* ODNB article by Rod Morgan, ‘ Howard, John ( 1726 ?– 1790 )’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 8 Dec 2008

* Sir Charles Morgan, 1st Baronet ( 1726 – 1806 ), Member of Parliament for Brecon, 1778 – 1787, and Breconshire, 1787 – 1806

Newtown served as the County Seat of Bucks County from 1726 until 1813, when the Court was moved to Doylestown.

In 1726 he moved to the Saxon town of Freiberg, and in September that year married Christiana Dorothea Richter ( 1695 – 1755 ), sister of publisher David Richter and daughter of a reputable merchant in the city, who was eleven years his elder.

He then moved from Basel to Amsterdam, where another relative, Johann Heinrich Wettstein ( 1649 – 1726 ), had had an important printing and publishing business.

It is thought that Macklin was born near Culdaff, a village in Inishowen in the north of County Donegal in the province of Ulster, Ireland, in 1690, and moved to Great Britain in either 1725 or 1726 ; the dates in his early life are not entirely clear.

Telemann returned to Hamburg, but would still supplement his income by taking up additional jobs: in 1723 – 1726 he served as Kapellmeister von Haus aus to the Bayreuth court, and between 1725 and 1730 he acted as corresponding agent to the court at Eisenach, supplying news from northern Europe.

In 1726, the British Governor of New York exacted a promise from the Iroquois to return all runaway slaves who had joined up with them.

In 1726, Ibrahim Muteferrika convinced the Grand Vizier Nevşehirli Damat İbrahim Pasha, the Grand Mufti, and the clergy on the efficiency of the printing press, and later submitted a request to Sultan Ahmed III, who granted Muteferrika the permission to publish non-religious books ( despite opposition from some calligraphers and religious leaders.

* November 30, 1667 ( in Dublin, Ireland )- Johnathon Swift-Praised satyrist who lived in Ireland most of his life. He was most famous for writing Gullivers Travels in 1726. He also wrote A Tale of a Tub from 1694-1697. It was finally published in 1704. He died in 1745.

Nevertheless, Bourbon's action brought a very negative response from Spain, and for his incompetence Bourbon was soon replaced by Cardinal Andre Hercule de Fleury, the young king's tutor, in 1726.

First mentioned on July 25, 1726, when parish priest of Holy Trinity Church at Będzin noted a woman named Anna Lisowa from Dąbrowa.

A facsimile edition ( based on the 3rd edition of 1726 but with variant readings from earlier editions and important annotations ) was published in 1972 by Alexandre Koyré and I. Bernard Cohen.

The third edition was published 25 March 1726, under the stewardship of Henry Pemberton, M. D., a man of the greatest skill in these matters ...; Pemberton later said that this recognition was worth more to him than the two hundred guinea award from Newton.

Cardinal de Fleury was his chief minister from 1726 until the Cardinal's death in 1743, at which time the young king took over control of the Kingdom.

Victor Amadeus III ( Vittorio Amadeo Maria ; 26 June 1726 – 16 October 1796 ) was King of Sardinia from 1773 until his death.

Benjamin Harrison V ( April 5, 1726 – April 24, 1791 ) was an American planter and revolutionary leader from Charles City County, Virginia.

The settlement was founded in 1726 by Colonial English Quakers from Chester County led by entrepreneur and evangelist John Wright.

When Wright returned in 1726 with companions Robert Barber and Samuel Blunston, they began developing the area, Wright building a house about a hundred yards from the edge of the Susquehanna River in the area of today's South Second and Union Streets.

Windham County was created from Hartford and New London counties on May 12, 1726, by an act of the Connecticut General Court.

Willem de Vlamingh's ships, with black swans, at the entrance to the Swan River, Western Australia, coloured engraving ( 1726 ), derived from an earlier drawing ( now lost ) from the de Vlamingh expeditions of 1696 – 97.

* Waddell's Annals of Augusta County, Virginia, from 1726 to 1871, searchable online edition of the 1902 second edition by Jos.

Buckingham was the former county town of Buckinghamshire ; Buckingham, PA, ( now known as Bristol, not to be confused with the present village of Buckingham, near Doylestown ) was the county seat of Bucks County from 1705 – 1726.

Originally ( and now ) in New London County, it was part of Windham County from 1726 to 1824.

The town was once part of Mendon, from 1667 to 1726, and part of Uxbridge, from 1727 to 1772.

In the 18th century Lincoln became the cradle of Methodism when John Wesley, a fellow there from 1726, held religious meetings with his brother Charles and the rest of Wesley's ' Holy Club ', whom the rest of the university took to calling ' Bible-moths '.

It was the county seat of Bucks County from 1726 until 1813, when it was replaced by a more central Doylestown.

In 1726 the city of Les Cayes was founded on the Southern coast which became the biggest settlement in the south.

Maximilian Emanuel founded in 1726 the Royal Order of Saint George for the Defense of the Immaculate Conception, a dynastic Order of the Royal House of Bavaria.

After training as a bookseller, Zedler founded his own publishing house in 1726.

In 1726 Elias Eller and the pastor Daniel Schleyermacher founded a Philadelphian society.

The original Academy of Ancient Music was founded in London, England in 1726 for the purpose of studying and performing " old " music — defined initially as anything composed at least a century earlier.

* The Presidio del Pitic, founded in 1726 in Hermosillo, Sonora

* Royal Order of Saint George for the Defense of the Immaculate Conception, founded by Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria in 1726

Although only boys were admitted to Bury Grammar when the school was founded, on the re-founding by Roger Kay in 1726 he bequeathed money specifically for girls, the bequest stating: " I charge my Estate called Warth in Ratcliff with the payment of £ 5 yearly in order that ten poor girls born or to be born in the parish and town of Bury might receive an education .... to make them perfect in reading The Bible, to teach them to write well and to be good accountants to fit them for Trades or to be good servants.

The main Daimaru department store, founded as Matsuya in 1726.

The sect sprang from a Philadelphian society founded at Elberfeld in 1726 by Elias Eller and the pastor Daniel Schleiermacher.

To deter Portuguese expansion, the Spanish founded Montevideo in 1726, and Colonia was finally ceded to Spain under the Treaty of San Ildefonso in 1777, one year after the creation of the Spanish Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata, the forerunner of modern Argentina.

Perhaps inspired by a revival of the English madrigal ( and other early music ) by the Academy of Vocal ( later Ancient ) Music ( founded 1726 ), English composers, unlike their continental contemporaries, began again to compose a cappella music.

His theory of the motion of fluids, the germ of which was first published in his memoir entitled Theoria nova de motu aquarum per canales quocunque fluentes, communicated to the Academy of St Petersburg as early as 1726, was founded on two suppositions, which appeared to him conformable to experience.

The city is named for Stanisław Kostka, a Polish priest who was canonized by Pope Benedict XIII on November 13, 1726, 23 years before San Estanislao was founded.

1726: The first circulating library is established ; a medical school at the city's college is founded ; James Hutton, geologist, is born

The London Evening Post was founded in 1726 and it carried a good many cricket notices until it ceased publication in 1797.

The Royal Military Order of Saint George for the Defense of the Faith and the Immaculate Conception was founded by Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria in 1726 to provide for a means of honouring the nobility and recognizing distinguished civil and military service.