* 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

Protestant influence was subsequently pushed back after the Tumult of Thorn of 1724.

The couple married on 20 August 1724 in Thorn.

Franz Georg Jauch 1724 was participating as a captain in the Blood-Bath of Thorn, commanding a company of the Foot Guards Regiment.

In remote Königsberg philosopher Immanuel Kant ( 1724 – 1804 ) tried to reconcile rationalism and religious belief, individual freedom, and political authority.

Members of the Orsini include popes Celestine III ( 1191 – 1198 ), Nicholas III ( 1277 – 1280 ), and Benedict XIII ( 1724 – 1730 ), 34 Cardinals of the Roman Church and numerous condottieri and other significant political and religious figures.

The CODE NOIR OF LOUISIANA OF 1724 gave protection to slaves, by royal edict, including prohibitions against torture, mutilation, murder, corrupting female slaves, breaking up families and requirements for baptism, religious instructions, care for aged slaves and days of rest on Sundays and church holidays.

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.

From 1719 to 1724, Defoe published the novels for which he is famous ( see below ).

He published a number of books decrying the breakdown of the social order, such as The Great Law of Subordination Considered ( 1724 ) and Everybody's Business is Nobody's Business ( 1725 ) and works on the supernatural, like The Political History of the Devil ( 1726 ), A System of Magick ( 1726 ) and An Essay on the History and Reality of Apparitions ( 1727 ).

Perhaps his greatest achievement with the novels is the magisterial A tour thro ' the whole island of Great Britain ( 1724 – 27 ), which provided a panoramic survey of British trade on the eve of the Industrial Revolution.

* A General History of the Pyrates ( 1724 ), Defoe's authorship of this pseudonymous work is disputed

Fahrenheit is the temperature scale proposed in 1724 by, and named after, the physicist Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit ( 1686 – 1736 ).

* 1724 – The Russian Academy of Sciences is founded in St. Petersburg by Peter the Great, and implemented by Senate decree.

* 1724 – Joseph Blake, alias Blueskin, a highwayman known for attacking " Thief-Taker General " ( and thief ) Jonathan Wild at the Old Bailey, is hanged in London.

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It is completed in 1724.

It survived the sack of Bayeaux by the Hugenots in 1562 and the next definite reference is from 1724.

Instituto Licenciado Cascales is one of the oldest in the city, built in 1724, and perhaps the most emblematic.

Although it would not have been called that at the time it is recorded as " Southsea Castle " in a map of 1724.

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

Its outer appearance is dominated by a late-renaissance three-story tower added by Johann Georg Schott in 1724.

Plaistow is mentioned in Daniel Defoe's 1724 work, " Tour of the Eastern Counties " ( part of his “ A tour thro ’ the whole island of Great Britain ”), as a town in which there had been much new building as well as repairs to existing houses since the Revolution.

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.

One example is Harrison House and Museum, a 1724 structure, which has period furnishings, local historical items, archives, a barn and an herb garden.

In 1724 North Stonington gained its name for the first time, when the Connecticut Assembly decreed that the North Society would take the name “ North Stonington .“ A church was finally erected in 1727 ( located on a knoll adjacent to what is now the junction of Wyassup and Reutemann roads ), and gained a permanent minister in 1731, when the Rev.

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

From the late Ming to 1724, a big part of the area that is now Qinghai was under Khoshut Mongol control, but in that year it was conquered by the armies of the Qing Dynasty.

The only other extant cantata for the Sunday is the chorale cantata Herr Christ, der einge Gottessohn, BWV 96, composed in 1724.

# Speculative Works, of which the chief is his " Quæstiones " ( philosophical and theological ), printed partly in an extremely rare edition ( Venice, 1509 ), which contains also his defences against the Paris theologians of 1283-85 which were reprinted by Charles du Plessis d ' Argentré, Collectio judiciorum, I ( Paris, 1724 ), 226-34 ; Commentary on the Book of Sentences ; " De Sacramentis " etc.

The cemetery is guarded by heavy walls and the entrance pillar still carries the original calligraphic inscription “ 1724 ”

Daniel Defoe in his 1724 work A Tour thro ' the Whole Island of Great Britain notes, " We pass'd Stilton, a town famous for cheese, which is call'd our English Parmesan, and is brought to table with the mites, or maggots round it, so thick, that they bring a spoon with them for you to eat the mites with, as you do the cheese.