* 1695 – Nicolaus II Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician ( d. 1726 )

* February 6 – Nicolaus II Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician ( d. 1726 )

* Nicolaus II Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician ( 1695 – 1726 )

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.

* February 6-Nicolaus II Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician ( died 1726 )

Nicolaus II Bernoulli, a. k. a. Niklaus Bernoulli, Nikolaus Bernoulli, ( February 6, 1695, Basel, Switzerland – July 31, 1726, St. Petersburg, Russia ) was a Swiss mathematician as were his father Johann Bernoulli and one of his brothers, Daniel Bernoulli.

She was born in Vevey, into a Swiss Protestant family who had immigrated to Annecy, but became a Roman Catholic in 1726 to receive a church pension which had been instated to increase the spread of Roman Catholicism near Geneva, then a bastion of Protestantism.

James Hutton ( Edinburgh, 3 June 1726 OS – 26 March 1797 ) was a Scottish physician, geologist, naturalist, chemical manufacturer and experimental agriculturalist.

Schlözer, who in 1769 married Caroline Roederer, daughter of Johann Georg Roederer ( 1726 – 1763 ), professor of medicine at Göttingen and body physician to the king of England, left five children.

John Berkenhout ( July 8, 1726 in Yorkshire – April 3, 1791 ) was an English physician, naturalist and miscellaneous writer.

Hugh Mercer ( January 17, 1726 – January 12, 1777 ) was a soldier and physician.

In 1726 Freind was appointed physician to Queen Caroline, an office which he held till his death.

* 1726 – Johann Hartmann, Danish composer ( d. 1793 )

* 1726 – Johann Becker, German organist, teacher, and composer ( d. 1803 )

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.

Since Pithou's edition in 1596 Phaedrus has been often edited and translated ; among the editions may be mentioned those of Burmann ( 1718 and 1727 ), Richard Bentley ( 1726 ), Schwabe ( 1806 ), Berger de Xivrey ( 1830 ), Johann Caspar von Orelli ( 1832 ), Franz Eyssenhardt ( 1867 ), L. Müller ( 1877 ), Rica ( 1885 ), and above all that of Louis Havet ( Paris, 1895 ).

** Johann Becker, organist and composer ( born 1726 )

Although they were not premillennial, the English theologian Daniel Whitby ( 1688 – 1726 ), the German Johann Albrecht Bengel ( 1687 – 1752 ), and the American Jonathan Edwards ( 1703 – 58 ) “ fueled millennial ideas with new influence in the nineteenth century .” It was authors such as these who concluded that the decline of the Roman Catholic Church would make way for the conversion and restoration of the nation of Israel.

* October 21 – Johann Hartmann, composer ( b. 1726 )

Translation of: Beringer, Johann ; Hueber, George Ludwig ( 1726 ).

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

In 1726, the Prince-Bishop of Basel, Johann Konrad von Reinach-Hirzbach, attempted to modernize and consolidate his extensive land holdings.

A further three survived into adulthood: Elisabeth Juliane Friederica ( 1726 – 1781 ) who married Bach's pupil Johann Christoph Altnikol, Johanna Carolina ( 1737 – 1781 ) and Regina Susanna ( 1742 – 1809 )

His maternal grandfather, Andreas Gottlieb Bernstorff ( 1640 – 1726 ), had been one of the ablest ministers of George I and the head of the German Chancery, and under his guidance Johann was very carefully educated, acquiring amongst other things that intimate knowledge of the leading European languages, especially French, which ever afterwards distinguished him.

Franz Joseph I, Prince of Liechtenstein, born Franz de Paula Joseph Johann Nepomuk Andreas ( 19 November 1726 – 18 August 1781 ), was the Prince of Liechtenstein from 1772 until his death.

Jacob Frank ( יעקב פרנק Ya ' akov Frank, Jakob Frank ; ( 1726, Korolivka – December 10, 1791, Offenbach am Main ) was an 18th century Jewish religious leader who claimed to be the reincarnation of the self-proclaimed messiah Sabbatai Zevi and also of the biblical patriarch Jacob.

Jakob Prandtauer ( baptized in Stanz bei Landeck ( Tyrol ) on 16 July 1660 ; died in Sankt Pölten on 16 September 1726 ) was an Austrian Baroque architect.

