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What Happened In Year 1721?

• January 6, 1721 – The Committee of Inquiry on the South Sea Bubble publishes its findings.
• April 4, 1721 – Sir Robert Walpole enters office as the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom under King George I.

Who Were Born In The Year 1721?

• January 10, 1721 – Johann Philipp Baratier, German scholar (d. 1740)
• January 12, 1721 – Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick, Prussian general (d. 1792)
• January 21, 1721 – James Murray, British military officer, governor of Quebec (d. 1794)
• February 3, 1721 – Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz, Prussian general (d. 1773)
• February 6, 1721 – Christian Friedrich Heinecken, German child prodigy (d. 1725)
• February 13, 1721 – John Reid, British army general and composer (d. 1807)
• February 21, 1721 – John McKinly, American physician (d. 1796)
• March 19, 1721 – Tobias Smollett, Scottish novelist (d. 1771)
• April 11, 1721 – David Zeisberger, Moravian missionary (d. 1808)
• April 15, 1721 – Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, English military leader (d. 1765)
• July 9, 1721 – Johann Nikolaus Götz, German poet (d. 1781)
• July 14, 1721 – John Douglas, Scottish Anglican bishop and man of letters (d. 1807)
• August 4, 1721 – Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford, English politician (d. 1803)
• August 31, 1721 – George Hervey, 2nd Earl of Bristol, British statesman (d. 1775)
• September 9, 1721 – Fredrik Henrik af Chapman, Swedish naval architect and vice admiral (d. 1808)
• September 14, 1721 – Eliphalet Dyer, American statesman and judge (d. 1807)
• October 19, 1721 – Joseph de Guignes, French orientalist (d. 1800)
• November 9, 1721 – Mark Akenside, English poet and physician (d. 1770)
• November 22, 1721 – Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres, Swiss-born Canadian statesman (d. 1824)
• December 29, 1721 – Madame de Pompadour, mistress of King Louis XV of France (d. 1764)

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