Editing 1726 (section)

== Events ==
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=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 23]] &ndash; (January 12 [[Old Style]]) The [[Conventicle Act (Sweden)|Conventicle Act]] (''Konventikelplakatet'') is adopted in [[Sweden]], outlawing all non-Lutheran religious meetings outside of church services.
* [[January 26]] &ndash; The [[Peace of Vienna (1725)|First Treaty of Vienna]] is signed between [[Habsburg monarchy|Austria]], the [[Holy Roman Empire]] and [[History of Spain (1700-1810)|Spain]], creating the Austro-Spanish Alliance in advance of a war against Great Britain.
* [[January 27]] &ndash; On its maiden voyage, the [[Dutch East India Company]] frigate [[Aagtekerke (1724)|''Aagtekerke'']] departs from the [[Dutch Cape Colony]] on the second leg of its journey to the [[Dutch East Indies]] and is never seen again.  ''Aagtekerke'' had carried with it a crew of 200 men and was lost somewhere in the Indian Ocean.
* [[February 8]] &ndash; The [[Supreme Privy Council]] is established in [[Russian Empire|Russia]].
* [[February 13]] &ndash; The [[Parliament of Negrete (1726)|Parliament of Negrete]] (between [[Mapuche]] and Spanish authorities in Chile) brings an end to the [[Mapuche uprising of 1723|Mapuche uprising of 1723–26]].<ref>{{Cite book|title=Historia militar de Chile|last=Pinochet Ugarte|first=Augusto|publisher=Biblioteca Militar|year=1997|last2=Villaroel Carmona|first2=Rafael|last3=Lepe Orellana|first3=Jaime|last4=Fuente-Alba Poblete|first4=J. Miguel|last5=Fuenzalida Helms|first5=Eduardo|edition=3rd|language=es|author-link=Augusto Pinochet|page=88}}</ref>
* [[March 2]] &ndash; In London, a night watchman finds a severed head by the [[River Thames]]; it is later recognized to be that of the husband of [[Catherine Hayes (murderer)|Catherine Hayes]]. She and an accomplice are later executed.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Blake's Murderesses: Visionary Heads of Wickedness|author =Bentley, G. E. Jr.|journal=[[Huntington Library Quarterly]]|volume=72|issue=1|date=March 2009|pages=69–105|publisher=University of California Press|doi =10.1525/hlq.2009.72.1.69|jstor=10.1525/hlq.2009.72.1.69|quote=At Catherine's urging, "Billings went into the room with a hatchet, with which he struck Hayes so violently that he fractured his skull" but did not kill him. Wood, "taking the hatchet out of Billings's hand, gave the poor man two more blows, which effectually dispatched him." They were then faced with the problem of how to dispose of the body.}}</ref>
* [[March 10]] &ndash; China's [[Yongzheng Emperor|Emperor Yongzheng]] issues a special edict instructing his "Vice Minister of Punishments" Huang Bing to interrogate Qin Daoran, who provides the evidence that Yongzheng's brothers [[Yintang]], Yin-ssu and Yin-ti, had conspired to overthrow the Emperor.<ref>Frank Ching, ''Ancestors: The Story of China Told Through the Lives of an Extraordinary Family'' (Ebury Publishing, 2011) p257</ref>
* [[March 29]] &ndash; The first large shipment of slaves is brought to [[New Orleans]] as the slave ship ''L'Aurore'' arrives with 290 black Africans captured in [[Gambia]].<ref>Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, ''Africans in Colonial Louisiana: The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the Eighteenth-Century'' (LSU Press, 1992)</ref> During the 90-day voyage from [[Gorée]] in [[Senegal]], 60 of the slaves had died.
* [[March 30]] &ndash; After [[King Haffon]] of the [[West African]] [[Kingdom of Whydah]] (now in [[Benin]]) allows [[Portugal|Portuguese]] traders to build Fort [[Fort of São João Baptista de Ajudá|São João]] Batista in the capital at [[Savi, Benin|Savi]], mercenaries of the Dutch West India Company make a failed attempt to destroy the fort by "throwing two flaming spears over the walls". By 1726, traders from Britain, France, the Netherlands and Portugal are all competing to establish trade with Whydah, which supplies other West Africans to be used as slaves.
* [[March 31]] &ndash; [[List of ambassadors of France to Russia|France's first ambassador to Russia]], [[:fr:Jacques de Campredon|Jacques de Campredon]], leaves after four years of trying to negotiate a Franco-Russian alliance with [[Catherine I of Russia|Catherine I]] and a failed attempt to arrange a marriage between [[King Louis XV]] and Catherine's daughter Elizabeth.<ref>Henri Troyat, ''Terrible Tsarinas: Five Russian Women in Power'' (Algora Publishing, 2007) p23</ref>

