* 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 – Abraham Yates, Jr., American lawyer and civil servant ( d. 1796 )

* 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.

* 1724 – George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend, English field marshal ( d. 1807 )

* July 10 – George Stubbs, English painter ( b. 1724 )

Mayfair was anciently part of the parish of St Martin in the Fields, and became part of St George Hanover Square in 1724.

Marie's grandparents – George Ward ( 1724 – 1811 ) and Mary Ward ( née Grier ) ( 1733 – 1811 ) – were from County Durham, England.

* George Keppel, 3rd Earl of Albemarle ( 1724 – 1772 )

* John McCurdy ( b. 1724 ), whose home was the resting place for George Washington on April 10, 1776 while traveling to New York City to take on the British Army and Navy ( source: Papers of George Washington, Connecticut State Library ); grandfather of Connecticut Supreme Court judge Charles McCurdy

George Stubbs ( 25 August 1724 – 10 July 1806 ) was an English painter, best known for his paintings of horses.

George Anson entered the navy in February 1712, and by rapid steps became lieutenant in 1716, commander in 1722, and post-captain in 1724.

Among the artists of this period are Sir Joshua Reynolds ( 1723 – 1792 ), George Stubbs ( 1724 – 1806 ), and Thomas Gainsborough ( 1727 – 1788 ).

George Pocock entered the navy in 1718, serving aboard under the patronage of his maternal uncle, Captain Streynsham Master ( 1682 – 1724 ).

* Weltenburg — Monastery Church of St. George and St. Martin ( architect and paintings, with his brother Egid Quirin portrayed as an angel in one of the frescoes, high altar, side altars ) ( 1716 – 1724 )

Giulio Cesare in Egitto ( Julius Caesar in Egypt, HWV 17 ), commonly known simply as Giulio Cesare, is an Italian opera in three acts written for the Royal Academy of Music by George Frideric Handel in 1724.

* George Townshend, 4th Viscount Townshend ( 1724 – 1807 ) ( created Marquess Townshend in 1787 )

* George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend ( 1724 – 1807 )

** George Cholmondeley, Viscount Malpas ( 1724 – 1764 )

In 1724 the military road from Coupar Angus to Fort George which passes through the town on the line of the A923 and A93 was completed.

* George Forrester, 6th Lord Forrester ( 1724 – 1748 )

In 1700 he was speaker of the Assembly and in 1702 became a member of the Provincial Council, but was suspended by Lieutenant-Governor George Vaughan ( 1676 – 1724 ).

Steffani did not accompany the elector George to England ; but in 1724 the Academy of Antient Musick in London elected him its honorary president for life ; and in return for the compliment he sent the association a magnificent Stabat Mater, for six voices and orchestra, and three fine madrigals.

* Giulio Cesare, a 1724 Italian opera by George Frideric Handel and Nicola Francesco Haym

It was founded in 1724 by George I.

* Rev Sir George Booth, 6th Baronet ( 1724 – 1797 )

On Lord Mayor's Day of 1724, when Sir George Thorold was Lord Mayor, Dulness announces the death of the current King of Dunces, Elkanah Settle.

In the modern popular mind, English art from about 1750 – 1790 — what is sometimes called the " classical age " of English painting — was dominated by the closely contemporary figures of Sir Joshua Reynolds ( 1723 – 1792 ), George Stubbs ( 1724 – 1806 ), and Thomas Gainsborough ( 1727 – 1788 ), with Joseph Wright of Derby ( 1734 – 1797 ) perhaps equally well-known.

He is now somewhat eclipsed in the field of animal paintings by the later George Stubbs ( 1724 – 1806 ), who is considered technically superior.