1723
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1723 (MDCCXXIII) is the 23rd year of the 18th century, and the 4th year of the 1720s decade.
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Events
- February 15 – King Louis XV of France attains his majority on his 13th birthday, bringing an end to the regency of his cousin Philippe II, Duke of Orléans.
- August 11 – The Ostend Company is chartered by merchants and shipowners to establish trade for the Austrian Netherlands in the East Indies and West Indies. Over the next two days, 54 major investors in Antwerp purchase the shares of stock in the company.
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Art and culture
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Literature
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Fiction
- Thomas-Simon Gueullette – Les Aventures merveilleuses du mandarin Fum-Hoam, contes chinois (The Transmigrations of the Mandarin Fum-Hoam (Chinese Tales))
- Eliza Haywood – Idalia: Or, the Unfortunate Mistress. A Novel. Written by Mrs. Eliza Haywood
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Non-fiction
- Bernard de Mandeville – A Search into the Nature of Society
- John Nott – The Cooks and Confectioners Dictionary or, the Accomplish'd Housewives Companion
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Visual art
- Canaletto – Architectural Capriccio (his first known signed and dated work)
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Music
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Architecture
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Births
- February 21 – Louis-Pierre Anquetil, French historian (d. 1808)
- February 23 – Richard Price, Welsh philosopher (d. 1791)
- June 20 – Adam Ferguson, Scottish philosopher, historian (d. 1816)
- July 10 – William Blackstone, English jurist (d. 1780)
- July 11 – Jean-François Marmontel, French historian, writer (d. 1799)
- July 16 – Sir Joshua Reynolds, English painter (d. 1792)
- October 17 – Pierre-Antoine Baudouin, French painter (d. 1769).
- December 8 – Baron d'Holbach, French-German philosopher, author of The System of Nature (d. 1789)
- December 26 – Friedrich Melchior, baron von Grimm, German writer (d. 1807)
- February 23 – Richard Price Welsh moral and political philosopher (d. 1791)
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Deaths
- February 23 – Anne Henriette of Bavaria, Duchess of Guise (b. 1648)
- February 25 – Sir Christopher Wren, English architect, astronomer, and mathematician (b. 1632)
- February 26 – Thomas d'Urfey, English writer (b. 1653)
- March 30 – Filippo Bonanni, Italian Jesuit scholar (b. 1638)
- May 29 – Jean de La Chapelle, French writer and dramatist (b. 1651)
- June 2 – Esther Vanhomrigh, longtime lover and correspondent of Jonathan Swift. (d. 1723)
- July 28 – Mariana Alcoforado, Letters of a Portuguese Nun (b. 1640)
- August 26 – Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch scientist (b. 1632)
- October 31 – Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1642)
- November 19 – Antoine Nompar de Caumont, French courtier and statesman (b. 1632)
- December 2 – Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, regent of France (b. 1674)
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