Events 1722
1 events
1.1 january–june
1.2 july–december
1.3 date unknown
events
january–june
january 27 – moll flanders published.
march 8 – battle of gulnabad in persia: pashtun people of afghanistan, led mahmud hotak, decisively defeat forces of persian safavid dynasty, precipitating fall.
april 5 (easter sunday) – dutch admiral jacob roggeveen lands on easter island.
may 5 – pennsylvania colony enacts statute, requiring persons importing person convicted of sodomy, pay £5 each such incoming person.
june 2 – wapping, black male slave owned mr. heale, hanged murder in colony of virginia.
july–december
july: start of russo-persian war.
july – russo-persian war (1722–23) begins, peter great s persian campaign.
july 25 – father rale s war (1722–25) begins along maine , massachusetts border.
august 15 – william battin, 17, hanged arson , murder in colony of pennsylvania.
october 23 – six-month-long siege of isfahan ends, when safavid capital isfahan capitulates afghan rebels. safavid sultan husayn abdicates, , acknowledges mahmud hotak new shah of persia.
december 20 – after longest reign chinese emperor in history (61 years), kangxi emperor dies, , succeeded son yinzhen yongzheng emperor.
date unknown
the silence dogood letters appear, written benjamin franklin.
edenton incorporated county seat of chowan county, north carolina. governor , assembly of north carolina move edenton, making de facto capital of north carolina until 1746, when government moved new bern.
peter great of russia creates table of ranks.
a small group of bohemian brethren (the hidden seed ) northern moravia allowed settle in new village, herrnhut, on berthelsdorf estate of pietist count nicolaus zinzendorf in upper lusatia (saxony), forming herrnhuter brüdergemeine, seed of moravian church s renewal.
the first public theatre in denmark, lille grønnegade theatre, founded in copenhagen.
modern music theory finds definition, in jean-philippe rameau s traité de l harmonie réduite à ses principes naturels ( treatise on harmony ), published in paris.
the brown bess musket enters service of british army.
johann sebastian bach composes well-tempered clavier.
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