After Moulay Ismaïl's death at the age of eighty ( or around ninety by the 1634 birthdate ) in 1727, there was another succession battle between his surviving sons.

He appears to have already made his fortune by the age of 25 and married Mary Storrs of Chesterfield, Derbyshire, on 23rd March 1727 while in London.

He was orphaned at the age of fourteen, as his father died in 1727 at the age of forty-six and his mother died five years later.

In 1727, he graduated with a medical degree at the age of 18.

His son, Victor-Maurice, comte de Broglie ( 1647 – 1727 ), served under Condé, Turenne and other great commanders of the age of Louis XIV, becoming marechal de camp in 1676, lieutenant-general in 1688, and finally marshal of France in 1724.

In the modern popular mind, English art from about 1750 – 1790 — what is sometimes called the " classical age " of English painting — was dominated by the closely contemporary figures of Sir Joshua Reynolds ( 1723 – 1792 ), George Stubbs ( 1724 – 1806 ), and Thomas Gainsborough ( 1727 – 1788 ), with Joseph Wright of Derby ( 1734 – 1797 ) perhaps equally well-known.

He was overzealous in the persecution of the Jansenists, and, at the provincial synod which he held at Embrun from 16 August to 28 September 1727, he suspended Jean Soanen, Bishop of Senez, a prelate eighty years of age, who had appealed against the Bull Unigenitus.

" Soon, Menshikov was arrested ( 21 September 1727 ); but Peter only fell into the hands of the equally unscrupulous Prince Vasily Lukich Dolgorukov, who carried him away from Petersburg to Moscow.

Ignaz Schiffermüller ( born 2 October 1727 in Hellmonsödt ; died 21 June 1806 in Linz ) was an Austrian naturalist mainly interested in Lepidoptera.

He was the second son of Prosper Ferdinand, Count Fürstenberg, killed at the Landau on 21 November 1704 during the War of the Spanish Succession, and his wife Sophia, Countess Königsegg-Rothenfels ( 1674 – 1727 ).

In 1727 he inaugurated the famous Spanish Steps and founded the University of Camerino.

* Sir Isaac Newton ( 1642 – 1727 ) Lucasian professor of mathematics, Cambridge University ; author, ' Philosphiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica '.

* November 14 – Ivan Shuvalov, founder of the Moscow University ( b. 1727 )

* William Smith ( Episcopalian priest ) ( 1727 – 1803 ), First Provost of the University of Pennsylvania

* August Hermann Francke ( 1663 – 1727 ), Lutheran Pietist theologian at the University of Halle and founder of the internationally renowned Halle Orphan House complex.

With the death of William Croft in 1727, Greene became organist at the Chapel Royal, and in 1730 he became Professor of Music at Cambridge University.

* Paul Langford, A Polite and Commercial People: England 1727 – 1783 ( Oxford University Press, 1998 ).

Edward Finch, fifth son of the seventh Earl of Winchilsea and second Earl of Nottingham, sat as Member of Parliament for Cambridge University from 1727 to 1768.

The second son, Thomas Townshend ( 1701 – 1780 ), was member of parliament for the University of Cambridge from 1727 to 1774 ; his only son, Thomas Townshend ( 1733 – 1800 ), who was created Baron Sydney in 1783 and Viscount Sydney in 1789, was a secretary of state and Leader of the House of Commons from July 1782 to April 1783, and from December 1783 to June 1789 again a secretary of state, Sydney in New South Wales being named after him ; his grandson, John Robert Townshend ( 1805 – 1890 ), the 3rd viscount, was created Earl Sydney in 1874, the titles becoming extinct at his death.

* Ezra Stiles ( 1727 – 1795 )— President of Yale University.

* William Samuel Johnson ( 1727 – 1819 ), signer of the United States Constitution, first Senator for Connecticut, first President of Columbia University, born and died in Stratford.

William Samuel Johnson ( 1727 – 1819 ) was an early American statesman who was notable for signing the United States Constitution, for representing Connecticut in the United States Senate, and for serving as president of Columbia University.

From 1727 to 1729 he studied theology at the University of Graz.

He was treated as a member of the Duke's family, and was educated at the Wolfenbüttel Ritter-Akademie ( 1717 – 1721 ) and at the University of Helmstedt ( 1721 – 1727 ).

He then went on to the University of Halle, whose Law School he entered in 1727.

These include: Thomas Secker ( 1727 ), later the Archbishop of Canterbury ; Charles Thorp ( 1807 ) virtual founder and first warden of the University of Durham ; and The Hon.

* Mary Ellen Brown, ‘ Wardlaw, Elizabeth, Lady Wardlaw ( 1677 – 1727 )’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 25 Feb 2007

He began a degree course in medicine at St Andrew's University but interrupted his studies to visit the West Indies, returning circa 1727.

On 6 October 1727, he entered the University of Leyden to continue his studies under Boerhaave, graduating M. D.

The company was impressed with some ideas of the danger from Carolina, and when Perier came over as governor in 1727, he was given special instructions regarding the trade of the Mobile district.

* 1666 – William Wotton, English scholar ( d. 1727 )

* 1727 – Louise Élisabeth of France ( d. 1759 )

* 1727 – Princess Henriette of France ( d. 1752 )

* 1727 – Premiere of Johann Sebastian Bach's St Matthew Passion BWV 244b at the St. Thomas Church, Leipzig

It was totally unexpected, and it was only by extraordinary perseverance and perspicacity that Bradley was able to explain it in 1727.

On August 19, 1727, Bradley then embarked upon a further series of observations using a telescope of his own erected at the Rectory, Wanstead.

* 1666 – Johann Heinrich Buttstett, German organist and composer ( d. 1727 )

* 1727 – Michel Adanson, French botanist ( d. 1806 )

It was settled between 1725 and 1727 by Captain Ebenezer Eastman and others from Haverhill, Massachusetts.

In 1727 the first French commander, M. Le Grand, took charge of the island and established a rudimentary government thus making Dominica formally a colony of France.

Isaac Newton's ( 1642 – 1727 ) mathematical explanation of universal gravitation explained the behavior both of objects here on earth and of objects in the heavens in a way that promoted a worldview in which the natural universe is controlled by laws of nature.

* 1678 – William Croft, English composer ( d. 1727 )

Four thousand Whydahs, for example, were sacrificed when Dahomey conquered the Kingdom of Whydah in 1727.

He sat in the House of Lords as a Scottish Representative Peer from 1721 to 1727.

* 1727 – Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, Austrian scientist ( d. 1817 )

He declined the offer of the chair of philosophy in the university in 1723, but accepted, in 1727, the sinecure office of librarian to the city of his adoption.

* 1729-At the end of the Anglo-Spanish War of 1727 – 1729, the Treaty of Seville confirming all previous treaties ( including the Treaty of Utrecht ) allowed Great Britain to keep Menorca and Gibraltar.

* 1730-A Belgian Engineer, the Marquis of Verboom, Chief Engineer of the Spanish Royal Engineer Corps, who had taken part in the 1727 siege, arrived in San Roque commissioned by the Spanish government to design a line of fortifications across the isthmus.

He received critical musical training in Halle, Hamburg and Italy before settling in London ( 1712 ) and becoming a naturalised British subject in 1727.

Dutch scientist Herman Boerhaave had discovered this chemical as early as 1727.

Ashraf was able to secure peace with the Ottoman Empire in 1727, but the Russian Empire took advantage of the political unrest in Persia to seize land for themselves, limiting the amount of territory under Shah Mahmud's control.

A settlement of hussites in Herrnhut, Germany, in 1727 caused the emergence of the Moravian Church.