Alonso Miguel de Tovar
Louis Caravaque
Pierre-Denis Martin
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
What happened in 1722 (from Wikipedia)January–June
- April 5 – Easter Sunday: Dutch admiral Jakob Roggeveen lands on what is now Easter Island.
- May 5 – Pennsylvania colony enacts a statute requiring all persons importing any person previously convicted of sodomy to pay £5 for each such incoming person.
- June 2 – Wapping, a male Negro slave owned by a Mr. Heale, is hanged for murder in the colony of Virginia.
July–December
- March 8th – Persia's Safavid dynasty falls during a bloody revolt of the Afghani people, in The Battle of Gulnabad.
- July – Peter the Great's Persian campaign begins.
- July 25 – The Three Years War begins along the Maine and Massachusetts border.
- August 15 – William Battin, 17, is hanged for arson and murder in the colony of Pennsylvania.
- December 20 – After the longest reign by a Chinese Emperor in history, the Kangxi Emperor dies and is succeeded by his son Yinzhen with the reign name Yongzheng.
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