March 9 » Safavid troops retreat from Basra, ending a three year occupation.
May 23 » After being convicted of piracy and of murdering William Moore, Captain William Kidd is hanged in London.
July 9 » A Bourbon force under Nicolas Catinat withdraws from a smaller Habsburg force under Prince Eugene of Savoy in the Battle of Carpi.
August 4 » Great Peace of Montreal between New France and First Nations is signed.
September 16 » James Francis Edward Stuart, sometimes called the "Old Pretender", becomes the Jacobite claimant to the thrones of England and Scotland.
October 9 » The Collegiate School of Connecticut (later renamed Yale University) is chartered in Old Saybrook.
Day of marriage October 19, 1721
The temperature on October 19, 1721 was about 12.0 °C. Source: KNMI
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.
Day of death August 24, 1771
The temperature on August 24, 1771 was about 17.0 °C. There was 48 mm of rainWind direction mainly northeast. Weather type: regen donker. Source: KNMI
February 12 » Gustav III becomes the King of Sweden.
May 16 » The Battle of Alamance, a pre-American Revolutionary War battle between local militia and a group of rebels called The "Regulators", occurs in present-day Alamance County, North Carolina.
July 14 » Foundation of the Mission San Antonio de Padua in modern California by the Franciscan friar Junípero Serra.
July 17 » Bloody Falls massacre: Chipewyan chief Matonabbee, traveling as the guide to Samuel Hearne on his Arctic overland journey, massacres a group of unsuspecting Inuit.
October 17 » Premiere in Milan of the opera Ascanio in Alba, composed by Mozart at age 15.
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