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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]
Born in Quebec City in 1721, Chaussegros was the son of Gaspard-Joseph Chaussegros de Léry and his wife Marie-Renée, daughter of Captain René Legardeur de Beauvais (1660–1742), holder of the Grand Cross of the Order of Saint-Louis. [3] His father served as an engineer for the French in Quebec.
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]
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 ...
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 ...
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]
He was Chief Justice of Jamaica from 1698 to 1703 and Governor from 1718 to 1722. [1]In his capacity as Governor during the Golden Age of Piracy he hunted down or tried many pirates, among them "Calico Jack" Rackham, Anne Bonny, Mary Read, Robert Deal, [2] Captain Thompson, [3] Nicholas Brown, and Charles Vane.
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.