As a satirical utopia, Erewhon has sometimes been compared to Gulliver's Travels ( 1726 ), a classic novel by Jonathan Swift ; the image of Utopia in this latter case also bears strong parallels with the self-view of the British Empire at the time.

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 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.

* 1726 – Five men arrested during a raid on Mother Clap's molly house in London are executed at Tyburn.

Some add the detail of Cupid aiming at the sea-god with his bow, as in the painting of Laurent de la Hyre ( 1640 / 4 ) in the J. Paul Getty Museum and that of Jacques Dumont le Romain ( 1726 ) at the Musée des beaux-arts de Troyes.

In 1726 Governor Pitt died and the family estate at Boconnoc passed to William's father.

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

Perhaps to reduce the risk of public misunderstanding, Newton included at the beginning of Book 3 ( in the second ( 1713 ) and third ( 1726 ) editions ) a section entitled " Rules of Reasoning in Philosophy.

However, Britain and Spain were often at war during this period, fighting one another in the War of the Quadruple Alliance ( 1718 – 20 ), the Blockade of Porto Bello ( 1726 ) and the Anglo-Spanish War ( 1727 – 1729 ).

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.

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François Francoeur et François Rebel composed Pirame et Thisbée, a liric tragedy in 5 acts and a prologue, with libretto by Jean-Louis-Ignace de la Serre ; it was played at the Académie royale de musique, on October 17, 1726.

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.

* Jonathan Swift stayed at Loughry Manor as a guest of the Lindsay family while writing Gulliver's Travels ( published in 1726 ).

On 27 July 1726, at only four-years-old, he was created Duke of Cumberland, Marquess of Berkhamstead in the County of Hertford, Earl of Kennington in the County of Surrey, Viscount of Trematon in the County of Cornwall, and Baron of the Isle of Alderney.

In 1726, he also visited Parma and Milan, where Johann Joachim Quantz heard him and commented: " Farinelli had a penetrating, full, rich, bright and well-modulated soprano voice, with a range at that time from the A below middle C to the D two octaves above middle C. ... His intonation was pure, his trill beautiful, his breath control extraordinary and his throat very agile, so that he performed the widest intervals quickly and with the greatest ease and certainty.

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.

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

* Fifteen sermons preached at the Rolls Chapel, 1726, 1729, 1736, 1749, 1759, 1765, 1769, 1774, 1792

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.

However The Baal Shem Tov, the founder of Hasidism, came at a time when the Jewish masses of Eastern Europe were reeling in bewilderment and disappointment engendered by the two Jewish false messiahs Sabbatai Zevi ( 1626 – 1676 ) and Jacob Frank ( 1726 – 1791 ) in particular.

In 1726 and 1727, Jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope reunited at Arbuthnot's house during visits, and Swift showed Arbuthnot the manuscript of Gulliver's Travels ahead of time.

James Peter Wolfe was born in the local vicarage on 2 January 1727 ( New Style or 22 December 1726 Old Style ) at Westerham, Kent, the older of two sons of Colonel ( later Lieutenant General ) Edward Wolfe, a veteran soldier of Irish origin, and the former Henrietta Thompson.

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.

Her paternal grandparents were Pierre César Auguié ( 1708 – 1776 ) and Marie Guary ( 1709 – 1788 ); her maternal grandparents were Edmé Jacques Genet ( 1726 – 1781 ) and Marie Anne Louise Cardon who were the parents of Edmond-Charles Genêt and Jeanne-Louise-Henriette Campan

Hannah Callowhill Penn ( 11 February 1671 – 20 December 1726 ) was the second wife of Pennsylvania founder William Penn ; she effectively administered the Province of Pennsylvania for six years after her husband suffered a series of strokes and then for another eight years after her husband's death.

She served as acting proprietor from 1712 until her death in 1726.

The initial subscribers each put in 300 livres, and, unlike most later schemes, this one was run honestly ; the last survivor, a widow named Charlotte Barbier, who died in 1726 at the age of 96, received 73, 000 livres in her last payment.

Count Sergei Vasilievich Saltykov () ( c. 1726 – 1765 ) was a Russian officer ( chamberlain ) who became the first lover of Empress Catherine the Great after her arrival to Russia.

On the accession of George I the duchess of Shrewsbury became a lady of the bedchamber to the Princess of Wales, a position which she retained till her death on 29 June 1726.

The following year, on 8 August 1726, the duke's young wife died three days after the birth of her second child, Louise Marie, at the Palais-Royal in Paris.

In 1726 Toft became pregnant, but following her reported fascination with the sighting of a rabbit, she miscarried.

Mist's Weekly Journal of 24 December 1726 reported that " the nurse has been examined as to the person's concerned with her, but either was kept in the dark as to the imposition, or is not willing to disclose what she knows ; for nothing can be got from her ; so that her resolution shocks others.

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.

Louise Florence Pétronille Tardieu d ' Esclavelles d ' Épinay ( March 11, 1726 – April 17, 1783 ) was a French writer, a saloniste and woman of fashion, known on account of her liaisons with Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who gives malicious reports of her in his Confessions.

The enthusiasm of her supporters led to quarrels with the fans of Senesino, and later with those of Faustina Bordoni, whose London debut was in Handel's Alessandro ( 1726 ).

Marie Anne also had a younger half-sister, Henriette de Bourbon ( 1725-1780 ), Mademoiselle de Verneuil, from her mother's relationship with the duc de Bourbon, the chief minister of Louis XV from 1723 to 1726.

In 1726, Marie Anne's oldest sister, Louise Julie, wed her cousin, Louis Alexandre de Mailly, comte de Mailly.

His usual bad manners toward her was so noted, that the opposite was seen as a surprise: in 1726, Sophia Dorothea inherited a sum of three million from her mother, and Frederick William was noted to suddenly treat her very well.

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 '.

In 1726 his fortunes changed when his brother Jacques-René was appointed commander of the poste du Nord.

Born in Dublin, Ireland, he was the son of Colonel Wray Palliser and a brother of Major Sir William Palliser ( 1830-1882 ), all descendants of Dr William Palliser, Archbishop of Cashel ( 1644 – 1726 ).

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.

* Philip Affleck ( 1726 – 1799 ), British admiral, younger brother of Sir Edmund Affleck