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Everything about 1723 totally explainedYear 1723 ( MDCCXXIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).
Events of 1723
January - July
July - December
July - The Russian army, under Matyushkin, captures Baku.
September 1 - Treaty of St. Petersburg
November 23 - The Province of Carolina incorporates New Bern as Newbern. The town would later become the capital of North Carolina.
Undated
The Province of Carolina incorporates Beaufort, North Carolina as the "Port of Beaufort", making it the third incorporated town in the province.
Christian von Wolff is banned from Prussia on a charge of atheism.
Births
January 12 - Samuel Langdon, American President of Harvard University (died 1797)
February 15 - John Witherspoon, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (died 1794)
February 17 - Tobias Mayer, German astronomer (died 1761)
February 21 - Louis-Pierre Anquetil, French historian (died 1808)
February 23 - Richard Price, Welsh philosopher (died 1791)
February 24 - John Burgoyne, British general (died 1792)
March 22 - Charles Carroll, American lawyer and Continental Congressman (died 1783)
March 23 - Agha Mohammad Khan Ghajar, Iranian king (died 1778)
March 31 - King Frederick V of Denmark (died 1766)
April 20 - Cornelius Harnett, American Continental Congressman (died 1781)
April 30 - Mathurin Jacques Brisson, French naturalist (died 1806)
June 3 - Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, Italian-born physician and naturalist (died 1788)
June 5 - (baptised) Adam Smith, Scottish economist and philosopher (died 1790)
June 11 - Johann Georg Palitzsch, German astronomer (died 1788)
June 20
July 1 - Pedro Rodríguez, Conde de Campomanes, Spanish statesman and writer (died 1802)
July 10 - William Blackstone, English jurist (died 1780)
July 11 - Jean-François Marmontel, French historian and writer (died 1799)
July 16 - Sir Joshua Reynolds, English painter (died 1792)
September 11 - Johann Bernhard Basedow, German educational reformer (died 1790)
October 4 - Nikolaus Poda von Neuhaus, German entomologist (died 1798)
November 8 - John Byron, English admiral (died 1786)
November 30 - William Livingston, American politician and journalist (died 1790)
December 22 - Karl Friedrich Abel, German composer (died 1787)
December 26 - Friedrich Melchior, baron von Grimm, German writer (died 1807)
Deaths
February 25 - Sir Christopher Wren, English architect, astronomer, and mathematician (born 1632)
February 26 - Thomas d'Urfey, English writer (born 1653)
March 15 - Johann Christian Günther, German poet (born 1695)
March 31 - Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon, British Governor of New York and New Jersey (born 1661)
April 11 - John Robinson, English diplomat (born 1650)
May 11 - Jean Galbert de Campistron, French dramatist (born 1656)
July 14 - Claude Fleury, French historian (born 1640)
July 26 - Robert Bertie, 1st Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English statesman (born 1660)
August 10 - Guillaume Dubois, French cardinal and statesman (born 1656)
August 17 - Joseph Bingham, English scholar (born 1668)
August 23 - Increase Mather, American Puritan minister (born 1639)
August 26 - Anton van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch scientist (born 1632)
October 10 - William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper, Lord Chancellor of England (born c.1665)
October 19 - Godfrey Kneller, German-born artist (born 1646)
October 31 - Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1642)
November 19 - Antoine Nompar de Caumont, French courtier and statesman (born 1632)
December 1 - Susanna Centlivre, English dramatist and actress (born 1669)
December 2 - Philip II, Duke of Orléans, regent of France (born 1674)
December 7 - Jan Santini Aichel, Czech architect (born 1677)
December 20 - Augustus Quirinus Rivinus, German physician and botanist (born 1652)
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