Decade
The1710s decade ran from January 1, 1710, to December 31, 1719.
Events
1710 January 1 – InPrussia ,Cölln is merged withAlt-Berlin byFrederick I to formBerlin .January 4 –Robert Balfour, 5th Lord Balfour of Burleigh , two days before he is due to be executed for murder, escapes from theEdinburgh Tolbooth by exchanging clothes with his sister.February 17 –Mauritius , aDutch colony since 1638, is abandoned by the Dutch.February 28 (Swedish calendar) February 27 (Julian). March 10 (Gregorian) –Battle of Helsingborg : Fourteen thousand Danish invaders, underJørgen Rantzau , are decisively defeated by an equally large Swedish army, underMagnus Stenbock .March 1 – TheSacheverell riots start in London with an attack on an elegant Presbyterian meeting-house inLincoln's Inn Fields , followed by riots through the West End of London.March 6 – The ancient RomanPillar of the Boatmen is found during the construction of a crypt under the nave ofNotre-Dame de Paris .April 5 –Pylyp Orlyk , aCossack ofUkraine , is elected as the Hetman of theZaporizhian Host and immediately issues thePacts and Constitutions of Rights and Freedoms of the Zaporizhian Host April 10 – The world's firstcopyright legislation,Britain's Statute of Anne [ 1] April 19 –Anne, Queen of Great Britain , meets theFour Mohawk Kings .[ 2] April 18 –Thomas Hancorne gives thecounty of Swansea 's assize sermon, "The right way to honour and happiness" in which he espouses hisHigh Church beliefs.May 6 – TheSouth Sea Company begins.[ 3] May 12 –Battle of Sirhind : An army of 70,000Sikh rebels , led byBanda Singh Bahadur defeat a force of 25,000Mughal Empire troops commanded byGeneral Wazir Khan , who is killed in the combat. The battle takes place nearSirhind in what is now the Indianstate of Punjab .[ 4] June 8 – TheTuscarora nation sends a petition to theProvince of Pennsylvania , protesting the seizure of their lands and enslavement of their people, by citizens of the Province of Carolina.June 16 –Köprülüzade Numan Pasha becomes thegrand vizier of the Ottoman Empire .June 24 – In theIsle of Man ,Manx coins become legal tender.June –Protestant Swiss andGerman Palatines , under the leadership ofChristoph von Graffenried , travel to Bath County in theProvince of Carolina . The settlers displace the native town of Chattoka and foundNew Bern , named for von Graffenried's hometown ofBern in Switzerland.InSweden , theRoyal Society of Sciences in Uppsala is founded as theCollegium curiosorum . Explorer Juan Arias Diaz becomes the first non-Incan visitor toChoquequirao , an Inca site in Peru. John Smithwick begins brewingSmithwick's ale Kilkenny , Ireland (St. Francis Abbey Brewery).[ 6] Alexis Littré , in his treatiseDiverses observations anatomiques ,[ 7] lumbar colostomy for an obstruction of thecolon .Jacob Christoph Le Blon , working inAmsterdam , invents athree-color printing process with red, blue, and yellow plates, a precursor of the modern CMYK printing process.
