* The Christian Philosopher ( 1721 )

* 1721 – Christian Friedrich Heinecken, German child prodigy ( d. 1725 )

* 1721 – Johann Sebastian Bach dedicated six concertos to Christian Ludwig, margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt, now commonly called the Brandenburg Concertos, BWV 1046-1051.

After he took part in several military campaigns during the Spanish War of Succession and in the Netherlands, in 1714 Christian August was appointed Chief of the Regiment ; two years later, on 4 January 1716 he was named Colonel and on 14 August 1721 became Major-General.

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.

The Brandenburg concerti by Johann Sebastian Bach ( BWV 1046 – 1051, original title: Six Concerts à plusieurs instruments ) are a collection of six instrumental works presented by Bach to Christian Ludwig, margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt, in 1721 ( though probably composed earlier ).

Starting in 1721, many Christian Algonquins began to settle for the summer at Kahnesatake, near Oka.

* 1697 – 10 May 1721: Christian William

The first group arrived in December, 1721, under the leadership of carpenter Christian David.

* Christian Olsen Rode ( 1709 – 1721 )

The Church experienced missionary setbacks in 1721 when the Kangxi Emperor outlawed Christian missions.

Christian Heinrich Heinecken ( February 6, 1721 – June 27, 1725 ), also known as " the Infant of Lübeck ", was a legendary German child prodigy.

* 1721: Kangxi Emperor bans Christian missions in China.

* Christian Ernest ( Count of Aletzheim ) ( 1697 – 1721 ) with ...

In the 18th century, opera pasticcios were frequently made by composers such as Handel, for example Muzio Scevola ( 1721 ) and Giove in Argo ( 1739 ), as well as Gluck, and Johann Christian Bach.

The couple lived at the Danish court in Copenhagen for many years until the Christiansborg Palace fire of 1794 and the death of the elder Duke of Augustenborg ( Frederik Christian I, 1721 – 1794 ), when her husband inherited the estate and the Duchy.

1665 – 1721 ) Greek Cretan professor of Mathematics, Philosopher and Architectural theorist

The presence of normally occurring bronchial artery-pulmonary artery anastomoses was first noted in 1721 by Ruysch, and thereafter by many others.

In 1721 the King sent three commissioners to Louisiana with full powers to do all that was necessary to protect the colony.

Alexander Selkirk ( 1676 – 13 December 1721 ) was a Scottish sailor who spent four years as a castaway after being marooned on an uninhabited island.

By this time Naples seems to have become tired of his music ; the Romans, however, appreciated it better, and it was at the Teatro Capranica in Rome that he produced some of his finest operas ( Telemaco, 1718 ; Marco Attilio Regolò, 1719 ; La Griselda, 1721 ), as well as some noble specimens of church music, including a mass for chorus and orchestra, composed in honor of Saint Cecilia for Cardinal Acquaviva in 1721.

It was not until 1721, however, that England recorded its first case of inoculation.

By 1721, a whole generation of young Bostonians was vulnerable and memories of the last epidemic's horrors had by and large disappeared.

The epidemic peaked in October 1721, with 411 deaths ; by February 26, 1722, Boston was, once again, free of smallpox.

One important change in the practice after 1721 was regulated quarantine of inoculees.

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

In 1721 Lady Mary Wortley Montagu had imported variolation to Britain after having observed it in Istanbul, where her husband was the British ambassador.

In France, there was Lettres persanes ( 1721 ) by Montesquieu, followed by Julie, ou la nouvelle Héloïse ( 1761 ) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Laclos ' Les Liaisons dangereuses ( 1782 ), which used the epistolary form to great dramatic effect, because the sequence of events was not always related directly or explicitly.

On 31 October 1721, Peter I was proclaimed Emperor by the Senate-the title used was Latin " Imperator ", which is a westernizing form equivalent to the traditional Slavic title " Tsar ".

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.

Yale died on July 8, 1721 in London, England, but was buried in the churchyard of the parish church of St. Giles in Wrexham, Wales.

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

On the death of Clement in 1721, Alberoni boldly appeared at the conclave, and took part in the election of Innocent XIII, after which he was for a short time imprisoned by the new pontiff on the demand of Spain, but was cleared of all charges by a commission of his fellow Cardinals.

On 10 July 1721 Telemann was invited to work in Hamburg as Kantor of the Johanneum Lateinschule and musical director of the city's five largest churches, succeeding Joachim Gerstenbüttel.

Arguably the first was John Lombe's water-powered silk mill at Derby, operational by 1721.

