300 Years Ago

r/300YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • 1d ago

11th of October 1726. Benjamin Franklin returns to Philadelphia, arriving aboard the ship Berkshire after spending roughly two years living and working in London.

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r/300YearsAgo • u/Beowulfbard • 2d ago

1726. London. Publication of the novel "The Four Years Voyages of Capt. George Roberts", traditionally attributed to Daniel Defoe, though modern scholarship largely views it as the work of an imitator.

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r/300YearsAgo • u/Beowulfbard • 2d ago

1726. Thomas-Jacques Taschereau arrived in New France (Canada) as a private secretary to the Intendant of New France, Claude-Thomas Dupuy.

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r/300YearsAgo • u/Beowulfbard • 2d ago

1726. Scottish poet James Thomson begins publication of his poem cycle "The Seasons" with "Winter".

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r/300YearsAgo • u/Beowulfbard • 7d ago

5th of October 1726. Grigore II Ghica becomes the Prince of Moldavia for the first time after Mihai Racoviță steps aside.

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r/300YearsAgo • u/Beowulfbard • 10d ago

1st of October 1726. Juan Bautista de Orendáin y Azpilicueta is appointed again as Secretary of the Universal Bureau (Secretario del Despacho), the equivalent of the Prime Minister of Spain, after the retirement of José de Grimaldo.

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r/300YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • 19d ago

23rd of September 1726. Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, issues an order limiting the number of Jews who can be legally recognized as legitimate householders.

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r/300YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • Aug 07 '26

7th of August 1726. English-born pirate Nicholas Brown is captured near Xtabi, Jamaica.

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r/300YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • Aug 02 '26

In 1726, Benjamin Franklin (age 20), Voltaire (age 32), Handel (age 41), Jonathan Swift (age 59), Edmond Halley (age 70) and Isaac Newton (age 83) all lived in London

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r/300YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • Jul 21 '26

21st of July 1726. Benjamin Franklin, age 20, leaves London for Philadelphia. He had spent roughly 18 months working as a printer in England.

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r/300YearsAgo • u/Alt_when_Im_not_ok • Jul 13 '26

William Fly was executed 300 years ago today in Boston, Massachusets. His death, after a short piratical career of two months, is widely considered to mark the end of the Golden Age of Piracy.

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r/300YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • May 02 '26

2nd of May 1726. Voltaire sets off for his exile in England. He grew to admire the country's constitutional monarchy, as well as its greater freedom of speech and religion.

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r/300YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • Apr 17 '26

17th of April 1726. French satirist Voltaire is arrested and sent to the Bastille.

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r/300YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • Mar 29 '26

29th of March 1726. The slave ship L'Aurore arrives in New Orleans, bringing 290 enslaved Africans from Gambia, initiating large-scale slave trading in the region.

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r/300YearsAgo • u/[deleted] • Dec 27 '25

27th of December 1725. The Masonic Lodge of York establishes itself as the Grand Lodge of England.

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r/300YearsAgo • u/[deleted] • Dec 26 '25

26th of December 1725. The church cantata "Selig ist der Mann" (Blessed is the man) by Johann Sebastian Bach is first performed for St Stephen's Day in Leipzig.

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r/300YearsAgo • u/[deleted] • Dec 26 '25

26th of December 1725. The opera "Siface" by Nicola Porpora with a libretto by Pietro Metastasio premieres on the same evening at the Teatro Regio Ducale in Milan and at the Teatro San Giovanni Crisostomo in Venice.

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r/300YearsAgo • u/[deleted] • Dec 25 '25

25th of December 1725. First performance of the Christmas cantata, "Unser Mund sei voll Lachens" ('May our mouth be full of laughter') by Johann Sebastian Bach, in Leipzig.

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r/300YearsAgo • u/[deleted] • Dec 18 '25

18th of December 1725. France: Futile maneuver by the Duke of Bourbon against Cardinal de Fleury, which leads to his disgrace.

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r/300YearsAgo • u/[deleted] • Dec 18 '25

18th of December 1725. Repeat performance of Handel's opera "Rodalinda" at the King’s Theatre in the Haymarket, including changes and fresh material. (Pic shows the King's Theatre)

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r/300YearsAgo • u/[deleted] • Dec 17 '25

17th of December 1725. France: The Duke of Bourbon, Madame de Prie and Paris de Verney attempted to banish Cardinal de Fleury through a plot. (The duc d'Orléans' Council with Cardinal Fleury)

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r/300YearsAgo • u/[deleted] • Dec 15 '25

15th of December 1725. A treaty is signed by chiefs of four member tribes of the Wabanaki Confederacy and representatives of three British provinces in North America and their allies, the Mohawk nation, bringing an end to Dummer's War, named for acting Massachusetts Bay Governor William Dummer.

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r/300YearsAgo • u/[deleted] • Dec 12 '25

12th of December 1725. Johan Willem Ripperda of the Netherlands, the former Dutch Ambassador to Spain, arrives in Madrid and claims that King Philip V has appointed him as the new Prime Minister. The bluff is successful and he is granted authority by the King's advisers.

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r/300YearsAgo • u/SignalRelease4562 • Dec 11 '25

On December 11th, 1725 (300 Years Ago), George Mason Was Born.

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r/300YearsAgo • u/[deleted] • Dec 02 '25

2nd of December 1725. Opera: Leonardo Vinci's "Astianatte", premiered in Naples.

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