* 1724 – Lyman Hall, American physician, clergyman, and statesman, signer of United States Declaration of Independence ( d. 1790 )

* 1724 – John Joachim Zubly, Swiss-American pastor, planter, and statesman ( d. 1781 )

* 1805 – Christopher Anstey, English writer ( b. 1724 )

* 1662 – John Leverett the Younger, American lawyer, politician, and academic ( d. 1724 )

* 1707 – Louis I of Spain ( d. 1724 )

* 1724 – George Stubbs, English painter ( d. 1806 )

* 1724 – Giovanni Battista Casti, Italian poet and author ( d. 1803 )

There are early legends of human flight such as the story of Icarus, and Jamshid in Persian myth, and later, somewhat more credible claims of short-distance human flights appear, such as the flying automaton of Archytas of Tarentum ( 428 – 347 BC ), the winged flights of Abbas Ibn Firnas ( 810 – 887 ), Eilmer of Malmesbury ( 11th century ), and the hot-air Passarola of Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão ( 1685 – 1724 ).

* 1802 – Franz Aepinus, German philosopher ( b. 1724 )

* 1724 – Premiere performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's St John Passion BWV 245 at St. Nicholas Church, Leipzig.

* 1801 – Noël François de Wailly, French lexicographer ( b. 1724 )

The term acquired a special significance in the philosophy of Immanuel Kant ( 1724 – 1804 ), who used it to describe the equally rational but contradictory results of applying to the universe of pure thought the categories or criteria of reason that are proper to the universe of sensible perception or experience ( phenomena ).

Early collections of English ballads were made by Samuel Pepys ( 1633 – 1703 ) and in the Roxburghe Ballads collected by Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer ( 1661 – 1724 ).

** Philip V ( 1700 – 1724, 1724 – 1746 )

* Cyril VI Tanas, Melkite patriarch of Antioch 1724 – 1760

** Robert Waring Darwin of Elston ( 1724 – 1816 ), author of Principia Botanica

* 1724 – Tumult of Thorn – religious unrest is followed by the execution of nine Protestant citizens and the mayor of Thorn ( Toruń ) by Polish authorities.

* June 30 – Abraham Yates, American Continental Congressman ( b. 1724 )

Abraham Yates ( August 23, 1724 – June 30, 1796 ) was an American lawyer and civil servant from Albany, New York.

He was baptised August 23, 1724 in Albany, New York, the son of Christoffel Yates and Catelyntje Winne.

Another daughter, Mary Winthrop ( 1712 – 1776 ), married Gurdon Saltonstall, Jr. ( 1708 – 1785 ), son of Governor of Connecticut Gurdon Saltonstall ( 1666 – 1724 ) of the Massachusetts Nathaniel Saltonstall family.

Pope Benedict XIII ( 2 February 1650 – 21 February 1730 ), born Pietro Francesco Orsini, later Friar Vincenzo Maria Orsini, O. P., was pope from 1724 until his death.

The polling place ( voting ) for the township is located in the Community Center, 1724 State RT 235., Laurelton.

Rameau's reworkings of his own material are numerous ; e. g., in Les Fêtes d ' Hébé, we find L ' Entretien des Muses, the Musette, and the Tambourin, taken from the 1724 book of harpsichord pieces, as well as an aria from the cantata Le Berger Fidèle.

His principal works were Institutiones ad Fundumenta Linguæ Hebraicæ ( 1737 ), Origines Hebraeae ( 2 vols., 1724, 1738 ), a second edition of which, with the De defectibus linguae Hebraeae ( 1731 ), appeared in 1761 ; Job ( 1737 ); Proverbs ( 1748 ); Vetus et regia via hebraezandi ( 1738 ); and Monumenta vetustiora Arabum ( 1740 ).

