Decade
The1700s decade ran from January 1, 1700, to December 31, 1709.
The decade is marked by a shift in the political structure of theIndian subcontinent , and the decline of theMughal Empire .
Events
1700 January 1 –Protestant nations inWestern Europe , exceptEngland , start using theGregorian calendar .Catholic nations have been using the Gregorian calendar since its introduction in1582 byPope Gregory XIII .January 1 (Julian) (January 11, Gregorian) – TheTsardom of Russia begins numbering its calendar from the birth of Christ (Anno Domini ), instead of since the Creation (Anno Mundi ).January 26 – At approximately 9 p.m., theCascadia earthquake occurs in thePacific Northwest , with an estimatedmoment magnitude of 8.7–9.2. Thismegathrust earthquake ruptures about 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) of theCascadia Subduction Zone and causes atsunami that strikes the coast of Japan approximately 10 hours later.February 3 – The 'Lesser Great Fire' destroys a substantial part of centralEdinburgh , Scotland.[ 1] February 22 (Gregorian),February 12 (Julian) – TheGreat Northern War begins with a joint invasion ofSwedish territory inGermany andLatvia , byDenmark andPoland /Saxony . Sweden has control of theBaltic Sea and holds territory that includes Finland,Estonia , Latvia and parts of northern Germany. To challenge its power, an alliance is formed between TsarPeter I of Russia , KingFrederick IV of Denmark andAugustus II the Strong , King of Poland and Elector of Saxony. Sweden's ruler is the militaristicCharles XII , known as the "Swedish Meteor".February 27 – The island ofNew Britain is discovered byWilliam Dampier , in the western Pacific.[ 2] March 1 (Gregorian) – ProtestantGermany andDenmark–Norway adopt theGregorian calendar .March 1 (Swedish),March 11 (Gregorian),February 29 (Julian) – TheSwedish calendar is adopted.March (early) –William Congreve 's comedyThe Way of the World [ 3] [ 4] [ 5] March 3 –Shivaji II accedes to the throne of theMaratha Empire as the 4th Chhatrapati after his fatherRajaram I 's death.March 24 – TheTreaty of London is signed betweenFrance ,England and theDutch Republic .[ 6] April 15 – The coronation of KingFrederick IV of Denmark takes place atFrederiksborg Castle inCopenhagen .April 18 – Hungarian freedom activistFerenc Rákóczi is arrested by Austrian authorities and charged with sedition. Imprisoned nearVienna and facing a death sentence, he escapes and later leads the overthrow of the Habsburg control of Hungary.April 21 – InIndia , the siege of the fortress ofSajjangad (located in theMaharashtra state) is begun by an army led by Fateullahakhan. The fortress falls on June 6.April – Fire destroys many buildings inGondar , the capital ofEthiopia , including two in the palace complex.May 5 – Within a few days of poetJohn Dryden 's death in London (May 1 O.S.), his last written work (The Secular Masque Vanbrugh 's version ofThe Pilgrim May – InRhode Island (American colony),Walter Clarke , three-term formerGovernor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations , is elected deputy governor for the second time, serving under his brother-in-lawSamuel Cranston .June 8 (May 28 O.S.) – The legislature for theProvince of Massachusetts Bay (the modern-day Commonwealth ofMassachusetts in the United States) passes into law "An Act against Jesuits & Popish Priests" making a finding that Roman Catholic clerics have attempted to incite American Indians into a rebellion against the Crown, and declaring "That all and every Jesuit, Seminary Priest, Missionary, or other Spiritual or Ecclesiastical Person made or ordained by any Authority, Power or Jurisdiction derived, challenged or pretended from the Pope or See of Rome, now residing within this Province or any part thereof, shall depart from and out of the same, at or before the tenth day of September next, in this present year, One Thousand and Seven Hundred."[ 7] Province of New York enacts similar legislation later in the year.July 11 – ThePrussian Academy of Sciences is founded, withGottfried Leibniz as president.[ 8] July 24 –Charles XII of Sweden counter-attacks his enemies by invadingZealand (Denmark), assisted by an Anglo-Dutch naval squadron under SirGeorge Rooke , rapidly compelling the Danes to submit to peace.[ 9] July 30 – Eleven-year-oldPrince William, Duke of Gloucester , dies of "a malignant fever" atWindsor Castle , leaving the Protestantsuccession to the British throne in doubt.August 18 (August 7 O.S. ) – ThePeace of Travendal is concluded between theSwedish Empire ,Denmark–Norway andHolstein-Gottorp inTraventhal . On the same day,Augustus II ,King of Poland , andPeter the Great ,Tsar of Russia , enter the war against Sweden.September 6 –Edmond Halley returns to England after a voyage of almost one year onHMSParamour , from which he has observed theAntarctic Convergence ,[ 10] General Chart of the Variation of the Compass .September 12 –Antioh Cantemir is deposed as thevoivode of Moldavia and replaced by his predecessorConstantine Ducas .September 13 -14 – TheRising-sun hurricane of 1700 strikes the coast ofSouth Carolina , killing 98.September 27 –Pope Innocent XII dies at the age of 85 after a tenure of more than nine years.Fabrizio Spada , theCardinal Secretary of State , assumes administration of the Roman Catholic Church in order to oversee the election of a new Pope.September – A Russian army invadesSwedish Estonia , and besieges the town ofNarva .[ 11] October 3 – TheBattle of Jouami' al-Ulama takes place inAlgeria with a surprise attack and ambush on the army of Murad IIIBey of Tunis by two Algerian defenders, Hadj Mustapha,Dey of Algiers and Ahmed ben Ferhat,Beylik of Constantine .October 16 –Adrian, Patriarch of All Russia , dies after more than 10 years as head of the Russian Orthodox Church. He is replaced by the hand-picked choice of TsarPeter the Great with the appointment of Simeon Ivanovich Yavorsky as PatriarchStefan .November 1 –Charles II , the last Spanish king of theHouse of Habsburg , dies at theRoyal Alcazar of Madrid aged 38, leaving no children; his last will makesPhilip of Anjou his heir.November 15 –Louis XIV of France accepts the Spanish crown on behalf of his grandsonPhilip of Anjou of theHouse of Bourbon , who becomes Philip V of Spain (reigning for 44 years – with a short break – to1746 ), thus triggering theWar of the Spanish Succession (1701 –1714 ).[ 12] November 18 –Lithuanian Civil War :Battle of Valkininkai – The anti-Sapieha coalition is victorious.November 23 – Cardinal Giovanni Francesco Albani, having been ordained as a Roman Catholic priest only two months earlier, is elected by thePapal conclave to succeedPope Innocent XII , and becomes the 243rdpope , taking the name ofClement XI .November 30 :Battle of Narva
1701 Pirate captainWilliam Kidd isgibbeted in London. July 9 :Crossing of the Düna .July 24 – A Frenchemporium namedFort Ponchartrain is founded along the west side of theDetroit River in North America, and later becomes the site of the city ofDetroit .August 4 – TheGreat Peace of Montreal is signed, ending 100 years of war between theIroquois Confederacy andNew France , and itsHuron andAlgonquian allies. Formerly allied with the English, the treaty assures the Iroquois will be neutral, if France and England ever resume hostilities.September 16 – Deposed KingJames II of England (James VII of Scotland) dies in exile, at theChâteau de Saint-Germain-en-Laye in France. His supporters, theJacobites , turn to his sonJames Francis Edward Stuart (later called "The Old Pretender"), whom they recognise as James VIII and III.Louis XIV of France , thePapal States and Spain also recognise him as the rightful heir.[ 19] English agriculturalistJethro Tull invents a drill for planting seeds in rows. The Philharmonic Society (Academia Philharmonicorum ) is established inLjubljana , Slovenia.
1702 January 2 – A total solar eclipse is visible from the southernPacific Ocean .January 12 – In North America, ships fromFort Maurepas arrive at Twenty-Seven Mile Bluff to buildFort Louis de la Mobile Mobile, Alabama ), to become the capital ofFrench Louisiana .February 1 –War of the Spanish Succession –Battle of Cremona : TheDuc de Villeroy , commander of the French Army, is taken as a prisoner of war by the Austrian Army.March 3 (February 20 O.S.) – KingWilliam III of England is fatally injured in an accident when he is thrown from his horse, "Sorrel", when it trips on a molehill inHampton Court Park near London. Already in poor health before the accident, he dies from complications 16 days later at the age of 51.[ 21] March 14 – An earthquake in the middle of theCalore valley in Italy, east ofBenevento , kills 400 people.March 19 (March 8Old Style ) –Princess Anne Stuart , daughter of the lateKing James II and younger sister of his successor,Mary II of England (who had reigned jointly with her husband, William III, as William and Mary until her death in 1694), ascends the English, Scottish and Irish thrones upon William's death. In her first speech to the English Parliament, made three days later, she tells the assembly "As I know my heart to be entirely English, I can very sincerely assure you there is not anything you can expect or desire from me which I shall not be ready to do for the happiness and prosperity of England."[ 22] Prince George of Denmark and Norway, but none will survive childhood, and she will die without an heir, bringing an end to the reign of the House of Stuart and enabling theHanoverian Succession . After the death of William, theStates General of the Netherlands do not appoint a newstadtholder , and so theDutch Republic becomes a truerepublic again, starting theSecond Stadtholderless Period .March 22 (March 11Old Style ) – The first regular English-language national newspaper,The Daily Courant [ 2] Fleet Street in theCity of London , initially byElizabeth Mallet ; it covers only foreign news.March 24 –Great Northern War :Battle of Darsūniškis – TheSwedish army of about 240 men under the command of Alexander Hummerhielm is defeated by the Polish–Saxon army of 6,000 men underMichał Serwacy Wiśniowiecki .April 3 – TheDutch East India Company shipMerestein strikes rocks and sinks inSaldanha Bay off Jutten Island, Africa with the loss of 101 of the 200 people on board.April 14 – Volcanic eruption of Changbaishan volcano (also known asPaektu Mountain ) on the China/Korea border takes place.April 15 – The BritishProvince of New Jersey , encompassing all of the modern-day U.S. state ofNew Jersey and portions ofNew York , is created as proprietary owners in the provinces ofEast Jersey andWest Jersey surrender their rights to the Crown.[ 23] April 20 – CometC/1702 H1 is discovered and passes within 0.0435AU (a little more than four million miles or 6.5 million km) of the Earth.April 24 – The first two missionaries from theSociety for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts set sail from England to North America.May 5 – Globular clusterMessier 5 (M5, NGC 5904) is discovered by Gottfried Kirch and his wife Maria Margarethe.May 6 –Cloudesley Shovell is promoted to fulladmiral in the English navy.May 14 (N.S. ) –War of the Spanish Succession : War is declared on France by theGrand Alliance (Kingdom of England ,Dutch Republic andHoly Roman Empire ).May 15 (May 4 O.S.) – KingCharles XII of Sweden and his troops walk unopposed intoWarsaw after troops capture the city.[ 24] May 16 – Much of the city ofUppsala ,Sweden is destroyed in a fire.May 19 – Over 90% of the city ofBergen ,Norway is destroyed and reduced to ashes in a Great Fire.June 2 – English GeneralJohn Churchill , later the Duke of Marlborough, takes command of the alliance of English, Dutch and German troops in theWar of the Spanish Succession .[ 25] June 11 – Anglo-Dutch forcesskirmish with French forces before the walls ofNijmegen and prevent its fall.[ 26] June 15 – Queen Anne's Captain-General, John Churchill, forces the surrender ofKaiserswerth on the Rhine after a siege that began on April 18.[ 27] June 16 – TheEnglish East India Company founds a settlement onPulo Condore (modern-day Côn Sơn Island) off the coast of southernVietnam as anentrepôt June 25 – The premiere of the operaL'Offendere per amore overo la Telesilla byJohann Joseph Fux takes place inVienna .The travel diaryOku no Hosomichi haibun Matsuo Bashō and one of the major texts of Japanese literature of theEdo period , is published eight years after Bashō's death. TheDelaware Colony legislature is separated from that of Pennsylvania. Richard Bentley at Cambridge in England introduces the first written (as opposed to oral) competitive examinations in a Western university.[ 29]
1703 December 7 : TheGreat Storm of 1703 strikes Britain (November 26 by the calendar in use locally)January 9 – TheJamaican town ofPort Royal , a center of trade in theWestern Hemisphere and at this time the largest city in theCaribbean , is destroyed by a fire. British ships in the harbor are able to rescue much of the merchandise that has been unloaded on the docks, but the inventory in market-places in town is destroyed.[ 30] January 14 –1703 Apennine earthquakes : The magnitude 6.7 Norcia earthquake affectsCentral Italy with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme ). With a death toll of 6,240–9,761, it is the first in a sequence of three destructive events.January 16 –1703 Apennine earthquakes : The magnitude 6.2 Montereale earthquake causes damage at Accumoli, Armatrice, Cittareale and Montereale, with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe ).January 30 (December 14 of previous year in theChinese calendar ) – Akō incident: In Japan,forty-sevenrōnin (independentsamurai ) assassinatedaimyō Kira Yoshinaka , the enemy of their former lordAsano Naganori , at his own mansion as a vengeance; for which they are compelled to commit suicide on March 20.February 2 –1703 Apennine earthquakes : The magnitude 6.7 L'Aquila earthquake affects Central Italy, with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme ). In the final large event (an example ofCoulomb stress transfer ), damage occurs as far distant as Rome, with landslides, liquefaction, slope failures and at least 2,500 deaths.February 20 –March 10 –War of the Spanish Succession :Siege of Kehl – French forces under the command of theDuc de Villars capture the fortress of theHoly Roman Empire atKehl , oppositeStrasbourg on theRhine .February – Soldiers atFort Louis de la Mobile celebrateMardi Gras in Mobile , starting the tradition forMobile, Alabama .March 1 – TheRecruiting Act 1703 goes into effect in England, providing for the forcible enlistment of able-bodied but unemployed men into the English Army and Royal Navy in order to fight inQueen Anne's War inNorth America . The Act expires at the end of February 1704.March 15 – The landmark English court case ofRose v Royal College of Physicians Court of Queen's Bench , beginning the end of the monopoly that theRoyal College of Physicians has over the practice of medicine.March 19 – TheSiege of Guadeloupe begins as an English expeditionary force, led byChristopher Codrington andHovenden Walker , lands atBasse-Terre and attempts to take over the French-held island. The English fleet departs on May 15 after being unable to capture Guadeloupe.[ 31] March 20 (February 4 in the Chinese calendar) – 46 of theforty-sevenrōnin of Japan carry out an order ofseppuku shogun Tokugawa Tsunayoshi . The story continues to be dramatized more than 300 years later inChūshingura March 21 –Jeanne Guyon is freed from theBastille inParis after more than seven years imprisonment for heresy.July 26 – After their victories at the Pontlatzer Bridge and theBrenner Pass , Tyrolese farmers drive out the Bavarian Elector,Maximilian II Emanuel , from North Tyrol and thus prevent the Bavarian Army, which is allied with France, from marching on Vienna during the War of the Spanish Succession. This success, at low cost, is the signal for the rebellion of the Tyrolese against Bavaria, and Elector Maximilian II Emanuel has to flee from Innsbruck. The Bavarian Army withdraws throughSeefeld in Tirol back to Bavaria.July 29 –31 –Daniel Defoe is placed in apillory in London, then imprisoned until mid-November for the crime ofseditious libel after publishing hissatirical politicalpamphlet The Shortest Way with the Dissenters August 23 –Edirne event : SultanMustafa II of theOttoman Empire is dethroned.September 7 –War of the Spanish Succession : The town ofBreisach is retaken for France byCamille d'Hostun, duc de Tallard .September 12 –War of the Spanish Succession :Habsburg ArchdukeCharles is proclaimed King of Spain, but never exercises full rule.October 11 – Nine Roman Catholic residents of the French village ofSainte-Cécile-d'Andorge are massacred by a mob of more than 800 French Huguenot Protestants, theCamisards . A reprisal against Protestants in the nearby village of Branoux is made less than three weeks later.October 23 –Hannah Twynnoy , a 24-year-old barmaid inMalmesbury ,Wiltshire , becomes the first person to be killed inGreat Britain by atiger . While working at the White Lion Inn, where a group of wild animals is on exhibit, she is mauled after bothering the tiger.October 30 – More than 47Huguenots in the village ofBranoux-les-Taillades are massacred by Roman Catholic vigilantes in reprisal for the October 11 attack on nearby Sainte-Cécile, slightly more than two miles away.November 15 November 19 – The so-calledMan in the Iron Mask dies in theBastille . He is buried under the name of "Marchioly".November 30 –Isaac Newton is elected president of theRoyal Society of London, a position he will hold until his death in1727 .December 7 –10 (November 26–29O.S. ) – TheGreat Storm of 1703 , anextratropical cyclone , ravages southern England and theEnglish Channel , killing at least 8,000, mostly at sea. TheEddystone Lighthouse offPlymouth is destroyed in the storm together with its designerHenry Winstanley [ 32] December 27 – Portugal and England sign theMethuen Treaty , which gives preference to Portuguese wines imported into England.December 28 –Ahmed III succeeds the deposedMustafa II asOttoman Emperor .
1704 January 7 – A partialsolar eclipse ,Solar Saros 146 , is visible inAntarctica .January 25 –26 –Apalachee massacre : English colonists from theProvince of Carolina , and their native allies, stage a series of brutal raids against a largely pacific population ofApalachee , inSpanish Florida .February 28 – Establishment of the first school open to African-Americans inNew York City by FrenchmanElias Neau .February 29 –Raid on Deerfield (Queen Anne's War ):French Canadians andNative Americans sackDeerfield, Massachusetts , killing over 50 English colonists.February – In America,Mardi Gras is celebrated with theMasque de la Mobile Louisiana (New France) ,Mobile, Alabama .March 7 –War of the Spanish Succession :Prince Karl of Habsburg , brother of Joseph I, the Holy Roman Emperor and a pretender to the throne ofSpain , arrives in Portugal on the English warshipHMSRoyal Katherine as part ofGeorge Rooke 's English fleet sailing intoLisbon .March 23 –War of the Spanish Succession : The English Navy ships HMSKent , HMSBedford and HMSAntelope intercept two newly-built Spanish warships,Porta Coeli andSanta Teresa off of the coast ofCape Spartel , as the Spaniards attempt to sail into theStrait of Gibraltar . The two Spanish ships are captured after a seven-hour battle and taken towardLisbon , but theSanta Teresa sinks along the way.July –Daniel Defoe documents theGreat Storm of 1703 in England, with eyewitness testimonies, inThe Storm July 12 –Great Northern War – KingCharles XII of Sweden forces the election of his allyStanisław Leszczyński asKing of Poland , in place ofAugustus II the Strong .August 3 (July 23Old Style ) –War of the Spanish Succession –Gibraltar is captured from Spain, byEnglish andDutch forces underSir George Rooke .[ 34] August 7 –Battle of Orford Ness .August 13 (August 2 OS) – War of the Spanish Succession –Battle of Blenheim : Allied troops underJohn Churchill, Earl of Marlborough andPrince Eugene of Savoy defeat theFranco -Bavarian army.August 24 (August 13 OS) – War of the Spanish Succession – The French and Anglo-Dutch fleetsclash off Málaga , causing heavy casualties on both sides, but without sinking any ships.September 8 – War of the Spanish Succession – TheTwelfth Siege of Gibraltar by French and Spanish troops begins.September 12 –War of the Spanish Succession : The siege of the French-held German town ofLandau , by Holy Roman Empire troops under the command ofLudwig Wilhelm von Baden-Baden begins and lasts for more than ten weeks before the French surrender onNovember 23 . During the siege, the Holy Roman Emperor Joseph I visits the area in a newly-developed vehicle, aconvertible horse-drawn carriage that has a removable roof. The style of vehicle itself is later called a "landau ".September 28 –Damat Hasan Pasha ,Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire , is removed from office by Ottoman SultanAhmed III , and replaced by Kalaylikoz Ahmed Pasha.October 24 – A peace treaty is signed between PrinceFerenc Rákóczi ofTransylvania , and representatives of the Holy Roman Emperor,Leopold I at Schemnitz (now the Slovakian town ofBanská Štiavnica )October 28 –Great Northern War : TheBattle of Poniec takes place as King Charles XII leads Swedish troops in pursuit of the Saxon Army commanded by GeneralJohann von der Schulenburg . The Swedes are forced to retreat despite surrounding the Saxons, and Schulenburg's troops escape.November 11 –Twelfth Siege of Gibraltar : A Spanish Bourbon special forces battalion, guided by Simon Susarte, scales the steepest side of theRock of Gibraltar in an attempt to surprise the British defenders, and kills the English sentries who have been manning the lookout. The attack is foiled the next day when a drummer boy, who was bringing food to the sentries, spots the invaders and raises the alarm.November 26 – The inauguration of the newly builtKastelskirken takes place inCopenhagen ,Denmark .November 27 – Annularsolar eclipse is visible throughKazakhstan ,Kyrgyzstan , easternChina ,Myanmar and northernPhilippines .December 6 –Battle of Chamkaur : During the Mughal-Sikh Wars, an outnumbered Sikh Khalsa defeats a Mughal army.December 25 – The fall of themeteorite ofBarcelona is seen and heard over distances up to hundreds of kilometres and is interpreted as a divine sign.Great Northern War : Russian troops under TsarPeter the Great captureTartu andNarva .TheSultanate of Brunei cedes its north-east territories to theSultanate of Sulu . The lower three counties of theProvince of Pennsylvania become the colony ofDelaware . Anearthquake strikesGondar ,Ethiopia . Tenerife 's earliest recorded volcanic eruption takes place from three fissure emission centres: Siete Fuentes,Fasnia andArafo .A Tale of a Tub Jonathan Swift (written 1694–1697), is published in London, running through three editions this year.Isaac Newton publishes hisOpticks The Students' Monument is built inAiud ,Romania . Chinese Rites controversy : Rome decrees that Roman ceremonial practice inLatin (not in Chinese) is to be the law for Chinese missions.Nerchinsky Zavod is founded in theNerchinsko-Zavodsky District ofZabaykalsky Krai ,Russia by Greek mining engineers.Thomas Darley purchases the bayArabian horse Darley Arabian inAleppo ,Syria , and ships him to stud in England, where he becomes the most importantfoundation sire of all modernthoroughbred racing bloodstock.Giancomo Miraldi observesMartian polar ice caps as "white spots" at the Martian poles.
