Johann Esaias Silberschlag ( 16 November 1721 – 22 November 1791 ) was a German Lutheran theologian and natural scientist from Aschersleben, Principality of Halberstadt.

After the established Norse settlement in Greenland finally disappeared in the 15th century, Europeans did not settle the island again until 1721, when the Lutheran minister Hans Egede arrived and established the town now known as Nuuk.

Paul or Poul Hansen Egede ( 9 September 1708 – 6 June 1789 ) was a Dano-Norwegian theologian, missionary, and scholar, principally concerned with the Lutheran mission among the Kalaallit people of the Greenland established by his father Hans in 1721.

Hans Egede, a Norwegian-Danish Lutheran missionary to Greenland in 1721, stated that he had seen umiaks long.

Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes ( 6 December 1721 – 23 April 1794 ), often referred to as Malesherbes or Lamoignon-Malesherbes, was a French statesman, minister, and afterwards counsel for the defence of Louis XVI.

Michel Chamillart or Chamillard ( 2 January 1652 – 14 April 1721 ) was a French statesman, a minister of King Louis XIV of France.

In 1721, he succeeded Vasily Dolgorukov as Russian minister at Copenhagen.

When Walpole became the leading minister of the day in 1721 there was speculation about his future should George I pass away and be succeeded by his son, who was more favourably inclined towards Compton than Walpole and declared that he would replace the latter with the former on accession.

Glas married Catherine Black, the eldest daughter of a Perth minister in 1721.

He was then appointed Vicar-General of the diocese of Sens and, in 1721, accompanied Cardinal de Rohan to Rome as his conclavist, to support the candidacy of Cardinal Conti ( Innocent XIII ), from whom he had obtained a promise to bestow the purple on the French minister Guillaume Dubois.

William Robertson FRSE FSA ( 19 September 1721 – 11 June 1793 ) was a Scottish historian, minister of religion, and Principal of the University of Edinburgh.

Not knowing whether the old Norse civilization remained in Greenland or not — and worried that if it did, it would still be Catholic 200 years after the Scandinavian homelands had experienced the Reformation — a joint merchant-clerical expedition led by the Norwegian missionary Hans Egede was sent to Greenland in 1721.

Although other editions of the London Pharmacopoeia were issued in 1621, 1632, 1639 and 1677, it was not until the edition of 1721, published under the auspices of Sir Hans Sloane, that any important alterations were made.

The Haabet (" Hope ") and two smaller ships departed Bergen on 2 May 1721 bearing Egede, his wife and four children, and forty other colonists.

He parlayed support among Norwegian merchants and the Danish Mission College into the establishment of the Bergen Greenland Company, which equipped three ships which left Bergen in 1721.

Greenland would incorporate in 1721.

Elihu Yale ( April 5, 1649 – July 8, 1721 ) was an American merchant and philanthropist, governor of the East India Company settlement at Madras and a benefactor of the Collegiate School of Connecticut, which in 1718 was named Yale College in his honor.

The French government turned over the administration of Mauritius to the French East India Company, but the island remained bereft of Europeans until 1721.

According to Lougnon, 156 ships called at Mauritius between 1721 and 1735, prior to the arrival of Bertrand-François Mahé de La Bourdonnais, most of them being Company ships.

In 1721, the first definite reference to cricket being played anywhere in the sub-continent is a report of English sailors of the East India Company playing a game at Cambay, near Baroda.

On 1 August 1721 he left on his expedition, in the service of the Dutch West India Company, to seek Terra Australis.

In 1720 the Dutch East India Company built a fort and factory called Lijdzaamheid ( Lydsaamheid ) on the spot of Lourenço Marques ( now Maputo ), since April 1721 governed by an Opperhoofd ( Chief facor ), under authority of the Dutch Cape Colony, interrupted by Taylor's pirate occupation from April 1722 to 28 August 1722 ; in December 1730 the settlement was abandoned.

1721 ) was a director of the Hudson's Bay Company and an explorer who died in an expedition to the Northwest Passage.

In 1721, British sailors of the East India Company were reported to be playing cricket at Cambay, near Baroda, and this is the earliest reference to cricket being played in India.

In 1714, he wrote a poem styled Esther, Queen of Persia, which was received with applause, and in 1719 – 1721, he published The Compleat Linguist ; or, An Universal Grammar of all the Considerable Tongues in Being.

" Hodgson, however, thought that up to 1721, at which time he was residing at Widdrington, " he had not received ordination, but preached as a licentiate.

All Rinzai lineages pass through Hakuin Ekaku, the 18th century revivalist, who considered himself to be an heir of Shoju Rojin ( Shoju Ronin, Dokyu Etan, 1642 – 1721 ), though Hakuin never received formal dharma transmission from Shoju Rojin, nor from any other teacher.

