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Gottfried Heinrich Bach (born: 26 February 1724 – funeral: 12 February 1763) was a child of Johann Sebastian Bach and the firstborn son of his second wife Anna Magdalena Bach. He was born in Leipzig, where his parents had moved the year before his birth.
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February 5 – Mary Cowper, English diarist (born 1685) February 12 – Elkanah Settle, English poet and dramatist (born 1648) [16] March 19 – Johann Christian Thomae, German historian and biographer (born 1668) [17] July 11 – Delarivier Manley, writer, playwright and pamphleteer (born c. 1663) [18] August 15 – Manko, Japanese poet (year ...
1724 was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1724th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 724th year of the 2nd millennium, the 24th year of the 18th century, and the 5th year of the 1720s decade. As of the start of 1724, the ...
Joseph Blanchard (11 February 1704 – 7 April 1758) was born in Dunstable, New Hampshire (now Nashua) on February 11, 1704 to Capt. Joseph Blanchard and his wife Abiah Hassell. In 1724 he joined the New Hampshire Militia as a lieutenant and served in Capt. Eleazer Tyng 's Company.
Christopher Gadsden (February 16, 1724 – August 28, 1805) was an American politician who was the principal leader of the South Carolina Patriot movement during the American Revolution. He was a delegate to the Continental Congress , a brigadier general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War , Lieutenant Governor of ...
1 January – Charles Gildon, critic and dramatist (born c. 1665) 12 February – Elkanah Settle, writer (born 1648) [5] 21 May – Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, statesman (born 1661) 15 June – Henry Sacheverell, churchman and politician (born 1674) 29 October – William Wollaston, philosophical writer (born 1659) [6]
Peter was born in Jelgava (German: Mitau) as the oldest son of Ernst Johann von Biron, future Duke of Courland, and his wife Benigna von Trotha.From 1730 until 1740, he and his family lived in Moscow and St. Petersburg, where his father was a lover and favorite of Anna of Russia.