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Year 1726 (MDCCXXVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar. Events JanuaryJune April 15 Isaac Newton tells William Stukeley the story of how he developed his theory of gravity. April 19 Premiere of the first Leipzig version of Johann Sebastian Bach's St Mark Passion pastiche BWV deest BC D 5b at the St. Nicholas Church Leipzig May 1 Voltaire begins exile in England. JulyDecember July 11 Andr-Hercule Cardinal de Fleury recalled from exile by King Louis XV of France banishes Louis Henri Duc de Bourbon and Madame de Prie from court. August 7 Pirate Nicholas Brown captured near Xtabi Jamaica November Mary Toft allegedly gives birth to 16 rabbits in England; the story is later revealed to be a hoax. December 24 The city of Montevideo is founded by the Spaniards. Date unknown The Supreme Privy Council is established in Imperial Russia. The Gujin tushu jicheng an immense Chinese encyclopedia is printed using copper-based movable type printing. The remaining ruins of Liverpool Castle are finally demolished. Muhammad bin Saud becomes head of the House of Saud.

Births January 14 Jacques-Donatien Le Ray French supporter of the American Revolution (d. 1803) March 8 Richard Howe British admiral (d. 1799) April 5 Benjamin Harrison V signer of the American Declaration of Independence (d. 1791) April 12 Charles Burney English music historian (d. 1814) April 20 Joseph de Ferraris Austrian cartographer of the Austrian Netherlands (d. 1814) May 12 Alexander Hood British naval officer (d. 1814) June 3 James Hutton Scottish geologist (d. 1797) June 14 Thomas Pennant Welsh naturalist (d. 1798) June 20 Louise Henriette de Bourbon mother of Philippe galit (d.1759) July 30 William Jones (ecclesiastic) (d.1800) August 7 James Bowdoin American Revolutionary leader and politician (d. 1790) August 9 Francesco Cetti Italian Jesuit scientist (d. 1778) September 1 Franois-Andr Danican Philidor French composer and chess player (d. 1795) October 16 Daniel Chodowiecki Polish painter (d. 1801) date unknown John H. D. Anderson Scottish scientist (d. 1796) Le Quy Don Vietnamese philosopher poet encyclopedist and government official (d. 1784) Cyprian Howe Colonel in the American Revolutionary War (d. 1806) Katsukawa Shunsho Japanese woodblock artist (d. 1792) Jedediah Strutt English businessman (d. 1797) Deaths January 2 Domenico Zipoli Italian composer (b. 1688) January 25 Guillaume Delisle French cartographer (b. 1675) February 26 Maximilian II Emanuel elector of Bavaria (b. 1662) March 5 Evelyn Pierrepont 1st Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull English politician March 26 John Vanbrugh English architect and dramatist (b. 1664) April 26 Jeremy Collier English theatre critic non-juror bishop and theologian (b. 1650) April 28 Thomas Pitt British Governor of Madras (b. 1653) May 10 Charles Beauclerk 1st Duke of St Albans English soldier (b. 1670) June 18 Michel Richard Delalande French organist and composer (b. 1657) July 8 John Ker Scottish spy (b. 1673) July 22 Hugh Drysdale British Colonial Governor of Virginia July 31 Nicolaus II Bernoulli Swiss mathematician (b. 1695) November 23 Sophia Princess of Zelle queen of George I of Great Britain (b. 1666) December 2 Samuel Penhallow American colonist and historian (b. 1665) References