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1724| 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. | | 1724 | UK [architecture] | Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, England, designed by the English architects John Vanbrugh and Nicholas Hawksmoor, is completed. It marks one of the highpoints of English secular baroque architecture. | | 1724 | England [thought and scholarship] | English antiquarian William Stukeley publishes Stonehenge: A Temple Restored to the British Druids, one of the earliest studies of Stonehenge. His works mark the growing interest in Druids and in Celtic myths. | | 22 April 1724 | Prussia [births and deaths] | Immanuel Kant, German philosopher whose work had a major influence on subsequent philosophy, born in Königsberg, Prussia (–1804). | | 29 May 1724 - 21 February 1730 | Italy [elections] | Pietro Francesco Vincenzo Maria Orsini, eldest son of the Duke of Gravina, is elected Pope Benedict XIII, after the death on 7 March of Pope Innocent XIII. |
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