What happened 1724 AD

The St John Passion was the first Passion Bach composed during his tenure as Thomaskantor in Leipzig.

Of the more than 300 cantatas which Bach composed in Leipzig, over 100 have been lost to posterity. Most of these works expound on the Gospel readings prescribed for every Sunday and feast day in the Lutheran year. Bach started a second annual cycle the first Sunday after Trinity of 1724 and composed only chorale cantatas, each based on a single church hymn. These include O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort, BWV 20, Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 140, Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 62, and Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern, BWV 1.

Christopher Anstey was born in Brinkley, England in 1724.

The governor-general of Dutch East Indies, Willem Arnold Alting, was born in the Dutch Republic in 1724.

The Czech composer Ferdinand Philipp Joseph Lobkowitz was born in 1724.

The German Elector of Bavaria, Charles Theodore, was born in Droogenbosch.

The American hero and soldier, Colonel Thomas Gardner, was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts.