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1726| 1716–1745 | Japan [political events] | Yoshimune, of the Tokugawa house of Kii, succeeds Ienobu as shogun (military ruler) of Japan. | | 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. | | c. 1725–c. 1740 | Spain [sports] | Bullfighting grows in popularity in Spain, with Francisco Romero becoming the first famous matador. | | 1726 | Ireland, England [literature and language] | The Irish churchman and writer Jonathan Swift publishes the prose satire Gulliver's Travels: Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, anonymously. | | 17 October 1726 | Habsburg Monarchy, Prussia [treaties] | By the Treaty of Wusterhausen with the Habsburg Monarchy, Prussia leaves the alliance of Herrenhausen (of 23 August 1725) and guarantees the Pragmatic Sanction, which sets out the right of Maria Theresa of Austria to succeed her father, the Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI, as ruler of all the Habsburg domains. Prussia undertakes to aid Austria with 10,000 troops in any resulting war. |
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