1721 Calendar
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1721 Historical Event(s)
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 On 1721?
January 21, 1721
– James Murray, British military officer, governor of Quebec (d. 1794)
February 3, 1721
– Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz, Prussian general (d. 1773)
March 19, 1721
– Tobias Smollett, Scottish novelist (d. 1771)
April 15, 1721
– Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, English military leader (d. 1765)
April 19, 1721
– Roger Sherman, American statesman and signer of the U.S. Declaration of Independence (d. 1793)
July 14, 1721
– John Douglas, Scottish Anglican bishop and man of letters (d. 1807)
August 31, 1721
– George Hervey, 2nd Earl of Bristol, British statesman (d. 1775)
September 14, 1721
– Eliphalet Dyer, American statesman and judge (d. 1807)
November 9, 1721
– Mark Akenside, English poet and physician (d. 1770)
November 22, 1721
– Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres, Swiss-born Canadian statesman (d. 1824)