1711 April 3 –Clipperton Island is rediscovered by Frenchmen Martin de Chassiron and Michel Du Bocage, who draws up the first map and claims the island for France. The island had been discovered by Alvaro Saavedra Cedrón in 1528.April 5 (Easter Sunday) – The central tower ofElgin Cathedral in northeast Scotland collapses.[ 14] April 13 – TheTreaty of the Lutsk , a secret agreement between theTsardom of Russia and theOttoman Protectorate of Moldavia is signed inLutsk ,Poland-Lithuania (modern-day Ukraine).April 17 –Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor dies, opening the way for the succession of his brotherCharles VI . This complicates the ongoingWar of the Spanish Succession as Charles is one of the two candidates for the Spanish throne, backed by theGrand Alliance .April 29 – Arabid wolf fatally injures two shepherds inRoncà , North Italy; it also attacks livestock.May –Alexander Pope publishes the poemAn Essay on Criticism May 25 – In Denmark,Helsingør is put under military blockade to prevent an outbreak of plague from spreading to Copenhagen; this year about one third of Helsingør's population is killed by the disease.[ 15] June 18 –King Louis XIV becomes thelongest-reigning monarch in the world, surpassing the previous record of 68 years set byKʼinich Janaabʼ Pakal in 683. As of 2022, Louis XIV still holds this record.July 2 –Cary's Rebellion : Lieutenant GovernorAlexander Spotswood of Virginia dispatches a company of Royal Marines to assist Governor Hyde. After hearing of this, Cary's troops abandon all of their fortifications along thePamlico River . Cary and many of his supporters are soon caught and sent to England as prisoners, ending Cary's Rebellion.[ 16] July 11 – The town ofSão Paulo , Brazil, is elevated to city status.July 21 – TheTreaty of the Pruth is signed between theOttoman Empire andRussia , ending thePruth River Campaign .[ 17] July 29 – Total lunar eclipse at 17:50 UT .August 1 – TheDutch East India Company trading shipZuytdorp Netherlands on an ill-fated voyage toIndonesia bearing a load of freshly minted silver coins. The wreck site remains unknown until the mid-20th century, on a remote part of theWestern Australian coast betweenKalbarri andShark Bay .August 7 –Capture of the galleonSan Joaquin : Spanish galleonSan Joaquin in a treasure fleet sailing fromCartagena de Indias (modern-day Colombia) to Spain surrenders after an engagement with five British ships.August 9 –John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough with an army of 30,000besieges Bouchain in theWar of the Spanish Succession . The siege lasts 34 days and results in the last major victory for Churchill.August 11 – The first horse race is held at the newly foundedAscot Racecourse , which becomes one of the leading racecourses in England.August 13 – Tamachi Raisinhji becomesJam Sahib (ruling prince) ofNawanagar State inGujarat , India.August 14 – The inauguration of the newly builtCathedral of the Assumption takes place inGozo ,Malta .August 22 – TheQuebec Expedition , a British attempt to attackQuebec as part ofQueen Anne's War , fails when 8 of its ships are wrecked in theSaint Lawrence River and 890 people, mostly soldiers, drown.September 8 – TheSouth Sea Company receives aRoyal Charter in Britain.[ 18] September 10 (also datedSeptember 12 ) –John Lawson ,Christoph von Graffenried , twoAfrican American slaves and twoNative Americans leave on an exploration expedition fromNew Bern, North Carolina , and travel north by canoe up theNeuse River .September 14 (approximate date) – Tuscarora natives capture John Lawson, Christoph von Graffenried and their expeditionary party, and bring them to Catechna.September 16 (approximate date) – Tuscarora natives kill Lawson. Von Graffenried and oneAfrican American slave are known to have been set free.September 18 – Bishop Bogusław Gosiewski sells the town ofMaladzyechna in theMinsk Region ofBelarus to the mightyOgiński family.September 22 – TheTuscarora War begins whenTuscarora natives under the command of Chief Hancock raid settlements along the south bank of the Pamlico River, within the Province of Carolina (modern-day North Carolina), killing around 130 people.October 7 –HMS Feversham is wrecked on Scaterie Island,Nova Scotia with the loss of 102 lives.October 11 – Panic kills 241 people in thestampede on the Guillottière bridge inFrance nearLyon . Revelers returning from a festival on the other side of theRhône river are blocked by from crossing after a collision between a carriage and a cart. At least 25 fall off the bridge and into the river, while 216 are trampled by people behind them.[ 19] October 14 October 16 –Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts is established inBrussels .November 5 – The southwest spire ofSouthwell Minster inNottinghamshire ,England is struck by lightning, resulting in a fire that spreads to the nave and tower, destroying roofs, bells, clock and organ.November 7 – TheDutch East India Company shipLiefde Out Skerries ,Shetland , with the loss of all but one of her 300 crew.December 5 –Great Northern War : theBattle of Wismar results in a Danish victory over Swedish forces.December 7 – In theParliament of Great Britain theEarl of Nottingham successfully proposes a "No Peace Without Spain " amendment.December 8 – TheImmaculate Conception Cathedral, Comayagua inHonduras , one of the oldest cathedrals inCentral America , is inaugurated.December 12 – A constitution is approved for theAcademy of Sciences of the Institute of Bologna , which had been founded in 1690.December 13 –Wall Street inNew York City becomes the city's first official slave market for the sale and rental of enslaved Africans and Indians.December 15 – The OldPummerin , a massive bell cast from 208 captured cannons, is consecrated byBishop Franz Ferdinand Freiherr von Rummel in preparation for its installation inSt. Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna (theStephansdom ).December 25 – The rebuilding ofSt Paul's Cathedral in London to a design bySir Christopher Wren is declared complete by Parliament;Old St Paul's had been destroyed by the 1666Great Fire of London .
