Editing 1726 (section)

=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 23]] &ndash; (January 12 [[Old Style]]) The [[Conventicle Act (Sweden)|Conventicle Act]] (''Konventikelplakatet'') is adopted in [[Sweden]], outlawing all non-Lutheran religious meetings outside of church services.
* [[January 26]] &ndash; The [[Peace of Vienna (1725)|First Treaty of Vienna]] is signed between [[Habsburg monarchy|Austria]], the [[Holy Roman Empire]] and [[History of Spain (1700-1810)|Spain]], creating the Austro-Spanish Alliance in advance of a war against Great Britain.
* [[January 27]] &ndash; On its maiden voyage, the [[Dutch East India Company]] frigate [[Aagtekerke (1724)|''Aagtekerke'']] departs from the [[Dutch Cape Colony]] on the second leg of its journey to the [[Dutch East Indies]] and is never seen again.  ''Aagtekerke'' had carried with it a crew of 200 men and was lost somewhere in the Indian Ocean.
* [[February 8]] &ndash; The [[Supreme Privy Council]] is established in [[Russian Empire|Russia]].
* [[February 13]] &ndash; The [[Parliament of Negrete (1726)|Parliament of Negrete]] (between [[Mapuche]] and Spanish authorities in Chile) brings an end to the [[Mapuche uprising of 1723|Mapuche uprising of 1723–26]].<ref>{{Cite book|title=Historia militar de Chile|last=Pinochet Ugarte|first=Augusto|publisher=Biblioteca Militar|year=1997|last2=Villaroel Carmona|first2=Rafael|last3=Lepe Orellana|first3=Jaime|last4=Fuente-Alba Poblete|first4=J. Miguel|last5=Fuenzalida Helms|first5=Eduardo|edition=3rd|language=es|author-link=Augusto Pinochet|page=88}}</ref>
* [[March 2]] &ndash; In London, a night watchman finds a severed head by the [[River Thames]]; it is later recognized to be that of the husband of [[Catherine Hayes (murderer)|Catherine Hayes]]. She and an accomplice are later executed.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Blake's Murderesses: Visionary Heads of Wickedness|author =Bentley, G. E. Jr.|journal=[[Huntington Library Quarterly]]|volume=72|issue=1|date=March 2009|pages=69–105|publisher=University of California Press|doi =10.1525/hlq.2009.72.1.69|jstor=10.1525/hlq.2009.72.1.69|quote=At Catherine's urging, "Billings went into the room with a hatchet, with which he struck Hayes so violently that he fractured his skull" but did not kill him. Wood, "taking the hatchet out of Billings's hand, gave the poor man two more blows, which effectually dispatched him." They were then faced with the problem of how to dispose of the body.}}</ref>
* [[March 10]] &ndash; China's [[Yongzheng Emperor|Emperor Yongzheng]] issues a special edict instructing his "Vice Minister of Punishments" Huang Bing to interrogate Qin Daoran, who provides the evidence that Yongzheng's brothers [[Yintang]], Yin-ssu and Yin-ti, had conspired to overthrow the Emperor.<ref>Frank Ching, ''Ancestors: The Story of China Told Through the Lives of an Extraordinary Family'' (Ebury Publishing, 2011) p257</ref>
* [[March 29]] &ndash; The first large shipment of slaves is brought to [[New Orleans]] as the slave ship ''L'Aurore'' arrives with 290 black Africans captured in [[Gambia]].<ref>Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, ''Africans in Colonial Louisiana: The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the Eighteenth-Century'' (LSU Press, 1992)</ref> During the 90-day voyage from [[Gorée]] in [[Senegal]], 60 of the slaves had died.
* [[March 30]] &ndash; After [[King Haffon]] of the [[West African]] [[Kingdom of Whydah]] (now in [[Benin]]) allows [[Portugal|Portuguese]] traders to build Fort [[Fort of São João Baptista de Ajudá|São João]] Batista in the capital at [[Savi, Benin|Savi]], mercenaries of the Dutch West India Company make a failed attempt to destroy the fort by "throwing two flaming spears over the walls". By 1726, traders from Britain, France, the Netherlands and Portugal are all competing to establish trade with Whydah, which supplies other West Africans to be used as slaves.
* [[March 31]] &ndash; [[List of ambassadors of France to Russia|France's first ambassador to Russia]], [[:fr:Jacques de Campredon|Jacques de Campredon]], leaves after four years of trying to negotiate a Franco-Russian alliance with [[Catherine I of Russia|Catherine I]] and a failed attempt to arrange a marriage between [[King Louis XV]] and Catherine's daughter Elizabeth.<ref>Henri Troyat, ''Terrible Tsarinas: Five Russian Women in Power'' (Algora Publishing, 2007) p23</ref>