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1721 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1721st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 721st year of the 2nd millennium, the 21st year of the 18th century, and the 2nd year of the 1720s decade. As of the start of 1721, the ...
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.
John Sheffield, Duke of Buckingham (died 1721) – The Works of the most noble John Sheffield, late Duke of Buckingham, published by His Grace in his life time; John Strype – Ecclesiastical Memorials; Emanuel Swedenborg – Prodromus principiorum rerum naturalium; Jonathan Swift. The Bubble; A Letter to a Young Gentleman, Lately Enter'd into ...
April 18 - Captain Thomas Anstis with 70 men and a brigantine deserts Bartholomew Roberts to start his own piratical career. June 13 - George Lowther leads a mutiny aboard the Gambia Castle, renames her the Happy Delivery, and draws up articles of piracy for his crew.
The 1721 papal conclave, convoked after the death of Pope Clement XI, elected Cardinal Michelangelo de' Conti, who took the name of Innocent XIII. Divisions in the College of Cardinals [ edit ]
1721 in military history (2 C, 1 P) P. 1721 in politics (4 C, 1 P) R. ... Pages in category "1721" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.
Emblematical Print on the South Sea Scheme (also known as The South Sea Scheme) is an early print by William Hogarth, created in 1721 and widely published from 1724.It caricatures the financial speculation, corruption and credulity that caused the South Sea Bubble in England in 1720–21.
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]