* In Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift ( 1726 ), the country of Lilliput is described as being “ to the north-west of Van Dieman's Land ”.

However, this is described by the Oxford English Dictionary a " a late tradition ", first recorded in 1726, and is probably false.

In A tour thro ' the Whole Island of Great Britain, written between 1724 and 1726, Daniel Defoe described the area as barren and sterile ; " a mark of the just resentment shew ’ d by Heaven upon the Englishmen ’ s pride ... horrid and frightful to look on, not only good for little, but good for nothing ".

The species was named in honor of Patrick Russell ( 1726 – 1805 ), a Scottish herpetologist who first described many of India's snakes ; and the genus is after the Hindi name meaning " that lies hid ", or " the lurker.

Perhaps inspired by Johannes Kepler ( and quoting Kepler's third law of planetary motion ), Jonathan Swift's satire Gulliver's Travels ( 1726 ) refers to two moons in Part 3, Chapter 3 ( the " Voyage to Laputa "), in which Laputa's astronomers are described as having discovered two satellites of Mars orbiting at distances of 3 and 5 Martian diameters, and periods of 10 and 21. 5 hours, respectively.

*< cite id = new1729v1 > Newton, Isaac, " Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy ", 1729 English translation based on 3rd Latin edition ( 1726 ), volume 1, containing Book 1, especially at the section Axioms or Laws of Motion starting page 19 .</ cite >

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Bailey also published a spelling-book in 1726 ; ' All the Familiar Colloquies of Erasmus Translated ,' 1733, of which a new edition appeared in 1878 ; ' The Antiquities of London and Westminster ,' 1726 ; ' Dictionarium Domesticum ,' 1736 ; Selections from Ovid and Phædrus ; and ' English and Latin Exercises.

Another important early novel is Gulliver's Travels ( 1726, amended 1735 ), by Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, which is both a satire of human nature, as well as a parody of travellers ' tales like Robinson Crusoe.

The Council of Europe passed Recommendation 1726 in 2005 titled " Serious human rights violations in Libya – Inhuman treatment of Bulgarian medical staff ".

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 ).

He published a number of books decrying the breakdown of the social order, such as The Great Law of Subordination Considered ( 1724 ) and Everybody's Business is Nobody's Business ( 1725 ) and works on the supernatural, like The Political History of the Devil ( 1726 ), A System of Magick ( 1726 ) and An Essay on the History and Reality of Apparitions ( 1727 ).

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.

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In London in the early 18th century, much gin was distilled legally in residential houses ( there were estimated to be 1, 500 residential stills in 1726 ), and was often flavoured with turpentine-to generate resinous woody notes in addition to the juniper.

* Karl Anton von Martini ( 1726 – 1800 ), Austrian lawyer whose work strongly influenced the Austrian Civil Code of 1811

Equally influential, if not more so, however, have been earlier pieces of political fiction such as Gulliver's Travels ( 1726 ), Candide ( 1759 ) and Uncle Tom's Cabin ( 1852 ).

* Maximilian William of Brunswick-Lüneburg ( 1666 – 1726 ), field marshal in the Imperial Army

* Gulliver's Travels ( 1726 ), Book IV, satire.

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.

* July 30 – William Jones ( 1726 – 1800 ), ( d. 1800 )

# Charles Beauclerk ( 1670 – 1726 ), created Duke of St Albans ( 1684 )

# Lady Mary Tudor ( 1673 – 1726 ), married Edward Radclyffe, 2nd Earl of Derwentwater ; after Edward's death, she married Henry Graham, and upon his death she married James Rooke.

* The University of Michigan Special Collections Library owns several early printings, including the first ( 1687 ), second ( 1713 ), second revised ( 1714 ), unnumbered ( 1723 ), and third ( 1726 ) editions of the Principia.

The Sakalava rulers of this period are known through the memoirs of Europeans such as Robert Drury, James Cook, Barnvelt ( 1719 ), Valentyn ( 1726 ).

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 ).

With the help of controllers-general of finances Michel Robert Le Peletier des Forts ( 1726 – 1730 ) and Philibert Orry ( 1730 – 1745 ), Fleury stabilized the French currency ( 1726 ) and balanced the budget in 1738.