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    Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1721. 1721 (MDCCXXI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting...
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  • The year 1721 in science and technology involved some significant events. The use of ether is developed as a pain-killer. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu introduces...
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    The Great Northern War (1700–1721) was a conflict in which a coalition led by the Tsardom of Russia successfully contested the supremacy of the Swedish...
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    History of Russia (1721–96) is the history of Russia during the Era of Russian palace revolutions and the Age of Catherine the Great. It began with creation...
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    The Darwin–Wedgwood family are members of two connected families, each noted for particular prominent 18th-century figures: Erasmus Darwin, a physician...
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    The history of Sweden from 1772 to 1809 is better known as the Gustavian era of Kings Gustav III and Gustav IV, as well as the reign of King Charles XIII...
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    the inland, during the finishing years of the Great Northern War in 1719–1721. The purpose was to pillage, sack, and burn to force the Swedish regime to...
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  • This article is a summary of the major literary events and publications of 1721. February – Joseph A. Hall's book, A Sober Reply to Mr. Higgs' Merry Arguments...
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    Events from the year 1721 in Canada. French Monarch: Louis XV British and Irish Monarch: George I Governor General of New France: Philippe de Rigaud Vaudreuil...
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  • Foudre on the origins of fossils, prehistoric stone tools and meteorites. 1721: Nicholas Revett (d. 1804) 1726: October 12 - Pierre Henri Larcher (d. 1812)...
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    the government of the Kingdom of Great Britain for over twenty years from 1721, to be the first prime minister. Walpole is also the longest-serving British...
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  • The 1721 Battle of Terki was a battle between Chechen-Kumyk forces led by the princes Aidemir Bardykhanov and Musal Chopalov against the Russian fortress...
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    Sevenoaks School is a highly selective coeducational English public school (a long-established fee-charging boarding school for pupils aged 11/13–18) with...
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    (Swedish: Svenska Livland) was a dominion of the Swedish Empire from 1629 until 1721. The territory, which constituted the southern part of modern Estonia (including...
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    NGC 1721 is a lenticular galaxy (S0) located in the constellation Eridanus. It was discovered on the 10th of Nov 1885 by Edward Emerson Barnard. This galaxy...
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  • Johann Christoph Bach (16 June 1671 – 22 February 1721) was a musician of the Bach family. He was the eldest of the brothers of Johann Sebastian Bach who...
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  • Special-Purpose IP Address Registries. IETF. doi:10.17487/RFC6890. ISSN 2070-1721. BCP 153. RFC 6890. Best Common Practice. Obsoletes RFC 4773, 5156, 5735...
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    Russian Empire (category 1721 establishments in Russia)
    that spanned most of northern Eurasia from its proclamation in November 1721 until its dissolution in March 1917. At its height in the late 19th century...
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  • The year 1721 in music involved some significant events. December 3 – Johann Sebastian Bach marries his second wife, Anna Magdalena. Antonio Maria Bononcini...
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  • The Nalchik War or Crimean–Circassian War of 1720–1721 was a military conflict between the Crimean Khanate and the Kabardian Principality. The Crimean...
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  • presided over the government of England, and after 1707, Great Britain, before 1721. Chief ministers were usually one of the great officers of state, but it...
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  • Schemes. Internet Engineering Task Force. doi:10.17487/RFC7595. ISSN 2070-1721. BCP 35. RFC 7595. Best Current Practice. Updated by RFC 8615. Obsoletes...
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    Kingdom since 1721. The prime minister with the longest single term was Robert Walpole, lasting 20 years and 315 days from 3 April 1721 until 11 February...
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    James Craggs the Elder (1657 – 16 March 1721), of Jermyn Street, Westminster and Charlton, Lewisham, Kent, was an English financier and Whig politician...
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    Prince of all Russia, was the title of the Russian monarch from 1547 to 1721. During this period, the state was a tsardom. The first Russian monarch to...
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  • Thomas Powell (1641–1721/22) was a landowner in the middle section of Long Island in the Province of New York during the colonial period of American history...
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    1682, and the first Emperor of all Russia, known as Peter the Great, from 1721 until his death in 1725. He reigned jointly with his half-brother Ivan V...
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    Russian monarch from 1721 to 1917. The title originated in connection with Russia's victory in the Great Northern War (1700–1721) and appeared as an adaptation...
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    Samuel Hopkins (September 17, 1721 – December 20, 1803) was an American Congregationalist theologian of the late colonial era of the United States. Hopkinsian...
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  • Events from the year 1721 in Scotland. Secretary of State for Scotland: John Ker, 1st Duke of Roxburghe Lord Advocate – Robert Dundas Solicitor General...
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