A misunderstanding as to the manner in which these should be dealt with was the immediate occasion of the publication by Hutchinson in 1724 of Moses's Principia, part i., in which Woodward's Natural History was bitterly ridiculed, his conduct with regard to the mineralogical specimens not obscurely characterized, and a refutation of the Newtonian doctrine of gravitation seriously attempted.

* Works issued with a Life by Edmund Calamy ( 2 vols., 1724 ), and edited by J.

To the second Jena period belong among others the Institutiones theologiæ moralis ( 1711 ; German transl., 1719 ), a work strictly in accordance with his philosophical ethics ; the Historia ecclesiastica veteris testamenti ( 1715 – 18 ); Theses theologicæ de atheismo et superstitione ( 1716 ), which, directed especially against Spinoza, attracted much attention ; Institutiones theologiæ dogmaticæ, ( 1723 ), a work once very influential, obviously founded on Baier's Compendium ; Historische und theologische Einleitung in die vornehmsten Religionsstreitigkeiten ( 1724, 1728 ), edited by Walch ; Isagoge historico-theologica ad theologiam universam ( 1727 ), dealing with the problems methods, and history of theology in a way remarkable for that time ; and Ecclesia apostolica ( 1729 ), intended as an introduction to the study of the New Testament.

His works were edited ( in 5 vols., 1761 – 1770 ) by his brother, J. H. Schlegel ( 1724 – 1780 ), who had a considerable reputation as a writer on Danish history.

Daniel published an abridgment in 1724 ( English trans., 1726 ), and another abridgment was published by Dorival in 1751.

His chief works were the Historical Library ( English, 1696-97-99 ; Scottish, 1702 ; Irish, 1724 ; complete later editions, 1732 and 1776 ), and Leges Marchiarum or Border Laws ( 1705, new ed., 1747 ).

* 1724 – Henry Laurens, American merchant, slave trader, and political leader ( d. 1792 )

* August 25 – John Leverett the Younger, American President of Harvard ( d. 1724 )

* October 19 – Lyman Hall, American signer of the Declaration of Independence and Governor of Georgia ( 1783-1784 )( b. 1724 )

* November 22 – John Alsop, American Continental Congressman ( b. 1724 )

* July 11 – Simon Boerum, American Continental Congressman ( b. 1724 )

In 1724, John Wright, an English Quaker, traveled to the Columbia area ( then a part of Chester County ) to explore the land and proselytize to a Native American tribe, the Shawnee, who had established a settlement along Shawnee Creek.

Daniel Nimham ( 1724 – 1778 ) was the last chief of the Wappingers and was the most prominent Native American of his time in the Hudson Valley.

* John Thomas ( general ) ( 1724 – 1776 ), American general in the American Revolutionary War

In this rank, he served twice on the North American station as captain of and of from 1724 to 1730 and from 1733 to 1735.

Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood ( Butleigh, 12 December 1724 – London, 27 January 1816 ) was a British Admiral known particularly for his service in the American War of Independence and French Revolutionary Wars.

Christopher Gadsden ( February 16, 1724 – September 15, 1805 ), a soldier and statesman from South Carolina, was the principal leader of the South Carolina Patriot movement in the American Revolution.

John Thomas ( 1724 – 2 June 1776 ) was an American doctor and soldier from Massachusetts who became a major general in the Continental Army.

Reverend John Joachim Zubly ( August 27, 1724 – July 23, 1781 ), born Hans Joachim Züblin, was a Swiss-born American pastor, planter, and statesman during the American Revolution.

John Alsop ( 1724 – November 22, 1794 ) was an American merchant and politician from New York City during the American Revolution.

* Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester ( 1724 – 1808 ), governor of Quebec and a general of British troops during the American War of Independence

John Leverett ( August 25, 1662 – May 3, 1724 ) was an early American lawyer, politician, educator, and President of Harvard College.

* Isaac Backus ( 1724 – 1806 ), American Baptist preacher and politician

William Cumming ( 1724 – 1797 ) was an American lawyer who served as a delegate to the Continental Congress for North Carolina in 1785.