She returned to Venice in 1721, visited Modena, Parma, and Vienna, and was received with much enthusiasm by rulers and courts.

To this Christian VIII yielded so far as to issue in 1846 letters patent declaring that the royal law in the matter of the succession was in full force so far as Schleswig was concerned, in accordance with the letters patent of August 22, 1721, the oath of fidelity of September 3, 1721, the guarantees given by France and Great Britain in the same year and the treaties of 1767 and 1773 with Russia.

In 1721, on the discovery of the plot for the capture of the royal family and the proclamation of King James, Atterbury was arrested with the other chief malcontents, and in 1722 committed to the Tower of London, where he remained in close confinement during some months.

During the reign of the kings Charles XI of Sweden and Charles XII of Sweden, the royal court was often present at the palace ; Charles XI of Sweden went there to hunt, and after 1700, Hedwig Eleonora again hosted the royal court during the absence of Charles XII of Sweden under the Great Northern War ( 1700 – 1721 ).

A substantial stride was taken in the direction of popular education in 1721, when King Frederick IV established 240 schoolhouses bearing the royal insignia and called them Cavalry schools after a division of the country into military districts.

In 1721, the royal engineer, Adrien de Pauger designed the city's street layout.

At the end he was contemporaneously royal Polish colonel ( since 1736 ), electoral Saxon major general ( since 1746 ), superintendent of the Saxon building authority in Poland ( since 1721 ), with the title director ( since 1736 ), remunerated for each function separately.

* Elephanten, royal yacht ( 1687 – 1721 )

Public discourse ranged in tone from organized arguments by tobacconist and medical practitioner John Williams, who posited that " several arguments proving that inoculating the smallpox is not contained in the law of Physick, either natural or divine, and therefore unlawful ," to more slanderous attacks, such as those put forth in a pamphlet by Dr. William Douglass of Boston entitled The Abuses and Scandals of Some Late Pamphlets in Favour of Inoculation of the Small Pox ( 1721 ), on the qualifications of inoculation's proponents.

They brought Kelzang Gyatso with them from Kumbum to Lhasa and he was installed as the seventh Dalai Lama in 1721.

He sat in the House of Lords as a Scottish Representative Peer from 1721 to 1727.

Edo grew from what had been a small, little-known fishing village in 1457 to a metropolis with an estimated population of 1, 000, 000 by 1721 ( the largest city in the world at the time ).

Their purpose was defense from attacks from water and their construction was urged by the Great Northern War of 1700 – 1721.

Developed by, and named for, the Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin ( Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, 1870 – 1924 ), Leninism comprises political and socialist economic theories, developed from Marxism, and Lenin ’ s interpretations of Marxist theory, for practical application to the socio-political conditions of the agrarian Russian Empire ( 1721 – 1917 ) of the early 20th century.

Pope Clement XI ( 23 July 1649 – 19 March 1721 ), born Giovanni Francesco Albani, was Pope from 1700 until his death in 1721.

Bubonic plague victims in a mass grave from Great Plague of Marseille | 1720 – 1721 in Martigues, France

Pope Innocent XIII ( 13 May 1655 – 7 March 1724 ) was pope from 1721 until his death.

Peyton Randolph ( September 10, 1721 – October 22, 1775 ) was a planter and public official from the Colony of Virginia.

) The first act was called for, owing to an alarm, lest plague should be imported from Poland and the Baltics ; the second act of 1721 was due to the disastrous prevalence of plague at Marseille and other places in Provence, France ; it was renewed in 1733 owing to a fresh outbreak of the malady on the continent of Europe, and again in 1743, owing to the disastrous epidemic at Messina.

In 1721 two vessels laden with cotton goods from Cyprus, then a seat of plague, were ordered to be burned with their cargoes, the owners receiving £ 23, 935 as indemnity.

After the Livonian War, Estonia became part of the Swedish Empire from the 16th century to 1710 / 1721, when it was ceded to the Russian Empire as the result of the Great Northern War.

In 1721 the British Parliament removed all import duties from timber imported into Britain from British possessions in the Americas.

At the same time, the 1721 Act had the effect of substantially increasing exports of mahogany from the West Indies to the British colonies in North America.

His tenure is normally dated from 1721 when he obtained the post of First Lord of the Treasury ; others date it from 1730 when, with the retirement of Lord Townshend, he became the sole and undisputed leader of the Cabinet.

A number of islands, such as Ternate ( 1721 m ), are volcanoes emerging from the sea with villages sited around their coasts.

* Tottenham Park, Wiltshire, for Charles, Lord Bruce: from 1721, executed by Burlington's protégé Henry Flitcroft ( enlarged and remodelled since ).

* Russia: officially from about 1547 until 1721, unofficially in 1721 – 1917 ( officially " Empresses ").