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1723| 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. | | 1723 | Germany [chemistry] | Georg Ernst Stahl develops his phlogiston theory and discusses its concepts in his Fundamenta Chemiae Dogmaticae et Experimertalis. He theorizes that all combustible substances contain a material called phlogiston, which escapes during burning and is replaced by contact with combustible materials. | | 1723 | England [dictionaries and encyclopedias] | Chambers' Cyclopedia, one of the first encyclopedias and the result of many years work by the English encyclopedist Ephraim Chambers, is published. | | 1723 | North America [houses] | A house with running water is built for the first time in North America. It belongs to John Headly in Newport, Rhode Island. | | 25 February 1723 | England [births and deaths] | Christopher Wren, English architect, astronomer, and geometrician, who designed Saint Paul's Cathedral in London, England, and over 50 other London churches, and founded the Royal Society, dies in London, England (91). | | 5 June 1723 | Scotland [births and deaths] | Adam Smith, Scottish social philosopher known for his An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations on laissez-faire economics, born in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland (–1790). |
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