1705 January 8 –George Frideric Handel 's first opera,Almira January 31 – TheHester , a British 28-gun sailing ship with a crew of 70, is lost in Persia.[citation needed February 7 –Twelfth siege of Gibraltar : MarshalRené de Froulay de Tessé of the French Army supplements the Spanish forces of theMarquis of Villadarias and seizes control of a strategic fortress, the Round Tower, but the forces retreat after a counterattack kills 200 of their number in the retaking of the Tower.February 25 –George Frideric Handel 's operaNero Hamburg .[ 35] February 26 – Twelfth siege of Gibraltar: A French Navy fleet of 18 warships, commanded byAdmiral Desjean, the Baron de Pointis arrives in theBay of Gibraltar to aid the French and Spanish attempt to retake Gibraltar from England.March 8 – TheProvince of Carolina incorporates the town ofBath , making it the first incorporated town in modern-dayNorth Carolina . The town becomes the political center and de facto capital of the northern portion of theProvince of Carolina untilEdenton is incorporated in1722 .March 14 –Queen Anne givesroyal assent to theParliament of England 'sAlien Act 1705 , setting a deadline of December 25, 1705, for Scotland's parliament to authorize negotiations for aTreaty of Union with England to create theKingdom of Great Britain and threatening that unless Scotland agrees to negotiate terms for union and accepts the Hanoverian succession by December 25, there would be a ban on the import of all Scottish staple products into England and Scots would also lose the privileges of Englishmen under English law – thus endangering rights to any property they held in England.[ 36] [ 37] March 31 (March 20 O.S.) – TheTwelfth siege of Gibraltar ends as a fleet of warships from the navies of England, Portugal and the Netherlands, commanded by English AdmiralJohn Leake , arrives at the Bay of Gibraltar with 35 warships and English and Portuguese troops. In the battle that follows, five of the French Navy's ships are sunk and Admiral Desjean is seriously wounded, forcing the French and Spanish to retreat.April 5 –Anne, Queen of England dissolves theEnglish House of Commons that had been elected in 1702, and orders new elections.April 9 –The Queen's Theatre is opened in London byJohn Vanbrugh andWilliam Congreve , serving as anopera house , premiering withGli amori di ergasto ("The Loves of Ergasto"), an Italian language opera by German composerJakob "Giacomo" Greber . A theatre remains in operation on this site for more than 300 years, becoming Her Majesty's Theatre.[ 38] April 16 – Queen Anne of England honoursIsaac Newton with the title ofKnight Bachelor atTrinity College, Cambridge .[ 2] May 5 –Joseph I succeeds his fatherLeopold I asHoly Roman Emperor .[ 39] May 7 –1705 English general election : Voting begins for 110 constituencies of the 513-memberHouse of Commons of England (includingWales )June 6 – Voting ends in theEnglish general election , with the Tories retaining their majority in the House of Commons but losing 38 seats, while the Whigs gain 49 seats. The balance in the 513 seats is 260 for the Tories, 233 for the Whigs, 20 for other candidates.June 20 – ThePact of Genoa is signed by representatives ofEngland and the SpanishPrincipality of Catalonia as a military alliance providing for English troops to be stationed inCatalonia as part of theWar of Spanish Succession .July 11 –José de Grimaldo , the Marquis of Grimaldo, becomes the head of government of Spain after being appointed byKing Philip V as the Secretary of the Universal Bureau.July 14 – The newly-elected2nd Parliament of Queen Anne in England, last to serve before the union with Scotland that produces Great Britain, is opened by the Queen.July 15 –Al-Husayn I ibn Ali becomes the firstBey of Tunis , founding theHusainid dynasty that rules Tunisia until the abolition of the monarchy in1957 .July 18 –War of the Spanish Succession : TheBattle of Elixheim is fought near the city ofTienen (in modern-day Belgium). A troop of soldiers under the command of England'sDuke of Marlborough kills 3,000 French troops under the command of theDuc de Valleroy and forces the retreat of the others, breaking the "Lines of Brabant". Because his soldiers have marched all night and then fought the battle over a full day, Marlborough is unable to send them in pursuit of Villeroy's troops.July 20 – The planetMercury transits Jupiter , as seen by astronomers from Earth. The event happens again on October 4,1708 , but will not be seen again from Earth until October 27,2088 July 26 –Great Northern War : At theBattle of Gemauerthof , fought in modern-dayLatvia , Swedish forces under the command of GeneralAdam Ludwig Lewenhaupt overwhelm a much larger force of Russian troops commanded by CountBoris Sheremetev , killing 2,000 Russians and wounding as many as 3,000.July 31 – TheBattle of Warsaw is fought near Warsaw, Poland, in theGreat Northern War .August 16 –18 – In an Atlantictropical cyclone across Cuba and Florida, four ships are lost and there are many casualties.August 31 –September 5 –War of the Spanish Succession : TheSiege of Zoutleeuw is carried out by the alliance of Dutch, English, Scottish and Holy Roman Empire troops against the French-held fortress ofZoutleeuw (in modern-day Belgium).September 17 –First Javanese War of Succession : On the island ofJava in theDutch East Indies (modern-dayIndonesia ),Pakubuwono I becomes the newSultan of Martaram , capturingKartosuro and deposingSultan Amangkurat III .September 20 –Francis II Rákóczi is proclaimed as the ruler of Hungary by independence activists inSzécsény who are opposed to the rule of the Habsburg successor to Leopold I, the Holy Roman emperor Joseph I.September 24 (O.S.) –Stanisław Leszczyński is crowned asKing of Poland .c.October 3 – 31 people are killed in a colliery explosion at the Stony Flatt pit inGateshead on Tyneside in England.[ 40] October 4 (N.S.) –Stanisław Leszczyński is crowned Stanisław I of Poland.November – InWilliamsburg , capital of theColony of Virginia in America, construction ofthe Capitol Building is completed.November 5 – TheDublin Gazette November 15 –Battle of Zsibó : TheAustrian -Danish forces defeat theKurucs (Hungarians ).November 16 – An annularsolar eclipse is visible in the southernAtlantic Ocean .November 23 – The premiere of the playUlysses Nicholas Rowe takes place in London, starringThomas Betterton .November 24 – An earthquake is recorded inSyria , northeast ofDamascus .November 28 – TheTreaty of Warsaw is concluded between theSwedish Empire andthe faction of thePolish–Lithuanian Commonwealth loyal toStanisław Leszczyński during theGreat Northern War .December 13 – In theBattle of Saint Gotthard , the Hungarian army is victorious.December 21 – TheSophia Naturalization Act is passed by theParliament of England , whichnaturalizes Sophia of Hanover (next insuccession to the British throne ) and the Protestant "issue of her body" asBritish subjects.[ 41] December 25 – InMunich , capital ofBavaria , 1,100 militiamen from theOberland are killed during theSendlinger Mordweihnacht after a failed attempt to break through several gates and capture a depot to seize better weaponry; many men are slaughtered by German federal infantry and Hungarian Hussars, despite their capitulation toAustrian officers.December 26 –Fateh Singh andZorawar Singh , sons ofGuru Gobind Singh , are murdered by Wazir Khan for refusing to convert to Islam, and become hallowed martyrs in Sikhism.December 29 – The premiere of the playIdoménée byProsper Jolyot de Crébillon takes place in Paris.Construction begins onBlenheim Palace inOxfordshire designed byJohn Vanbrugh for theDuke of Marlborough and partly funded by the Crown.[ 42] 1724 . Taichung City ,Taiwan is founded as the village of Dadun.Edmond Halley publicly predicts the periodicity ofHalley's Comet and computes its expected path of return in1758 .[ 43] With the interest paid fromdaimyō TheShogunate confiscates the property of a merchant inOsaka "for conduct unbecoming a member of the commercial class". The government seizes 50 pairs of gold screens, 360 carpets, several mansions, 48 granaries and warehouses scattered around the country, and hundreds of thousands of gold pieces.
1706 January 26 February 6 – The city ofAlbuquerque, New Mexico , is incorporated by governor Don Francisco Cuervo y Valdes asLa Villa de Alburquerque in the Spanish colonial province ofSanta Fe de Nuevo México inNew Spain . Governor Cuervo sends a report on April 23 to the Spanish Crown and to New Spain's Governor,Francisco Fernández de la Cueva, 10th Duke of Alburquerque announcing that the new villa, consisting of 35 families and having a population of 252 adults, has been named in honor of the Duke.[ 44] February 13 –Great Northern War –Battle of Fraustadt : Outnumbered more than 4 to 1 in infantry troops, and more than 2 to 1 overall, Swedish troops under the command of GeneralCarl Gustaf Rehnskiöld defeat a larger force of 20,000 Russian and Saxon infantry and cavalry.March 21 –Mary Channing , who was pregnant at the time that she was convicted of the murder of her husband, is burned at the stake atDorset , in front of a crowd of 10,000 onlookers.March 27 – Concluding that EmperorIyasus I of Ethiopia has abdicated by retiring to a monastery, a council of high officials appointTekle Haymanot I Emperor of Ethiopia .March 31 – The lastCourts (parliament) of thePrincipality of Catalonia are finished; their dissolution is presided over by KingCharles III of Spain.April 10 – TheBattle of Grodno ends with a Swedish victory over Russian troops.April 27 –War of the Spanish Succession : Aftera siege of 14 days , a French and Spanish army fails to take control ofBarcelona , which had been captured by Habsburg armies in 1705.May 12 – Atotal eclipse of the Sun takes place and is visible in most of Europe, with a path crossing modern-day Spain, France, Germany, Poland and RussiaMay 23 –War of the Spanish Succession –Battle of Ramillies : English, Dutch, German, Swiss and Scottish troops led byJohn Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough , defeat Franco-Bavarian forces in the Low Countries.June 9 –Frederick IV of Denmark-Norway sends the first two Protestant missionaries to India, dispatching Lutherans Heinrich Plütcshau and Bartholomeus Ziegenbalg toDenmark-Norway's colony in India , theDansk Ostindien , based atTharangambadi ("Tranquebar") in what is now theTamil Nadu state.June 11 – InTibet ,Lha-bzang Khan , khan of theKhoshut , kills the regent and kidnaps the6th Dalai Lama , Tsangyang Gyatso, and kills the Lama's regent.June 28 –War of the Spanish Succession : Troops dispatched from Portugal captureMadrid and proclaim the Habsburg dynasty'sArchduke Charles of Austria to be the King Carlos III of Spain, after the Bourbon ruler,Philip V , has fled.June 29 – Flemish Jesuit missionaryFrançois Noël is welcomed inChina by theKangxi Emperor at the Forbidden City inBeijing , and discusses the Emperor's disdain over thedisapproval of Jesuit accommodation of Confucian rites by the Roman Catholic Church .October 13 Augustus II , known as August der Starke (Augustus the Strong), Elector of Saxony, having ruled as King of Poland since 1706, signs theTreaty of Altranstädt (1706) , renouncing all claims to the throne to settle his fight with Sweden during theGreat Northern War .Iyasu I , Emperor of Ethiopia since 1682, is assassinated on the island of Tana, on orders of his son,Tekle Haymanot I , who has ruled in Iyasu's place. After being crowned as the new Emperor, Tekle Haymanot is stabbed to death in 1708 on orders of Iyasu's brother,Tewoflos .October –Twinings tea room at 216Strand, London , still open as of 2025[update] [ 46] [ 47] [ 48] November 4 – TheParliament of Scotland votes, 116 to 83, to approve the merger of Scotland with England to form theKingdom of Great Britain .[ 49] November 6 – A British attempt to conquer theCanary Islands fails when a fleet of 12Royal Navy warships, commanded byAdmiral John Jennings is forced to retreat afterbeing met by a heavy artillery attack while sailing into Santa Cruz Bay November 15 – Five months after having been deposed from his position as theDalai Lama ,Tsangyang Gyatso disappears while in exile inQinghai and is presumed to have been murdered.November 28 – The royal wedding ofPrussia takes place inBerlin between the 18-year-oldCrown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm and his brideSophia Dorothea of Hanover , the 19-year-old daughter of the future KingGeorge I of Great Britain .December 9 –João V becomes the newKing of Portugal upon the death of his father,Dom Pedro II , and begins a reign of 43 years.December 14 – Spanish GeneralAlexandre Maître, Marquis de Bay leads the successful capture ofAlcántara fromPortugal December 31 –François Martin , the first Governor General ofFrench India (now part of India's union territory ofPuducherry ), retires after seven years and is replaced byPierre Dulivier .
