* Didone abbandonata ( 1724 )

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 ).

A caricature of Farinelli in a female role, by Pier Leone Ghezzi 1724.

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

According to Fahrenheit's 1724 article, he determined his scale by reference to three fixed points of temperature.

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

Philosophical thought was decisively shaped by Immanuel Kant ( 1724 – 1804 ).

Half-hull of the 46-gun ship of the line French ship Tigre ( 1724 ) | Tigre, build from 1724 in Toulon after plans by Blaise Coulomb

It was ruled by a hereditary Nizam from 1724 until 1948.

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

Aspects of his work on the studies of anatomy, light and the landscape were assembled for publication by his pupil Francesco Melzi and eventually published as Treatise on Painting by Leonardo da Vinci in France and Italy in 1651 and Germany in 1724, with engravings based upon drawings by the Classical painter Nicholas Poussin.

He beatified Pope Pius V ( 1566 – 72 ), Francis Solano, and John of the Cross, all subsequently canonized by Clement XI and Pope Benedict XIII ( 1724 – 30 ).

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.

" A similar sentence, likely paraphrased from Gregory, appears in a work published by Christian Wolff in 1724.

The breakthrough came when a scientific description of the inoculation operation was submitted to the Royal Society in 1724 by Dr Emmanual Timoni, who had been the Montagu's family physician in Istanbul.

* 1724: St John Passion by J. S.

Anti-razors have also been created by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz ( 1646 – 1716 ), Immanuel Kant ( 1724 – 1804 ), and Karl Menger.

A print by William Hogarth entitled A Just View of the British Stage from 1724 depicting Robert Wilks, Colley Cibber, and Barton Booth rehearsing a pantomime play with puppets enacting a prison break down a privy.

In 1717 there were 547 black people in the Territory ( all of whom were assumed to be slaves ); by 1724, there were 1, 430 ; and 1756, there were 6, 121.

Others: John Browne, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Antonio Vivaldi, Charles Villiers Stanford, Charles Gounod, Krzysztof Penderecki, Francis Poulenc, Giovanni Felice Sances, Alessandro Scarlatti ( 1724 ), Domenico Scarlatti ( 1715 ), Pedro de Escobar, František Tůma, Vladimir Martynov, Arvo Pärt, Josef Rheinberger, Franz Schubert, Giuseppe Verdi, Pasquale Cafaro, Zoltán Kodály, Trond Kverno ( 1991 ), Pawel Lukaszewski ( 1994 ), Frank Ferko ( 1999 ), Salvador Brotons ( 2000 ), Bruno Coulais ( 2005 ), the black metal band Anorexia Nervosa, the symphonic metal band Epica on the album The Classical Conspiracy, and Karl Jenkins.

Galilei's projects during this period included a renovation of the choir of Cortona Cathedral that featured a severely classical triumphal arch motif, additions to the Villa Venuti, at Catrosse, near Cortona, for Domenico Girolamo Venuti, and a design ( 1724 ) for the oratory of the Church of the Madonna del Vivaio ( since rebuilt ) in Scarperia, Tuscany.

* Didone abbandonata ( 18 January 1823, Teatro Regio, Turin )

* R 1. 88 Didone abbandonata ( 4. 11. 1794 Naples, Teatro di S Carlo )

* 1740: Didone abbandonata by Baldassare Galuppi

* 1747: Didone abbandonata by Niccolò Jommelli

* 1762: Didone abbandonata by Giuseppe Sarti

* 1770: Didone abbandonata by Niccolò Piccinni

* 1823: Didone abbandonata by Saverio Mercadante

Under her influence he wrote in rapid succession Didone abbandonata, Catone in Utica, Ezio, Alessandro nell ' Indie, Semiramide riconosciuta, Siroe and Artaserse.

* Didone abbandonata ( 1726 )

The marriage of princess Maria Josepha of Saxony to the French Dauphin gave Hasse the opportunity to journey to Paris in the summer of 1750, where his Didone abbandonata was performed.

He must have left Venice at the very end of 1746 or at the beginning of the following year, because on 28 January 1747 Jommelli was staging at the Argentina theatre in Rome his first version of the " Didone abbandonata ", and in May at San Carlo theatre in Naples a second version of " Eumene ".

* Didone abbandonata ( Rome, 1847 ) – libretto by Metastasio

* Didone abbandonata ( Stuttgart, 1763 )

Among the opera recordings on CD or DVD are Il caffè di campagna ( 2011 ), La clemenza di Tito ( 2010 ), La diavolessa ( 2004 ), Didone abbandonata ( 2007 ), Il filosofo di campagna ( 1959 and 2001 ), Gusto primo, re di Svezia ( 2005 ), Il mondo alla roversa ( 2007 ), and L ' Olimpiade ( 2009 ).

Under her wing, Metastasio produced libretto after libretto, and they were rapidly set by the greatest composers in Italy and Austria, establishing the transnational tone of opera seria: Didone abbandonata, Catone in Utica, Ezio, Alessandro nell ' Indie, Semiramide riconosciuta, Siroe and Artaserse.

Vinci's settings of Didone abbandonata and Artaserse were much praised for their stromento recitative, and he played a crucial part in establishing the new style of melody.

1792 saw Storace produce the boldest of his operatic projects, Dido, Queen of Carthage, with a libretto by Prince Hoare after Metastasio's Didone abbandonata.

Indeed, it ranks with Demofoonte and Didone abbandonata, dramas excelled in popularity only by Artaserse and Alessandro nell ' Indie.

* 1641: La Didone by Francesco Cavalli

* 1656: La Didone by Andrea Mattioli

** Queen Dido: Didone Liberata ( Mostly about a new four-act play by Salvatore Conte ; it contains also a confutation of the well-known suicide into a subjective vision of Aeneas and his " comites " – 4. 664, followed by Dido's catabasis )

Vinci's opere buffe, of which Li zite ' ngalera ( 1722 ) is generally regarded as the best, are full of life and spirit ; his opere serie, of which Didone Abbandonata ( Rome, 1728 ) and Artaserse ( Rome, 1730 ) are the most notable, have an incisive vigour and directness of dramatic expression praised by Charles Burney.

At the end of that year, she travelled to Venice and performed at the Teatro di San Samuele in the opera La Didone Abbandonata, wearing a tiara, necklace, and diamond earrings that had been given to her by the Russian Empress.

* La morte di Didone ( revised as Tod der Dido ) ( singspiel, based on a libretto by Metastasio, 1779, Mannheim )