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19th of November 1724. The Dutch East India Company frigate "Slot ter Hooge" strikes rocks and sinks off Porto Santo Island, Madeira, with the loss of 221 of the 254 people on board.
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2024/11/19
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[19 November 1724] The Dutch painter and engraver Jacobus Buys is born. Here is a self-portrait.
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2024/11/19
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9th of November 1724. Denmark: At the Greenland Parade, two Greenlandic Inuit, Pock and Keperock, who had been sent to Copenhagen by Hans Egede earlier that year, are presented to the general public when they sail through the canals around Christiansborg Palace in their kayaks.
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2024/11/09
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1724, Russia: Peter the Great falls seriously ill with a bladder and kidney disease with liver atrophy after wading through ice-cold water to rescue shipwrecked sailors on November 5. By the end of the year it becomes clear that he will not survive the illness.
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2024/11/05
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A Masquerade at the King's Theatre, Haymarket (c. 1724), attributed to Giuseppe Grisoni.
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2024/11/01
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29th of October 1724. France: The Duke of Bourbon considers sending away the Spanish Infanta who the King (Louis XV) is to marry: the government maintains a pro-British orientation, and furthermore the Infanta is too young to quickly give France a dauphin. (Louis XV and Infanta portrait).
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2024/10/29
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21st or 22nd of October 1724. Dublin: A fourth anonymous letter ("To The Whole People of Ireland") to appear this year attacking William Wood's copper coinage is published; called the "Drapier's Letters", the four are rumoured to be by Jonathan Swift, the dean of St Patrick's Cathedral.
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2024/10/21
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17th of October 1724. Audience of French Ambassador Andrezel with Sultan Ahmet III, painting by Jean-Baptiste van Mour.
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2024/10/18
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15th of October 1724. The historic Teatro Nuovo opera house is inaugurated in Naples with the premiere of Antonio Orefice's comic opera "Lo Simmele".
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2024/10/15
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1st of October 1724. The opera "Eraclea" by Leonardo Vinci is performed for the first time.
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2024/10/01
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