1707 April 25 (April 14Old Style ) –War of the Spanish Succession –Battle of Almansa : TheBourbon army ofSpain andFrance (with Irish mercenaries) under the French-born EnglishmanJames FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick , soundly defeats the allied forces ofPortugal ,England , and theDutch Republic led by the French-bornHuguenot (in English service)Henri de Massue, Earl of Galway . Following this,Philip V of Spain promulgates the firstNueva Planta decrees , bringing the Kingdoms ofValencia andAragon under the laws of theCrown of Castile .[ 51] May 8 – Thesiege of Játiva within the Spanishkingdom of Valencia begins as 9,000 Castilian and French troops, at the direction ofKing Philip V attack Játiva, defended by troops of theKingdom of Aragon . Játiva (modernXàtiva ) falls on June 6.May 12 (May 1Old Style ) – The new sovereign state of Great Britain comes into being, as a result of theActs of Union , which combine the Kingdoms ofScotland andEngland into a single unitedKingdom of Great Britain ,[ 52] England andScotland , to form theParliament of Great Britain .[ 53] May 23 – Thevolcanic eruption in theSantorini caldera begins.June 4 – On the island later known asSri Lanka ,Narendra Sinha becomes the monarch of most of the area as the newKandyan king, succeeding to the throne upon the death of his father, KingVimaladharmasuriya II . Narendra Sinha reigns for almost 32 years until his death on May 13, 1739.June 6 – The soldiers and officers defending the Aragonese city of Játiva are massacred after a larger force of Castilian troops breaks through the walls at the end of a30-day siege . The rest of the town's residents are deported, and most of the dwellings are burned, with the area being renamed "San Felipe".[ 54] June 8 – Less than three months after proclaiming himself to be the newEmperor of India ,Muhammad Azam Shah and his three sons are killed in a battle by his troops led by his half-brotherMuhammad Mu'azzam June 13 – OnFrancis II Rákóczi 's recommendation, and with Count Miklos Bercsényi's support, a meeting of the Hungarian independence activists, held at the village ofÓnod declares the deposing of theHouse of Habsburg (andJoseph I, King of Hungary ) from the Hungarian throne.June 19 – The coronation of Muhammad Mu'azzam as the new Emperor of India,Bahadur Shah I , takes place inDelhi June 28 –Yeshe Gyatso is installed as the newDalai Lama by his father,Lha-bzang Khan , who has recently deposed the6th Dalai Lama . Though the justification is that the 21-year-old Yeshe was the true reincarnation of the5th Dalai Lama , Yeshe receives no recognition from Buddhists in Tibet or Mongolia and the7th Dalai Lama is installed in 1710.July 29 –August 21 –War of the Spanish Succession –Battle of Toulon : The Allies are obliged to withdraw, but the French fleet is effectively put out of action.August 27 –Charles XII of Sweden launches his campaign to conquer Russia, marching to the east fromAltranstädt with 60,000 coalition troops.[ 55] Riga , guarding theSwedish supply lines.September 14 –Vincenzo Durazzo is elected to a 2-year term as the newDoge of theRepublic of Genoa (including the island ofCorsica ), succeeding the outgoing Doge,Domenico Maria De Mari .September 18 –October 4 –War of the Spanish Succession : TheSiege of Ciudad Rodrigo , led by troops under the command ofAlexandre Maître , begins and lasts for 16 days. On the final day, General Maitre begins the attack that takes the fortress within 45 minutes.September 30 –War of the Spanish Succession : the conquest by Austrian troops, of the Italian peninsula city state ofGaeta , is accomplished after a three-month siege led by GeneralWirich Philipp von Daun .October 22 –Scilly naval disaster : Four BritishRoyal Navy ships run aground in theIsles of Scilly , because of faultynavigation . Admiral SirCloudesley Shovell and at least 1,450 sailors all drown.October 23 – The Parliament of theKingdom of Great Britain first meets in London.October 28 – TheHōei earthquake (the most powerful in Japan until2011 ) strikes, with an estimatedlocal magnitude of 8.6 and kills at least 5,000 people.November 30 –War of the Spanish Succession : TheSiege of Pensacola ends, with the Spanish successfully defending their fort.December 16 – Thelast recorded eruption of Mount Fuji begins in Japan.December 24 – The first British Governor ofGibraltar , directly appointed byQueen Anne ,Roger Elliott , takes up his residence in the Convent of the Franciscan Friars.December 28 –Charles XII of Sweden and his coalition of troops begin crossing the first line of defense of theRussian Empire , theVistula River , in their attempt to conquer Russia.[ 55]
1708 January 1 –Charles XII of Sweden invades Russia, by crossing the frozenVistula River with 40,000 men.January 7 – Bashkir rebelsbesiege Yelabuga .[ 56] January 12 –Shahu I becomes the fifthChhatrapati of theMaratha Empire in theIndian subcontinent .February 26 –HMSFalmouth , a 50-gunfourth-rate ship of the line built atWoolwich Dockyard for the BritishRoyal Navy , is launched.March 11 –Anne, Queen of Great Britain , withholdsRoyal Assent from theScottish Militia Bill , the last time a British monarch vetoes legislation.March 23 –James Francis Edward Stuart ,Jacobite pretender to the throne of Great Britain, unsuccessfully tries to land from a French fleet in theFirth of Forth in Scotland.April 8 – Easter Sunday: The first performance ofGeorge Frideric Handel 'soratorio La resurrezione April 9 –Ottoman princessEmine Sultan , daughter ofSultan Mustafa II , marriesGrand Vizier Çorlulu Ali Pasha.April 28 – TheGreat Hoei fire breaks out inKyoto , Japan, destroying theImperial Palace and a large portion of the old capital.June 8 –War of the Spanish Succession :Wager's Action , a naval confrontation, takes place between aBritish squadron underCharles Wager and theSpanish treasure fleet offCartagena in theCaribbean Sea .Spanish galleonSan José explodes and sinks with the loss of almost all her 600 crew and an estimated 8.8 million ouncestroy weight in gold;[ 57] July 1 –Tewoflos becomesEmperor of Ethiopia .July 11 –War of the Spanish Succession :Battle of Oudenarde – Allied forces under the command ofJohn Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough , defeat the French in theSpanish Netherlands .[ 58] August – The futureCharles VI, Holy Roman Emperor wedsElisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel .August 3 – In theBattle of Trenčín , 8,000 soldiers of theImperial Army of theHabsburgs are victorious over the 15,000 HungarianKuruc forces ofFrancis II Rákóczi .August 18 – War of the Spanish Succession:Menorca is captured by British forces.[ 58] August 23 –Meidingu Pamheiba is crowned King ofManipur .August 29 – A French-Native Americanattack inHaverhill, Massachusetts kills 16 settlers.September 28 (O.S. ); September 29 (Swedish calendar ); October 9 (N.S.) –Great Northern War :Battle of Lesnaya –Peter the Great ofRussia defeats the forces of theSwedish Empire .October 12 –War of the Spanish Succession : British forces captureLille after a two-month siege, although thecitadel continues to hold out for another six weeks.[ 59] October 26 –Topping out of newSt Paul's Cathedral in London.[ 60] December 14 – The première ofElectre byProsper Jolyot de Crébillon takes place inParis .[ 61] December 17 –Deborah Churchill , Britishpickpocket andprostitute , is executed before a large crowd for being an accomplice tomurder .Fearful of aSwedish attack, the Russians blow up the city ofTartu ,Estonia . The Russians burn the city ofPorvoo ,Finland (at the time part of Sweden).[ 62] [ 63] One third of the population ofMasuria dies of theplague . Johann Sebastian Bach is appointed as chamber musician and organist, at the court inWeimar .Italian philosopherGiambattista Vico delivers his inaugural lecture to the University of Naples, which will be published in1709 as his first book,De Nostri Temporis Studiorum Ratione (On the Order of the Scholarly Disciplines of Our Times ). Calcareoushard-paste porcelain is produced for the first time in Europe, atDresden ,Saxony , byEhrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus , and developed after his death (October) byJohann Friedrich Böttger . The Company of Merchants of London Trading (with consent of theParliament of Great Britain ) merges with the East Indies, and the more recently established English Company Trading to the East Indies, to form the United Company of Merchants of England Trading to the East Indies, known as theHonourable East India Company .[ 64]
1709 January 1 –Battle of St. John's : TheFrench captureSt. John's , the capital of theBritish colony of Newfoundland .January 6 – Western Europe'sGreat Frost of 1709 , the coldest period in 500 years, begins during the night, lasting three months, with its effects felt for the entire year.[ 65] Seine River freeze, crops fail, and 24,000 Parisians die. Floating ice enters theNorth Sea .January 10 –Abraham Darby I successfully producescast iron usingcoke fuel at hisCoalbrookdale blast furnace inShropshire , England.[ 66] [ 67] [ 58] February 1 or2 – During his first voyage, CaptainWoodes Rogers encounters marooned privateerAlexander Selkirk , and rescues him after four years living on one of theJuan Fernández Islands , inspiringDaniel Defoe 's novelRobinson Crusoe [ 2] [ 68] Guayaquil , he and Selkirk will visit theGalápagos Islands .[ 69] February 19 –Tokugawa Ienobu becomes the sixthshōgun Tokugawa dynasty ofJapan , after the death of the shōgunTsunayoshi , who had been head of government since 1680.February – In America,Mardi Gras is celebrated one more time withMasque de la Mobile French Louisiana ,Mobile, Alabama , before Mobile is moved 27 miles (43 km) down theMobile River toMobile Bay in1711 .March 28 –Johann Friedrich Böttger reports the first production ofhard-paste porcelain in Europe, atDresden .April 13 – TheRaudot Ordinance of 1709 becomes law in the French colony ofNew France , legalizing slavery.April 21 –Mirwais Hotak takes control ofKandahar (in Afghanistan) by murdering thePersian governor,Gurgin Khan , known also as George XI.May 6 – The first influx into Britain of poorrefugee families ofGerman Palatines from theRhenish Palatinate arrives in England.[ 70] Protestants en route to theNew World colonies.[ 71] June 17 –Trịnh Cương becomes the newking of northern Vietnam (Đàng Ngoài ) upon the death of his grandfather,Trịnh Căn , and begins a 20-year reign until his death on December 20,1729 June 26 – TheBattle of Fort Albany , an attack by 100 French colonial volunteers andCree natives on the BritishHudson's Bay Company outpost atFort Albany onHudson Bay .John Fullartine , commander of the post, leads a successful defense of the fort and 18 of the attackers are killed and then retreat. The site is now part of aCree First Nation reserve in the Canadian province ofOntario .June 28 – Atreaty is signed in Dresden to re-establish an alliance between the Kingdoms ofDenmark-Norway and the Electorate of Saxony, on behalf of KingFrederik IV of Denmark-Norway and Saxony's KingAugustus II .July 8 (June 27 Old Style ; June 28 in theSwedish calendar ) –Great Northern War :Battle of Poltava in theCossack Hetmanate (Ukraine ) –Peter the Great leads forces of theTsardom of Russia to a decisive victory over Swedish forces underCharles XII , ending theSwedish invasion of Russia and effectively endingSweden 's role as a major power in Europe.July 9 –Christopher Slaughterford ofLondon is executed inGuildford for the murder of Jane Young, his fiancée. He is the first person in modernEngland executed for murder based exclusively oncircumstantial evidence , and he maintains his innocence to the last.July 13 – Production ofEau de Cologne is begun by perfumierJohann Maria Farina in Germany, foundingJohann Maria Farina gegenüber dem Jülichs-Platz .July 26 –Reinhard Keiser 's operaDesiderius, König der Langobarden is premiered inHamburg .[ 72] July 27 –Japan 'sEmperor Higashiyama abdicates after a reign of 23 years that began in 1687, and is succeeded by his son Yoshihito, who is enthroned as theEmperor Nakamikado .July 30 –War of the Spanish Succession :Tournai is captured byJohn Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough andPrince Eugene of Savoy .[ 58] August 8 – Thehot air balloon ofBartolomeu de Gusmão flies in Portugal.August 28 –Pamheiba is crowned King ofManipur .September 11 (August 31Old Style ) – War of the Spanish Succession:Battle of Malplaquet – Troops of theDutch Republic ,Habsburg monarchy , theKingdom of Great Britain and theKingdom of Prussia , led by the Duke of Marlborough, drive the French from the field, but suffer twice as many casualties.[ 58] October 9 –War of the Spanish Succession : The British army capturesMons .[ 73] October 12 –Chihuahua City in Mexico is founded.October 14 – The Chinese region ofNingxia is shaken by a7.5 earthquake killing more than 2,000 people.December 25 – From London, ten ships leave for theNew York Colony carrying over 4,000 people.December 26 – The first performance of the operaAgrippina George Frideric Handel takes place at theTeatro San Giovanni Grisostomo inVenice .[ 74] Herculaneum , an ancient town inErcolano ,Campania , Italy and buried under volcanic ash and pumice in the eruption ofMount Vesuvius in 79 AD, is discovered by accident when attempts to drill a well for a monastery encountered marble and other materials.The first modern edition ofWilliam Shakespeare 's plays is published inLondon ,edited by Nicholas Rowe . The firstpiano is exhibited inFlorence by its inventorBartolomeo Cristofori , who names it "gravicembalo col piano e forte", a name which is subsequently shortened to "pianoforte" and then "piano". A collapsibleumbrella is introduced inParis .[ 75] Trinity School is founded as thecharity school ofTrinity Church , in New York City.The secondEddystone Lighthouse , erected off the south west coast of England byJohn Rudyerd , is completed.[ 76] De Nostri Temporis Studiorum Ratione (On the Study Methods of Our Times ) is published byNeapolitan philosopherGiambattista Vico .Priceless medievalaltarpieces , created by Tyrolese sculptorMichael Pacher , are destroyed. Basil Lazarus III becomesSyriac Orthodox Maphrian of the East .[ 77]
Births 1700
Daniel Bernoulli born8 February Gerard van Swieten born7 May Mary Delany born14 May Countess Caroline of Erbach-Fürstenau born29 September Philip Morant born6 October Nathaniel Bliss born28 November Jeremias Friedrich Reuß born8 December January 8 –Augustyn Mirys , Polish painter (d.1790 )January 14 –Picander (Christian Friedrich Henrici), German poet and librettist (d.1764 )January 23 –John Christian, Count Palatine of Sulzbach from 1732 to 1733 (d.1733 )January 28 –John Penn ("the American") , American-born merchant (d.1746 )January 29 –Konstancja Czartoryska , Polish noblewoman and politician (d.1759 )February 2 –Johann Christoph Gottsched , German philosopher (d.1766 )February 8 –Daniel Bernoulli , Dutch-born Swiss mathematician (d.1782 )February 16 –Pedro Messía de la Cerda, 2nd Marquis of Vega de Armijo , Spanish naval officer and colonial official (d.1783 )February 18 –Nicolaus Schuback , German lawyer (d.1783 )February 21 –Henri Hemsch , French harpsichord maker of German origin (d.1769 )February 28 –Samsam ud Daula Shah Nawaz Khan , Mughal courtier (d.1758 )March 1 –Pierre-Joseph Bourcet , French tactician (d.1780 )March 3 March 4 –Louis Auguste, Prince of Dombes , grandson of Louis XIV of France and of hismaîtresse-en-titre Françoise-Athénaïs (d.1755 )March 8 –William Morgan (of Tredegar, elder) , Welsh politician (d.1731 )March 13 March 15 –Leonor Tomásia de Távora, 3rd Marquise of Távora , Portuguese noblewoman (d.1759 )March 23 –Pieter Woortman , Dutch colonial administrator (d.1780 )March 29 –Charles Cornwallis, 1st Earl Cornwallis (d.1762 )March 30 –Thomas Pichon , French colonial agent (d.1781 )April 4 –Christophe Moyreau , French Baroque composer (d.1774 )April 30 May 2 –Countess Charlotte of Hanau-Lichtenberg (d.1726 )May 6 –Giuseppe Peroni , Italian painter (d.1776 )May 7 –Gerard van Swieten , Dutch-born physician (d.1772 )May 12 –Luigi Vanvitelli , Italian architect (d.1773 )May 14 –Mary Delany , English artist (d.1788 )May 19 –José de Escandón , Spanish colonial governor (d.1770 )May 22 –Michel-François Dandré-Bardon , French history painter and etcher (d.1785 )May 26 –Nicolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf , German religious and social reformer (d.1760 )May 27 –Robert Shirley , British Tory politician (d.1738 )May 30 – Prosper Anton Josef von Sinzendorf, Austrian nobleman and courtier (d.1756 )May 31 –Stephen Bayard , 39th Mayor of New York City from 1744 to 1747 (d.1757 )June 3 –Karen Huitfeldt , Danish courtier (d.1778 )June 8 –Georg Wilhelm von Driesen , lieutenant general in Frederick the Great's Prussian army and a county commission of Osterrode (Ostróda) (d.1758 )June 10 –Ewald Georg von Kleist , German jurist (d.1748 )June 16 –Margaret Coke, Countess of Leicester , British peer (d.1775 )June 19 –Charles, Count of Charolais , French noble (d.1760 )June 20 –Peter Faneuil , wealthy American colonial merchant (d.1743 )June 25 –William Boys , Royal Navy officer who became Commander-in-Chief (d.1774 )June 26 July 11 –Charles Townshend, 3rd Viscount Townshend (d.1764 )July 12 –Claude-Antoine de Bermen de La Martinière , Quebec-born son of Claude de Bermen de la Martinière (d.1761 )July 20 –Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau , French physician (d.1782 )July 29 –Peter Joseph Kofler , mayor of Vienna (d.1764 )August 13 –Heinrich, count von Brühl , German statesman (d.1763 )August 17 –Clemens August of Bavaria , Archbishop-Elector of Cologne (d.1761 )August 18 August 23 –Hans Caspar von Krockow , Prussian major general and commander of the Cuirassier Regiment No (d.1759 )August 27 August 30 –Christian August von Eyben , German lawyer and dean of the Bishopric of Lübeck (d.1785 )September 6 –Claude-Nicolas Le Cat , French surgeon (d.1768 )September 9 –Princess Anna Sophie of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt , Princess of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (d.1780 )September 11 –James Thomson , Scottish poet (d.1748 )September 15 –Jean-Gilles du Coëtlosquet , French ecclesiastic (d.1784 )September 20 September 25 –Gaetano Zompini , Italian printmaker and engraver (d.1778 )September 29 –Countess Caroline of Erbach-Fürstenau and by marriage Duchess of Saxe-Hildburghausen (d.1758 )September 30 –Stanisław Konarski , Polish writer (d.1773 )October 6 –Philip Morant , English clergyman, author and historian (d.1770 )October 7 –Henry Moore, 4th Earl of Drogheda (d.1727 )October 9 –George Hazard , deputy governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (d.1738 )October 10 –Lambert-Sigisbert Adam , French sculptor born in Nancy (d.1759 )October 13 –Phanuel Bacon , English playwright (d.1783 )October 20 –Charlotte Aglaé d'Orléans (d.1761 )October 23 –Samuel Dexter , minister from Dedham (d.1755 )October 24 –Marten Schagen , Dutch Mennonite bookseller (d.1770 )October 26 –Peter Jacob Horemans , Flemish painter of genre scenes (d.1776 )October 30 –Sir Cecil Bishopp, 6th Baronet (d.1778 )November 7 –Erdmuthe Dorothea of Reuss-Ebersdorf (d.1756 )November 17 –Frederick William, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt , German nobleman (d.1771 )November 19 –Jean-Antoine Nollet , French abbot and physicist (d.1770 )November 21 –Charlotta Elisabeth van der Lith , politically active Governor's wife in Surinam (d.1753 )November 24 –Johann Bernhard Bach the Younger (d.1743 )November 28 December 4 –Agnes Wilhelmine von Wuthenau , German noblewoman and the first wife of Augustus Louis (d.1725 )December 5 –Anthony Malone , Irish lawyer and politician (d.1776 )December 7 –George Heathcote , English merchant and philanthropist and Tory politician (d.1768 )December 8 –Jeremias Friedrich Reuß , German theologian (d.1777 )December 9 –Michael Ranft , Protestant Lutheran pastor (d.1774 )December 20 –Charles-Augustin de Ferriol d'Argental (d.1788 )December 25 –Leopold II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau , Prussian general (d.1751 )date unknown 1701
