* 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.

* 1724 – Duchess Maria Antonia of Bavaria, German singer and composer ( d. 1780 )

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.

Little more than a year after her birth, Maria Theresa was joined by a sister, Archduchess Maria Anna, and another one, named Maria Amalia, was born in 1724.

They had been living openly together in Richmond, Houghton Hall and London society since about 1724, and she had borne him an illegitimate daughter whom he eventually had ennobled as Lady Maria Walpole.

* Herod Agrippa is the protagonist of the Italian opera, L ’ Agrippa tetrarca di Gerusalemme ( 1724 ) by Giuseppe Maria Buini ( mus.

* Freising — Dom St. Maria and St. Korbinian ( rococo paintings and stucco ) ( 1723 – 1724 )

Vasili Feodorovich Saltykov was not a count although a lot of publications have decided to make him one ; his wife, whom he married in 1724, was the Princess Maria Alexeievna Galitzina ( January 1, 1701 – October 14, 1752 ), daughter of Prince Alexei Borisovich Galitzine.

* Princess Maria Elisabeth ( 1724 )

Two of the latter's children were born here: Maria Antonia ( future Electress of Saxony ) in 1724 and Maria Anna Josepha ( future Margravine of Baden-Baden ) in 1734.

By October 1724, he left Molfetta, and along with his contemporaries Francesco de Mura ( 1696 – 1784 ) and Giuseppe Bonito ( 1707 – 1789 ), he trained from 1719 – 23 in the prolific Neapolitan studio of Francesco Solimena, either with Solimena or his pupil, Nicola Maria Rossi.

* Clemens August Maria Herzog von Bayern † ( 5 Feb 1724 Appointed-6 Feb 1761 Died )

* Christiana Amalia Oldenburg ( 23 October 1723-7 January 1724 )

He was born in Saxony, but came to England in 1724 and played the bassoon in opera houses.

It was built in 1721-1724 by Frederick Augustus I, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland, and is given to his son Augustus III in 1724, as a hunting box, and was often the scene of brilliant festivities.

* December 19 – Louise of Great Britain, queen of Frederick V of Denmark ( b. 1724 )

* 1724 – King Philip V of Spain abdicates the throne.

* August 25 – King Louis of Spain ( d. 1724 )

Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão ( 1685, Santos, São Paulo, colony of Brazil – November 18, 1724, Toledo, Spain ), was a priest and naturalist born in the then Portuguese colony of Brazil, noted for his early work on lighter-than-air airship design.

Philip V ( Spanish: Felipe V ; French: Philippe de France ; 19 December 1683 – 9 July 1746 ) was King of Spain from 1 November 1700 to 15 January 1724, when he abdicated in favor of his son Louis, and from 6 September 1724, when he assumed the throne again upon his son's death, to his death.

He was fourth in line to the Spanish throne, after three elder half-brothers: the Infante Luis, Prince of Asturias ( who ruled briefly as Louis I of Spain before dying in 1724 ), the Infante Felipe ( who died in 1719 ), and Ferdinand ( the future Ferdinand VI ).

Louis I ( Luis Felipe ; 25 August 1707 – 31 August 1724 ) was King of Spain from 15 January 1724 until his death in August the same year.

* La Piazza San Marco in Venice ( 1723 – 1724 ), Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid, Spain

* The Grand Canal from San Vio, Venice ( 1723 – 1724 ), Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid, Spain

* Louis I of Spain ( 1707 – 1724 )

Louis was very close to his younger sister Louise Élisabeth d ' Orléans, who was to become Queen of Spain for seven months in 1724.

It appears that by the summer of 1724, the marquise de Prie, and possibly also Monsieur le Duc, were considering breaking Louis XV's engagement with the infanta, despite the great offence this would cause Spain, and finding him a wife who might provide the country with an heir at an earlier date.

The duc de Noailles was made a knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece in 1702, a Grandee of Spain in 1711, and a Knight of the Order of Saint-Esprit in 1724.