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| * [[March 30]] – [[Filippo Bonanni]], Italian Jesuit scholar (b. [[1638]]) | * [[March 30]] – [[Filippo Bonanni]], Italian Jesuit scholar (b. [[1638]]) | ||
| * [[May 29]] – [[Jean de La Chapelle]], French writer and dramatist (b. [[1651]]) | * [[May 29]] – [[Jean de La Chapelle]], French writer and dramatist (b. [[1651]]) | ||
| + | * [[June 2]] – [[Esther Vanhomrigh]], longtime lover and correspondent of Jonathan Swift. (d. 1723) | ||
| * [[July 28]] – [[Mariana Alcoforado]], ''Letters of a Portuguese Nun'' (b. [[1640]]) | * [[July 28]] – [[Mariana Alcoforado]], ''Letters of a Portuguese Nun'' (b. [[1640]]) | ||
| * [[August 26]] – [[Antonie van Leeuwenhoek]], Dutch scientist (b. [[1632]]) | * [[August 26]] – [[Antonie van Leeuwenhoek]], Dutch scientist (b. [[1632]]) | ||
| - | * [[September 19]] – [[Robert Sutton, 2nd Baron Lexinton]], English diplomat (b. [[1662]]) | ||
| - | * [[October 1]] – [[Frédéric Maurice Casimir de La Tour d'Auvergne]], French prince (b. [[1702]]) | ||
| - | * [[October 10]] – [[William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper]], [[Lord Chancellor|Lord Chancellor of England]] (b. c. [[1665]]) | ||
| - | * [[October 13]] – [[Praskovia Saltykova]], Russian tsarina (b. [[1664]]) | ||
| - | * [[October 19]] – [[Godfrey Kneller]], German-born artist (b. [[1646]]) | ||
| - | * [[October 28]] – [[Christopher Vane, 1st Baron Barnard]], English politician and peer (b. [[1653]]) | ||
| * [[October 31]] – [[Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany]] (b. [[1642]]) | * [[October 31]] – [[Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany]] (b. [[1642]]) | ||
| * [[November 19]] – [[Antoine Nompar de Caumont]], French courtier and statesman (b. [[1632]]) | * [[November 19]] – [[Antoine Nompar de Caumont]], French courtier and statesman (b. [[1632]]) | ||
| - | * [[December 1]] – [[Susanna Centlivre]], English dramatist, actress (b. [[1669]]) | ||
| * [[December 2]] – [[Philippe II, Duke of Orléans]], regent of France (b. [[1674]]) | * [[December 2]] – [[Philippe II, Duke of Orléans]], regent of France (b. [[1674]]) | ||
| - | * [[December 7]] – [[Jan Santini Aichel]], Czech architect (b. [[1677]]) | ||
| - | * [[December 20]] – [[Augustus Quirinus Rivinus]], German physician, botanist (b. [[1652]]) | ||
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| - | *[[June 2]] - [[Esther Vanhomrigh]] (c. 1688 – 2 June 1723), longtime lover and correspondent of Jonathan Swift. | ||
| - | * [[Antonie van Leeuwenhoek]], Dutch scientist and the first person to use a [[microscope]] to view bacteria ([[1632]] – [[1723]]) | ||
| - | * [[Christopher Wren]], English architect and scientist ([[1632]] – [[1723]]) | ||
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1723 (MDCCXXIII) is the 23rd year of the 18th century, and the 4th year of the 1720s decade.
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Events
- February 15 – King Louis XV of France attains his majority on his 13th birthday, bringing an end to the regency of his cousin Philippe II, Duke of Orléans.
- August 11 – The Ostend Company is chartered by merchants and shipowners to establish trade for the Austrian Netherlands in the East Indies and West Indies. Over the next two days, 54 major investors in Antwerp purchase the shares of stock in the company.
Art and culture
Literature
Fiction
Non-fiction
Visual art
Music
Architecture
Births
- February 21 – Louis-Pierre Anquetil, French historian (d. 1808)
- February 23 – Richard Price, Welsh philosopher (d. 1791)
- June 20 – Adam Ferguson, Scottish philosopher, historian (d. 1816)
- July 10 – William Blackstone, English jurist (d. 1780)
- July 11 – Jean-François Marmontel, French historian, writer (d. 1799)
- July 16 – Sir Joshua Reynolds, English painter (d. 1792)
- December 8 - Baron d'Holbach, French-German philosopher, author of The System of Nature (d. 1789)
- December 26 – Friedrich Melchior, baron von Grimm, German writer (d. 1807)
- Pierre Antoine Baudouin (1723-1769).
- Richard Price (February 23, 1723 – April 19, 1791), was a Welsh moral and political
Deaths
- February 23 – Anne Henriette of Bavaria, Duchess of Guise (b. 1648)
- February 25 – Sir Christopher Wren, English architect, astronomer, and mathematician (b. 1632)
- February 26 – Thomas d'Urfey, English writer (b. 1653)
- March 30 – Filippo Bonanni, Italian Jesuit scholar (b. 1638)
- May 29 – Jean de La Chapelle, French writer and dramatist (b. 1651)
- June 2 – Esther Vanhomrigh, longtime lover and correspondent of Jonathan Swift. (d. 1723)
- July 28 – Mariana Alcoforado, Letters of a Portuguese Nun (b. 1640)
- August 26 – Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch scientist (b. 1632)
- October 31 – Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1642)
- November 19 – Antoine Nompar de Caumont, French courtier and statesman (b. 1632)
- December 2 – Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, regent of France (b. 1674)
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