1724

1724 (MDCCXXIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1724th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 724th year of the 2nd millennium, the 24th year of the 18th century, and the 5th year of the 1720s decade. As of the start of 1724, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century – 18th century – 19th century
Decades:	1690s  1700s  1710s  – 1720s –  1730s  1740s  1750s
Years:	1721 1722 1723 – 1724 – 1725 1726 1727

1724 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1724 MDCCXXIV
Ab urbe condita	2477
Armenian calendar	1173 ԹՎ ՌՃՀԳ
Assyrian calendar	6474
Balinese saka calendar	1645–1646
Bengali calendar	1131
Berber calendar	2674
British Regnal year	10 Geo. 1 – 11 Geo. 1
Buddhist calendar	2268
Burmese calendar	1086
Byzantine calendar	7232–7233
Chinese calendar	癸卯年 (Water Rabbit) 4420 or 4360     — to — 甲辰年 (Wood Dragon) 4421 or 4361
Coptic calendar	1440–1441
Discordian calendar	2890
Ethiopian calendar	1716–1717
Hebrew calendar	5484–5485
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1780–1781
- Shaka Samvat	1645–1646
- Kali Yuga	4824–4825
Holocene calendar	11724
Igbo calendar	724–725
Iranian calendar	1102–1103
Islamic calendar	1136–1137
Japanese calendar	Kyōhō 9 (享保９年)
Javanese calendar	1648–1649
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar	4057
Minguo calendar	188 before ROC 民前188年
Nanakshahi calendar	256
Thai solar calendar	2266–2267
Tibetan calendar	ཆུ་མོ་ཡོས་ལོ་ (female Water-Hare) 1850 or 1469 or 697     — to — ཤིང་ཕོ་འབྲུག་ལོ་ (male Wood-Dragon) 1851 or 1470 or 698

Events

• January 14 – King Philip V of Spain leaves the throne for his 16-year-old son Louis I.
• January 28 – Saint Petersburg State University is established.
• February 8 – Catherine I of Russia is officially named czarina by her husband, Peter the Great.
• May 29 – Pope Benedict XIII succeeds Pope Innocent XIII as the 245th pope.
• June 23 – Treaty of Constantinople is signed

Births

for more information, see Category:1724 births.

• April 22 – Immanuel Kant

Deaths

for more information, see Category:1724 deaths.