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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]
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]
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 ...
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.
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Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: September 18 – Matthew Prior (born 1664), English poet [6] (see "Works", above) February 24 – John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby (born 1648), English statesman and poet
The Fourth State: A History of Newspapers and of the liberty of the press vol.I. Londres: David Borgue, 1850. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Gordon, Thomas (d.1750)". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.