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Year '''1721''' ('''[[Roman numerals|MDCCXXI]]''') was a [[common year starting on Wednesday]] (link will display the full calendar) of the [[Gregorian calendar]] (or a [[common year starting on Sunday]] of the 11-day slower [[Julian calendar]]).
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== Events of 1721 ==
[[Image:Robertwalpole.jpg|thumb|105px|right| [[April 4]]: [[Robert Walpole|Walpole]].]]
===January - June===
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* [[May 8]] - [[Pope Innocent XIII]] succeeds [[Pope Clement XI]] as the 244th [[pope]].
* [[April 4]] - [[Robert Walpole]] becomes the first prime minister of Britain.
===July - December===
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* [[September 10]] - [[Treaty of Nystad]] is signed, bringing an end to the [[Great Northern War]].
* [[November 2]] - [[Peter I of Russia|Peter I]] is proclaimed Emperor of [[All the Russias]].
===Undated===
* [[Johann Sebastian Bach]] composes the [[Brandenburg concertos|Brandenburg Concertos]].
* Regular postal mail between Long and New England is established.<ref name="Clear">{{cite book |author=Clear, Todd R., Cole, George F., Resig, Michael D.|year=2006 |title=American Corrections Seventh Edition |publisher=Thompson}}</ref>
==Ongoing Events==
*[[Great Northern War]] ([[1700]]-1721).
==Births==
{{Year in other calendars|japanese=[[Kyoho|Kyōhō]] 5 – 6}}
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* [[January 10]] - [[Johann Philipp Baratier]], German scholar (died [[1740]])
* [[February 3]] - [[Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz]], Prussian general (died [[1773]])
* [[February 21]] - [[John McKinly]], American physician and President of Delaware (died [[1796]])
* [[March 19]] - [[Tobias Smollett]], Scottish physician and author (died [[1771]])
* [[April 3]] - [[Roger Sherman]], American signer of the Declaration of Independence (died [[1793]])
* [[April 11]] - [[David Zeisberger]], Moravian missionary (died [[1808]])
* [[April 15]] - [[Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland]], English military leader (died [[1765]])
* [[April 19]] - [[Roger Sherman]], signer of the American Declaration of Independence (died [[1803]])
* [[July 9]] - [[Johann Nikolaus Götz]], German poet (died [[1781]])
* [[July 14]] - [[John Douglas (bishop)|John Douglas]], Scottish Anglican bishop and man of letters (died [[1807]])
* [[August 4]] - [[Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford]], English politician (died [[1803]])
* [[August 31]] - [[George Hervey, 2nd Earl of Bristol]], British statesman (died [[1775]])
* [[September 14]] - [[Eliphalet Dyer]], American statesman and judge (died [[1807]])
* [[October 19]] - [[Joseph de Guignes]], French orientalist (died [[1800]])
* [[November 9]] - [[Mark Akenside]], English poet and physician (died [[1770]])
* [[November 22]] - [[Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres]], Swiss-born cartographer and Canadian statesman (died [[1824]])
* [[December 6]] - [[James Elphinston]], Scottish philologist (died [[1809]])
* [[December 6]] - [[Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes]], French statesman (died [[1794]])
* [[December 27]] - [[François Hemsterhuis]], Dutch philosopher (died [[1790]])
* [[December 29]] - [[Marquise de Pompadour]], mistress of King [[Louis XV of France]] (died [[1764]])
: ''See also [[:Category: 1721 births]].''
==Deaths==
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* [[February 16]] - [[James Craggs the Younger]], English politician (born [[1686]])
* [[February 24]] - [[John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby]], English statesman and poet (born [[1648]])
* [[March 16]] - [[James Craggs the Elder]], English politician (born [[1657]])
* [[March 19]] - [[Pope Clement XI]] (born [[1649]])
* [[April 14]] - [[Michel Chamillart]], French statesman (born [[1652]])
* [[July 8]] - [[Elihu Yale]], American benefactor of Yale University (born [[1649]])
* [[July 18]] - [[Antoine Watteau]], French painter (born [[1684]])
* [[August 3]] - [[Grinling Gibbons]], Dutch-born woodcarver (born [[1648]])
* [[August 13]] - [[Jacques Lelong]], French bibliographer (born [[1665]])
* [[September 8]]
**[[Michael Brokoff]], Czech sculptor (born [[1686]])
**[[Henri Arnaud]], French pastor and leader of the Waldenses (born [[1641]])
* [[September 11]] - [[Rudolf Jakob Camerarius]], German botanist and physician (born [[1665]])
* [[September 18]] - [[Matthew Prior]], British poet and diplomat (born [[1664]])
* [[September 20]] - [[Thomas Doggett]], Irish actor (born c.[[1670]])
* [[October 11]] - [[Edward Colston]], English merchant and philanthropist (born [[1636]])
* [[December 13]] - [[Alexander Selkirk]], Scottish sailor (born [[1676]])
* [[December 17]] - [[Richard Lumley, 1st Earl of Scarbrough]], English statesman (born [[1650]])
* Sultan Abdullah Khan Abdali, Persian Governor of Herat, Shah of Herat (born [[1670]])
: ''See also [[:Category: 1721 deaths]].''
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