About the day » Sunday May 18, 1721Calender converter

• Amos CHAPMAN, New London, New London, Connecticut, Verenigde Staten († 1809)
• Ann MOORE, Harlingen, Sommerset County, New Jersey, Verenigde Staten
• Bessel Besselsen, Putten
• Barent Floers, Haarlem
• Arij van der Helm, Hillegersberg, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Barent Floers, Haarlem
• Bessel, Putten, Gelderland, Nederland
• Bartha Koers, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Bieltje Pietersd Gooijer, Huizen († 1721)
• Adolph Adolphsz Schellinger, Hoorn, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1786)

• Anton Richstein (75), Berleburg, Kreis Wittgenstein
• Aletje Jansdr Come (48)
• Jeanne Jacqueline Rose PROOT (45), Killem, 59326, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France
• Livina (Livijne) Oosterlinck (52), Wingene, Belgium
• Wilhelmus Vrensen (22), Schijndel, NL
• Christophorus Brion (81), Kallo (B)
• Edward II Jones (68), Will Probated in Woodbridge, Middlesex County, New Jersey, Verenigde Staten
• Arentje Huijsman (1), Maasland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Mary Richardson (63), Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
• Aletje Jansd COME (48)

• 1631 » Stanislaus Papczyński, Polish priest († 1701)
• 1662 » George Smalridge, English bishop († 1719)
• 1692 » Joseph Butler, English bishop, theologian, and apologist († 1752)
• 1711 » Roger Joseph Boscovich, Ragusan physicist, astronomer, and mathematician († 1787)
• 1777 » John George Children, English chemist, mineralogist, and zoologist († 1852)
• 1778 » Charles Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry, Irish soldier and diplomat, British Ambassador to Austria († 1854)
• 1785 » John Wilson, Scottish author and critic († 1854)
• 1797 » Frederick Augustus II of Saxony († 1854)
• 1822 » Mathew Brady, American photographer and journalist († 1896)
• 1835 » Charles N. Sims, American Methodist preacher and 3rd chancellor of Syracuse University († 1908)

• 1675 » Jacques Marquette, French-American missionary and explorer (b. 1637)
• 1675 » Stanisław Lubieniecki, Polish astronomer, historian, and theologian (b. 1623)
• 1692 » Elias Ashmole, English astrologer and politician (b. 1617)
• 1721 » Maria Barbara Carillo, victim of the Spanish Inquisition (b.1625)
• 1733 » Georg Böhm, German organist and composer (b. 1761)
• 1780 » Charles Hardy, English-American admiral and politician, 29th Colonial Governor of New York (b. 1714)
• 1781 » Túpac Amaru II, Peruvian-Indian rebel leader (b. 1742)
• 1792 » Levy Solomons, Canadian merchant and fur trader (b. 1730)
• 1795 » Robert Rogers, English colonel (b. 1731)
• 1799 » Pierre Beaumarchais, French playwright and publisher (b. 1732)

1. Jan
2. Cornelis
3. Joannes
4. Pieter
5. Johannes
6. Petrus
7. Willem
8. Jacob
9. Hendrik
10. Jean
11. Gerrit
12. Jacobus
13. Johann
14. John
15. Pierre
16. Adrianus

1. Maria
2. Anna
3. Marie
4. Catharina
5. Elisabeth
6. Joanna
7. Johanna
8. Cornelia
9. Neeltje
10. Mary
11. Grietje
12. Trijntje
13. Elizabeth
14. Anne
15. Jannetje
16. Adriana

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  Van 1702 tot 1747 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Tweede Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
• January 6 » The Committee of Inquiry on the South Sea Bubble publishes its findings, revealing details of fraud among company directors and corrupt politicians.
• March 24 » Johann Sebastian Bach dedicated six concertos to Margrave Christian Ludwig of Brandenburg-Schwedt, now commonly called the Brandenburg Concertos, BWV 1046-1051.
• April 4 » Sir Robert Walpole becomes the first British prime minister.
• April 26 » A massive earthquake devastates the Iranian city of Tabriz.
• August 18 » The city of Shamakhi in Safavid Shirvan is sacked.
• October 22 » Russian Empire is proclaimed by Tsar Peter I after the Swedish defeat in the Great Northern War.

The temperature on May 18, 1721 was about 16.0 °C.