4 May 9 –Morgan Edwards , British historian and minister (d.1795 )May 11 –Petrus Camper , Dutch scientist (d.1789 )May 23 –Claudius Franciscus Gagnières des Granges , French martyr (d.1792 )May 25 –Anton Cebej , Slovenian artist (d.1774 )May 26 –Washington Shirley, 5th Earl Ferrers , British Royal Navy admiral (d.1778 )May 28 –Hugh Pigot (Royal Navy officer, born 1722) , British Royal Navy admiral (d.1792 )May 29 –James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster (d.1773 )June 7 –George Paulet, 12th Marquess of Winchester , British politician (d.1800 )June 19 –George Gordon, 3rd Earl of Aberdeen (d.1801 )June 25 –St George Gore-St George , Irish politician (d.1746 )June 28 –Daniel Dulany the Younger , American politician (d.1797 )June 30 –Jiří Antonín Benda , Bohemian composer (d.1795 )July 1 –Vasily Dolgorukov-Krymsky , Russian general (d.1782 )July 11 –Prince George William of Hesse-Darmstadt , German prince (d.1782 )July 14 –Jean-Pierre du Teil , French general (d.1794 )July 16 –Joseph Wilton , English sculptor (d.1803 )July 21 –James Colebrooke , British baronet (d.1761 )July 23 July 25 –Jakab Fellner , Hungarian architect (d.1780 )August 1 –Anne Marie Louise de La Tour d'Auvergne , French princess (d.1739 )August 5 –William Fortescue, 1st Earl of Clermont , Irish politician (d.1806 )August 9 –Prince Augustus William of Prussia (d.1758 )August 11 –Richard Brocklesby , British doctor (d.1797 )August 12 –Giuseppe Baldrighi , Italian painter (d.1803 )August 14 –Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, 7th Baronet (d.1785 )August 22 August 24 –John Gilbert Cooper , British poet and writer (d.1769 )September 1 –Karl Gotthelf von Hund , German baron (d.1776 )September 2 September 5 –Frederick Christian, Elector of Saxony (d.1763 )September 6 –Christian IV, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken , German noble (d.1775 )September 7 –Ernst Anton Nicolai , German chemist (d.1802 )September 13 –John Home , Scottish minister, soldier, author (d.1808 )September 16 –Gabriel Christie (British Army officer) , British Army general (d.1799 )September 21 –Gisela Agnes of Anhalt-Köthen , Princess of Anhalt-Köthen by birth and by marriage Princess of Anhalt-Dessau (d.1751 )Samuel Adams September 27 –Samuel Adams , Boston politician, leader in theAmerican Revolution (d.1803 )October 2 –Leopold Widhalm , Austrian luthier (d.1776 )October 3 –Johann Heinrich Tischbein , German artist (d.1789 )October 5 –Richard Hotham , English property developer and politician (d.1799 )October 10 –Humphry Marshall , American botanist (d.1801 )October 20 –Joachim Edler von Popper , Austrian banker (d.1795 )October 24 –Dominic Schram , German theologian (d.1797 )October 31 –Princess Ulrike Friederike Wilhelmine of Hesse-Kassel , German princess (d.1787 )November 4 –Raphael Cohen , German rabbi (d.1803 )November 5 –William Byron, 5th Baron Byron , English dueller (d.1798 )November 11 –Nicolas Antoine Boulanger , French philosopher (d.1759 )November 18 –Ichijō Michika , Japanese court noble (d.1769 )November 19 November 21 –Richard Bampfylde , British politician (d.1776 )November 22 –Marc Antoine René de Voyer , French noble (d.1787 )November 25 –Heinrich Johann Nepomuk von Crantz , Luxembourgian botanist (d.1799 )November 30 –Théodore Gardelle , Swiss painter, enameller (d.1761 )December 1 December 4 –Guillaume Piguel , French-born Apostolic Vicar of Cochin (d.1771 )December 12 –Charles Wallop , British politician (d.1771 )December 20 –Joseph O'Donnell Sr. , Irish soldier (d.1787 )December 24 –Sampson Sammons , American army officer (d.1796 )December 28 December 30 –Charles Yorke , Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (d.1770 )date unknown –Flora MacDonald , Scottish heroine (d.1790 )probable –Hyder Ali , Indian general, Sultan of Mysore (d.1782 )January 7 –Antoine Coypel , French painter (b.1661 )January 21 –Charles Paulet, 2nd Duke of Bolton , English supporter ofWilliam III of England (b.1661 )January 23 –Henri de Boulainvilliers , French nobleman (b.1658 )January 29 –Carl Gustav Rehnskiöld , Swedish military leader (b.1651 )February 5 –Éléonore Desmier d'Olbreuse , Duchess of Braunschweig-Lüneburg (b.1639 )February 10 –Bartholomew Roberts , Welsh pirate (b.1682 )March 11 –John Toland , Irish philosopher (b.1670 )March 31 –Eberhard von Danckelmann , Prime Minister of Brandenburg-Prussia (b.1643 )April 13 –Charles Leslie , Irish Anglican theologian (b.1650 )April 21 –Robert Beverley, Jr. , historian of Colonial Virginia (b.1673 )May 20 –Sébastien Vaillant , French botanist (b.1669 )June 5 –Johann Kuhnau , German composer (b.1660 )John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough June 16 July 16 –Maria Angela Caterina d'Este , Italian princess (b.1656 )August 20 –John Coney (silversmith) , early American silversmith/goldsmith (b.1655 )September 18 –André Dacier , French classical scholar (b.1651 )September 20 –John Lauder, Lord Fountainhall , Scottish jurist (b.1646 )October 8 –Gerard Callenburgh , Dutch admiral (b.1642 )November 12 –Adriaen van der Werff , Dutch painter (b.1659 )November 20 –Johann Adam Reincken , German organist (b.1643 )December 5 –Marie Anne de La Trémoille, princesse des Ursins , politically active Spanish court official (b.1642 )December 8 –Elizabeth Charlotte, Princess Palatine , wife to Philippe I, Duke of Orléans (b.1652 )Kangxi Emperor ^ "Silence Dogood, No. 1, 2 April 1722" .founders.archives.gov .^ "Chauvet - Easter Island" . 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