The first, most important and successful was The Beggar's Opera of 1728, with a libretto by John Gay and music arranged by John Christopher Pepusch, both of whom probably influenced by Parisian vaudeville and the burlesques and musical plays of Thomas D ' Urfey ( 1653 – 1723 ), a number of whose collected ballads they used in their work.

Sir Joshua Reynolds RA FRS FRSA ( 16 July 1723 – 23 February 1792 ) was an influential 18th-century English painter, specialising in portraits and promoting the " Grand Style " in painting which depended on idealization of the imperfect.

Reynolds was born in Plympton, Devon, on 16 July 1723 the third son of the Rev.

His father, James Madison, Sr. ( 1723 – 1801 ), was a tobacco planter who grew up on a plantation, then called Mount Pleasant, in Orange County, Virginia, which he had inherited upon reaching adulthood.

The work was completed in 1723 in Le Triomphe de la Providence et de la Religion ; ou, l ' Ouverture des sept Seaux par le Fils de Dieu, où l ' on trouvera la première partie de l ' Apocalypse clairement expliquée par ce qu ' il y a de plus connu dans l ' Histoire et de moins contesté dans la Parole de Dieu.

His ancestry was Ashkenazi Jewish, with his paternal line having supplied the rabbis of Trier since 1723, a role that had been taken up by his own grandfather, Meier Halevi Marx ; Meier's son and Karl's father would be the first in the line to receive a secular education.

Carl Friedrich Abel ( 22 December 1723 – 20 June 1787 ) was a German composer of the Classical era.

Like many bunraku plays, it was adapted for kabuki, and it spawned many imitators — in fact, it and similar plays reportedly caused so many real-life " copycat " suicides that the government banned shinju mono ( plays about lovers ' double suicides ) in 1723.

Admiral Abdelkader Perez was sent by Ismail Ibn Sharif as ambassador to England in 1723.

Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek ( 1632 – 1723 ) was one of the first people to observe microorganisms, using a microscope of his own design, and made one of the most important contributions to biology.

Along with the inventor and microscopist Robert Hooke ( 1635 – 1703 ), Sir Christopher Wren ( 1632 – 1723 ) and Sir Isaac Newton ( 1642 – 1727 ), English scientist and astronomer Edmond Halley ( 1656 – 1742 ) was trying to develop a mechanical explanation for planetary motion.

" It was specifically decried in the Declaration of the Catholic Congress at Munich, in the Theses of Bonn, and in the Declaration of Utrecht, which became the foundational documents of Old Catholics ( Altkatholische ) who split with Rome over the declaration on infallibility and supremacy, joining the Old Episcopal Order Catholic See of Utrecht, which had been independent from Rome since 1723.

Year 1723 ( MDCCXXIII ) was a common year starting on Friday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar.

During the Rococo era Portraiture was an important component of painting in all countries, but especially in Great Britain, where the leaders were William Hogarth ( 1697 – 1764 ), in a blunt realist style, and Francis Hayman ( 1708 – 1776 ), Angelica Kauffman who was Swiss, ( 1741 – 1807 ), Thomas Gainsborough and Joshua Reynolds ( 1723 – 1792 ), in more flattering styles influenced by Antony Van Dyck ( 1599 – 1641 ).

In 1723, the capital of Louisiana was moved to New Orleans, founded in 1718.

Antonie Philips van Leeuwenhoek ( in Dutch also Anthonie, Antoni, or Theunis, in English, Antony or Anton ;, ; October 24, 1632 – August 26, 1723 ) was a Dutch tradesman and scientist from Delft, Netherlands.

He died at the age of 90, on August 26, 1723 and was buried four days later in the Oude Kerk ( Delft ).

John Byron, RN ( 8 November 1723 – 10 April 1786 ) was a Royal Navy officer.

She was first engaged to be married to Leopold Clement of Lorraine, who was supposed to visit Vienna and meet the Archduchess in 1723.

The Tory Party was equally unfortunate even though Lord Bolingbroke, a Tory leader who fled to France to avoid punishment for his Jacobite sympathies, was permitted to return to Britain in 1723.

Jansenism was also a factor in the formation of the independent Old Catholic Church of the Netherlands from 1702 to 1723, and is said to continue to live on in some Ultrajectine traditions.