=== April&ndash;June ===
* [[May 1]] &ndash; [[Voltaire]] begins his exile in England.
* [[June 11]] &ndash; [[Louis Henri, Duke of Bourbon]], is dismissed from being the [[Prime Minister of France]] and [[Jean Pâris de Monmartel]] is removed from his position as Guard of the Royal Treasury by King [[Louis XV]].  The King selects his former tutor, [[André-Hercule de Fleury]] to replace the Duke of Bourbon as his Chief Minister.  Fleury and the Duke of Bourbon had clashed with each other in their services as adviser to the King, and Fleury's departure from the court in protest and led to his recall and the firing of the Duke{{clarify|reason=the "and"s do not follow logic and Fleury is suddenly said to have left the king's court|date=November 2022}}.

=== July&ndash;September ===
* [[July 11]] &ndash; [[André-Hercule Cardinal de Fleury]], recalled from exile by King [[Louis XV of France]], banishes [[Louis Henri, Duke of Bourbon]], and [[Jeanne Agnès Berthelot de Pléneuf, marquise de Prie|Madame de Prie]] from court.
* [[August 7]] &ndash; Pirate [[Nicholas Brown (pirate)|Nicholas Brown]] is captured near [[Xtabi]], [[Jamaica]].
* [[September 6]] &ndash; An explosion kills all but seven of the 700 passengers and crew on the Portuguese Navy galleon [[Santa Rosa (1726)|HMFMS ''Santa Rosa'']] as its cargo of gunpowder blows up.  Historians speculate that of the 693 people on the ship, those who weren't killed by the explosion drowned or were killed by sharks as the ship went down off of the coast of [[Recife]].
* [[September 11]] &ndash; French bishop [[André-Hercule de Fleury]], later Prime Minister for King [[Louis XV]] of France, is made a Roman Catholic Cardinal by [[Pope Benedict XIII]].
* [[September 14]] &ndash; The [[Nanfan Treaty]] of July 19, 1701 between the [[Iroquois Confederacy]]  and the British [[Province of New York]], is amended by both parties.
* [[September 16]] &ndash; An earthquake strikes [[Sicily]] and kills 226 people in [[Palermo]].<ref>''Atlas of Isoseismal Maps of Italian Earthquakes'', ed. by D. Postpieschi (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, 1986)</ref> 
* [[September 23]] &ndash; [[Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor]], issues an order limiting the number of Jews who can be legally recognized as legitimate householders.<ref>[https://www.wmjgs.org/marriage-and-family-laws-in-galicia.php "Marriage and Family Laws and Their Impact on Civil Registration of Vital Events"], by Suzan Wynne, ''The Galitzianer'' (November 16, 2003)</ref>
* [[September 24]] &ndash; Permission to celebrate the feast of [[Our Lady of Mount Carmel]], celebrated on July 17, is extended by [[Pope Benedict XIII]] to the entire Roman Catholic Church.<ref>[https://www.catholic.com/encyclopedia/feast-of-our-lady-mount-carmel "Feast of Our Lady Mount Carmel"], ''The Catholic Encyclopedia'' online</ref>

=== October&ndash;December ===
* [[October 1]] &ndash; [[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]].
* [[October 5]] &ndash; [[Grigore II Ghica]] becomes the [[Prince of Moldavia]] for the first time after [[Mihai Racoviță]] steps aside.
* [[November 8]] &ndash; (October 28 [[Old Style]]) [[Jonathan Swift]]'s satirical novel ''[[Gulliver's Travels]]'' is first published (anonymously) in London; it sells out within a week.
* [[November 20]] &ndash; [[Callinicus III of Constantinople|Callinicus, Metropolitan of Heraclea]] dies suddenly only one day after being elected the [[Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople]], the highest office in the [[Eastern Orthodox Church]].  Callinicus is said to have paid a record fee to the Ottoman Sultan to guarantee his appointment.
* [[November]] &ndash; [[Mary Toft]] allegedly gives birth to 16 rabbits in England; the story is later revealed to be a [[hoax]].
* [[December 24]] &ndash; The settlement of [[Montevideo]] is founded by the Spaniards in the [[Viceroyalty of Peru]].

=== Date unknown ===
* The ''[[Complete Classics Collection of Ancient China]]'', an immense Chinese encyclopedia, is printed using [[copper]]-based [[movable type]] [[printing]].
* [[Muhammad bin Saud]] becomes head of the [[House of Saud]].
* The remaining ruins of [[Liverpool Castle]] in England are finally demolished.
* In late 1726, [[Nader Shah|Nader]] recaptured [[Mashhad]].<ref>Axworthy pp. 57–74</ref>
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