Antonio Alcalde Barriga born14 March William Emerson (mathematician) born14 May Karl Wilhelm von Dieskau born9 August Maurus Xaverius Herbst born14 September Anna Magdalena Bach born22 September Ignatius of Laconi born10 December January 4 –Count Palatine William of Gelnhausen , Imperial Field Marshal (d.1760 )January 6 –Georg Ludwig von Bar , German (d.1767 )January 14 –Thomas Edwards , silversmith active in colonial Boston (d.1755 )January 17 –William Lubbock , British divine (d.1754 )January 18 –Johann Jakob Moser , German jurist (d.1785 )January 23 –Anne Antoine, Comte d'Aché , French naval officer who became vice admiral (d.1780 )January 26 –François Dominique de Barberie de Saint-Contest , French Foreign Minister (d.1754 )January 27 –Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim , German historian and theologian (d.1790 )January 28 February 1 –Johan Agrell , late German/Swedish baroque composer (d.1765 )February 7 –Christian Ludwig Gersten , German scientist (d.1762 )February 8 –Johann Baptist Martinelli , Austrian architect (d.1754 )February 11 –Carlo Lodi , Italian painter of the late-Baroque period in Bologna (d.1765 )February 14 –Enrique Flórez , Spanish historian (d.1773 )February 24 –François-Joseph Hunauld , French anatomist born in Châteaubriant (d.1742 )February 25 –Thomas Adam , Church of England clergyman and religious writer (d.1784 )February 28 –Jacek Rybiński , Cistercian and the last abbot of theOliwa monastery (d.1782 )March 1 –Johann Jakob Breitinger , Swiss philologist and author (d.1776 )March 2 –Lewis Morris , Welsh hydrographer (d.1765 )March 6 –Louis-René de Caradeuc de La Chalotais , French jurist on the so-called "Brittany affair" (d.1785 )March 7 –Philip Hawkins , MP (d.1738 )March 11 –Joseph Leeson, 1st Earl of Milltown , Irish politician (d.1783 )March 12 –Johann Friedrich Cotta , German Lutheran theologian (d.1779 )March 14 –Antonio Alcalde Barriga , Spanish Roman Catholic prelate; member from the Order of Preachers; Bishop of Guadalajara (d.1792 )March 15 –John Carmichael, 3rd Earl of Hyndford (d.1767 )March 16 –Daniel Lorenz Salthenius , Swedish theologian (d.1750 )[ 78] March 18 –Niclas Sahlgren , Swedish merchant and philanthropist (d.1776 )March 21 –Jacques Bridaine , French Catholic preacher and missionary (d.1767 )March 25 –John Goffe , Colonial American soldier (d.1786 )April 9 –Giambattista Nolli , Italian architect (d.1756 )April 25 –John Bristow , English merchant, politician (d.1768 )April 27 April 28 –Françoise Basseporte , French painter (d.1780 )May 14 –William Emerson , English mathematician (d.1782 )May 18 –Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond , English aristocrat, philanthropist and cricket patron (d.1750 )May 24 May 26 –Jean-Joseph Rallier des Ourmes , French mathematician (d.1771 )May 28 –Giuseppe Antonio Pujati , Italian physician (d.1760 )May 29 –Georg Friedrich Strass , Alsatian jeweler and inventor of the rhinestone (d.1773 )June 2 –Thomas Townshend , British politician (d.1780 )June 4 June 9 –Carl Hieronimus Gustmeyer , Danish merchant (d.1756 )June 11 –David Carnegie, 5th Earl of Northesk , son of David Carnegie (d.1741 )June 17 June 19 –François Rebel , French composer (d.1775 )June 21 –Otto Magnus von Schwerin , Prussian general in the army of Frederick the Great (d.1777 )June 22 –Nicolai Eigtved , Danish architect (d.1754 )June 27 –Paul Jacques Malouin , French chemist and physicist (d.1778 )July 6 –Mary, Countess of Harold , English aristocrat and philanthropist (d.1785 )July 9 –Jean-Frédéric Phélypeaux, Count of Maurepas , French statesman and Count of Maurepas (d.1781 )August 4 August 9 –Karl Wilhelm von Dieskau , Prussian lieutenant general, general inspector of the artillery (d.1777 )August 20 –Domenico Luigi Valeri , Italian painter and architect active in Marche (d.1746 )August 21 –George Bowes , English coal proprietor, Member of Parliament (d.1760 )September 6 –Johann Georg Dathan (d.1749 )September 14 –Maurus Xaverius Herbst , German Benedictine abbot (d.1757 )September 16 –James Cornwallis , Royal Navy officer and politician, second son of Charles Cornwallis (d.1727 )September 17 –Paul-Joseph Le Moyne de Longueuil , seigneur and colonial army officer in New France; governor of Trois-Rivières (d.1778 )September 21 –George Byng, 3rd Viscount Torrington , British Army general (d.1750 )September 22 –Anna Magdalena Bach , accomplished German singer, second wife of Johann Sebastian Bach (d.1760 )September 23 –Bredo von Munthe af Morgenstierne , Norwegian civil servant (d.1757 )September 28 –Stephen Hansen , Danish industrialist (d.1770 )September 30 –Enrico Enríquez , Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (d.1756 )October 3 –Isaac Norris , merchant and statesman in provincial Pennsylvania (d.1766 )October 15 –Marie-Marguerite d'Youville , Canadian saint (d.1771 )October 18 –Charles le Beau , French historical writer (d.1778 )October 20 –Jean-Baptiste de La Noue , French actor and playwright (d.1760 )October 22 –Maria Amalia, Holy Roman Empress (d.1756 )October 24 –Jacques Legardeur de Saint-Pierre , Canadian military commander (d.1755 )October 28 –Simón de Anda y Salazar , Governor-General of the Philippines (d.1776 )October 30 –Anton Gogeisl , German astronomer (d.1771 )October 31 –William Ellery, Sr. , Rhode Island colonial deputy governor (d.1764 )November 3 –Smart Lethieullier , English antiquary (d.1760 )November 5 or1702 –Pietro Longhi , Venetian painter (d.1785 )November 6 –Jean-Baptiste Malter , French dancer and dance master (d.1746 )November 10 –Johann Joseph Couven , German Baroque architect (d.1763 )November 21 –John Arundell, 4th Baron Arundell of Trerice (d.1768 )November 27 –Anders Celsius , Swedish astronomer (d.1744 )November 28 December 9 –Elisha Freeman , Canadian politician (d.1777 )December 10 –Ignatius of Laconi (d.1781 )December 11 –Charles Goore , English merchant and politician (d.1783 )December 16 –Olof Arenius , Swedish portrait painter (d.1766 )December 17 –Bernard of Bologna , Italian theologian (d.1770 )December 21 1702
Alan Brodrick, 2nd Viscount Midleton born31 January Giovanni Carmine Pellerano born6 February Rasmus Paludan born26 February Henrietta Maria of Brandenburg-Schwedt born2 March Jack Sheppard born4 March Thomas Penn born20 March Willem van Keppel, 2nd Earl of Albemarle born5 June Muhammad Shah born7 August Louis-François Roubiliac born31 August Januarius Maria Sarnelli born12 September Abhai Singh of Marwar born7 November January 2 –Nabeshima Naotsune , Japanese daimyō (d.1749 )January 6 January 10 –Johannes Zick , German fresco painter (d.1762 )January 12 January 13 –Thomas Arthur, comte de Lally , French general of Irish Jacobite ancestry (d.1766 )January 14 –Emperor Nakamikado , of Japan (d.1737 )January 18 –Sava II Petrović-Njegoš ,Metropolitan of Cetinje (d.1782 )January 24 –Frederica Henriette of Anhalt-Bernburg , member of the House of Ascania by birth and Princess of Anhalt-Köthen by marriage (d.1723 )January 26 –Johann Caspar Scheuchzer , Swiss naturalist (d.1729 )January 31 –Alan Brodrick, 2nd Viscount Midleton , English cricketer (d.1747 )February 3 February 6 –Giovanni Carmine Pellerano , Italian Catholic prelate, member of the Knights Hospitaller (d.1783 )February 7 –Carl August Thielo , Danish composer (d.1763 )February 10 February 12 –Robert Hale , Massachusetts physician, soldier (d.1767 )February 26 –Rasmus Paludan , Norwegian theologian and priest (d.1759 )February 27 March 2 March 4 –Jack Sheppard , British burglar and escaper (d.1724 )March 13 –Burkat Shudi , English harpsichord maker of Swiss origin (d.1773 )March 19 –Thomas Penn , son of American colonial leader William Penn (d.1775 )March 21 –Bento de Moura Portugal (d.1766 )March 22 –Matthias de Visch , Flemish painter of history paintings and portraits (d.1765 )March 25 –Pieter Teyler van der Hulst , wealthy Dutch Mennonite merchant and banker (d.1778 )March 27 –Johann Ernst Eberlin , German composer and organist (d.1762 )March 28 –Ignacio de Luzán , Spanish critic and poet (d.1754 )March 29 –Cesare Sportelli , Italian Roman Catholic Redemptorist lawyer (d.1750 )March 31 –Barthélemy-Christophe Fagan , French playwright (d.1755 )April 5 April 7 –William Rawlinson Earle (d.1774 )April 10 –Jonathan Tyers (d.1767 )April 16 –Juan de Balmaseda y Censano Beltrán (d.1778 )April 20 –Zenón de Somodevilla, 1st Marquess of Ensenada , Spanish noble (d.1781 )May 2 –Friedrich Christoph Oetinger , German Lutheran theologian and theosopher (d.1782 )May 3 –John St John, 2nd Viscount St John (d.1748 )May 8 –Andrew Lauder , Burgess of the Royal Burgh of Lauder (1737) (d.1769 )May 10 –Abraham Lehn , Danish landowner (d.1757 )May 11 –Isaac Greenwood , American mathematician (d.1745 )May 12 –Louis Philogène Brûlart, vicomte de Puisieulx , French foreign minister (d.1770 )May 16 –George Nevill, 14th Baron Bergavenny (d.1723 )May 21 –John Rous , Royal Navy officer during King George's War and the Seven Years' War (d.1760 )May 24 –Joseph Friedrich Ernst, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen , fifth Prince (d.1769 )June 1 –John Hancock Jr. , colonial American clergyman, father of politician John Hancock (d.1744 )June 5 June 7 –Louis George, Margrave of Baden-Baden from 1707 until his death (d.1761 )June 9 –William Townshend , British Member of Parliament (d.1738 )June 13 –Michał Kazimierz "Rybeńko" Radziwiłł , Polish-Lithuanian noble (d.1762 )June 19 –Frederick Augustus Rutowsky , German general (d.1764 )June 26 –Philip Doddridge , English religious leader (d.1751 )June 30 –Elizabeth Timothy , colonial American printer and newspaper publisher in South Carolina who worked for Benjamin Franklin (d.1757 )July 6 –Franz Anton Maichelbeck , German organist and composer (d.1750 )July 18 –Maria Clementina Sobieska , Polish noble (d.1735 )July 19 –Philemon Ewer , English shipbuilder (d.1750 )July 20 –Christian Siegmund Georgi , evangelical theologian at Wittenberg, Germany (d.1771 )July 22 –Alessandro Besozzi , Italian composer and virtuoso oboist (d.1793 )July 31 –Jean Denis Attiret , French Jesuit missionary and painter (d.1768 )August 2 –Dietrich of Anhalt-Dessau , German prince of the House of Ascania (d.1769 )August 3 August 7 –Muhammad Shah , Mughal emperor of India (d.1748 )August 14 –Philip Carteret Webb , English barrister (d.1770 )August 16 –Roque Joaquín de Alcubierre , military engineer in the Spanish Army, discovered architectural remains at Pompeii and Herculaneum (d.1780 )August 26 August 28 –Jean Philippe d'Orléans , illegitimate son of future French regentPhilippe d'Orleans (d.1748 )August 31 –Louis-François Roubiliac , French sculptor who worked in England (d.1762 )September 2 –John Evans , Welsh Anglican cleric (d.1782 )September 4 –Legall de Kermeur , French chess player (d.1792 )September 6 –Joseph Bonnier de la Mosson , French aristocrat (d.1744 )September 12 September 14 September 20 –Francesco Serao , Italian physician (d.1783 )October 4 October 5 –Prince Joseph of Saxe-Hildburghausen , German prince (d.1787 )October 22 –Frédéric Maurice Casimir de La Tour d'Auvergne , French prince (d.1723 )October 25 –Christoph II von Dohna , Prussian general (d.1762 )October 29 –Tako Hajo Jelgersma , Dutch painter (d.1795 )November 5 –Grégoire Orlyk , Ukrainian-born FrenchLieutenant General (d.1759 )November 6 –Josias Weitbrecht , German professor of medicine and anatomy in Russia (d.1747 )November 7 –Abhai Singh of Marwar , Raja of Marwar (Jodhpur) Kingdom (r (d.1749 )November 9 –Jacques-Georges Chauffepié , French biographer, Calvinist minister and preacher (d.1786 )November 13 –Dominic Vallarsi , Italian priest (d.1771 )November 14 –Francis Gashry (d.1762 )November 20 December 14 –Stephen Sewall , judge in colonial Massachusetts (d.1760 )December 17 December 21 –Tommaso Crudeli , Florentine free thinker who was imprisoned by the Roman Inquisition (d.1745 )December 22 –Jean-Étienne Liotard , French painter (d.1789 )1703
Daniel-Charles Trudaine born3 January Peter Warren (Royal Navy officer) born10 March Edmund Law born6 June John Wesley born28 June Muhammad Ibrahim (Mughal emperor) born9 August Jean-Louis Calandrini born30 August Jonathan Edwards (theologian) born5 October Louise Levesque born23 November Simon Carl Stanley born12 December January 1 –Heinrich Sigismund von der Heyde , Prussian army commander (d.1765 )January 2 –George Cholmondeley, 3rd Earl of Cholmondeley , English politician (d.1770 )January 3 –Daniel-Charles Trudaine , French administrator and civil engineer (d.1769 )January 5 January 8 –André Levret , French obstetrician, medical practitioner in Paris (d.1780 )January 10 –Christoph Birkmann , German theologian and minister (d.1771 )January 15 January 20 –Joseph-Hector Fiocco , Belgian composer and violinist (d.1741 )January 22 –Antoine Walsh , Irish-French slave trader and Jacobite (d.1763 )January 29 –Carlmann Kolb , German priest (d.1765 )January 31 –André-Joseph Panckoucke , French author and bookseller (d.1753 )February 2 –Richard Morris , Welsh writer and editor (d.1779 )February 3 –Jean Philippe de Bela , French military figure and Basque writer and historian (d.1796 )February 4 Jean Saas , French historian and bibliographer (d.1774 )Andrew Stone , significant figure in the British royal circle, Member of Parliament (d.1773 )February 5 –Gilbert Tennent , Irish-born religious leader (d.1764 )February 8 February 13 –Robert Dodsley , English bookseller, poet, playwright and miscellaneous writer (d.1764 )February 27 –Lord Sidney Beauclerk , English politician and fortune hunter (d.1744 )March 1 –Philip Tisdall , Attorney-General for Ireland (d.1777 )March 4 –Nicolas René Berryer , French magistrate and politician (d.1762 )March 5 (N. S.) –Vasily Trediakovsky , Russian poet (d.1768 )March 10 –Peter Warren , British Royal Navy officer (d.1752 )March 21 –Georg Andreas Sorge , Thuringian organist (d.1778 )March 23 –Cajsa Warg , Swedish cookbook author (d.1769 )[ 80] April 8 –Benoît-Joseph Boussu , French violin maker (d.1773 )April 10 –Pierre Daubenton , French lawyer (d.1776 )April 24 –José Francisco de Isla , Spanish Jesuit (d.1781 )May 2 –James West , English antiquary (d.1772 )May 8 –Gottlob Harrer , German composer and choir leader (d.1755 )May 10 –John Winslow , British Army officer (d.1774 )May 12 –Countess Sophie Theodora of Castell-Remlingen , German noblewoman (d.1777 )May 14 –David Brearly , delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention (d.1785 )May 18 May 20 –René Lièvre de Besançon , French archer (d.1739 )June 6 –Edmund Law , priest in the Church of England (d.1787 )June 10 –Walter Butler, 16th Earl of Ormonde , Irish landowner (d.1783 )June 21 –Joseph Lieutaud , French physician (d.1780 )June 24 –Anne van Keppel, Countess of Albemarle (d.1789 )June 26 –Thomas Clap , first president of Yale University (d.1767 )June 28 –John Wesley , English founder of Methodism and anti-slavery activist (d.1791 )[ 81] July 7 –Kenrick Prescot , English Anglican priest and academic (d.1779 )July 9 –Edward Shippen III , American merchant and mayor of Philadelphia (d.1781 )July 12 –Nicholas Hewetson , Anglican priest in Ireland (d.1761 )July 15 –Axel Lagerbielke , Swedish admiral and statesman (d.1782 )July 17 –Thomas Hancock , merchant in colonial Boston (d.1764 )August 2 –Lorenzo Ricci , Italian Jesuit leader (d.1775 )August 4 –Louis, Duke of Orléans , member of the royal family of France (d.1752 )August 9 –Muhammad Ibrahim , claimant to the throne of India (d.1746 )August 15 –Jacob Bicker Raije , writer from the Northern Netherlands (d.1777 )August 24 –François-Marie Le Marchand de Lignery , colonial military leader in the French province of Canada (d.1759 )August 30 –Jean-Louis Calandrini , Genevan scientist (d.1758 )September 1 –Just Fabritius , Danish merchant (d.1766 )September 3 –Johann Theodor of Bavaria , cardinal (d.1763 )September 6 –John Harris , British landowner and politician (d.1768 )September 15 –Guillaume-François Rouelle , French chemist (d.1770 )September 23 –Charlotte Howe, Viscountess Howe , Hanover-born British courtier and politician (d.1782 )September 29 October 3 –Franz Christoph Janneck , Austrian painter in the Baroque style (d.1761 )October 5 –Jonathan Edwards , North American revivalist preacher (d.1758 )October 6 –Louis de Beaufort , French-Dutch historian known for his critical approach to the history of Rome (d.1795 )October 7 –Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Baden-Durlach , German hereditary prince (d.1732 )October 13 October 15 –Benigna Gottliebe von Trotta genannt Treyden , Duchess consort of Courland (d.1782 )October 16 October 22 –Edward Rudge , English politician (d.1763 )October 23 –Sir Alexander Dick, 3rd Baronet , Scottish landowner and physician (d.1785 )October 28 October 30 –James Hill , Scottish surgeon, advocate of curative excision for cancer (d.1776 )November 1 –Frederik Danneskiold-Samsøe , Danish politician (d.1770 )[ 83] November 10 –Carlo Zuccari , Italian composer and violinist (d.1792 )November 17 –Adam Miller , German-born pioneer in the colony of Virginia (d.1783 )November 18 –Andrew Rollo, 5th Lord Rollo , Scottish army commander in Canada and Dominica during the Seven Years' War (d.1765 )November 22 November 23 –Louise Levesque , French femme de lettres (d.1743 )November 25 –Jean-François Séguier , French astronomer and botanist (d.1784 )November 26 –Theophilus Cibber , English actor and writer (d.1758 )November 27 –James De Lancey , colonial governor of the Province of New York (d.1760 )December 2 –Ferdinand Konščak , Croatian Jesuit missionary, explorer and cartographer (d.1759 )December 9 –Chester Moore Hall , British lawyer and inventor who produced the first achromatic lenses (d.1771 )December 12 –Simon Carl Stanley , Danish sculptor of English parentage (d.1761 )December 15 December 23 –Stephen Cornwallis , career British Army officer and politician (d.1743 )December 24 1704
