Historical Events In 1722
Wednesday, 25 March 2026
Jan 07 Antoine Coypel, French painter/poet, dies at 60 


Jan 14 Friedrich Gottlob Fleischer, composer. 


Jan 24 Czar Peter the Great begins civil system. 


Jan 24 Edward Wigglesworth appointed inaugural US divinity professor (Harvard) 


Jan 26 Prestonpans. 


Jan 28 Johann Ernst Bach, composer 


Mar 08 Afghan monarch Mir Mahmud occupies Persia 


Mar 17 Willem KH Friso appointed mayor of Drente 


Mar 31 Campegius Vitringa, Dutch theologist/exegete, dies at 62. 


Apr 05 Jacob Roggeveen discovers Easter Island. 


Apr 06 Peter the Great ends tax on men with beards. 


Apr 11 Christopher Smart, English poet and journalist (Ceremony of Carols). 


Apr 12 Pietro Nardini, composer. 


Apr 13 Charles Leslie, Irish controversialist, dies. 


Apr 22 19 VOC "komplotteurs" in Batavia executed. 


Apr 22 Pieter Erberfeld, German/Thais merchant on Java, dies 


Apr 30 Game of Billiards is mentioned in New England Courant 


Apr 30 The game of Billiards is mentioned in the New England Courant. 


May 03 Pierre de Marivaux' "La Double Inconstance" premieres in Paris France 


May 03 Pierre de Marivaux' "La Double Inconstance," premieres in Paris 


May 11 Peter Camper, Leyden Holland, anatomist/professor (Amsterdam) 


May 21 Wilhelm Gottfried Enderle, composer. 


May 22 Johannes Schmidlin, composer 


Jun 05 Johann Kuhnau, composer, dies at 62 


Jun 06 Adrien Trudo Sale, composer 


Jun 08 Jakob Friedrich Kleinknecht, composer 


Jun 16 John Churchill up Marlborough, English general strategist, dies at 72 


Jun 30 Hungarian Parliament condemns emperor Karel VI's Pragmatic Sanctions. 


Jun 30 Jiri Antonin Benda, composer. 


Jul 16 Joseph Wilton, sculptor 


Jul 22 Jean-Noel/Joannes Natalis Paquot, Belgian priest/historian 


Jul 25 The Three Years War begins along the Maine and Massachusetts border 


Sep 12 Russian troops occupy Baku and Derbent on Persia. 


Sep 14 Joseph Paul Ziegler, composer. 


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