Rabbi Yedidiah Tiah Weil ( 1721 – 1805 ), a Prague resident, who described the creation of golems, including those created by Rabbi Avigdor Kara of Prague, did not mention the Maharal, and Rabbi Meir Perels ' biography of the Maharal published in 1718 does not mention a golem.

Shelton's chief rivals were Theophilus Metcalfe's Stenography or Short Writing ( 1633 ) which was in its " 55th edition " by 1721, and Jeremiah Rich's system of 1654, which was published under various titles including The penns dexterity compleated ( 1669 ).

The History was published as a five-volume work, from 1714 until 1721.

In 1721, Johann Theodor Jablonski published a General Lexicon of Arts and Science.

Other major 18th century English novelists are Samuel Richardson ( 1689-1761 ), author of the epistolary novels Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded ( 1740 ) and Clarissa ( 1747-8 ); Henry Fielding ( 1707 – 54 ), who wrote Joseph Andrews ( 1742 ) and The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling ( 1749 ); Laurence Sterne ( 1713 – 68 ) who published Tristram Shandy in parts between 1759 and 1767 ; Oliver Goldsmith (? 1730-74 ) author of The Vicar of Wakefield ( 1766 ); Tobias Smollett ( 1721 – 71 ) a Scottish novelist best known for his comic picaresque novels, such as The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle ( 1751 ) and The Expedition of Humphry Clinker ( 1771 ), who influenced Charles Dickens ; and Fanny Burney ( 1752-1840 ), whose novels " were enjoyed and admired by Jane Austen ," wrote Evelina ( 1778 ), Cecilia ( 1782 ) and Camilla ( 1796 ).

Also important is the Historia logicae, published at Leipzig in 1721.

* Remarks, paragraph by paragraph, upon the Proposals lately published by Richard Bentley for a new Edition of the Greek Testament and Latin Version, 1721.

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.

He published ( 1721 – 1723 ), in conjunction with Johann Jakob Breitinger and others, Die Discourse der Mahlern, a weekly journal after the model of The Spectator.

Brockes ' poetic works were published in a series of nine volumes under the fantastic title Irdisches Vergnügen in Gott ( 1721 – 1748 ); he also translated Giambattista Marini's La Strage degli innocenti ( 1715 ), Alexander Pope's Essay on Man ( 1740 ) and James Thomson's Seasons ( 1745 ).

In 1721, he published a biography of the Duke of Buckingham.

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 only work published by Aubrey in his lifetime was his Miscellanies ( 1696 ; reprinted with additions in 1721 ), a collection of 21 short chapters on the theme of " hermetick philosophy " ( i. e. supernatural phenomena and the occult ), including " Omens ", " Prophesies ", " Transportation in the Air ", " Converse with Angels and Spirits ", " Second-Sighted Persons ", etc.

In 1721 Edmund Curl published a pirated edition of his works, and was brought before the bar of the House of Lords for breach of privilege accordingly.

He was one of the leading English poets of the 17th century, with 14 printings of his Works published between 1668 and 1721.

In 1721 Veracini wrote another set of violin sonatas dedicated to the Prince ( published as his Opus 1 ).

Ken's poetical works were published in collected form in four volumes by W Hawkins, his relative and executor, in 1721 ; his prose works were issued in 1838 in one volume, under the editorship of J. T.

The Theological Works of Leslie were collected and published by himself in 2 vols folio in 1721 ; a later edition, slightly enlarged, appeared at Oxford in 1832 ( 7 vols 8vo ).

An English translation of this work was published in 1721 – 25 under the title Antiquity Explained and Represented in Diagrams.

He was one of the so-called " Graveyard poets ": his ' A Night-Piece on Death ,' widely considered the first " Graveyard School " poem, was published posthumously in Poems on Several Occasions, collected and edited by Alexander Pope and is thought by some scholars to have been published in December of 1721 ( although dated in 1722 on its title page, the year accepted by The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature ; see 1721 in poetry, 1722 in poetry ).

But it is in its numerous imitations – such as Lettres juives ( 1738 ) and Lettres chinoises ( 1739 ) of Boyer d ’ Argens, Lettres d ’ une Turque à Paris, écrites à sa sœur ( 1730 ) by Poullain de Saint-Foix ( published several times in conjunction with Lettres persanes ), and perhaps especially Françoise de Graffigny ’ s Lettres d ’ une Péruvienne ( 1747 ) – not to mention the letter-novels of Richardson – which, between 1721 and 1754, had in effect transformed Lettres persanes into an " epistolary novel.