* 1666 – William Wotton, English scholar ( d. 1727 )

The movement was particularly dominated by François Quesnay ( 1694 – 1774 ) and Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot ( 1727 – 1781 ).

Meanwhile Newton ( 1642 – 1727 ) derived the relationship for wave velocity in solids, a cornerstone of physical acoustics ( Principia, 1687 ).

* 1727 – Louise Élisabeth of France ( d. 1759 )

* 1727 – Princess Henriette of France ( d. 1752 )

* 1727 – Premiere of Johann Sebastian Bach's St Matthew Passion BWV 244b at the St. Thomas Church, Leipzig

* 1666 – Johann Heinrich Buttstett, German organist and composer ( d. 1727 )

* Capetian House of Courtenay ( 1150 – 1727 )

* A tour thro ' the whole island of Great Britain, divided into circuits or journies ( 1724 – 1727 )

Isaac Newton's ( 1642 – 1727 ) mathematical explanation of universal gravitation explained the behavior both of objects here on earth and of objects in the heavens in a way that promoted a worldview in which the natural universe is controlled by laws of nature.

* 1678 – William Croft, English composer ( d. 1727 )

* Anne Darwin ( 12 November 1727 – 3 August 1813 )

* 1727 – Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, Austrian scientist ( d. 1817 )

* 1727 February – June – Second of the sieges by Spain tried to recapture Gibraltar ( Thirteenth Siege of Gibraltar ).

* 1729-At the end of the Anglo-Spanish War of 1727 – 1729, the Treaty of Seville confirming all previous treaties ( including the Treaty of Utrecht ) allowed Great Britain to keep Menorca and Gibraltar.

Hans Egede's Hope Colony was organized under the auspices of the Bergen Greenland Company prior to its bankruptcy in 1727 ; it was succeeded by the merchant Jacob Severin ( 1733 – 1749 ), the General Trade Company ( Det almindelige Handelskompagni ; 1749 – 1774 ), and finally the Royal Greenland Trading Department ( KGH ; 1776 – 1908 ).

Inoculation was reportedly not widely practised in China until the reign of the Longqing Emperor ( r. 1567 – 1572 ) during the Ming Dynasty ( 1368 – 1644 ), as written by Yu Tianchi in his Shadou jijie ( 痧痘集解 ) of 1727, which he alleges was based on Wang Zhangren's Douzhen jinjing lu ( 痘疹金鏡錄 ) of 1579.

* 1727 – James Wolfe, British general ( d. 1759 )

* 1727 – August Hermann Francke, German minister ( b. 1663 )

), Marie de Lesseps ( 1717 – 1722 ), Arnaud de Lesseps ( 1719 – 1726 ), Jean-Barthélémy de Lesseps ( 1720 – 1795 ), Marcel de Lesseps ( 1720 – 1730 ), Jean-Pierre de Lesseps ( 1721 – 1721 ), Catherine de Lesseps, Gracy de Lesseps ( 1725 – 1791 ), Plaisance de Lesseps ( 1727 – 1735 ), Michel de Lesseps ( 1729 – 1801 ), married in 1769 to Florence Verdier ( 1739 – 1822 ) ( parents of Louise Thérèse de Lesseps ( 1770 – 1866 ), married in 1788 to Mathieu Belland ( 1764 – 1817 )), Martin de Lesseps ( 1730 – 1807 ), married to Anna Caysergues ( 1730 – 1823 ) and had issue, Jeanne de Lesseps ( 1733 –?

Michel Adanson ( 7 April 1727 – 3 August 1806 ) was a French naturalist of Scottish descent.

In 1727 René Boucher de La Perrière and Michel Guignas built Fort Beauharnois on the lake.

* August 3-Michel Adanson, French botanist ( born 1727 )

In 1727 the first French commander, M. Le Grand, took charge of the island and established a rudimentary government thus making Dominica formally a colony of France.

The term has been used in English since 1727, borrowed from glyphe ( in use by French antiquaries since 1701 ), from the Greek γλυφή, glyphē, " carving ," and the verb γλύφειν, glýphein, " to hollow out, engrave, carve " ( cognate with Latin glubere " to peel " and English cleave ).

* 1727 – Philibert Commerçon, French naturalist ( d. 1773 )

* March 12 – Victor-Maurice, comte de Broglie, French general ( d. 1727 )

The city was made capital of the entire island of St. Kitts in 1727, following French expulsion from the island and full British control.

The French gained control of the Great Lakes area and by 1727 built the " Castle " which became the centerpiece of Old Fort Niagara.

Major General James P. Wolfe ( 2 January 1727 – 13 September 1759 ) was a British Army officer, known for his training reforms but remembered chiefly for his victory over the French in Canada.

He soon found it impossible to resist her opposition to his claims, but with the assistance of £ 30, 000 lent him by the French actress Adrienne Lecouvreur, he raised a force by which he maintained his authority till 1727, when he withdrew and took up residence in Paris.

The death cap was first described by French botanist Sébastien Vaillant in 1727, who gave a succinct phrase name " Fungus phalloides, annulatus, sordide virescens, et patulus ", which is still recognizable as the fungus today.

He joined the French Army in 1727 as an ensign in the Régiment d ' Hainault.

André Morellet ( 7 March 1727 – 12 January 1819 ) was a French economist and writer.

** André Morellet, French economist and philosopher ( born 1727 )

Jean-Georges Noverre ( 29 April 1727 – 19 October 1810 ) was a French dancer and balletmaster, and is generally considered the creator of ballet d ' action, a precursor of the narrative ballets of the 19th century.

She was captured by the French in 1702, was recaptured later that year and renamed HMS Fox, rebuilt in 1727 and broken up in 1737.

Étienne Charles de Loménie de Brienne ( 9 October 1727 – 16 February 1794 ) was a French churchman, politician and finance minister of Louis XVI.

1659 – 1727 ), an Italian officer who served under the French explorer Cadillac

In the United States, the first orphanage was in New Orleans — then French Territory — in 1727 — by the Ursulines, a women's order of the Catholic Church that spun off the work of St. Vincent DePaul, whose fame for the care of orphans is unparalleled in history.

In 1727 he gained the prize given by the French Academy of Sciences for his paper On the masting of ships, beating Leonhard Euler ; and two other prizes, one for his dissertation On the best method of observing the altitude of stars at sea, the other for his paper On the best method of observing the variation of the compass at sea.

* Connor, A Treatise of the Laws of Nature ( London, 1727 ), and John Towers ( Dublin, 1750 ); French translation by Jean Barbeyrac ( Amsterdam, 1744 )

The French were in the area by at least 1681 and built the post in either 1725 or 1727.

Louis François de Bourbon, Prince of Conti ( 13 August 1717 – 2 August 1776 ) was a French nobleman, who was the Prince of Conti from 1727 to his death, following his father Louis Armand II.

* Victor-Maurice, comte de Broglie, ( 1647 – 1727 ), French soldier and general