Eighteenth-Century Chronology: 1723

Literature

• Gilbert Burnet, A History of My Own Time, vol. 1 (through 1735)
• William Law, Remarks on the Fable of the Bees
• Mallet, William and Margaret
• Bernard Mandeville, The Fable of the Bees, 2nd ed. (includes An Essay on Charity Schools and A Search into the Nature of Society)
• Matthew Prior, Down Hall (posthumous)
• Voltaire, Henriade

Theatre

• Susanna Centlivre, The Artifice (posthumous)
• Fenton, Mariamne ???
• Eliza Haywood, A Wife to be Let
• Ambrose Philips, Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester
• Richard Savage, Sir Thomas Overbury

Art

• John Michael Rysbrack, Roman Marriage

Music

• Cuzzoni joints the Royal Academy of Music in London
• George Frederick Händel (or Handel), Ottone
• George Frederick Händel (or Handel), Flavio

Science, Technology, & Medicine

Politics & Law

• Atterbury is exiled to the Continent ???
• Bolingbroke returns from his exile in France
• The Workhouse Act or Test forces the poor to enter a workhouse for relief
• The Waltham Black Acts add fifty capital offenses to the penal code

Philosophy & Theology

• Phillip Dodderidge takes his first church at Kibbatworth

Milestones

• Birth of Blackstone
• Death of Susanna Centlivre
• Birth of Sir William Chambers, architect
• Death of Thomas D'Urfey
• Death of Sir Godfrey Kneller, painter
• Birth of Sir Joshua Reynolds
• Birth of Adam Smith

Miscellaneous