* 1726 – Samuel Penhallow, English-born American colonist and historian ( b. 1665 )

* July 2 – Samuel Penhallow, English-born American colonist and historian ( d. 1726 )

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.

In 1726 Hogarth prepared twelve large engravings for Samuel Butler's Hudibras.

* July 2 – Samuel Penhallow ( died 1726 )

Samuel Whiting as minister there in 1726, marrying Rev.

Published in 1726 and aimed at Samuel Molyneux, it rhymes " hare " with " hair ", and " coney " with " cunny ".

Samuel Penhallow ( July 2, 1665 – December 2, 1726 ) was a Cornish colonist and historian in early American.

Admiral Alexander Hood, 1st Viscount Bridport, KB ( 2 December 1726 – 2 May 1814 ) was an officer of the British Royal Navy during the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars, and the brother of Admiral Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood.

* ( 3 ) Lady Mary ( 1646 – 1726 ), daughter of Lewis Gordon, 3rd Marquess of Huntly by his spouse Mary, daughter of Sir John Grant of Freuchie.

The most famous of the French deists was Voltaire, who acquired a taste for Newtonian science, and reinforcement of deistic inclinations, during a two-year visit to England starting in 1726.

Of Louise little is known after her early salacious life in Paris, but in due course she lived for a time in a convent in Savoy before her death in 1726.

In November 1726 Euler eagerly accepted the offer, but delayed making the trip to St Petersburg while he unsuccessfully applied for a physics professorship at the University of Basel.

Pitt was the grandson of Thomas Pitt ( 1653 – 1726 ), the governor of Madras known as " Diamond " Pitt because he had discovered and sold a diamond of extraordinary size to the Duke of Orléans for around £ 135, 000.

* October 19, 1745 ( in Ireland )- Johnathon Swift-Irish satyrist born in 1667. Most notable for writing Gullivers Travels in 1726.

* May 26 – Nathaniel Folsom, American Continental Congressman for New Hampshire and Revolutionary War major general ( b. 1726 )

* 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.

" In the four rules, as they came finally to stand in the 1726 edition, Newton effectively offers a methodology for handling unknown phenomena in nature and reaching towards explanations for them.

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.

Key evidence for this includes a letter dictated by Agaja to George I of Great Britain in 1726, whose authenticity is disputed.

His father was Christian Augustus ( 1673 — 1726 ) duke and a younger prince of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp, prince-bishop of Lubeck, and administrator, during the Great Northern War, of the duchies of Holstein-Gottorp for his relative Charles Frederick.

Methuen was first settled in 1642 and was officially incorporated in 1726 ; it is named for the British diplomat Sir Paul Methuen.

In 1726 he published A letter to a Deist concerning the Beauty and Excellency of Moral Virtue, and the Support and Improvement which it receives from the Christian Religion, chiefly designed to show that, while a love of virtue for its own sake is the highest principle of morality, religious rewards and punishments are most valuable, and in some cases absolutely indispensable, as sanctions of conduct.

In 1726 Charles met Philippine Élisabeth for the first time ; Elisabeth Farnese later wrote to the regent and his wife regarding their meeting:

The antiquary was satirised in John Earle's Micro-cosmographie of 1628 (" Hee is one that hath that unnaturall disease to bee enamour'd of old age, and wrinkles, and loves all things ( as Dutchmen doe Cheese ) the better for being mouldy and worme-eaten "), in Jean-Siméon Chardin's painting " Le Singe Antiquaire " ( c. 1726 ), in Sir Walter Scott's novel The Antiquary ( 1816 ), in the caricatures of Thomas Rowlandson, and in many other places.

Robert Wright and Thomas Squire agreed to these terms for the section from Peterborough to the bridge at Oundle North in September 1726, and completed the work by 1730.

" Pieces for harpsichord ", 3 books, published 1706, 1724, 1726 / 27 (?

The title Duke of Edinburgh, named after the city of Edinburgh, Scotland, has been created four times for members of the British royal family since 1726.

He is most famous for his Fifteen Sermons Preached at the Rolls Chapel ( 1726 ) and Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed ( 1736 ).

Use of the Newcomen engine was extended in some places to pump municipal water supply ; for instance the first Newcomen engine in France was built at Passy in 1726 to pump water from the Seine to the city of Paris.

In 1726, William Alvey left an endowment for 20 poor boys and 20 poor girls to attend school.

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.

Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels ( 1726 ) in part parodies Defoe's adventure novel.

A document dated 1726 gives the names of twenty-four Jews who had taken part in an election of municipal officers.

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

From 1726 to 1881 Voluntown had been part of Windham County.

When Windham County was formed on 12 May 1726, Mansfield then became part of that county.

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

Lilliput and Blefuscu are two fictional island nations that appear in the first part of the 1726 novel Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift.

United Brethren In Christ was an American religious sect which originated in the last part of the 18th century under the leadership of Philip William Otterbein ( 1726 – 1813 ), pastor of the Second Reformed Church in Baltimore, and Martin Boehm ( 1725 – 1812 ), a Pennsylvanian Mennonite of Swiss descent.

Toft's confession of 7 December demonstrates her insistence that her sister-in-law played no part in the hoax, but Manningham's 1726 An Exact Diary of what was observ'd during a Close Attendance upon Mary Toft, the pretended Rabbet-Breeder of Godalming in Surrey offers eyewitness testimony of her complicity.

Lettres philosophiques or ) is a series of essays written by Voltaire based on his experiences living in England ( though from 1707 the country was part of Great Britain ) between 1726 and 1729.

Originally part of the expanse of the Manor of Allerton, around 1726 the area now known as Calderstones Park was sold by its owners to settle family debts.

23, 27 / 29 and 31 by George Barnes as part of the planned extension of Brook Street, linking Hanover Square with Grosvenor Square, between 1717 and 1726.

In 1726 he joined the Duke of Carignan and took part in the newly-formed Concert spirituel for the first time.

Today, the Drapier's Letters are an important part of Swift's political writings, along with Gulliver's Travels ( 1726 ), A Tale of a Tub ( 1704 ), and A Modest Proposal ( 1729 ).

Admiralty House is part of a complex of former Admiralty buildings and is sometimes confused with the more visible Ripley Building ( also known as the Old Admiralty Office ), built in 1726, or the Admiralty Extension, built between 1898 and 1904, and also with Admiralty Arch ( 1910 ).

This foundation oversees both sites as well as Augustine Washington ’ s ironworks at Accokeek ( Potomac ) Furnace ( 1726 ~ 56 ) in Stafford County, part of the Principio Company.

* 1726 – Perry ( took part in the earliest known single wicket match )