Louis, Hereditary Prince of Lorraine born28 January Charles Pinot Duclos born12 February Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne born15 February Louis Godin born28 February Jacques Dumont le Romain born10 May Carlos Seixas born11 June John Kay (flying shuttle) born17 June James Gabriel Montresor born19 November January 1 January 6 –Michael Becher , Bristol-born English slave trader and merchant (d.1758 )January 16 –Finnur Jónsson , Icelandic pastor, Bishop of Skálholt from 1754 to 1785 (d.1789 )January 28 –Louis, Hereditary Prince of Lorraine (d.1711 )January 29 –Francesco Appiani , Italian painter of the late-Baroque period (d.1792 )February 4 –Anna Susanne von der Osten , Danish courtier and philanthropist (d.1773 )February 5 –Anne Christine of Sulzbach, Princess of Piedmont (d.1722 )February 6 –John Mercer , colonial American lawyer (d.1768 )February 12 February 15 February 17 February 24 –Johann Hieronymus Kniphof , German physician and botanist (d.1763 )February 28 February 29 –Phillips Payson , American Congregationalist minister for the town of Walpole (d.1778 )March 6 –John Ward, 1st Viscount Dudley and Ward (d.1774 )March 10 –Josias Lyndon , governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (d.1778 )March 17 –Lord Charles Cavendish (d.1783 )March 21 –Alexander Ferdinand, 3rd Prince of Thurn and Taxis (d.1773 )April 1 –Amalie von Wallmoden, Countess of Yarmouth , principal mistress of King George II from the mid-1730s (d.1765 )April 4 –Andreas Brünniche , Danish portrait painter (d.1769 )April 7 –Guillaume-François Berthier , Jesuit professor and writer (d.1782 )April 10 –Benjamin Heath , English classical scholar (d.1766 )April 13 –Francis North, 1st Earl of Guilford (d.1790 )April 17 April 21 –Gabriel Manigault , American merchant (d.1781 )April 29 –Arthur Denny , Irish politician (d.1742 )April 30 –Jean Adam , Scottish poet from the labouring classes (d.1765 )May 6 –Fath Muhammad , general of Mysore and the father of Hyder Ali (d.1725 )May 7 –Carl Heinrich Graun , German composer and tenor (d.1759 )May 8 –Gaspare Testone , Italian painter and architect (d.1801 )May 10 –Jacques Dumont le Romain , French history and portrait painter (d.1781 )June 1 –Johann Baptist Straub (d.1784 )June 4 –Benjamin Huntsman , English inventor and manufacturer of cast or crucible steel (d.1776 )June 11 –Carlos Seixas , Portuguese composer (d.1742 )June 16 –Edward Ward, 9th Baron Dudley (d.1731 )June 17 –John Kay , inventor of the flying shuttle (d.1780 )June 22 –John Taylor , English classical scholar (d.1766 )June 24 June 29 –Azad Bilgrami , scholar of Arabic (d.1786 )July 4 –Michel de Sallaberry (d.1768 )July 15 –August Gottlieb Spangenberg , German theologian and minister (d.1792 )July 31 –Gabriel Cramer , Swiss mathematician (d.1752 )August 3 August 5 –William Allen , wealthy merchant (d.1780 )August 11 –Karl August von Bergen (d.1759 )August 12 –Countess Caroline of Nassau-Saarbrücken (d.1774 )August 13 –Alexis Fontaine des Bertins , French mathematician (d.1771 )August 21 –Johann Georg, Chevalier de Saxe (d.1774 )August 26 September 3 –Joseph de Jussieu , French botanist and explorer (d.1779 )September 5 –Maurice Quentin de La Tour , French Rococo portraitist, working primarily with pastels (d.1788 )September 7 –John Hope, 2nd Earl of Hopetoun , son of Charles Hope (d.1781 )September 12 –Stephen Fox-Strangways, 1st Earl of Ilchester (d.1776 )September 20 –Isaac Basire , engraver, first in a family line of prolific and well-respected engravers (d.1768 )September 22 –Jacques de Lafontaine de Belcour , French entrepreneur with business ventures in New France (now Quebec) (d.1765 )September 24 –Karl August, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont (d.1763 )September 26 –William French , Anglican priest (d.1785 )September 29 –Johann Friedrich Cartheuser , German physician and naturalist (d.1777 )October 29 –John Byng , British admiral (d.1757 )November 1 November 5 November 6 –Willem Bentinck van Rhoon , Dutch nobleman and politician (d.1774 )November 7 –Charles Gautier de Vinfrais , French officer of the Royal venery (d.1797 )November 11 –Adriaan van Royen , Dutch botanist (d.1779 )November 13 –Charles Hamilton , MP (d.1786 )November 16 –Giacopo Belgrado (d.1789 )November 19 November 28 –Jacob Mossel (d.1761 )December 8 –Anton de Haen , Austrian physician of Dutch ancestry (d.1776 )December 12 December 14 –Jacob von Eggers , Military engineer (d.1773 )December 26 –Lord George Beauclerk , British Army officer (d.1768 )December 29 –Martha Daniell Logan , American botanist (d.1779 )December 31 –Carl Gotthelf Gerlach , German organist (d.1761 )1705
Charles Chauncy (1705–1787) born1 January Isaac Hawkins Browne (poet) born21 January Peter Artedi born27 February Sophie Caroline of Brandenburg-Kulmbach born31 March William Cookworthy born12 April António José da Silva born8 May Carl Marcus Tuscher born1 June Thomas Birch born23 November January 1 –Charles Chauncy , American Congregational clergyman (d.1787 )January 5 –John Stanhope , English Member of Parliament (d.1748 )January 8 –Jacques-François Blondel , French architect and teacher (d.1774 )January 14 –Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier , French governor of the Mascarene Islands (d.1786 )January 15 –Ludwig Gruno of Hesse-Homburg (d.1745 )January 21 –Isaac Hawkins Browne , English poet (d.1760 )January 24 –Farinelli , Italian castrato (d.1782 )January 28 –Reverend Joseph Fish , pastor in the British North American colonies (d.1781 )February 3 –John Robinson , politician, landowner in the British colony of Virginia (d.1766 )February 13 –Franciszka Urszula Radziwiłłowa , Polish writer and playwright (d.1753 )February 15 –Charles-André van Loo , French painter (d.1765 )February 20 –Nicolas Chédeville , French composer (d.1782 )February 21 –Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke , British Royal Navy admiral (d.1781 )February 24 –Hieronymus David Gaubius , German physician and chemist (d.1780 )February 25 –Edward Ironside , British banker, Lord Mayor of London in 1753 (d.1753 )February 27 –Peter Artedi , Swedish naturalist, known as the "father of ichthyology" (d.1735 )March 2 –William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield , Scottish judge and politician (d.1793 )March 8 –Margrethe Marie Thomasine Numsen , Danish courtier (d.1776 )March 9 –Tommaso Temanza , Italian architect and author of the Neoclassic period (d.1789 )March 12 –Noël Jourda de Vaux , French noble and general (d.1788 )March 18 –Jeremias Van Rensselaer , 6th patroon of Rensselaerwyck, eldest son of Kiliaen van Rensselaer and Maria van Cortlandt (d.1743 )March 20 –Johann Sigismund Scholze , Silesian music anthologist and poet (d.1750 )March 21 –Lorenz Natter , German gem-engraver and medallist (d.1763 )March 22 –Nicolas-Sébastien Adam , French sculptor (d.1778 )March 30 –August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof , German miniature painter (d.1759 )March 31 –Sophie Caroline of Brandenburg-Kulmbach , princess consort of Ostfriesland as the spouse of Prince George Albert (d.1764 )April 7 –Sir Edward O'Brien, 2nd Baronet (d.1765 )April 9 –Nathan Webb (d.1772 )April 12 –William Cookworthy , English Quaker minister (d.1780 )April 19 –Claes Grill , Swedish merchant (d.1767 )April 21 –Jean-Pierre Aulneau , Jesuit missionary priest, briefly active in New France (d.1736 )April 23 –Erasmus James Philipps , serving member on Nova Scotia Council (1730–1760) (d.1760 )May 1 –Nathaniel Elliot , English Jesuit scholar (d.1780 )May 5 –John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudoun , Scottish nobleman and army officer (d.1782 )May 6 –Christian Gärtner , German telescope maker and astronomer (d.1782 )May 8 –António José da Silva , Portuguese dramatist born in colonial Brazil (d.1739 )May 10 –Alexander Luttrell (d.1737 )May 13 –Johan Lorentz Castenschiold , Dutch-Danish landowner who was ennobled (d.1747 )June 1 –Carl Marcus Tuscher , German-born Danish polymath (d.1751 )June 9 June 10 –Charles Frederick Albert, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt (d.1762 )June 21 –Samuel Edwards , American silversmith (d.1762 )July 1 –Sir Alexander Grant, 5th Baronet (d.1772 )July 23 –Francis Blomefield , English antiquarian (d.1752 )August 8 –Gustaaf Willem van Imhoff , Dutch colonial administrator for the Dutch East India Company (VOC) (d.1750 )August 12 –Jonathan Clarke , American silversmith active in Newport (d.1770 )August 15 –Joseph Wanton , merchant, governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (d.1780 )August 18 August 20 August 30 –David Hartley , English philosopher (d.1757 )September 2 –Abraham Tucker , English country gentleman (d.1774 )September 5 –Élisabeth Alexandrine de Bourbon , French princess of the blood (d.1765 )September 7 –Matthäus Günther , German painter and artist of the Baroque and Rococo era (d.1788 )September 19 September 21 (bapt.) –Dick Turpin , English thief and highwayman (hanged1739 )September 23 –Joseph, Hereditary Prince of Hesse-Rotenburg (d.1744 )September 24 –Leopold Josef Graf Daun , Austrian field marshal (d.1766 )September 28 October 3 –Jacques-Joachim Trotti, marquis de La Chétardie , French diplomat who engineered the coup d'état that brought Elizaveta Petrovna to the Russian throne in 1741 (d.1759 )October 8 –Yakov Shakhovskoy (d.1777 )October 12 –Emmanuel Héré de Corny , court architect to Stanisław Leszczyński (d.1763 )October 23 –Maximilian Ulysses Browne , Austrian military officer (d.1757 )October 25 –Johann Friedrich Endersch , German cartographer and mathematician (d.1769 )October 31 –Pope Clement XIV (d.1774 )[ 84] November 1 –Antoine Terrasson , French author (d.1782 )November 4 –Louis-Élisabeth de La Vergne de Tressan , French soldier (d.1783 )November 5 November 15 –Sir Halswell Tynte, 3rd Baronet (d.1730 )November 17 –Andrea Casali (d.1784 )November 23 –Thomas Birch , English historian (d.1766 )November 24 –Christian Moritz Graf Königsegg und Rothenfels (d.1778 )November 29 –Michael Christian Festing , English violinist and composer (d.1752 )November 30 –Jonathan Parsons , Christian New England clergyman during the late colonial period, supporter of the American Revolution (d.1776 )December 6 –Andrés de la Calleja , Spanish painter (d.1785 )December 9 –Faustina Pignatelli , Italian mathematician (d.1769 )December 14 December 20 December 27 –Prince Frederick Henry Eugen of Anhalt-Dessau , German prince of the House of Ascania (d.1781 )December 30 –Georg Wolfgang Knorr , German engraver and naturalist (d.1761 )1706
Lauritz de Thurah born4 March Andrew Oliver born28 March François Boissier de Sauvages de Lacroix born12 May Benjamin Dass born15 August January 1 January 3 –Johann Caspar Füssli , Swiss portrait painter and writer (d.1782 )January 7 –Johann Heinrich Zedler , German publisher (d.1751 )January 17 January 20 –Frederick Charles Augustus, Count of Lippe (d.1781 )January 26 –John Elder , American colonial pastor (d.1792 )January 28 –Shubal Stearns , American colonial evangelist and preacher during the Great Awakening (d.1771 )February 2 –Claude-Godefroy Coquart , Jesuit priest who probably arrived in Quebec in 1739 (d.1765 )February 8 –Luis de Córdova y Córdova , Spanish admiral (d.1796 )February 11 –Nils Rosén von Rosenstein , Swedish physician (d.1773 )February 12 –Johann Joseph Christian , German Baroque sculptor and woodcarver (d.1777 )February 17 –Robert Hampden-Trevor, 1st Viscount Hampden , British diplomat at The Hague and then joint Postmaster General (d.1783 )February 19 –John Hornyold , English Catholic bishop (d.1778 )February 20 –Phineas Stevens , distinguished officer noted for his defense of the Fort at Number 4 during a siege in April 1747 (d.1756 )February 26 –Jan Antonín Vocásek , Czech Baroque painter (d.1757 )February 28 –Philippe-François Bart , French naval officer who was Governor of Saint-Domingue during the Seven Years' War (d.1784 )March 1 –Sébastien Bigot de Morogues , French soldier, a sailor and military naval tactician (d.1781 )March 4 –Lauritz de Thurah , Danish architect and architectural writer (d.1759 )March 6 – SirGeorge Pocock , British admiral (d.1792 )March 7 –Johann Leonhard Dober , one of the two first missionaries of the Moravian Brethren in the West Indies in 1732 (d.1766 )March 12 –Johan Pasch , Swedish painter (d.1769 )March 13 –Johann Christoph Heilbronner , German mathematical historian (d.1745 )March 14 –Siegmund Jakob Baumgarten , German Protestant theologian (d.1757 )March 23 –Anna Maria Barbara Abesch , Swiss reverse glass painter and the daughter of Johann Peter Abesch (d.1773 )March 26 –Mather Byles , American clergyman active in British North America (d.1788 )March 28 –Andrew Oliver , merchant and public official in the province of Massachusetts Bay (d.1774 )March 30 –Tommaso Struzzieri , Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Todi (1775–1780) (d.1780 )April 2 –Johann Joseph Würth , Austrian silversmith of the late baroque period (d.1767 )April 6 –Louis de Cahusac , French playwright and librettist (d.1759 )April 18 –William Brattle , Attorney General of province of Massachusetts Bay as well as a physician (d.1776 )April 24 –Giovanni Battista Martini , Italian musician (d.1784 )April 29 –Pierre-Antoine Gourgaud , French actor (d.1774 )April 30 –Philipp Jakob Straub , Austrian sculptor (d.1774 )May 12 –François Boissier de Sauvages de Lacroix , French physician and botanist who was a native of Alès (d.1767 )May 17 –Andreas Felix von Oefele , German historian and librarian (d.1780 )May 20 –Seth Pomeroy , American gunsmith and soldier from Northampton (d.1777 )May 22 –Samuel Troilius , Archbishop of Uppsala in the Church of Sweden (d.1764 )June 10 –John Dollond , English optician (d.1761 )June 15 –Johann Joachim Kändler , German sculptor and important modeller of the Meissen porcelain manufactury (d.1775 )July 3 –Robert Lee, 4th Earl of Lichfield , English politician and peer (d.1776 )July 8 –John Hart , militia officer during King George's War and the French and Indian War (d.1777 )July 16 –Charles Godefroy de La Tour d'Auvergne , French nobleman (d.1771 )July 21 –Pierre Lyonnet , artist and engraver who became a naturalist (d.1789 )August 1 –Franz Sebald Unterberger , South Tyrolean painter in the Baroque style (d.1776 )August 4 –Frederick Charles, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön (d.1761 )August 8 –Johan Augustin Mannerheim , Swedish nobleman and military leader (d.1778 )[ 85] August 11 –Princess Marie Auguste of Thurn and Taxis , Regent of Württemberg (d.1756 )August 15 –Benjamin Dass , Norwegian educator and scholar who served as Rector of Trondheim Cathedral School (d.1775 )August 16 –Bakht Singh of Marwar , Indian Raja of the Rathore Clan (d.1752 )August 21 –Pierre Nicolas d'Incarville , French Jesuit, amateur botanist and missionary to China (d.1757 )August 24 –Sir John Evelyn, 2nd Baronet , British courtier and Whig politician (d.1767 )August 28 –Jan Bouman , Dutch architect (d.1776 )September 3 –Alonso Verdugo, 3rd Count of Torrepalma , Spanish count (d.1767 )September 8 –Antoine de Favray , French painter noted for his portraits of personalities of the Ottoman Empire (d.1798 )September 9 –Jean-Baptiste Barsalou , Canadian fur trader (d.1776 )September 12 –Léon Ménard , French lawyer and historian (d.1767 )September 21 –Polyxena of Hesse-Rotenburg , second wife of Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia (d.1735 )September 22 –Barbara Regina Dietzsch , Bavarian painter and engraver (d.1783 )October 6 October 11 –Nicolaes Geelvinck , mayor of Amsterdam (d.1764 )October 18 –Baldassare Galuppi , Venetian composer (d.1785 )November 2 –Francis Godolphin, 2nd Baron Godolphin , British peer and politician (d.1785 )November 6 November 7 –Carlo Cecere , Italian composer of operas (d.1761 )November 8 –Johann Ulrich von Cramer , German judge and philosopher (d.1772 )November 11 –Frederick William II, Prince of Nassau-Siegen , last Prince of Nassau-Siegen from the Calvinist line (d.1734 )November 18 –Johann Friedrich Alexander, Prince of Wied , German ruler (d.1791 )November 22 –Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough (d.1758 )November 25 –Henry Dodwell , British religious controversialist and lawyer (d.1784 )December 17 –Émilie du Châtelet , French mathematician and physicist (d.1749 )December 23 –John Cornwallis , British politician (d.1768 )December 24 –Anna Sophie Charlotte of Brandenburg-Schwedt , German noblewoman and member of the House of Hohenzollern (d.1751 )December 25 –Maria Anna of Schwarzenberg , Margravine consort of Baden-Baden and Princess of Schwarzenberg by birth (d.1755 )December 31 –Elisabetta Maria Satellico , Italian Roman Catholic professed religious from the Poor Clares who served as her convent's abbess (d.1745 )date unknown 1707
Louis, Duke of Brittany (1707–1712) born8 January Giuseppe Bonito born11 January Pierre Adamoli born5 August Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon born24 August Johannes Browallius born30 August Pietro Rotari born30 September Charles Wesley born18 December January 2 –Johann Adam Lehmus , German poet of numerous spiritual songs (d.1788 )January 8 –Louis, Duke of Brittany , second son of Louis of France (d.1712 )January 11 –Giuseppe Bonito , Neapolitan painter of the Rococo period (d.1789 )January 13 –John Boyle, 5th Earl of Cork , Irish writer (d.1762 )January 17 –Prospero Colonna di Sciarra , Italian cardinal of the family of the dukes of Carbognano (d.1765 )January 22 –Carl Höckh , German violinist and composer (d.1773 )January 26 –Abbé François Blanchet , French littérateur (d.1784 )February 1 –Frederick, Prince of Wales (d.1751 )February 13 February 25 –Carlo Goldoni , Italian playwright (d.1793 )February 26 –Mariano Arciero , Italian Roman Catholic priest (d.1788 )February 27 –Joseph Johann Kauffmann , Austrian painter known for his portraits, church decorations and castle depictions (d.1782 )February 28 –Johann Christian Senckenberg , German physician (d.1772 )March 1 March 2 March 3 –Johan Ihre , Swedish philologist and historical linguist (d.1780 )March 7 –Stephen Hopkins , governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (d.1785 )March 8 March 20 –Hugh Boscawen, 2nd Viscount Falmouth (d.1782 )March 23 April 4 –Hans Karl von Winterfeldt , Prussian general (d.1757 )April 6 –Abraham de Haen , Dutch draughtsman, engraver, painter and poet (d.1748 )April 10 April 13 –Sir Henry Cavendish, 1st Baronet , British politician who held several appointments in the Kingdom of Ireland (d.1776 )April 15 April 20 –Robert Foulis , Scottish printer and publisher (d.1776 )April 22 –Henry Fielding , English novelist and dramatist known for his earthy humour and satire (d.1754 )April 25 –Léopold Clément, Hereditary Prince of Lorraine , French prince (d.1723 )April 26 –Johannes Burman , Dutch botanist and physician (d.1780 )April 28 –Olivier de Vézin , Canadian ironmaster and chief surveyor of Louisiana (d.1776 )May 1 –Herbert Windsor, 2nd Viscount Windsor (d.1758 )May 2 –Jean-Baptiste Barrière , French cellist and composer (d.1747 )May 12 –Francisco Salzillo , Spanish sculptor (d.1781 )May 14 –António Teixeira , Portuguese composer (d.1774 )May 19 –Robert Hamilton , moderator (d.1787 )May 23 –Carl Linnaeus , Swedish botanist (d.1778 )May 31 –Pietro De Martino , Italian mathematician and astronomer (d.1746 )June 4 June 15 –Johannes Grubenmann , member of the Swiss family Grubenmann who were famous as carpenters and civil engineers (d.1771 )June 18 –Pietro Correr , Italian politician and diplomat (d.1768 )June 20 –Louis de Cardevac, marquis d'Havrincourt (d.1767 )July 7 –Henry Cunningam , Irish Anglican priest (d.1777 )July 8 –Jacques-Philippe Le Bas , French engraver (d.1783 )July 10 –Sir William Lowther, 1st Baronet, of Little Preston , English landowner and curate (d.1788 )July 17 –Johann Joseph von Trautson , Roman Catholic clergyman (d.1757 )July 23 –Edward Bentham , Oxford based theologian who in 1763 (d.1776 )August 4 –Johann August Ernesti , German Rationalist theologian and philologist (d.1781 )August 5 –Pierre Adamoli , French collector (d.1769 )August 7 –Carl Günther Ludovici , German philosopher, lexicographer and economist (d.1778 )August 20 –Jacques Roettiers , engraver in England and France (d.1784 )August 24 –Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon , English Methodist leader (d.1791 )August 25 – KingLouis I of Spain (d.1724 )August 27 –Zanetta Farussi , Italian comedic actress (d.1776 )August 30 –Johannes Browallius , Finnish and Swedish Lutheran theologian, physicist, botanist, friend of Carl Linnaeus (d.1755 )September –Nathan Alcock , English physician (d.1779 ) September 1 –John Salusbury , Welsh nobleman (d.1762 )September 2 –Gian Benedetto Mittarelli , Italian monk and monastic historian (d.1777 )September 3 –Johann Peter Süssmilch , German Protestant pastor (d.1767 )September 5 –John Forbes , British general (d.1759 )September 7 –Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon , French scientist (d.1788 )September 22 –John Rattray , Edinburgh surgeon who served as surgeon to Prince Charles Edward Stuart (d.1771 )September 29 –Antoine Clériadus de Choiseul-Beaupré (d.1774 )September 30 October 4 –Francesco Fontebasso , Italian painter of the late-Baroque or Rococo period of Venice (d.1769 )October 6 –Thomas Falkner , English Jesuit missionary (d.1784 )October 20 –Thomas Church , British priest and controversialist (d.1756 )October 30 –Jeanne Thérèse du Han , Lorraine nobility (d.1748 )November 7 –Dieterich Bernhard Ludewig , German organist (d.1740 )November 9 –Louis de Pardaillan de Gondrin , French courtier, freemason and great-grandson of Madame de Montespan (d.1743 )November 12 November 15 –Prince Adarnase of Kartli , Georgian prince royal (d.1784 )November 23 –Anna Karolina Orzelska , adventuress and Polishszlachcianka (noblewoman) (d.1769 )November 28 –Giammaria Mazzucchelli , Italian writer, bibliographer and historian (d.1765 )December 2 December 4 –Louise Françoise de Bourbon, Mademoiselle du Maine , granddaughter of Louis XIV of France and his mistress Françoise-Athénaïs (d.1743 )December 11 –Paul von Werner , chief of the Prussian Hussar Regiment No. 6 (d.1785 )December 17 –Ernest Frederick II, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen (d.1745 )December 18 December 22 –Johann Amman , Swiss-Russian botanist (d.1741 )December 25 –Sir Joseph Hoare, 1st Baronet , Anglo-Irish politician (d.1801 )date unknown probable William Hoare , English painter (d.1792 )1708
