* 1799 – Philip Affleck, British Admiral and First Lord of the Admiralty ( b. 1726 )

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.

* August 5 – Richard Howe, a British admiral ( b. 1726 )

* July 5 – Thomas Pitt, British Governor of Madras ( d. 1726 )

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

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.

The gridiron pendulum was an improved clock pendulum invented by British clockmaker John Harrison around 1726.

By unilaterally establishing Halifax, the British were violating earlier treaties with the Mi ' kmaq ( 1726 ), which were signed after Father Rale's War.

By unilaterally establishing Halifax the British were violating earlier treaties with the Mi ' kmaq ( 1726 ), which were signed after Father Rale's War.

In December 1726 a number of British newspapers printed an extract of a letter from John Howell of the sloop Catherine and Mary:

George I's five guinea coins were only struck in 1716, 1717, 1720, and 1726, and they bear his abbreviated Hanoverian titles in addition to the usual British, French, and Irish title.

Admiral of the Fleet Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe KG ( 8 March 1726 – 5 August 1799 ) was a British naval officer, notable in particular for his service during the American War of Independence and French Revolutionary Wars.

George I's two guinea coins were only struck in 1717, 1720, and 1726, and they bear his abbreviated Hanoverian titles in addition to the usual British, French, and Irish title.

* William Jones ( 1726 – 1800 ), British clergyman and author

* Simon Fraser of Lovat ( 1726 – 1782 ), Jacobite leader and British general during the Seven Years ' War and American Revolutionary War

Murdock was the son of Reverend George Murdock, who brought his family from Scotland to Prince George's County, Maryland, in British America about 1726.

* Isaac Barré ( 1726 – 1802 ), British soldier and politician

Robert PrescottGeneral Robert Prescott ( Lancashire c. 1726 – 21 December 1815 Rose Green West Sussex ) was a British soldier and colonial administrator.

Thomas Pitt ( 5 July 1653 – 28 April 1726 ), born at Blandford Forum, Dorset, to a rector and his wife, was a British merchant involved in trade with India.

Admiral Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham PC ( 14 October 1726 – 17 June 1813 ) was a British naval officer and politician.

General Sir Hector Munro KB ( 1726 – 27 December 1805 ) was a British soldier who became the ninth Commander-in-Chief of India ( 1764 – 1765 ).

* Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham ( 1726 – 1813 ), British aristocrat

Following the British disaster in the Blockade of Porto Bello under Admiral Hosier in 1726, the port was attacked on November 21, 1739, and captured by a British fleet of six ships, commanded by Admiral Edward Vernon during the War of Jenkins ' Ear.

* 1726 – James Bowdoin, American politician, 2nd Governor of Massachusetts ( d. 1790 )

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

* November 6 – James Bowdoin, American Governor of Massachusetts ( b. 1726 )

Charles de la Boische, Marquis de Beauharnois ( c. 12 October 1671 – 12 July 1749 ) was a French Naval officer who served as Governor of New France from 1726 to 1746.

In later years he also served as Master of the Robes ( 1714 – 1726 ), Governor of the Isle of Wight ( 1715 – 1726 ) and Master-General of the Ordnance ( 1722 – 1725 ).

Maximilian's grandson Maximilian II Emanuel ( 1679 – 1726 ) purchased a large number of Dutch and Flemish paintings when he was Governor of the Spanish Netherlands.

In 1725 and 1726 Dummer, New Hampshire's Acting Governor John Wentworth, and Nova Scotia's military commander Paul Mascarene successfully concluded peace agreements with the Abenaki.

On 17 October 1726, however, the Spanish government under the administration of Governor General Marquéz de Torrecampo who was also the titular head of the Diocese of Caceres, issued a decree making Lupi a separate town.

Prince Anikita Ivanovich Repnin ( 1668 — 3 July 1726, Riga ) was a prominent Russian general during the Great Northern War who superintended the taking of Riga in 1710 and served as the Governor of Livland from 1719 until his death.

In 1726, as President of the Governor's Council, he served as acting Governor of Virginia after the death of Governor Hugh Drysdale.

In the final decade of his life, he also wrote conduct manuals, including Religious Courtship ( 1722 ), The Complete English Tradesman ( 1726 ) and The New Family Instructor ( 1727 ).

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

In the late 17th to early 18th centuries, several more towns were established and added to Hartford County: Waterbury in 1686 ( transferred to New Haven County in 1728 ), Windham in 1694 ( transferred to Windham County in 1726 ), Hebron in 1708 ( transferred to Tolland County in 1785 ), Coventry in 1712 ( transferred to Windham County in 1726 ), and Litchfield in 1722 ( transferred to Litchfield County in 1751 ).

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

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

Prior to its incorporation in 1726 as a parish of New Castle, Rye was called Sandy Beach and included land in New Castle, Portsmouth, Greenland and Hampton.

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.

Term used 1726 – 1820 to refer to the Faraón, Sierra Blanca, and Siete Ríos Apaches of southeastern New Mexico.

He wrote a History of the Wars of New-England with the Eastern Indians, or a Narrative of their Continued Perfidy and Cruelty ( 1726 reprinted in the Collections of the New Hampshire Historical Society, vol.

Nathaniel Folsom ( September 28, 1726, Exeter, New Hampshire – May 26, 1790, Exeter, New Hampshire ) was an American merchant and statesman.

* John Usher ( colonist ) ( 1642 – 1726 ) colonial administrator, lieutenant governor of New Hampshire

He was the pastor for the First Presbyterian Church of New Brunswick from 1726 to 1743.

Lewis Morris ( April 8, 1726 – January 22, 1798 ) was an American landowner and developer from Morrisania, New York.

The Hanging Gardens of Babylon, engraving from the German edition of 1726 of The Old and New Testament connected.

Sale was also a corrector of the Arabic New Testament ( 1726 ) issued by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.

Captain William Fly ( died July 12, 1726 ) was an English pirate who raided New England shipping until he was captured by the crew of a seized ship.

* New York Genealogical and Biographical Record ( 1880, vol 11 ) p. 133 marriage of Jacob Carle and Meriam Williams, March 10, 1726

Detail of 1726 sketch of New Orleans, showing the Parish Church of St. Louis, where the St. Louis Cathedral would later be built.

:* Isaac Roosevelt ( 1726 – 1794 ), merchant, co-founder of the Bank of New York, Federalist politician, served in the New York State Assembly and the New York Constitutional Convention