Wren was laid to rest on 5 March 1723.

* Antonie van Leeuwenhoek ( 1632 – 1723 ) constructed powerful single lens microscopes and made extensive observations that he published around 1660, opening up the micro-world of biology.

The Duke of Orléans was made first minister on the death of Cardinal Dubois in August 1723, and he himself died in December of the same year.

Pre-1778 artifacts that never left the city since its founding include the Vajradhara statue made by Zanabazar himself in 1683 ( the city's main deity kept at the Vajradhara temple ), a highly ornate throne presented to Zanabazar by the Kangxi Emperor ( before 1723 ), a sandalwood hat presented to Zanabazar by the Dalai Lama ( c. 1663 ), Zanabazar's large fur coat which was also presented by the Kangxi Emperor and a great number of original statues made by Zanabazar himself ( e. g. the Green Tara ).

Pound trained his sister's son, James Bradley, and many of their observations were made together, including the opposition of Mars in 1719, and the transit of Mercury on 29 October 1723.

After the passing of the Registering Act in 1723, he could not be made to comply with its requirements by registering his annuity of £ 40, although that annuity, together with £ 20 per annum from his elder brother's collieries, was now his only income.

In 1723, Arbuthnot was made one of the censors of the Royal College of Physicians, and as such he was one of the campaigners to inspect and improve the drugs sold by apothecaries in London.

From High Bridge through to Newbury, the river was made navigable between 1718 and 1723 under the supervision of the engineer John Hore of Newbury.

In 1723 he was made vice-president of the ministry of foreign affairs for bringing about a very advantageous commercial treaty with Persia.

This condemnation parallels that issued to the chief ministers of the Tory government that had made peace with France, Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, who was impeached and imprisoned in the Tower of London from 1715 to 1717 ; and Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, who, after his political fall, received vague threats of capital punishment and fled to France in 1715, where he remained until 1723.

In 1723 the Darnley title held by his wife's ancestors ( which had become extinct on the death of Charles Stewart, 6th Duke of Lennox and 6th Earl of Darnley in 1672 ) was revived when he was made Viscount Darnley, of Athboy in the County of Meath, in the Peerage of Ireland.

Christian Gottlieb Kratzenstein ( 1723 – 1795 ), professor of physiology at Copenhagen, was credited with the first free-reed instrument made in the Western world, after winning the annual prize in 1780 from the Imperial Academy of St. Petersburg.

In 1723, the region around the Wabash River was made into a separate district.

In 1723, at age 19, he was made a Lieutenant, and at 23, rose to become Captain of HMS Gibraltar.

Pepys made detailed provisions in his will for the preservation of his book collection ; and, when his nephew and heir, John Jackson, died, in 1723, it was transferred, intact, to Magdalene.

He granted an audience to Nian Gengyao early in 1723 and awarded him a minor hereditary rank and the title of Grand Guardian, and made his elder brother Nian Xiyao ( 年希堯 ) Governor of Guangdong.

While serving as a Gentleman of the Bedchamber, Lord Willougby de Eresby inherited the rest of his father's titles on his death in 1723 ; he also inherited the hereditary Great Office of Lord Great Chamberlain and was made Lord Lieutenant of Lincolnshire in his late father's place.

Mørk plays a rare Domenico Montagnana cello ( Venice, 1723 ), the scroll of which was made by Stradivarius.

Sir John St. Barbe made many improvements to the manor before it was left to his cousin Humphrey Sydenham in 1723.

Vases on the corners of the first octagon, installed in 1770s, replaced the statues lost in 1723 ( the vases were later regularly replaced and are now made of concrete ).

Mullova plays on the Jules Falk Stradivarius from 1723 and a violin made in 1750 by Giovanni Battista Guadagnini.

Richard Churcher ( 1659 – 1723 ) was a wealthy English businessman and philanthropist, who had made his fortune through interests in the British East India Company.

1723 also saw Gibbs being made a governor of St Bartholomew's Hospital, fellow governors included fellow architects Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington and George Dance the Elder, on the 1 August 1728 it was decided to rebuild the Hospital, Gibbs offered his service for free, and designed a quadrangle of 200 by 160 feet with four near-identical plain blocks.