* 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 – 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.

The first permanent photograph was made in 1822 by a French inventor, Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, building on a discovery by Johann Heinrich Schultz ( 1724 ): that a silver and chalk mixture darkens under exposure to light.

Previous discoveries of photosensitive methods and substances — including silver nitrate by Albertus Magnus in the 13th century, a silver and chalk mixture by Johann Heinrich Schulze in 1724, and Joseph Niépce's bitumen-based heliography in 1822 — contributed to development of the daguerreotype and the other silver based photographic processes that followed-collodion wet plate, and silver gelatin.

Her paternal grandparents were Joseph Clary ( Marseille, 22 November 1693 – Marseille, 30 August 1748 ), son of Jacques Clary and his wife Catherine Barosse, paternal grandson of Antoine Clary and wife Marguerite Canolle, and maternal grandson of Angelin Barosse and his wife Jeanne Pélissière, and wife ( m. in Marseille, 27 February 1724 ) Françoise-Agnès Ammoric ( Marseille, 6 March 1705 – Marseille, 21 December 1776 ), daughter of François Ammoric and his wife Jeanne Boisson.

He began to work with Joseph " Blueskin " Blake, and they burgled Sheppard's former master, William Kneebone, on Sunday 12 July 1724.

* Joseph Tanner ( surgeon ), ( died 1724 ), English Surgeon

Johann Nepomuk Karl, Prince of Liechtenstein ( Full name: Johann Nepomuk Karl Borromäus Joseph Franz de Paula ) ( 6 July 1724 – 22 December 1748 ) was the Prince of Liechtenstein between 1732 and 1748.

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.

** Francis Joseph ( 1724 – 29 )

** Joseph Benda ( 1724 – 1804 ), musician and son of Jan Jiří

Meanwhile, " Blueskin " Blake was arrested by Wild and his men on Friday 9 October, and Tom, Jack's brother, was transported for robbery on Saturday 10 October 1724.

* Jack Sheppard ( 1702 – 1724 ), highwayman and multiple absconder, born in New Fashion Street, now known as White's Row.

The Old Truman Brewery, then known as the Black Eagle Brewery, appeared in 1724.

As a composer, Marcello was best known in his lifetime and is now still best remembered for his Estro poetico-armonico ( Venice, 1724 – 1727 ), a musical setting for voices, figured bass ( a continuo notation ), and occasional solo instruments, of the first fifty Psalms, as paraphrased in Italian by his friend G. Giustiniani.

It dates to 1724 and was originally known as Cotten's Cross Roads.

The French explorer Bourgmont was the first European known to visit the Kaws in 1724.

The Godolphin Arabian ( c. 1724 – 1753 ), also known as the Godolphin Barb, was an Arabian horse who was one of three stallions that were the founders of the modern Thoroughbred horse racing bloodstock ( the other two are the Darley Arabian and the Byerley Turk ).

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

Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester, KB ( 3 September 1724 – 10 November 1808 ), known between 1776 and 1786 as Sir Guy Carleton, was an Anglo-Irish soldier and administrator.

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.

Margaret Clap (— circa 1726 ), better known as Mother Clap, ran a coffee house from 1724 to 1726 in Holborn, London.

Her house was popular during the two years of its existence ( 1724 — 1726 ), being well known within the gay community.

James Puckle ( 1667 – 1724 ) was an English inventor, lawyer and writer from London chiefly remembered for his invention of the Defence Gun, better known as the Puckle gun, a multi-shot gun mounted on a stand capable of ( depending on which version ) firing up to nine rounds per minute.

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.

While during the 17th century there were no Arbëresh writers, in 18th century there was Giulio Variboba ( 1724 – 1788 ) known in Albanian as Jul Variboba, is regarded by many Albanians as the first genuine poet in all of Albanian literature.

Glückel of Hameln ( also spelled Gluckel or Glikl of Hamelin ; also known as Glikl bas Judah Leib ) ( 1646 – September 19, 1724 ) was a Jewish businesswoman and diarist, whose account of life provides scholars with an intimate picture of German Jewish communal life in the late-17th-early eighteenth century Jewish ghetto.

The school reglement of 1724 allowed students without a final examination from school to enroll at university, provided a person known at the university would guarantee their behaviour, which led to it becoming common for students ( called sponsionsstudenter or kautionsstudenter ) from wealthy families to be matriculated at a very young age, accompanied by a private tutor.

The Baroque period is regarded through the lens of Glickl bas Judah Leib ( 1646 – 1724, also known as Glückl von Hameln ), who left a diary detailing her life as a Jewish business woman in Hamburg.

The " 1725 cc engine " ( as it is known ; it actually displaces 1724 cc ) was available in the 1970s with a Borg Warner ( BW ) Model 35 3-speed automatic transmission with a dashboard mounted selector.

In 1724, Alexander married Butler Brayne ( known as Butler Brayne ) in London and had four children by her:

In 1724, Dashwood bequeathed this unremarkable house to his 16-year-old son, the 2nd Baronet, also Francis, later Lord le Despencer, who is perhaps best known for establishing the Hellfire Club close to the mansion, in the West Wycombe Caves.

The inventor of the Fahrenheit scale Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit learned of Rømer's work and visited him in 1708 ; in one of his letters Fahrenheit narrates how he borrowed the idea for the scale from this visit, increasing the number of divisions by a factor of four and eventually establishing what is now known as the Fahrenheit scale, in 1724.

Haim Yosef David Azulai ben Isaac Zerachia ( 1724 – 1 March 1806 ) ( Hebrew: חיים יוסף דוד אזולאי ), commonly known as the Hida ( by the acronym of his name, חיד " א ), was a Jerusalem born rabbinical scholar, a noted bibliophile, and a pioneer in the publication of Jewish religious writings.

Mughal king Muhammad Shah appointed a Turani noble Asaf Jah I as the wazir of Mughal Empire in 1722, but in 1724 he left for the Deccan to start his own kingdom and took the title Nizam-ul-Mulk .. Marathwada become a part of Nizam ’ s domain, which later came to be known as the princely state of Hyderabad outside but under the suzerainty of British India.

Georges-Louis Le Sage ( June 13, 1724 in Geneva – November 9, 1803 in Geneva ) was a physicist and is most known for his theory of gravitation, for his invention of an electric telegraph and his anticipation of the kinetic theory of gases.