page_title: 1720s
section_title: July–December
hierarchical_section_title: 1720s / Events / 1722 / July–December
caption_attribution_description: English: Fleet of Peter the Great (1909) by Eugene Lanceray.Русский: Картины по русской истории. Е.Е. Лансере. Флот Петра Великого.
context_page_description: The 1720s decade ran from January 1, 1720, to December 31, 1729.
context_section_description: July – The Russo-Persian War (1722–23) begins, with Peter the Great's Persian campaign.
  July 25 – Father Rale's War (1722–25) begins along the Maine and Massachusetts border.
  August 15 – William Battin, 17, is hanged for arson and murder in the colony of Pennsylvania.
  October 23 – The six-month-long Siege of Isfahan ends, when the Safavid capital Isfahan capitulates to the Afghan rebels. Safavid Sultan Husayn abdicates, and acknowledges Mahmud Hotak as the new Shah of Persia.
  December 20 – After the longest reign by a Chinese Emperor in history (61 years), the Kangxi Emperor dies, and is succeeded by his son Yinzhen as Yongzheng Emperor.
caption: July: Start of the Russo-Persian War.
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