r/300YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • 6h ago
28th of October 1726. Gulliver's Travels by Irish writer Jonathan Swift is first published in London.
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r/300YearsAgo • u/Beowulfbard • 12h ago
27th of October 1726. Ireland: Rev. Dr. Caleb Threlkeld publishes "Synopsis Stirpium Hibernicarum .....Dispositarum sive Commentatio de Plantis Indigenis praesertim Dublinensibus instituta" in Dublin, the first flora of Ireland.
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r/300YearsAgo • u/Beowulfbard • 12h ago
27th of October 1726. J. S. Bach leads the first performance of "Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen", BWV 56, one of the few works he calls a cantata.
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r/300YearsAgo • u/Beowulfbard • 1d ago
26th of October 1726. Sweden: Women are formally allowed employment at the "Kungliga Hovkapellet" ("The Royal Court Orchestra"), the first officially employed females being Judith Fischer and Sophia Schröder.
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r/300YearsAgo • u/Beowulfbard • 3d ago
24th of October 1726. Ratification of the Treaty of Alliance and Subsidy between Bavaria, Cologne and the (Holy Roman) Emperor, signed at Vienna, 1 September 1726.
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r/300YearsAgo • u/Beowulfbard • 7d ago
20th of October 1726. England: Dedication of St Martin-in-the-Fields church in London as designed by James Gibbs.
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r/300YearsAgo • u/Beowulfbard • 10d ago
17th of October 1726. Treaty of Wusterhausen: Prussia guarantees the Pragmatic Sanction and promises to help Austria in the event of war.
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r/300YearsAgo • u/Beowulfbard • 11d ago
1726. Morgan Morgan traditionally was credited with being the first white settler in West Virginia. (Though this claim and the date is disputed).
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r/300YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • 17d ago
11th of October 1726. Benjamin Franklin returns to Philadelphia, arriving aboard the ship Berkshire after spending roughly two years living and working in London.
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r/300YearsAgo • u/Beowulfbard • 18d ago
1726. London. Publication of the novel "The Four Years Voyages of Capt. George Roberts", traditionally attributed to Daniel Defoe, though modern scholarship largely views it as the work of an imitator.
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r/300YearsAgo • u/Beowulfbard • 18d ago
1726. Thomas-Jacques Taschereau arrived in New France (Canada) as a private secretary to the Intendant of New France, Claude-Thomas Dupuy.
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r/300YearsAgo • u/Beowulfbard • 18d ago
1726. Scottish poet James Thomson begins publication of his poem cycle "The Seasons" with "Winter".
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r/300YearsAgo • u/Beowulfbard • 22d ago
5th of October 1726. Grigore II Ghica becomes the Prince of Moldavia for the first time after Mihai Racoviță steps aside.
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r/300YearsAgo • u/Beowulfbard • 26d ago
1st of October 1726. Juan Bautista de Orendáin y Azpilicueta is appointed again as Secretary of the Universal Bureau (Secretario del Despacho), the equivalent of the Prime Minister of Spain, after the retirement of José de Grimaldo.
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r/300YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • Sep 23 '26
23rd of September 1726. Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, issues an order limiting the number of Jews who can be legally recognized as legitimate householders.
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r/300YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • Aug 07 '26
7th of August 1726. English-born pirate Nicholas Brown is captured near Xtabi, Jamaica.
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r/300YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • Aug 02 '26
In 1726, Benjamin Franklin (age 20), Voltaire (age 32), Handel (age 41), Jonathan Swift (age 59), Edmond Halley (age 70) and Isaac Newton (age 83) all lived in London
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r/300YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • Jul 21 '26
21st of July 1726. Benjamin Franklin, age 20, leaves London for Philadelphia. He had spent roughly 18 months working as a printer in England.
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r/300YearsAgo • u/Alt_when_Im_not_ok • Jul 13 '26
William Fly was executed 300 years ago today in Boston, Massachusets. His death, after a short piratical career of two months, is widely considered to mark the end of the Golden Age of Piracy.
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r/300YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • May 02 '26
2nd of May 1726. Voltaire sets off for his exile in England. He grew to admire the country's constitutional monarchy, as well as its greater freedom of speech and religion.
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r/300YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • Apr 17 '26
17th of April 1726. French satirist Voltaire is arrested and sent to the Bastille.
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r/300YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • Mar 29 '26
29th of March 1726. The slave ship L'Aurore arrives in New Orleans, bringing 290 enslaved Africans from Gambia, initiating large-scale slave trading in the region.
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r/300YearsAgo • u/[deleted] • Dec 27 '25
27th of December 1725. The Masonic Lodge of York establishes itself as the Grand Lodge of England.
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r/300YearsAgo • u/[deleted] • Dec 26 '25
26th of December 1725. The church cantata "Selig ist der Mann" (Blessed is the man) by Johann Sebastian Bach is first performed for St Stephen's Day in Leipzig.
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