Pompeo Batoni born25 January Jean-François-Joseph de Rochechouart born27 January Augustin-Joseph de Mailly born5 April Johann Adolf Scheibe born5 May John Spencer born13 May Henry Bilson-Legge born29 May Silvester Gardiner born29 June Jean-Rodolphe Perronet born27 October William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham born15 November January 1 –Anton Wilhelm Plaz , German physician and botanist (d.1784 )January 3 –Johannes Van Rensselaer , member of the prominent colonial Van Rensselaer family (d.1783 )January 10 –Donat Nonnotte , French painter who specialized in portraiture (d.1785 )January 14 –Charles Armand René de La Trémoille , French soldier and president of the States of Brittany (d.1741 )January 15 –Giovanni Salvemini , Italian mathematician and astronomer (d.1791 )January 17 –Henry Brydges, 2nd Duke of Chandos (d.1771 )January 23 –Luigi Crespi , Italian painter (d.1779 )January 25 –Pompeo Batoni , Italian painter (d.1787 )January 26 –William Hayes , composer (d.1777 )January 27 January 30 –Georg Dionysius Ehret , botanist and entomologist known for his botanical illustrations (d.1770 )February 3 –Johann Michael Hartung , German organ builder and public figure from Dürkheim (d.1763 )February 8 –Václav Jan Kopřiva , Bohemian composer and organist (d.1789 )February 11 –Egidio Duni , Italian composer who studied in Naples and worked in Italy (d.1775 )February 15 February 19 –Scrope Berdmore , English clergyman (d.1770 )February 23 –Chauncy Townsend , City of London merchant and a Member of Parliament in the Parliament of Great Britain (d.1770 )February 25 –Felix Benda , Bohemian composer and organist (d.1768 )February 29 March 5 March 8 –John Campbell , Scottish author (d.1775 )March 15 –John Hulse , British Anglican priest (d.1790 )March 17 –Johanna Magdalene of Saxe-Weissenfels , Duchess consort of Courland (d.1760 )March 22 –Ernst Henrich Berling , German-Danish book printer and publisher (d.1750 )March 26 –Robert Rochfort, 1st Earl of Belvedere (d.1774 )March 31 –Jean Chastel , farmer and inn-keeper from the province of Gévaudan in France (d.1790 )April 3 April 5 –Augustin-Joseph de Mailly , French general (d.1794 )April 6 –Johann Georg Reutter , Austrian composer (d.1772 )April 12 –Rose Fuller , West Indies plantation owner and politician (d.1777 )April 18 –James Cholmondeley , British Army officer and Member of Parliament between 1731 and 1747 (d.1775 )April 23 –Friedrich von Hagedorn , German poet (d.1754 )April 25 –John Seccombe , author (d.1792 )April 28 –Johann Rudolf Engau , German jurist (d.1755 )May 1 –Lionel Tollemache, 4th Earl of Dysart (d.1770 )May 5 –Johann Adolf Scheibe , German-Danish composer and significant critic and theorist of music (d.1776 )May 8 –Girolamo Colonna di Sciarra , Italian Catholic Cardinal of the noble Colonna di Sciarra family (d.1763 )May 13 May 25 –Wriothesley Russell, 3rd Duke of Bedford , English nobleman and peer (d.1732 )May 29 –Henry Bilson-Legge , English statesman and three times as Chancellor of the Exchequer (d.1764 )May 30 –Daniel Gralath , physicist and a mayor of Danzig (d.1767 )June 5 –Roger Townshend , British soldier and Member of Parliament (d.1760 )June 17 –Annibale degli Abati Olivieri , Italian archaeologist (d.1789 )June 19 –Johann Gottlieb Janitsch , German Baroque composer (d.1763 )June 20 –François-Élie Vincent , French painter of portrait miniatures (d.1790 )June 24 –Sir Henry Harpur, 5th Baronet , English baronet and politician (d.1748 )June 25 –Nicolas Antoine II Coulon de Villiers , French military officer in the King George's War (d.1750 )June 29 –Silvester Gardiner , physician (d.1786 )July 5 –Thomas Phillips , English Jesuit priest (d.1774 )July 8 July 10 –Johannes Enschedé , Dutch printer (d.1780 )July 17 –Frederick Christian, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth , member of the House of Hohenzollern (d.1769 )July 19 –Philip Francis , Anglo-Irish clergyman and writer (d.1773 )July 22 –Nathaniel Ames , Colonial American physician (d.1764 )August 26 August 29 –Olof von Dalin , Swedish nobleman (d.1763 )August 31 –Sir John Rogers, 3rd Baronet (d.1773 )September 2 –André le Breton , French publisher (d.1779 )[ 86] September 4 –Jean-Baptiste Nicolas Roch de Ramezay , officer of the marines, colonial administrator for New France (d.1777 )September 6 –Charles Stanhope , Member of Parliament (MP) for Derby (d.1736 )September 9 –Paul Egede , Dano-Norwegian theologian (d.1789 )September 10 –Mathias Collett , Norwegian civil servant (d.1759 )September 16 –Catharina Freymann , Norwegian educator and pietist leader (d.1791 )September 24 –Manuel Rojo del Río y Vieyra , Archbishop of Manila (d.1764 )September 25 –Thomas Wood , British politician and MP (d.1799 )September 26 –Ignatius Sichelbart , German-Bohemian Jesuit missionary and painter (d.1780 )October 2 –William Sutherland, 17th Earl of Sutherland (d.1750 )October 4 –Antonio Francesco Vezzosi , Italian Theatine and biographical writer (d.1783 )October 5 –Johann Christoph Petzold , German sculptor who mainly worked in Denmark (d.1762 )October 9 –Louis César de La Baume Le Blanc , French nobleman, bibliophile and military man (d.1780 )October 12 –John Wall , English physician (d.1776 )October 16 –Albrecht von Haller , Swiss anatomist and physiologist (d.1777 )October 20 –Francis Webber , Anglican priest (d.1771 )October 22 October 27 November 7 November 15 –William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham ,Prime Minister of Great Britain (d.1778 )[ 87] November 16 –Gregorio Babbi , Italian operatic tenor (d.1768 )November 28 –Sir John Frederick, 4th Baronet , British politician (d.1783 )November 30 –Antoine de Laurès , French poet and playwright from Languedoc (d.1779 )December 2 December 3 –Alessandro Ruspoli, 2nd Prince of Cerveteri , 2nd Principe di Cerveteri (d.1779 )December 6 –Christopher Dufrost de La Jemeraye , Canadian explorer and cartographer (d.1736 )December 8 December 10 December 16 –Robert Livingston , third and final Lord of Livingston Manor (d.1790 )December 18 –John Collier , English caricaturist and satirical poet akaTim Bobbin (d.1786 )December 28 –Sigmund von Haimhausen , Bavarian aristocrat (d.1793 )date unknown 1709
Teresia Constantia Phillips born2 January Christian Gottlieb Ludwig born30 April Théodore Tronchin born24 May Johann Georg Gmelin born8 August Ludvig Harboe born16 August John Eardley Wilmot born16 August Jagat Singh II born17 September Samuel Johnson born18 September January 2 –Teresia Constantia Phillips , British autobiographer (d.1765 )January 13 –Mollie Sneden , operator of a ferry service atPalisades, New York in the United States (d.1810 )January 17 January 24 –Dom Bédos de Celles , Benedictine monk and master pipe organ builder (d.1779 )February 7 –Charles de Brosses French writer (d.1777 )February 9 –George Venables-Vernon, 1st Baron Vernon , British politician (d.1780 )February 11 –William Courtenay, 1st Viscount Courtenay (d.1762 )February 12 –Jacques Barbeu-Dubourg , French physician (d.1779 )February 16 –Henrika Juliana von Liewen , Swedish political salonnière (d.1779 )February 24 –Jacques de Vaucanson , French inventor of mechanical automata (d.1782 )February 27 –Timothy Woodbridge American missionary,deacon , schoolteacher, judge, Superintendent of Indian Affairs (d.1774 )March 1 –William Bentinck, 2nd Duke of Portland (d.1762 )March 10 March 14 –Sten Carl Bielke , scientist and member of the Swedish parliament (d.1753 )March 17 –Nicolò Arrighetti , Italian professor of natural philosophy (d.1767 )March 18 –Johannes Gessner , Swiss mathematician (d.1790 )March 31 –Louis-Charles Le Vassor de La Touche , French naval general, governor of Martinique, governor general of the Windward Islands (d.1781 )April 2 –Josiah Taft , farmer, local official, and Massachusetts legislator (d.1756 )April 6 –Thomas Hopkinson , lawyer (d.1751 )April 7 –William Stewart, 1st Earl of Blessington (d.1769 )April 14 –Charles Collé , French dramatist and songwriter (d.1783 )April 17 –Giovanni Domenico Maraldi , Italian-born astronomer (d.1788 )April 27 –Sir Francis Blake, 1st Baronet, of Twizell Castle (d.1780 )April 30 –Christian Gottlieb Ludwig , German physician and botanist born in Brieg (d.1773 )May 1 –Joachim Wasserschlebe , German-Danish diplomat (d.1787 )May 9 –Mihály Salbeck , doctor of philosophy, priest of the Society of Jesus, and teacher (d.1758 )May 24 –Théodore Tronchin , Genevan physician (d.1781 )May 27 –Margaret Lloyd , Welsh Moravian worker and activist (d.1762 )June 4 –Tomás Sánchez , veteran Spanish captain who founded Laredo (d.1796 )June 9 June 11 –Joachim Martin Falbe , German portrait painter (d.1782 )June 15 –Louis, Count of Clermont (d.1771 )June 28 –Nathan Tupper , farmer (d.1784 )July 4 –Antonio Orgiazzi il Vecchio , Italian painter active mainly in the Valselsia (d.1788 )July 5 –Étienne de Silhouette , French Ancien Régime Controller-General of Finances under Louis XV (d.1767 )July 10 –William Berners , English property developer and slave owner (d.1783 )July 11 –Johan Gottschalk Wallerius , Swedish chemist and mineralogist (d.1785 )July 15 –Antoine Matthieu Le Carpentier , French architect (d.1773 )July 17 July 24 –James Harris , grammarian (d.1780 )August 8 August 10 –Jean-Jacques Lefranc, Marquis de Pompignan , French man of letters and erudition (d.1784 )August 13 –William Clavering-Cowper, 2nd Earl Cowper , British noble (d.1764 )August 16 August 18 –John Storr , officer of the Royal Navy (d.1783 )August 21 –Frederick Henry, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt (d.1788 )August 26 –Guillaume Repin , French priest and martyr (d.1794 )August 29 –Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset , French poet and dramatist (d.1777 )August 30 –Frobenius Forster , German Benedictine (d.1791 )September 5 –Rudolf Füssli , Swiss painter (d.1793 )September 10 –Hachisuka Munekazu , Japanesedaimyō of the Edo period (d.1735 )September 12 –Charles Somerset, 4th Duke of Beaufort (d.1756 )September 17 –Jagat Singh II ,Maharana ofMewar Kingdom (d.1751 )September 18 –Samuel Johnson , English poet, biographer, essayist, and lexicographer (d.1784 )September 29 –Joseph Gerrish , soldier (d.1774 )October 5 October 6 –Edward Kynaston , British landowner and Tory MP (d.1772 )October 9 October 12 –Lord Anne Hamilton , Scottish nobleman (d.1748 )October 13 –John Cole, 1st Baron Mountflorence , Irish peer and politician (d.1767 )October 16 –Johann Daniel Ritter , German historian (d.1775 )October 17 –Jean-Gabriel Berbudeau , French-born surgeon who spent time practicing medicine in eastern Canada (d.1792 )October 19 –Sewallis Shirley , British Member of Parliament in the reign of George II (d.1765 )October 25 November 1 –Ignatius von Weitenauer , German Jesuit writer (d.1783 )November 2 –Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange , Hanoverian-born regent of Friesland (d.1759 )November 6 –Christopher Marshall , leader in the American Revolution (d.1797 )November 15 –Dirk Klinkenberg , mathematician, amateur astronomer, secretary of the Dutch government for 40 years (d.1799 )November 18 –Henry Loftus, 1st Earl of Ely (d.1783 )November 22 –Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Jerusalem , German Lutheran theologian during the Age of Enlightenment (d.1789 )November 26 –Battle of Samana December 1 –Franz Xaver Richter , Austro-Moravian singer, violinist, composer, conductor and music theoretician (d.1789 )December 9 –Pierre II Surette , art of the Acadian andWabanaki Confederacy resistance against the British Empire in Acadia (d.1789 )December 14 December 18 –Elizabeth of Russia , empress regnant of Russia (d.1762 )December 21 December 24 –Johann Evangelist Holzer , Austrian-German painter (d.1740 )
Deaths 1700
Marguerite Bourgeoys died12 January Jan Six diedMay 28 Pieter Gerritsz van Roestraten died10 July Pope Innocent XII diedSeptember 27 Patriarch Adrian of Moscow died16 October Armand Jean le Bouthillier de Rancé died27 October Charles II of Spain died1 November January 7 –Raffaello Fabretti , Italian antiquary (b.1618 )January 12 –Marguerite Bourgeoys ,French founder of theCongregation of Notre Dame of Montreal , in the colony ofNew France (b.1620 )January 21 –Henry Somerset, 1st Duke of Beaufort , English politician (b.1629 )January 30 –Clara Elisabeth von Platen , German noblewoman (b.1648 )February 4 –John Bramston the Younger , English lawyer and MP (b.1611 )February 5 –Louis Maracci , Italian priest (b.1612 )February 12 –Aleksei Shein , Russian commander and statesman (b.1662 )February 25 –James Douglas, 2nd Marquess of Douglas (b.1646 )March 2 –Jankibai ,Empress consort of theMaratha Empire as the first wife ofRajaram Chhatrapati (b.1675 )March 3 March 4 –Lorenzo Pasinelli , Italian painter (b.1629 )March 8 –William Dunlop , Covenanter (b. c.1654 )March 14 –Henry Killigrew , English clergyman and playwright (b.1613 )March 18 –Francesco Scannagatta , Roman Catholic prelate and Bishop of Avellino e Frigento (b.1632 )March 26 –Heinrich Meibom , German physician and scholar (b.1638 )May 1 May 5 –Angelo Italia , Sicilian architect (b.1628 )May 12 –John Dryden , English poet and dramatist (b.1631 )May 15 –John Hale , American witch hunter and pastor (b.1636 )May 18 –Teofil Rutka , Polish philosopher (b.1622 )May 23 –Jens Juel , Danish diplomat (b.1631 )May 28 –Jan Six , important cultural figure in the Dutch Golden Age (b.1618 )May 31 –Agostino Scilla , Italian painter and scientist (b.1629 )June 20 –Richard Gilpin , English nonconformist minister and physician (b.1625 )June 29 –Olov Svebilius , Swedish priest and professor (b.1624 )July 2 July 7 –Silvestro Valier , 109th Doge of Venice (b.1630 )July 10 July 19 (found dead) –Thomas Creech , English translator of classical works, headmaster of Sherborne School (b.1659 )July 22 –Alderano Cybo , Italian Catholic Cardinal (b.1613 )July 30 –Prince William, Duke of Gloucester , member of the English royal family (b.1689 )August 17 –Thomas-Claude Renart de Fuchsamberg Amblimont , French naval officer, governor general of the French Antilles (b.1642 )August 22 –Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora , Mexican academic (b.1645 )August 30 –Sir Richard Cust, 1st Baronet , English politician (b.1622 )August 31 –William Savile, 2nd Marquess of Halifax , English noble and politician (b.1665 )September 7 –William Russell, 1st Duke of Bedford , English noble and politician (b.1616 )September 15 –André Le Nôtre , French landscape gardener (b.1613 )September 16 –Martyrs of Cajonos , Mexican Catholic converts (b. c.1660 )September 23 –Nicolaus Adam Strungk , German composer and violinist (b.1640 )September 27 –Pope Innocent XII , born Antonio Pignatelli (b.1615 )September 30 –Lorenzo Trotti , Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Pavia (1672–1700) (b.1633 )October 1 –Sir Samuel Grimston, 3rd Baronet , English politician (b.1643 )October 16 –Patriarch Adrian of Moscow , Russian Orthodox Church leader (b.1627 )October 17 –Eligio Caracciolo , Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Cosenza (1694–1700) (b.1654 )October 23 –Anne Marie de Bourbon , daughter of the Prince of Condé and of a Bavarian princess (b.1675 )October 27 –Armand Jean le Bouthillier de Rancé , abbot of La Trappe Abbey, founder of the Trappists (b.1626 )October 31 –Sir Robert Napier, 1st Baronet, of Punknoll (b.1642 )November 1 –Charles II of Spain , King of Spain; last Habsburg ruler of the Spanish Empire (b.1661 )November 2 –Francis Turner , English bishop (b.1637 )November 4 –Sebastián de Pastrana , Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Paraguay (1693–1700) (b.1633 )November 11 –Sophie Angelika of Württemberg-Oels , by marriage Duchess of Saxe-Zeitz-Pegau-Neustadt (b.1677 )November 16 –Paul Rycaut , British diplomat (b.1629 )November 18 –Robert Walpole , English Whig politician, soldier and member of parliament (b.1650 )November 25 –Stephanus Van Cortlandt , first native-born mayor of New York City (b.1643 )November 26 –Tokugawa Mitsutomo , daimyō of Owari Domain during early Edo period Japan (b.1625 )December 5 –Mata Jito , first wife of the tenth Sikh Guru (b.1673 )December 13 –Inoha Seihei , bureaucrat of theRyukyu Kingdom (b.1648 )December 15 –Juan Alfonso Valerià y Aloza , Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Lérida (1699–1700) (b.1643 )December 16 –Thomas Morgan , English politician (b.1664 )December 18 –Edward Harley , English politician (b.1624 )December 20 –Mary Bradbury , accused witch in Salem, Massachusetts (b.1615 )1701