1712 January 8 – Total eclipse of the sun visible from60°36′S 49°12′E / 60.6°S 49.2°E /-60.6; 49.2 January 12 – The premiere of the operaIdoménée André Campra takes place at theThéâtre du Palais-Royal in Paris.January 16 – A military engineering school is established inMoscow which is to become theA.F. Mozhaysky Military-Space Academy .January 26 – The OldPummerin , a 18,161 kg bell newly installed in theStephansdom ,St. Stephen's Cathedral , inVienna , is rung for the first time to mark the entry ofCharles VI toVienna fromFrankfurt after his coronation asEmperor . It takes a quarter-hour for 16 men pulling on the bell rope to swing the heavy bell back-and-forth enough for the clapper to strike; the resulting forces endanger the tower so the architect orders that in future the bell be rung only by pulling itsclapper .February 10 –Huilliche uprising of 1712 :Huilliche people in Chile'sChiloé Archipelago rise up against Spanishencomenderos Early March – Start of theCassard expedition , a sea voyage byFrench Navy captainJacques Cassard during which he ransacksSantiago in theCape Verde Islands and pillagesMontserrat ,Antigua ,Surinam ,Berbice ,Essequibo ,St. Eustatius andCuraçao , returning to France with loot worth over nine million francs. March 3 –Scottish Episcopalians Act 1711 comes into effect, leading to incorporation of theScottish Episcopal Church .March 11 (February 30Swedish Style , February 29 on the Julian calendar) –Sweden temporarily adopts the rareFebruary 30 , as a day to adjust theSwedish Calendar back to theJulian calendar .March 15 –HMSDragon , a 38-gunfourth rate frigate of the BritishRoyal Navy , is wrecked onLes Casquets rocks to the west ofAlderney .[ 20] March 30 –Anne, Queen of Great Britain administers theRoyal touch (a ritual with the intent to cure illness) for the last time; 300scrofulous people are touched, the last of whom isSamuel Johnson .April 6 –7 –New York Slave Revolt of 1712 : An insurrection in New York City results in nine whites being killed, and 21 slaves and other blacks being convicted and executed.April 11 –Great Northern War : theBattle of Fladstrand takes place at sea nearFladstrand ,Jylland , betweenSwedish andDanish forces.May 15 –Curuguaty inParaguay is founded by Juan Gregorio de Bazán y Pedraza on the banks of the Curuguaty River.May 19 –Peter the Great moves the capital ofRussia fromMoscow toSaint Petersburg .[ 21] May 22 –Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor is crowned King ofHungary .June 5 –Reus inCatalonia ,Spain is given the title ofimperial city byElisabeth Christine , wife ofArchduke Charles .June 10 –Kurtkulağı Caravanserai in Adana Province, Turkey, is restored and 50 soldiers are appointed to guard it.June 11 –Chatham ,Barnstable County ,Massachusetts is incorporated as a town.June 17 – The newly builtSt Ann's Church, Manchester , England, is consecrated by theBishop of Chester .
