Here’s our next instalment of things that happened in ..24 years of yore.

Notable Events in 1724

7 April. The premiere performance, of Bach’s St John Passion (BWV 245) at St Nicholas Church, Leipzig.

22 April. Birth of Immanuel Kant, German philosopher (d.1804)

25 August. Birth of George Stubbs, English painter (d.1806)

24 September. The Paris Bourse, the stock exchange for France, is created by order of King Louis XV on the advice of Nicolas Ravot d’Ombreval, four years after a financial panic had shut down trading.

Unknown Date. Construction of Blenheim Palace (below) is completed. It is presented as a gift from the nation to the Duke of Marlborough, for his involvement in the Battle of Blenheim in 1704.

Unknown Date. Founding of Longman, the oldest surviving publishing house in England.