William Kidd died23 May Madeleine de Scudéry died2 June Anna Stanisławska died2 June Edmé Boursault died15 September James II of England died16 September Stanislaus Papczyński died17 September January 3 January 4 January 6 –Toussaint Rose , French writer (b.1611 )January 14 –Tokugawa Mitsukuni , Japanese warlord (b.1628 )January 17 –Domenico Belisario de Bellis , Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Molfetta (1696–1701) (b.1647 )January 18 –Sir John Fagg, 1st Baronet , English politician (b.1627 )January 27 –James Graham , English born colonial American politician (b.1650 )February 10 –Savo Millini , Roman Catholic cardinal (b.1644 )February 15 –François de Clermont-Tonnerre , French aristocrat and cleric (b.1629 )February 27 –Christiana Oxenstierna , Swedish noble (b.1661 )March 15 –Jean Renaud de Segrais , French writer (b.1624 )March 19 –John Egerton, 3rd Earl of Bridgewater , English politician (b.1646 )March 31 –Thomas van Rhee , Governor of Dutch Ceylon (b.1634 )April 2 –Henry Howard, 7th Duke of Norfolk (b.1655 )April 4 –Joseph Haines , English entertainer and authorApril 8 –Alexander Sforza , Titular Archbishop ofNeocaesarea in Ponto and Apostolic Nuncio to Savoy (b.1658 )April 18 –Henry, Prince of Nassau-Dillenburg , (1662–1701) (b.1641 )April 21 –Asano Naganori , Japanese warlord (b.1667 )April 24 –Fernando de Carvajal y Ribera , Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Santo Domingo (b.1632 )May 8 May 18 –Niwa Mitsushige , Edo period Japanese samurai, 2nd Niwa daimyō of Shirakawa Domain and the 1st Niwa daimyō of Nihonmatsu Domain (b.1622 )May 20 May 23 May 26 –Augusta of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg , Danish-German princess (b.1633 )May 30 –Theophilus Hastings, 7th Earl of Huntingdon , 17th-century English politician and Jacobite (b.1650 )June 2 June 7 –Charles Cotterell , English courtier (b.1615 )June 9 –Philippe I, Duke of Orléans , younger son of Louis XIII of France and his wife (b.1640 )June 24 –Ford Grey, 1st Earl of Tankerville (b.1655 )July 5 –Pier Matteo Petrucci , Roman Catholic cardinal (b.1636 )July 7 –William Stoughton , American judge at the Salem witch trials (b.1631 )July 12 –Giovanni Battista Nepita , Bishop of Massa Lubrense and Bishop of Sant'Angelo dei Lombardi e Bisaccia (b.1624 )July 14 –Lorenzo Kreutter de Corvinis , Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Vieste (1697–1701) (b.1658 )July 16 –Justus Danckerts , Dutch artist (b.1635 )August 6 –William Hedges , the first governor of the East India Company (b.1632 )August 20 –Sir Charles Sedley, 5th Baronet , English playwright (b.1639 )[ 90] August 22 –John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath , English royalist statesman (b.1628 )August 31 –Samuel Chappuzeau , French scholar (b.1625 )September 4 –Charles Granville, 2nd Earl of Bath , English diplomat (b.1661 )September 15 –Edmé Boursault , French writer (b.1638 )September 16 –James II of England , King of England and Ireland, and of Scotland (as James VII) (b.1633 )September 17 –Stanislaus Papczyński , Polish priest (b.1631 )September 19 –Walter Moyle , English politician (b.1627 )September 20 –Bernard Granville , courtier of King Charles II and MP (b.1631 )September 28 –Johannetta of Sayn-Wittgenstein , German noblewoman (b.1632 )October 3 –Joseph Williamson , English politician (b.1633 )November 1 –Alexander Stuart, 5th Earl of Moray , Scottish nobleman (b.1634 )November 5 –Charles Gerard, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield , French-born English politician (b. c.1659 )November 9 –Hui-bin Jang , Korean royal consort (b.1659 )November 27 –Maurizio Bertone , Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Fossano (1678–1701) (b.1639 )November 29 –Carlo Labia , Archbishop (Personal Title) of Adria and Archbishop of Corfù (b.1624 )December 2 –Zofia Czarnkowska Opalińska , mother-in-law of King Stanislaus I of Poland (b.1660 )December 21 –Sir Hugh Paterson, 1st Baronet , Scottish landowner (b.1659 )1702
Ignatius Gregory Peter VI Shahbaddin died4 March Joseph Oriol died23 March Zeb-un-Nissa died26 May Vincent van der Vinne died26 July Olaus Rudbeck died17 September Countess Sophie Henriette of Waldeck died15 October John Benbow died4 November January 2 –Christian Adolf I, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Franzhagen , German nobleman (b.1641 )January 7 –Ernst von Trautson , Austrian Roman Catholic clergyman who was Prince-Bishop of Vienna (b.1633 )January 17 –Stanisław Herakliusz Lubomirski , Polish noble (b.1642 )February 16 –John Milner , English clergyman (b.1628 )February 17 –Peder Syv , Danish historian (b.1631 )February 27 –Münejjim Bashi , Ottoman astrologer, Sufi, and historianMarch 2 –Giuseppe de Lazzara , Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Alife (1676–1702) (b.1626 )March 4 –Ignatius Gregory Peter VI Shahbaddin , Patriarch of the Syriac Catholic Church from 1678 to 1702 (b. c.1641 )March 8 March 18 –Johannes Rothe , Dutch preacher (b.1628 )March 23 –Joseph Oriol , Spanish Catholic priest, saint (b.1650 )March 24 –Sir James Clavering, 1st Baronet , English landowner (b.1620 )April 2 –Iver Leganger , Norwegian priest, non-fiction writer (b.1629 )April 3 April 12 –Paul Mezger , Austrian Benedictine theologian and academic (b.1637 )April 20 –Anna Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury , English countess (b.1642 )April 22 –François Charpentier , French archaeologist and man of letters (b.1620 )April 23 –Margaret Fell , English Quaker leader (b.1614 )April 27 May 10 –Antonio Gherardi , Italian painter (b.1638 )May 14 –Marc Hyacinthe de Rosmadec , French naval officer, appointed governor general of the French Antilles but died before taking office (b.1635 )May 17 –Jan Wyck , Dutch military painter (b.1645 )May 26 –Zeb-un-Nissa , Mughal princess and poet, imprisoned by her father for the last 20 years of her life (b.1638 )May 27 –Dominique Bouhours , French critic (b.1628 )June 1 –François Provost , career soldier from France who served in New France in 1665 (b.1638 )June 2 –John Moore , Member of Parliament for the City of London (b.1620 )June 7 –Benedetto Giacinto Sangermano , Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Nusco (1680–1702) (b.1638 )June 20 July 12 –Nanbu Shigenobu , Edo period Japanese samurai (b.1616 )July 19 –Frederick IV, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp (b.1671 )July 26 –Vincent van der Vinne , Dutch Mennonite painter (b.1628 )August 1 –Sir William Courtenay, 1st Baronet , English politician (b.1628 )August 8 –Callinicus II of Constantinople , Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople (b.1630 )August 14 –Louis Thomas, Count of Soissons and Prince of Savoy (b.1657 )August 15 –Charles, Prince of Commercy , French field marshal (b.1661 )September 11 –Sir Robert Southwell , English diplomat (b.1635 )September 12 –Alfonso Basilio Ghetaldo , Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Stagno (1694–1702) (b.1647 )September 17 –Olaus Rudbeck , Swedish architect (b.1630 )September 20 –William Campion , English politician (b.1640 )September 28 –Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland , English statesman (b.1641 )October 14 –Franz Anton, Count of Hohenzollern-Haigerloch (b.1657 )October 15 October 16 –Francesco Casati , Roman Catholic prelate, Titular Archbishop ofTrapezus (1670–1702) (b.1620 )October 17 October 22 –Guy Aldonce de Durfort de Lorges , French noble and soldier (b.1630 )October 27 –Niccolò Radulovich , Roman Catholic cardinal (b.1627 )November 2 –Andrés de las Navas y Quevedo , Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Santiago de Guatemala (1682–1702) (b.1632 )November 4 –John Benbow , English officer in the Royal Navy (b.1653 )November 5 –William Stanley, 9th Earl of Derby (b.1655 )November 13 –Dudley Bradstreet , American magistrate, Justice of the Peace of Andover (b.1648 )November 26 –Gerrit de Heere , Governor of Dutch Ceylon during its Dutch period (b.1657 )November 29 –Nanbu Yukinobu , early to mid-Edo period Japanese samurai (b.1642 )December 8 December 16 –Henry FitzJames , illegitimate son of King James II of England and VII of Scotland by Arabella Churchill (b.1673 )December 26 –Fitton Gerard, 3rd Earl of Macclesfield , English politician, earl (b.1663 )1703
Úrsula Micaela Morata died9 January Ilona Zrínyi died18 February John Churchill, Marquess of Blandford died20 February Robert Hooke died3 March Thomas Jollie died14 March Ōishi Yoshio died20 March Johann Christoph Bach died31 March Charles Perrault died16 May Samuel Pepys died26 May Anna Isabella Gonzaga died11 August Vincenzo Viviani died22 September Thomas Kingo died14 October John Wallis died8 November Mitrophan of Voronezh died23 November Henry Winstanley died27 November January 2 –Charles Bécart de Granville et de Fonville , New France attorney, draughtsman and cartographer (b.1675 )January 6 –Charlotte Marie of Saxe-Jena , German noblewoman (b.1669 )January 7 –Francesco Civalli , Italian painter (b.1660 )January 8 January 9 –Úrsula Micaela Morata , Spanish writer (b.1628 )January 11 –Johann Georg Graevius , German classical scholar and critic (b.1632 )January 12 –Francesco Eschinardi , Italian mathematician (b.1623 )January 16 –Erik Dahlbergh , Swedish count, army officer, architect and official (b.1625 )January 31 February 5 –Phetracha , king ofAyutthaya (b.1632 )February 11 –Godert de Ginkel, 1st Earl of Athlone , Dutch general in the service of England (b.1644 )February 15 –Robert Kerr, 1st Marquess of Lothian , Scottish nobleman (b.1636 )February 18 February 20 February 21 –George Oxenden , British academic, lawyer and politician (b.1651 )February 22 –Mosen Vicente Bru , Spanish painter (b.1682 )February 28 –Sir Roger Twisden, 2nd Baronet , British Baronet (b.1640 )March 3 March 4 –George Gordon, 15th Earl of Sutherland , Scottish noble (b.1633 )March 5 –Gabrielle Suchon , French philosopher (b.1632 )March 6 –Thomas St George , English herald (b.1615 )March 9 –Friedemann Bechmann , German theologian (b.1628 )March 12 –Aubrey de Vere, 20th Earl of Oxford , Royalist during the English Civil War (b.1627 )March 14 March 18 –Maria de Dominici , Maltese artist, sculptor (b.1645 )March 20 March 22 –Giuseppe Maria Pignatelli , Roman Catholic bishop (b.1660 )March 29 –George Frederick II , Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (b.1678 )March 30 –Lazzaro Baldi , Italian painter and engraver (b.1623 )March 31 –Johann Christoph Bach , German composer and organist (b.1642 )April 1 –Thomas Jermyn, 2nd Baron Jermyn , Governor of Jersey (b.1633 )April 4 –Philip Florinus of Sulzbach , Austrian field marshal (b.1630 )April 8 –Domenico Piola , Italian painter (b.1627 )April 9 –Ignacio de Urbina , Spanish prelate (b.1632 )April 13 –Victoria Davia-Montecuculi Modenese noblewoman (b.1655 )April 16 –Richard Kirkby , Royal Navy officer (b.1658 )April 18 April 20 April 23 –Otto Wilhelm von Fersen , Swedish field marshal (b.1623 )April 27 –Yasui Sanchi , Japanese Go player (b.1617 )May 3 May 4 –Louis de Béchameil, Marquis of Nointel , French businessman (b.1630 )May 6 –John Murray, 1st Marquess of Atholl , Scottish judge (b.1631 )May 8 –Vincent Alsop , English clergyman (b.1630 )May 10 –Edward Jones , English bishop of St Asaph, (b.1641 )May 11 –William Rawlinson , English lawyer (b.1640 )May 16 –Charles Perrault , French author (b.1628 )May 18 –Moritz Hermann of Limburg , count of Limburg Stirum (b.1664 )May 23 –Peter Werenfels , Swiss religious servant and theologian (b.1627 )May 26 May 28 –Benjamin Fletcher , Governor of the Province of New York (b.1640 )June 4 –Philis de La Charce , French war hero (b.1645 )June 13 –Tōdō Takahisa , Japanese daimyō (b.1638 )June 14 –Jean Hérault, Baron of Gourville , French adventurer (b.1625 )June 15 –Gilles Schey , Dutch admiral (b.1644 )June 19 –William Stanhope , English politician (b.1626 )July 11 –Piero de Bonzi , Catholic cardinal (b.1631 )July 16 –Robert Brudenell, 2nd Earl of Cardigan , English peer (b.1607 )July 17 –Roemer Vlacq , Dutch naval commander (b.1637 )July 20 July 25 –Sir Robert Marsham, 4th Baronet , English politician (b.1650 )July 26 –Gérard Audran , French engraver (b.1640 )July 28 –Umaru Pulavar , Indian writer (b.1642 )July 29 –Francesco Marucelli , Italian abbot and bibliographer (b.1625 )August 5 –Satake Yoshizumi , Japanese daimyō and clan chieftain (b.1637 )August 10 –Fuquan, Prince Yu , Chinese Qing Dynasty prince (b.1653 )August 11 –Anna Isabella Gonzaga , noble (b.1655 )August 14 –Pintea the Brave , Romanian rebel (b.1670 )August 21 –Thomas Tryon , British hat maker (b.1634 )August 24 –Lionel Boyle, 3rd Earl of Orrery , Member of the Parliament of England (b.1671 )August 26 –Adam II. Batthyány , Chief Justice (b.1662 )August 28 –Francisco Bravo de Saravia, 1st Marquess of la Pica , Spanish nobleman (b.1628 )September 1 –Edward Clarke , English merchant and Lord Mayor of London (b.1627 )September 3 –Giuseppe Maria Ficatelli , Italian painter (b.1639 )September 9 –Charles de Saint-Évremond , French soldier, hedonist, essayist and literary critic (b.1613 )September 14 –Gilles Jullien , French organist and composer (b.1653 )September 22 –Vincenzo Viviani , Italian mathematician and scientist (b.1622 )September 25 –Archibald Campbell, 1st Duke of Argyll , Scottish privy councillor (b.1658 )September 30 –Walter J. Johnson , English explorer and fur trader (b.1611 )October 3 –Alessandro Melani , Italian composer (b.1639 )October 5 –Anthony Ettrick , English politician (b.1622 )October 8 –Tomás Marín de Poveda, 1st Marquis of Cañada Hermosa , Royal Governor of Chile (b.1650 )October 11 –Roger Cave , English politician and baronet (b.1655 )October 14 –Thomas Kingo , Danish bishop, poet, hymn-writer (b.1634 )October 22 –Ferdinand, Prince of Schwarzenberg , Czech marshall and nobleman (b.1652 )October 24 November 8 –John Wallis , English mathematician (b.1616 )November 9 –Stefano Sculco , Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Gerace (b.1638 )November 11 –Ivan Antun Zrinski , Count of Croatia (b.1651 )November 16 –Jules Mascaron , Roman Catholic bishop (b.1634 )November 19 –Man in the Iron Mask , prisoner, among the most famous in French history (b.1640 )November 23 –Mitrophan of Voronezh , Russian orthodox bishop (b.1623 )November 26 –Richard Kidder , British bishop (b.1633 )November 27 –Henry Winstanley , English engineer and painter (b.1644 )November 30 –Nicolas de Grigny , French composer and organist (b.1672 )December 1 –Johann Dietrich von Haxthausen (b.1652 )December 20 –Giuseppe Nuvolone , Italian painter (b.1619 )December 22 –Alessandro Ciceri , Bishop of Nanjing (b.1639 )December 24 –Leone Strozzi , Italian religious (b.1637 )December 26 –Johann Sturm , Neuburger philosopher (b.1635 )December 27 –Tommaso Rues , Italian sculptor (b.1633 )December 29 date unknown –Anastasiya Dabizha , princess of Moldavia and Wallachia and Hetmana of Ukraine.1704
Lorenzo Bellini died8 January Johann Philipp Jeningen died8 February Johannes Hudde died15 April David van der Plas died18 May Elisabeth Helene von Vieregg died27 June Sophia Alekseyevna of Russia died14 July John Locke died28 October Paolo Boccone died22 December January 4 –Giambattista Spinola , Italo-Spanish Catholic cardinal (b.1615 )January 8 –Lorenzo Bellini , Italian physician, anatomist (b.1643 )January 21 January 26 –Rudolph Augustus, Duke of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel (b.1627 )February 2 –Guillaume François Antoine, Marquis de l'Hôpital , French mathematician (b.1661 )February 8 –Johann Philipp Jeningen , German Roman Catholic priest from Eichstätt in Bavaria (b.1642 )February 18 –Johann Philipp d'Arco (b.1652 )February 21 –John Charles, Count Palatine of Gelnhausen , German prince, ancestor of the cadet branch of the royal family of Bavaria (b.1638 )February 23 February 24 –Marc-Antoine Charpentier , French composer (b.1643 )February 25 –Isabella Leonarda , Italian composer (b.1620 )March 1 –Joseph Parrocel , French Baroque painter (b.1646 )March 6 –Giuseppe Cei , Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Cortona (1695–1704) (b.1640 )March 16 –Deane Winthrop , 6th son of Governor John Winthrop (b.1623 )March 17 –Menno van Coehoorn , Dutch military engineer (b.1641 )March 31 –Christian Stockfleth , Norwegian civil servant and diplomat (b.1639 )April 5 –Christian Ulrich I, Duke of Württemberg-Oels , German nobleman (b.1652 )April 8 April 10 –Wilhelm Egon von Fürstenberg , Bishop of Strassburg (b.1629 )April 12 –Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet , French bishop and theologian (b.1627 )April 14 April 15 –Johannes Hudde , Dutch mathematician and mayor of Amsterdam (b.1628 )April 17 –Ulrik Frederik Gyldenløve , leading Norwegian general during the Scanian War (b.1638 )April 20 –Agnes Block , Dutch horticulturalist (b.1629 )May 3 May 8 –Sir John Cordell, 3rd Baronet , English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1701 (b.1677 )May 12 –Charles Thomas, Prince of Vaudémont (b.1670 )May 13 –Louis Bourdaloue , French Jesuit preacher (b.1632 )[ 91] May 15 –Francis Pigott , English Baroque composer and organist (b.1665 )May 18 –David van der Plas , Dutch Golden Age portrait painter (b.1647 )May 30 –Emmanuel Lebrecht, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen , German prince of the House of Ascania, ruler of Anhalt-Köthen (b.1671 )June 13 –Arthur Rose , Scottish minister (b.1634 )June 15 –Anna Eriksdotter becomes the last person to be executed forWitchcraft inSweden . (b.1624 )June 18 –Tom Brown , English satirist (b.1662 )June 27 –Elisabeth Helene von Vieregg (b.1679 )June 30 –John Quelch , English pirate who had a lucrative but very brief career of about one year (b.1666 )July 2 –John Adolphus, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön (b.1634 )July 3 –Sofia Alekseyevna of Russia , regent (b.1657 )July 7 –Pierre-Charles Le Sueur , French fur trader and explorer (b. c.1657 )July 14 –Sophia Alekseyevna of Russia (b.1657 )July 17 –Juan Manuel Mercadillo , Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Córdoba (1695–1704) (b.1643 )July 18 –Benjamin Keach , English Particular Baptist preacher (b.1640 )July 20 –Peregrine White , first English child born in the Massachusetts Bay Colony (b.1620 )July 28 –Juan de Porras y Atienza , Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Coria (1684–1704) and Bishop of Ceuta (1681–1684) (b.1627 )August 11 –Francis Barlow , English painter (b. c.1626 )August 14 –Roland Laporte , French Protestant leader (b.1675 )August 19 –Jane Leade , English Christian mystic (b.1624 )September 6 –Francesco Provenzale , Italian Baroque composer and teacher (b.1624 )September 21 –Maria Antonia Scalera Stellini , 17th-century Italian poet and playwright (b.1634 )September 23 –Alessandro Croce , Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Cremona (1697–1704) (b.1650 )October 2 –Carlo Barberini , Italian Catholic cardinal and member of the Barberini family (b.1630 )October 28 October 30 –Princess Frederica Amalia of Denmark , daughter of King Frederick III of Denmark (b.1649 )November 1 –John Louis I, Prince of Anhalt-Dornburg , German prince of the House of Ascania (b.1656 )November 4 –Andreas Acoluthus , German orientalist (b.1654 )November 8 –Tommaso Guzzoni , Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Sora (1681–1702) (b.1632 )November 16 –Chikka Devaraja , fourteenth maharaja of the Kingdom of Mysore from 1673 to 1704 (b.1645 )November 20 –Charles Plumier , French botanist (b.1646 )November 28 –Countess Palatine Magdalena Claudia of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld-Bischweiler , daughter of the Count Palatine Christian II (b.1668 )December 1 –Joan Huydecoper II , Dutch mayor (b.1625 )December 4 –William Byrd I , native of Shadwell (b.1652 )December 5 –Louis Hennepin , Roman Catholic priest, missionary of the Franciscan Recollet Order (French (b.1626 )December 11 –Roger L'Estrange , English pamphleteer, author (b.1616 )December 13 –Gábor Esterházy , Hungarian imperial general and noble (b.1673 )December 22 December 27 –Hans Albrecht von Barfus , field marshal in the service of Brandenburg and Prussia (b.1635 )1705
