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1723

Events of

February 16 - Louis XV of France attains his majority.
May 23 - Freemasonry lodge "Theodor zum guten Rath" at Munich in Bavaria founded.

September 1 - Treaty of St. Petersburg
November 23 - The Province of Carolina incorporates New Bern as Newbern. The town would later become the capital of North Carolina.

The Province of Carolina incorporates Beaufort, North Carolina as the "Port of Beaufort", making it the third incorporated town in the province.
Christian von Wolff is banned from Prussia with the charge of atheism.

January 12 - Samuel Langdon, American President of Harvard University (died 1797)
February 15 - John Witherspoon, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (died 1794)
February 17 - Tobias Mayer, German astronomer (died 1761)
February 21 - Louis-Pierre Anquetil, French historian (died 1808)
February 23 - Richard Price, Welsh philosopher (died 1791)
February 24 - John Burgoyne, British general (died 1792)
March 22 - Charles Carroll, American lawyer and Continental Congressman (died 1783)
March 23 - Agha Mohammad Khan Ghajar, Iranian king (died 1778)
March 31 - King Frederick V of Denmark (died 1766)
April 20 - Cornelius Harnett, American Continental Congressman (died 1781)
April 30 - Mathurin Jacques Brisson, French naturalist (died 1806)
June 3 - Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, Italian-born physician and naturalist (died 1788)
June 5 - (baptised) Adam Smith, Scottish economist and philosopher (died 1790)
June 11 - Johann Georg Palitzsch, German astronomer (died 1788)
June 20

July 1 - Pedro Rodríguez, Conde de Campomanes, Spanish statesman and writer (died 1802)
July 10 - William Blackstone, English jurist (died 1780)
July 11 - Jean-François Marmontel, French historian and writer (died 1799)
July 16 - Sir Joshua Reynolds, English painter (died 1792)
September 11 - Johann Bernhard Basedow, German educational reformer (died 1790)
October 4 - Nikolaus Poda von Neuhaus, German entomologist (died 1798)
November 8 - John Byron, English admiral (died 1786)
November 30 - William Livingston, American politician and journalist (died 1790)
December 22 - Karl Friedrich Abel, German composer (died 1787)
December 26 - Friedrich Melchior, baron von Grimm, German writer (died 1807)