1722

This page relates to the year 1722 Gregorian Calendrier.

Events

July 25th: Beginning of the Dummer' S War , series of confrontations between French and English colonists at the borders of the Maine and the Massachusetts (fine in 1725).

the capital of the French Louisiana is transferred to La Nouvelle-Orléans. In September, the city is devastated by a Ouragan.
the French explorer Jean-Baptiste Bénard of the Toothing-stone discovers Little Rock in the Arkansas and establishes there a Poste for the draft.

Madagascar: Beginning of the reign of Andriamhatindriarivo, king Sakalava of Boina (fine in 1742). Wire of Andrianambonniarivo, it establishes its capital with Morovoay.
Algiers will be bombarded twenty times by the European fleets (France, Great Britain, Spain) between 1722 and 1830.

April 6th: After having discovered the islands Samoa, the explorer Dutch Jacob Roggeveen discovers the Easter Island.

Beginning of the reign of Shih Tsung (Yongzheng), emperor of China (fine in 1735).
With died of Kangxi, its successor Shih Tsung represses the revolt against the Manchu domination of the khanats of Koulou-NOR, allied of Dzoungars.

the tsar Pierre Ier of Russia promises a military aid with the khan of Dzoungarie Tchewang Rabden provided that this one accepts the annexation of the khanat to the Russian empire. The khan of Dzoungarie refuses and continues the fight only against the China.
Creation of the Flemish Company of the Eastern Indies, or royal and imperial company of Ostend to develop the trade with the East (1722 - 1731).

the Afghans sunnites revolt, take Ispahan and usurp the royalty. The Afghan emir Mir Mahmoud proclaims king of Perse (fine in 1725) and founds the dynasty Hotaki.
the Turcoman S of Bukhara seize the septentrional provinces.
the Othoman advance in Azerbaïdjan, Arménie and Mésopotamie. Ashraf, successor of Mir Mahmoud, recognizes the Othoman sultan like lord and promises to convert the Perses with the Sunnisme.

Russian Countryside against the Persian . Russian armies (100 000 men) advance along the Caspienne, but are stopped in front of Chamakhi. During this time, the Arménie NS and the Georgia NS attack the Turks. The melik of the Karabakh benefit from the circumstances to acquire their independence (1722 - 1730).

January: The Diet of Hungary ratifies the Pragmatic Sanction. It unanimously accepts the transmission of the heritage with Marie-Therese, girl of the emperor Charles VI. The law of 1722 - 1723 confirms the particular status of Hungary like its Constitution and the privileges of the states peerage-books.

Foundation of the academy of the Juniors by Berlin which forms the executives of the Prussian army.

January: Collapse of the financial system of Law, causing a true permanent riot (deaths, wounded). Fortunes are constituted and crumbled in a few hours. Thousands of families are despoiled by the partial bankruptcy. The system nevertheless will have made it possible to support the economic revival and to decrease the debts and the tax pressure.
February: Acquisition by Dubois of a cardinal hat of gives him by protocol one of the first places to the Council of Regency, which the pars and the Marshals of France cannot accept. Villars, of Antin and Noailles leaves the Council of Regency.
Mars: Arrival of the Infante Marie-Anne Victoire of Spain intended to be married to the king Louis XV.
August 22nd: The Abbé Dubois becomes principal minister (fine in 1723).
August: Récurence of the Plague of Marseilles.
Louis XV is crowned king of France to Rheims.

Social crisis; loosening of moral standards, crime wave (Cartridge, Count de Hornes).

January 13rd: A Oukase creates the tchin or Table of the Rows which determines the degree of dignity in the nobility by the hierarchy of the functions (14 degrees of which the 8 first confer the hereditary nobility). Schools are open. In exchange of the obligatory service (7 years in the army, 10 years in civilian employment, 15 years in the trade or industry), Pierre Ier of Russia makes broad concessions with the noble ones, which take in hand the local government (tax, police force, recruitment). Serfdom is extended and worsened. The great field progresses, and the small property tends to disappear.

May: Russian countryside against the Persian in Caspian (100 000 men), under the pretext of Persian armed robberies at the Kalmouks.

a public prosecutor takes the head of the Senate and holds the role of a Prime Minister.
the Ukraine loses its administrative autonomy: it loses the right to elect its Hetman and is managed by the college of Small-Russia.
the urban population is divided into three guilds having each representative near the magistrate (municipal council).

the Mathématicien of French origin Abraham de Moivre exposes the Théorème which bears its name.

England, 1722 - 1723: Adoption of the law " Workhouse Act" Test; to extend and standardize the use of asylums of the poor (" Workhouse s") against vagrancy. The law made it possible the authorities to refuse the assistance with the poor which did not want to enter the " workhouses".
Foundation of a cloth manufacture for the army in Hungary, on the initiative of the count Esterházy.
Exploitation of the first layer of coal in Russia.

January 7th: Antoine Coypel, painter (Paris, 1661 -1722).
February 10th: Bartholomew Roberts, of its true name John Roberts, known as Black Baronet, pirates
May 20th: Valiant Sebastien, French botanist (° 1669)
September 12th: Andre Dacier, French scholar (1651 -1722).
December 22nd: Kangxi 康熙 (name of reign) or Xuányè 玄晔 (personal name), Chinese Emperor of the Dynasty Qing, which had the longest reign of the history of China, of 1661 at 1722. (° May 4th 1652).

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