John Ray died17 January Philipp Spener died5 February Titus Oates died13 July Maria Hueber died31 July Albert Angell died13 September Emeric Thököly died13 September Ninon de l'Enclos died17 October January 7 –Giovanni Battista Spínola , Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Genoa (1694–1705) (b.1625 )January 10 –Johannes van Haensbergen , Dutch Golden Age painter (b.1642 )January 12 –Luca Giordano , Italian artist (b.1634 )January 14 –Madame d'Aulnoy (b.1650 )January 17 –John Ray , English naturalist (b.1627 )January 21 –Claude-François Ménestrier , French heraldist, Jesuit, courtier (b.1631 )February 1 –Sophia Charlotte of Hanover , first Queen consort in Prussia as wife of King Frederick I (b.1668 )February 5 –Philipp Spener , German Christian theologian known as theFather of Pietism (b.1635 )February 13 –Charles Auger , French colonial administrator (b.1644 )February 15 –Jean-Baptiste de Gennes (b.1656 )February 18 –William "Tangier" Smith , Moroccan mayor (b.1655 )March 10 –John Temple , Irish politician (b.1632 )March 13 –Curt Christoph von Koppelow (b.1624 )March 22 –Christian Heinrich Postel , German jurist (b.1658 )July 5 –Alonso Antonio de San Martín , Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Cuenca (1681–1705) and Bishop of Oviedo (1675–1681) (b.1642 )July 13 –Titus Oates , English priest who fabricated the "Popish Plot" (b.1649 )July 27 –Elizabeth Wilbraham (b.1632 )July 30 –Nathaniel Felton , landowner in the Massachusetts Bay Colony and served as a juryman (b.1615 )July 31 August 6 –Johann Ferdinand of Auersperg , second Prince of Auersperg and Duke of Silesia-Münsterberg from 1677 until his death (b.1655 )August 13 –Françoise-Marguerite de Sévigné , French aristocrat (b.1646 )August 16 –Jacob Bernoulli , Swiss mathematician (b.1654 )August 28 September 2 –Giacinto Camillo Maradei , Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Policastro (1696–(b.1636 )September 4 –Peter Barwick , English physician and author (b.1619 )September 12 –Sir John Hoskyns, 2nd Baronet , English politician (b.1634 )September 13 September 17 –Gregorio Compagni , Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Larino (1703–1705) and Bishop of Sansepolcro (1696–1705) (b.1640 )September 26 –Tommaso d'Aquino , bishop of Sessa Aurunca (b.1635 )September 30 –Anne Camm , early British Quaker preacher (b.1627 )October 9 –Johann Christoph Wagenseil , German Christian Hebraist (b.1633 )October 11 –Guillaume Amontons , French physicist and instrument maker (b.1663 )October 17 –Ninon de l'Enclos , French author (b.1620 )October 27 –Thyrsus González de Santalla , Spanish theologian, 13th Superior General of the Society of Jesus (b.1624 )November 6 –John Platt , American settler (b.1632 )November 10 –Justine Siegemund , Germanmidwife (b.1636 )November 15 –Margravine Dorothea Charlotte of Brandenburg-Ansbach , German noblewoman (b.1661 )November 21 –John Deming , early Puritan settler and original patentee of the Connecticut Colony (b. c.1615 )November 23 –Prince William of Denmark , youngest son of Christian V of Denmark and Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Kassel (b.1687 )December 7 –William Lowther , English landowner and politician (b.1639 )December 12 –John Easton , political leader in the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (b.1624 )December 18 –Valentin Stansel , Czech Jesuit astronomer who worked in Brazil (b.1621 )December 22 –Bhai Bachittar Singh , Indian Sikh martyr (b.1664 )December 23 –Princess Luise Dorothea of Prussia (b.1680 )December 26 –Fateh Singh , fourth and youngest son of Guru Gobind Singh (b.1697 )December 31 –Catherine of Braganza , widowed queen consort ofCharles II of England and regent of Portugal (b.1638 )date unknown –Meg Shelton , alleged witch from Lancashire1706
Princess Wilhelmine Ernestine of Denmark died23 April Adrien Baillet died21 January Petrus van Mastricht died9 February John Evelyn died27 February Caspar Schamberger died8 April Georg Joseph Kamel died2 May Marcantonio Barbarigo died26 May Kimpa Vita died2 July Thomas Regnaudin died3 July Princess Elisabeth Albertine of Anhalt-Dessau died5 October Arsenije III Crnojević died27 October 6th Dalai Lama died15 November Emilie Juliane of Barby-Mühlingen died3 December Untung Surapati died5 December Peter II of Portugal died9 December January 10 –Luisa Roldán , Spanish sculptor (b.1652 )January 17 January 21 January 23 –Antoine Massoulié , French theologian (b.1632 )January 24 –Sir Francis Russell, 2nd Baronet, of Wytley , English politician (b.1637 )January 26 –Guillaume Poitevin , French composer (b.1646 )January 29 –Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset , English noble and politician (b.1638 )February 5 –Pierre du Cambout , French Catholic cardinal (b.1636 )February 7 –Didrik Muus , Norwegian painter (b.1633 )February 9 –Petrus van Mastricht , Reformed theologian from Cologne, Germany (b.1630 )February 11 –Maria Theresa van Thielen , Flemish painter (b.1640 )February 12 February 27 –John Evelyn , English writer, gardener and diarist (b.1620 )March 1 –Heino Heinrich Graf von Flemming , German field marshal and Governor of Berlin (b.1632 )March 6 –García Felipe de Legazpi y Velasco Altamirano y Albornoz , Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Tlaxcala (b.1643 )March 9 –Johann Pachelbel , German composer, organist and teacher (b.1653 )March 30 –Nicolas Mathieu , French priest and music collector (b.1640 )March 31 –Sultan Muhammad Akbar , Mughal prince (b.1657 )April 2 April 3 –Giovanni Cinelli Calvoli , Italian writer (b.1625 )April 8 –Caspar Schamberger , German surgeon and merchant (b.1623 )April 10 April 11 –Michel Barthélemy , French missionary (b.1638 )April 12 –Thomas Howard, 3rd Earl of Berkshire , English politician and Earl (b.1619 )April 20 –Hieronim Augustyn Lubomirski , Polish noble and politician (b.1648 )April 25 –Thomas Hinckley , last colonial governor of Plymouth Colony (b.1618 )April 27 –Bernhard I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen (b.1649 )April 29 –John Quick , Anglican theologian (b.1636 )May 2 –Georg Joseph Kamel , Czech pharmacist, botanist and missionary (b.1661 )May 6 –Friedrich Christian von Plettenberg , Prince-Bishop of Münster (b.1644 )May 17 –Jean-Pierre Rivalz , French painter (b.1625 )May 19 –Mary Campion , British singer and dancer (b.1687 )May 23 May 26 June 6 –Francis Norreys , English Member of Parliament (b.1665 )June 15 –Ferdinand Bonaventura I, Count Harrach (b.1636 )June 20 –Ralph Grey, 4th Baron Grey of Werke , English Member of Parliament (b.1661 )June 21 –Jacques Testu de Belval , French writer (b.1626 )June 24 –Marie Gigault de Bellefonds , French writer (b.1624 )June 26 –Giacomo Farelli , Italian Painter (b.1629 )June 30 –Jacques Boyvin , French organist and composer (b.1650 )July 2 –Kimpa Vita , Kongo Empire guérisseuse and Congolese prophet (b.1684 )July 3 –Thomas Regnaudin , French sculptor (b.1622 )July 6 –Leonard Plukenet , English botanist (b.1641 )July 8 –James Converse , farmer, soldier and office holder in Massachusetts (b.1645 )July 9 –Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville , French soldier, ship captain, explorer, founder of Louisiana (b.1661 )July 22 –Charles Wyndham , English politician (b.1638 )August 4 –Matthew Warren , English non-conformist minister (b.1642 )August 5 –Lord John Hay , British Army officer (b.1668 )August 6 –Jean-Baptiste du Hamel , French cleric and natural philosopher (b.1624 )August 10 August 12 –Johann Deutschmann , German theologian (b.1625 )August 15 –Michael Willmann , German painter (b.1630 )August 18 August 23 August 26 –William Montagu , English politician and judge; (b.1618 )August 27 –Robert Bristow , English politician; (b.1662 )August 30 –Pietro Micca , Italian soldier (b.1677 )September 1 –Cornelis de Man , Dutch painter (b.1621 )September 9 –Ferdinand de Marsin ,Marshal of France (b.1656 )September 16 –Matthias Petersen , sea captain and whaler from the North Frisian island of Föhr (b.1632 )September 24 –John Arundell, 3rd Baron Arundell of Trerice , English peer (b.1649 )September 26 –Onofrio Gabrielli , Italian painter (b.1619 )September 28 –Alexandre Lambert de Soyrier , bishop (b.1632 )October 1 –Richard Lewis , Member of Parliament (b.1627 )October 5 –Princess Elisabeth Albertine of Anhalt-Dessau , princess-Abbess of Herford (b.1665 )October 6 October 8 –Giuseppe Agnelli , Italian theologian (b.1621 )October 10 –Archibald Hope, Lord Rankeillor , Scottish judge (b.1639 )October 11 –Pedro de Ardanaz , Spanish composer (b.1638 )October 13 –Iyasu I , emperor of Ethiopia (b.1654 )October 17 –William Jones , English lawyer, Deputy Governor of the Colony of Connecticut (b.1624 )October 20 –Adrienne Du Vivier , French colonist (b.1626 )October 26 –Andreas Werckmeister , German organist, music theorist and composer (b.1645 )October 27 –Arsenije III Crnojević , Serbian archbishop (b.1633 )October 31 –Sir Thomas Dyke, 1st Baronet , English politician (b.1650 )November 9 –Peter Mews , English Royalist theologian and bishop (b.1619 )November 15 –Tsangyang Gyatso, 6th Dalai Lama (b.1683 )November 16 November 17 –Edward Mansel , English politician (b.1637 )November 18 –Sir William Thomas, 1st Baronet , Member of the English Parliament (b.1641 )November 20 November 25 –Jacques Le Ber , French merchant (b.1633 )December 2 –Johann Georg Ahle , German composer, poet, organist, music theorist (b.1651 )December 3 –Emilie Juliane of Barby-Mühlingen , German countess and hymn writer (b.1637 )December 5 –Untung Surapati , Balinese slave-turned-warlord (b.1660 )December 8 –Abraham Nicolas Amelot de la Houssaye , French historian (b.1634 )December 9 – KingPeter II of Portugal , King of Portugal (b.1648 )December 12 December 19 December 25 December 28 –Pierre Bayle , French philosopher and writer (b.1647 )December 31 –François Martin , French colonial governor (b.1634 )Jeanne Dumée , Frenchastronomer (b.1660 )Byerley Turk ,thoroughbred stallion (b. c.1684 )1707
January 1 –Eleanor de Moura , former Spanish viceroy of Sicily (b. c.1642 )January 4 –Louis William, Margrave of Baden-Baden , Germany (b.1655 )January 8 –John Dalrymple, 1st Earl of Stair , Scottish politician (b.1648 )January 10 –Philibert, comte de Gramont , French writer (b.1621 )January 16 –William Bowes , English politician (b.1657 )January 20 January 22 –Richard Towneley , English mathematician and astronomer from Towneley near Burnley (b.1629 )February 22 –Giacinto Calandrucci , Italian painter (b.1646 )Aurangzeb March 3 –Aurangzeb ,Mughal Emperor of India (b.1618 )March 17 –Elisabeth Charlotte, Countess of Holzappel (b.1640 )March 27 –Jean-François Gerbillon , French Jesuit missionary active in China (b.1654 )March 30 –Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban , French noble and military engineer noted for designing fortifications (b.1633 )April 2 –Gérard Edelinck , Flemish engraver (b.1640 )April 6 –Willem van de Velde the Younger , Dutch painter (b.1633 )April 24 –Walter Charleton , English natural philosopher (b.1619 )April 26 –Johann Christoph Denner , German musical instrument maker (b.1655 )April 28 –Christian, Duke of Saxe-Eisenberg (b.1653 )April 29 –George Farquhar , Irish dramatist (b.1677 )May 3 –Michiel de Swaen , Flemish poet (b.1654 )May 9 –Dieterich Buxtehude , German composer (b. c.1637 )May 10 –Johann Ernst III, Duke of Saxe-Weimar (b.1664 )May 19 –Jean II d'Estrées , French noble (b.1624 )May 21 –Joan Geelvinck , Dutch politician (b.1644 )May 24 –Henri Albert de La Grange d'Arquien , French Catholic cardinal (b.1613 )May 27 –Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart de Mortemart , mistress of KingLouis XIV of France (b.1641 )May 31 –Simon Patrick , English theologian and bishop (b.1626 )June 8 –Muhammad Azam Shah , Mughal emperor (b.1653 )June 15 –Giorgio Baglivi , Armenian doctor and writer (b.1668 )June 21 –Robert Phelips , English politician (b.1619 )June 23 –John Mill , English theologian (b. c.1645 )June 27 –Johann Zahn , German author (b.1641 )August 7 –Henry Poley , English politician (b.1654 )August 18 –William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire , English soldier, statesman (b.1640 )August 20 –Nicolas Gigault , French organist and composer (b.1627 )September 12 –Samuel Willard , American theologian (b.1640 )September 15 –George Stepney , British poet and diplomat (b.1663 )September 21 –Wilhelmus Beekman , Dutch politician (b.1623 )September 24 –Vincenzo da Filicaja , Italian poet (b.1642 )October 10 –Johann Patkul , Livonian nobleman, politician (b.1660 )October 22 – SirCloudesley Shovell , British admiral, drowned (b.1650 )November 26 –Leonhard Dientzenhofer , German architect (b.1660 )November 27 –Fitz-John Winthrop , Governor of the Connecticut Colony (b.1637 )December 1 –Jeremiah Clarke , English composer and organist, suicide (b.1674 )December 24 December 27 date unknown 1708
January 31 –Friedrich Seyler , Swiss theologian (b.1642 )March 5 –William Beveridge , English Bishop of St. Asaph (b.1637 )March 15 –William Walsh , English/British politician (b.1662 )March 19 –Samuel Rodigast , German poet, hymnwriter (b.1649 )April 5 –Christian Heinrich, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth-Kulmbach , German prince (b.1661 )April 17 –Jacques Gravier , French Jesuit missionary in the New World (b.1651 )April 20 –Damaris Cudworth Masham , English philosopher (b.1659 )April 23 –Christian Augustus, Count Palatine of Sulzbach (1632–1708) (b.1622 )May 6 –François de Laval , first bishop of New France (b.1623 )May 11 –Jules Hardouin-Mansart , French Baroque architect (b.1646 )May 12 –Adolphus Frederick II, Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b.1658 )June 5 –Ignatius George II , Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch (b.1648 )[ 92] June 21 –John Hamilton, 2nd Lord Belhaven and Stenton , Scottish politician (b.1656 )June 28 –Melchor Liñán y Cisneros , Spanish Catholic archbishop (b.1629 )June 30 – EmperorTekle Haymanot I of Ethiopia (stabbed to death) (b.1706 )July 5 –Ferdinando Carlo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua and Montferrat , only child of Duke Charles II (b.1652 )July 10 –James Kendall , English soldier, politician (b.1647 )July 21 –Conrad von Reventlow , Danish statesman and the firstGrand Chancellor of Denmark (b.1644 )August 1 –Edward Tyson , British scientist (b.1651 )September 6 –Sir John Morden, 1st Baronet , English merchant and philanthropist (b.1623 )September 19 –Francis Newport, 1st Earl of Bradford , English politician (b.1620 )September 29 –Sir James Oxenden, 2nd Baronet , English politician (b.1641 )October 1 –John Blow , British composer (b.1649 )October 2 –Anne Jules de Noailles , French general (b.1650 )Guru Gobind Singh October 7 –Guru Gobind Singh , 10th Guru Sahib ofSikhism , social reformist, poet and revolutionary (b.1666 )October 9 –Olympia Mancini , French courtier (b.1638 )October 10 –David Gregory , Scottish astronomer (b.1659 )October 11 –Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus , German mathematician (b.1651 )[ 93] October 21 –Christian Weise , German writer, dramatist, poet, pedagogue and librarian (b.1642 )October 22 October 24 –Seki Kōwa , Japanese mathematician (b. c.1640 )October 28 –Prince George of Denmark , consort ofAnne, Queen of Great Britain (b.1653 )October 31 –Nathaniel Higginson , English politician (b.1652 )November 3 –Countess Henriette Catherine of Nassau , daughter of Frederick Henry (b.1637 )November 10 –David Makeléer , Swedish politician (b.1646 )November 13 –Charles, Count of Marsan , French noble (b.1648 )November 16 –Alexander Edward , Scottish landscape architect (b.1651 )November 17 –Ludolf Bakhuizen , Dutch painter (b.1631 )December 16 December 22 –Hedvig Sophia of Sweden , Swedish princess (b.1681 )December 28 –Joseph Pitton de Tournefort , French botanist (b.1656 )date unknown 1709
January 20 –François de la Chaise , French confessor ofLouis XIV of France (b.1624 )January 22 –Henry Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Chirbury , English politician (b.1654 )January 24 –George Rooke , English admiral (b.1650 )January 26 –Eleonore Charlotte of Saxe-Lauenburg-Franzhagen , Duchess of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Franzhagen (b.1646 )February 8 –Giuseppe Torelli , Italian composer (b.1658 )February 9 –François Louis, Prince of Conti , French general (b.1664 )February 11 –Louise Hollandine of the Palatinate , German artist (b.1622 )February 17 –Erik Benzelius the Elder , Swedish theologian (b.1632 )February 19 –Tokugawa Tsunayoshi , Japanese shōgun (b.1646 )March 9 –Ralph Montagu, 1st Duke of Montagu , English diplomat (b.1638 )March 21 –Burchard de Volder , Dutch mathematician (b.1643 )April 1 –Henri Jules, Prince of Condé (b.1643 )April 2 –Giovanni Battista Gaulli , Italian artist working in the High Baroque and early Rococo periods (b.1639 )April 5 –Roger de Piles , French painter (b.1635 )April 8 –Wolfgang Dietrich of Castell-Remlingen , German nobleman (b.1641 )April 20 –Johann Ernst von Thun , Tyrolean Catholic bishop (b.1643 )April 21 June 25 –Frederick VII, Margrave of Baden-Durlach from 1677 until his death (b.1647 )June 29 –Antoine Thomas , Belgian Jesuit astronomer in China (b.1644 )June 30 –Edward Lhuyd , Welsh scientist (b.1660 )July 17 –Robert Bolling , English settler in Virginia (b.1646 )August 24 –Elisabeth Dorothea of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg , German princess (b.1640 )August 31 –Andrea Pozzo , Jesuit Brother, architect and painter (b.1642 )September 4 –Jean-François Regnard , French comic poet (b.1655 )September 7 –Gunno Dahlstierna , Swedish poet (b.1661 )September 14 –Luis Manuel Fernández de Portocarrero , Spanish cardinal and archbishop of Toledo (b.1635 )October 2 –Ivan Mazepa , Hetman of Ukraine (b.1639 )October 5 –Daniel Speer , German Baroque composer and writer (b.1636 )October 9 –Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland , English mistress ofCharles II of England (b.1640 )October 31 –Henry Hyde, 2nd Earl of Clarendon , English nobleman (b.1638 )November 4 –Barend Graat , Dutch painter (b.1628 )November 23 –William Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland (b.1649 )November 29 –Charles Dormer, 2nd Earl of Carnarvon , English noble (b.1632 )December 1 –Abraham a Sancta Clara , Austrian preacher (b.1644 )December 7 –Meindert Hobbema , Dutch painter (b.1638 )December 8 –Thomas Corneille , French dramatist (b.1625 )[ 96] December 15 –Sir Stephen Lennard, 2nd Baronet , English politician (b.1637 )December 31 date unknown –John Coode ,Colonial governor of Maryland (b. c.1648 )probable date –Eleanor Glanville ,English entomologist (b.1654 )^ Colville, Ian (2011-02-08)."The Lesser Great Fire of 1700 in Edinburgh" .On this day in Scotland . 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