26th June » After a siege and bombardment by cannon, Baku surrenders to the Russia called Russians.
17th August » Ioan Giurgiu Patachi becomes List of Major Archbishops of Făgăraş and Alba Iulia named Bishop of Făgăraş and is festively installed in his position at the St. Nicolas Cathedral in Făgăraş, after being formally confirmed earlier by Pope Clement XI.
6th October » Benjamin Franklin http://www.ushistory.org/franklin/essays/franklinarrives.htm arrives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at the age of 17.
Famous Birthdays in 1723
12th January » Samuel Langdon, American clergyman and educator (d. 1797)
17th February » Tobias Mayer, German astronomer (d. 1762)
21st February » Louis-Pierre Anquetil, French historian (d. 1808)
23rd February » Richard Price, Welsh philosopher (d. 1791)
24th February » John Burgoyne, English general (d. 1792)
5th March » Princess Mary of Great Britain (d. 1773)
22nd March » Charles Carroll (barrister) named Charles Carroll, American lawyer and politician (d. 1783)
27th March » James Madison, Sr., American colonel and planter (d. 1801)
20th April » Cornelius Harnett, American merchant, farmer, and politician (d. 1781)
25th April » Giovanni Marco Rutini, Italian composer (d. 1797)
30th April » Mathurin Jacques Brisson, French zoologist and philosopher (d. 1806)
3rd June » Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, Italian physician (d. 1788)
5th June » Adam Smith, Scottish economist and philosopher (d. 1790)
11th June » Johann Georg Palitzsch, German astronomer (d. 1788)
20th June » Adam Ferguson, Scottish philosopher and historian (d. 1816)
20th June » Theophilus Lindsey, English clergyman and theologian (d. 1808)
1st July » Pedro Rodríguez, Conde de Campomanes, Spanish politician (d. 1802)
10th July » William Blackstone, English jurist and politician (d. 1780)
11th July » Jean-François Marmontel, French historian and author (d. 1799)
16th July » Joshua Reynolds, English painter (d. 1792)
11th September » Johann Bernhard Basedow, German author and educator (d. 1790)
4th October » Nikolaus Poda von Neuhaus, German entomologist (d. 1798)
8th November » John Byron, English admiral and politician, 24th List of lieutenant governors of Newfoundland and Labrador or Commodore Governor of Newfoundland (d. 1786)
9th November » Anna Amalia, Abbess of Quedlinburg (d. 1787)
30th November » William Livingston, American lawyer and politician, 1st Governor of New Jersey (d. 1790)
22nd December » Carl Friedrich Abel, German viol player and composer (d. 1787)
26th December » Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm, German-French author and playwright (d. 1807)
Famous Deaths in History for 1723
2nd February » Antonio Maria Valsalva, Italian anatomist (b. 1666)
31st March » Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon, English-American politician, 14th List of colonial governors of New York called Colonial Governor of New York (b. 1661)
11th April » John Robinson (bishop of London) named John Robinson, English bishop (b. 1650)
11th May » Jean Galbert de Campistron, French playwright (b. 1656)
14th July » Claude Fleury, French historian (b. 1640)
26th July » Robert Bertie, 1st Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (b. 1660)
10th August » Guillaume Dubois, French cardinal and politician (b. 1656)
17th August » Joseph Bingham, English scholar and academic (b. 1668)
23rd August » Increase Mather, American minister and author (b. 1639)
26th August » Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch microscopist and biologist (b. 1632)
10th October » William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper, English politician, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1665)
19th October » Godfrey Kneller, German-English painter (b. 1646)
1st December » Susanna Centlivre, English actress and playwright (b. 1667)
2nd December » Philippe II, Duke of Orléans (b. 1674)
7th December » Jan Santini Aichel, Czech architect, designed the Pilgrimage Church of Saint John of Nepomuk and Karlova Koruna Chateau (b. 1677)
20th December » Augustus Quirinus Rivinus, German physician and botanist (b. 1652)