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Conclave 1724: Cardinal Dean Sebastiano Antonio Tanara had to leave the conclave on April 15, 1724 due to a serious illness; he died during the sedis vacancy on May 5, 1724.

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May 1724. Russia: Alexander Menshikov was removed from the post of Governor-General of the Saint Petersburg Governorate for significant abuses. Pyotr Apraksin was appointed to his place.

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Dummer's War: On 30 April 1724, Winslow and Sergeant Harvey left George's Fort with 17 men in two whale boats, and they went downriver several miles to Green Island. The following day, the two whale boats became separated and approximately 200 to 300 Abenakis descended on Harvey's boat.

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28th of April 1724. Jonathan Swift's first "Drapier Letter" is forwarded to Lord Carteret. By then, knowledge of the letter's contents had spread all the way to London.

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22 April 1724: Immanuel Kant is born in East Prussia.

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18th of April 1724. The premiere of the opera "Calphurnia" by Giovanni Bononcini takes place at the King's Theatre in London.

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6th of April 1724. Walpole appoints the skilful Whig political manager Thomas, Duke of Newcastle, as successor to Carteret; makes Newcastle's brother Henry Pelham Secretary at War.

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3rd of April 1724. Great Britain: John Carteret was dismissed as Secretary of State after a dispute with the Prime Minister Robert Walpole.

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20th of March 1724. The 1724 papal conclave opens in Rome, 13 days after the death of Innocent XIII. Starting with 33 electors and eventually having 53, the conclave deliberates for more than two months before selecting a successor.

On March 14, Frederick William I approved Gumbinnen (modern Gusev) as the seat of the formed “Lithuanian Deputation” - the governing body of the “Lithuanian”, eastern half of East Prussia. From that moment until 1945, the government of the easternmost district of the state was located here.

12th of March 1724. Canada: Gov. Richard Philipps says Nova Scotia "upon so precarious a footing" that it can't be settled "till such time as fortresses shall be built".

10th of March 1724. In London, Monsieur de Fabrice wrote to a friend:'...the opera is in full swing also, since Hendell's new one, called Jules César - in which Cenesino and Cozzuna shine beyond all criticism - has been put on. The house was just as full at the seventh performance as at the first'.

7th of March 1724. Pope Innocent XIII dies at the age of 68, after suffering from a hernia. He is the most recent pope to date to take the pontifical name of "Innocent" upon his election.

6th of March 1724. 29-year-old Voltaire opens his new play, Herod and Mariamne, to widespread mockery. The next day, critics donned mourning attire 'for the play'.

March 1724: Promulgation at Versailles of the king's edict serving as regulations for the government and administration of justice, police, and discipline of the slave trade in the province and colony of Louisiana (Code Noir).

Extreme drought in Switzerland from March to June: The Emme has dried up, mills are shut down, springs are drying up.

22nd of February 1724. France: Edme-Nicolas Robert was appointed Intendant of New France, the territory colonized by France in North America; he embarked from La Rochelle.

20th of February 1724. The premiere of "Giulio Cesare in Egitto" (Julius Caesar in Egypt), an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel, took place at the King's Theatre in the Haymarket, London.

12th of February 1724. Prague: The “Wendish Seminar” (Wendisches Seminar) for the training of young Catholic priests in Upper Lusatia was founded.

8th of February 1724. The Russian Academy of Sciences and today's Saint Petersburg State University, the first university in Russia, were founded by Peter I via ukase (proclamation) with headquarters in Saint Petersburg.

5th of February 1724. To encourage compliance, the Nova Scotia Council allowed a Catholic priest to move into the province because he asked permission.

4th of February 1724. France: The value of the Louis d'or was reduced from 27 livres to 20 livres tournois, a measure inspired by Joseph Pâris Duverney to try to lower prices, without success.

2nd of February 1724. France: Appointment of fifty-eight knights of the order of the Holy Spirit and seven marshals of France.

1st of February 1724. Pietro Metastasio's opera libretto "Didone abbandonata" was performed for the first time in Naples in the setting by Domenico Sarro. The work, dedicated to Viceroy Michael Friedrich von Althann, was set to music over 60 times until the 19th century.

26th of January 1724. Opening of the Congress of Cambrai to settle the disputes between the United Kingdom, the emperor and the king of Spain. It did not give any satisfactory results.

22nd of January 1724. Bruno Mauricio de Zabala, Spanish Captain general of the Río de la Plata, forced the Portuguese to abandon their fortified settlement at what would become the city of Montevideo in Uruguay.

18th of January 1724. The Dutch East India Company cargo ship "Fortuyn", on its maiden voyage, departs from the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa after a layover of 16 days following its arrival from the Netherlands. The ship departs for Batavia in the Dutch East Indies and is never seen again.

15th of January 1724. King Philip V of Spain abdicates the throne in favour of his 16-year-old son Louis I.

14th of January 1724. King Philip V of Spain abdicates - possibly in the expectation that the French crown could become free - in favour of his 16-year-old son Louis.

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