Literature year 1724
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Overview of the literary years
Further events
Events
- January 28 : The Russian Academy of Sciences and today's St. Petersburg State University , the first university in Russia , are founded by Peter I by ukase with headquarters in St. Petersburg .
- April 1 : Jonathan Swift publishes Drapiers Letters .
- Johann Christoph Sauer (1695–1757) emigrated to America, where he later published the first Bible in German.
- The Patriot , an important moral weekly , appears in the first year in Hamburg.
- L'indiscret , a comedy by Voltaire , is created.
Books
- Aurelius Augustinus “Deß heil. Augustini's great church teacher, heavenly contemplations, or secret conversation with God, and devout manual booklet even delicious. u. ungl. Gems d. divine Dear, in 3 little books, to be cherished cheaply by all believers in Christ, and to acquire"
- Ludwig Babenstuber "Philosophia Thomistica Salisburgensis, sive cursus philosophicus secundum doctrinam D. Thomae Aquinatis doctoris angelici"
- Georg Bernhard Bilfinger "Specimen doctrinae veterum Sinarum" [characteristics of the teachings of the ancient Chinese] the most comprehensive overall presentation of Chinese philosophy to date
- Dietrich Gotthard Eckard "Clear and thorough explanation about Joh. Schilteri institutiones iuris canonici"
- Johann Andreas Fabricius “Philosophical Oratorio. That is: sensible instructions for learned and gallant eloquence "
- Wilhelm Fesenmayr "Contemplation and exercise book, for the spiritual, God-betrothed Closter virgins when they want to study, or a spiritual wasteland and eight-day gathering of the spirit want to employ"
- Jacob Leupold “Theatrum Machinarum Hydrotechnicarum. Show place of water construction art "
- Jacob Leupold “Theatrum Machinarum Hydraulicarum, or: Show place of the water arts. Part 1."
- Torquato Tasso "Jerusalem delivrée"
- Christoph Thieber " Harbinger of a German Lexici Etymologici"
- Samuel Werenfels "Dissertationes de logomachiis eruditorum et de meteoris orationis"
- Christian Wolff "De differentia nexus rerum sapientis et fatalis necessitatis"
- Christian Wolff "Monitum ad commentationem luculentam de differentia nexus rerum sapientis et fatalis necessitatis"
theatre
- January 14th : World premiere of the drama Il Vespasiano by Attilio Ariosti at the King's Theater in London.
- February 20 : World premiere of the opera Giulio Cesare by George Frideric Handel at King's Theater , London.
- April 7th : The world premiere of the St. John Passion by Johann Sebastian Bach takes place on Good Friday in the Nikolaikirche in Leipzig.
- April 18 : World premiere of the opera Calfurnia by Giovanni Bononcini at King's Theater in London.
- August 28 : World premiere of the opera Andromaca by Antonio Caldara at the Teatro della Favorita in Vienna
- October 31 : World premiere of the opera Tamerlano by Georg Friedrich Händel at King's Theater , London
- November 4th : World premiere of the opera Gianguir, imperatore del Mogol by Antonio Caldara at the Hoftheater in Vienna
- December 9 : Premiere of Colley Cibbers (1671–1757) Caesar in Egypt
Born
- January 7 : Friedrich Wilhelm Pestel , legal scholar († 1805 )
- January 19 : Dai Chen , Chinese scholar († 1777 )
- February 16 : Christian Ludwig Stieglitz , German lawyer, councilor and mineral collector († 1772 )
- March 12 : Benedict Strauch , German educator and Catholic theologian († 1803 )
- March 18 : Dionysius van de Wijnpersse , Dutch Reformed theologian and philosopher († 1808 )
- April 22 : Immanuel Kant , German philosopher († 1804 )
- July 2 : Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock , German author and poet († 1803 )
- July 18 : Maria Antonia von Bayern , art patron and composer, painter and poet († 1780 )
- August 4th : John Mainwaring , English theologian and first biographer of the composer Georg Friedrich Händel, thus founder of the literary genre of musicians' biography († 1807 )
- August 25 : George Stubbs , English painter and scientist († 1806 )
- August 29 : Giambattista Casti , Italian poet and satirist († 1803 )
- September 11th : Johann Bernhard Basedow , German educator and writer († 1790 )
- September 27 : Anton Friedrich Büsching , German geographer († 1793 )
- October 17 : Johann Siegfried Hufnagel , German pastor and entomologist († 1795 )
- November 18 : Johannes Daniël van Lennep , Dutch philologist († 1771 )
- December 13 : Franz Ulrich Theodor Aepinus , astronomer, mathematician, physicist and natural philosopher († 1802 )
- December 20 : Johann Nikolaus Seip , German Lutheran theologian († 1789 )
- December 24th : Johann Conrad Ammann , Swiss doctor, natural history and art collector († 1811 )
- December 25th : John Michell , English natural philosopher and geologist († 1793 )
Died
- July 1 : Johann Baptist Homann , German cartographer, publisher and engraver (* 1664 )
- July 11th : Mary De la Riviere Manley , English writer (* 1663 )
- October 18 : Johann Osiander , German philologist, diplomat and Lutheran theologian (* 1657 )
- October 29 : William Wollaston , English philosopher (* 1659 )
