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1722| 1689–1724 | UK [horse-racing] | The Byerley Turk, the Darley Arabian, and the Godolphin Arab, the horses from which all modern thoroughbreds are descended in the male line, are imported to England from the Middle East and north Africa. | | 1716–1745 | Japan [political events] | Yoshimune, of the Tokugawa house of Kii, succeeds Ienobu as shogun (military ruler) of Japan. | | 8 May 1721 - 7 March 1724 | Italy [Catholicism] | Following the death of Pope Clement XI, and after a long and contentious conclave, Michelangelo dei Conti, son of the Duke of Poli, near Palestrina, Italy, is unanimously elected pope as Innocent XIII. | | 1722 | England [literature and language] | The English writer Daniel Defoe publishes the partly factual A Journal of the Plague Year and the novel Moll Flanders. | | 16 June 1722 | England, France [births and deaths] | John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, English general famed for his victories over the French at Blenheim (1704), Ramillies (1706), and Oudenaarde (1708), dies in Windsor, England (72). | | September 1722 | Afghanistan, Persia, Safavid Empire [wars] | Afghan forces defeat the demoralized Safavid Persian army of Shah Hussein at Gulnabad, central Persia, after which Mir Mahmud, the Afghan ruler of Kandahar, takes Isfahan and becomes shah of Persia. |
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