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January – Andrew Michael Ramsay goes to Rome to tutor the two sons of James Francis Edward Stuart, Jacobite pretender to the British throne. [1]August – Thomas Longman establishes the Longman publishing house in London.
Blenheim Palace completed.. 20 February – Giulio Cesare in Egitto, an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel, is premiered in London. [2]6 April – Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne becomes Secretary of State for the Southern Department; Henry Pelham becomes Secretary at War.
1724 was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1724th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 724th year of the 2nd millennium, the 24th year of the 18th century, and the 5th year of the 1720s decade. As of the start of 1724, the ...
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To resolve the question of a land bridge, Peter the Great sent in 1719 the geodesists Iwan Jewreinow (1694–1724) and Fjodor Luschin (died 1727) to the easternmost reaches of his empire. The expedition was unsuccessful, at least as to the land bridge question. In 1724, Peter gave the same task to another expedition, the First Kamchatka ...
An Act for continuing the several Annuities of Eighty-eight Thousand Seven Hundred and Fifty-one Pounds Seven Shillings and Ten Pence Halfpenny, and One Hundred Thousand Pounds, to the Bank of England, until Midsummer One Thousand Seven Hundred Twenty-seven; and from thence, for reducing the same to Seventy-one Thousand and One Pounds Two ...
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