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January 3 – Juan Núñez de la Peña, Spanish historian (born 1641) January 26 – Pierre Daniel Huet, French scholar and bishop (born 1630) June 18 – Charlwood Lawton, English Jacobite author (born 1660) August 13 – Jacques Lelong, French bibliographer (born 1665) September 18 – Matthew Prior, English poet and diplomat (born 1664) [8]
José de Azlor y Virto de Vera, Marquis of San Miguel de Aguayo and governor of Spanish Texas, establishes the fort of Presidio La Bahía at its original location, on the ruins of the failed French Fort Saint Louis. Regular mail service between London and New England is established. [6]
6 January – The Committee of Inquiry on the collapse of the South Sea Company publishes its findings.; 5 February – Lord Stanhope, chief minister, dies a day after collapsing while vigorously defending his government's conduct over the "South Sea Bubble" in Parliament.
Illustration: Five Nations "Indian sachems" meeting with N.Y. Gov. Burnet give him beaver for his new wife (Note: racial stereotypes) [12] With French favouring might over treaty right, Britain must make itself "considerable" in American colonies and build frontier forts [13]
Antoine Philippe de Marigny was born in Mobile in 1721, among the earliest French colonists born there. His parents were François Philippe de Marigny de Mandeville, a native of Bayeux who migrated to Canada in 1709 and then to Louisiana by 1714; and Madeleine le Maire.
Schlegel was born in Meißen, Saxony on 17 September 1721, and was the brother of Johann Elias Schlegel (1719–1749) and Johann Heinrich Schlegel [] (1726–1780). [1] His parents was Collegiate Syndicate Johann Friedrich Schlegel [] (1689–1748) and his wife Maria Rebecca Schlegel, nee Wilcke (1695–1736), daughter of Superintendent Georg Leberecht Wilcke.
The Jamaica Letter or (or Letter from Jamaica or Carta de Jamaica, also Contestación de un Americano Meridional a un caballero de esta isla "Answer from a southern American to a gentleman of this island") was a document written by Simón Bolívar in Jamaica in 1815. It was a response to a letter from Jamaican merchant Henry Cullen, in which ...
1721 in economic history (1 C) 1721 in education (1 C) F. Fiction set in 1721 (2 P) H. ... Pages in category "1721" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of ...