1713 April 11 – TheSecond Treaty of Utrecht between Great Britain and France ends theWar of the Spanish Succession .[ 27] Newfoundland ,Acadia ,Hudson Bay andSt Kitts to Great Britain.[ 12] April 14 – First performance, in London, ofJoseph Addison 's libertarian playCato, a Tragedy [ 28] April 19 – With no living male heirs,Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor , issues thePragmatic Sanction of 1713 , to ensure one of his daughters will inherit theHabsburg lands.May 1 – As part of the Treaty of Utrecht, theSpanish Crown agrees theAsiento de Negros Anne, Queen of Great Britain , granting a subsidiary of the British South Sea Company, theReal Asiento de Inglaterra , a 30-year monopoly in the supply of African slaves to colonial Spanish America.[ 29] May 2 – In theGreat Northern War , a fleet of the Russian Navy, transporting 12,000 soldiers, sails fromKronstadt to attack the Swedish Army atHelsinki .May 6 – TheParliament of Ireland is dissolved byQueen Anne and new elections are set.May 13 – KingPhilip V of Spain issues anauto accordado that changes theorder of succession for the Spanish throne allowing a female descendant within the House of Bourbon to rule. The change will allow his great-great-granddaughter to ascend the throne in 1833 asQueen Isabella II .May 17 –Ottone in villa Antonio Vivaldi , is given its initial performance, debuting at the Teatro delle Grazie inVicenza May 21 –Great Northern War : The Russian fleet lands a force of 10,000 men atPernå on the southern coast of Finland.June 1 (approx.) – Tuscarora War: Colonel James Moore leads the Carolina militia into the Pamlico Peninsula to defeat the Machapunga and Coree tribes.June 23 – French residents ofAcadia are given one year to declare allegiance to Great Britain, or leaveNova Scotia .October 6 – TheTreaty of Schwedt is signed between Russia andBrandenburg-Prussia , with the latter accepting the annexation of Baltic territories and paying Russia expenses in return for the southern part ofPomerania , recently taken from Sweden in theGreat Northern War .October 17 – TheBattle of Pälkäne is fought in what is now Finland between Russia and Sweden, with Russia's Fyodor Arpaskin forcing Finnish troops underCarl Gustaf Armfeldt to withdraw.November 6 – TheDublin election riot breaks out during the fiercely contestedIrish General Election .[ 30] November 12 – The1713 British general election concludes with the conservativeTories winning 358 of the 558 available seats in the House of Commons, and the liberalWhigs having 200.December 9 – As part of theagreements made at Utrecht to end theWar of the Spanish Succession ,Great Britain andSpain sign a treaty of commerce and navigation.[ 31] December 10 – The rebellion of Richard Raworth, Deputy Governor ofFort St. David (now abandoned and in the Indian state ofTamil Nadu nearCuddalore ), against the British East India Company comes to an end after two months when forces sent by Bridish Madras GovernorEdward Harrison to negotiate a settlement allowing Raworth to surrender in return for amnesty.December 21 –Victor Amadeus, Duke of Savoy is crownedKing of Sicily atPalermo , and his wifeAnne Marie is crowned as Queen consort.[ 32] Spain 's recognition of Sicilian independence, effective September 22, as part of theTreaty of Utrecht .
1714 January 21 – After being tricked into deserting a battle against India'sMughal Empire by the rebelSayyid brothers , PrinceAzz-ud-din Mirza is blinded on orders of the EmperorFarrukhsiyar as punishment.February 7 – TheSiege of Tönning (a fortress of theSwedish Empire and now located in Germany in the state ofSchleswig-Holstein ) ends after almost a year, as Danish forces force the surrender of the remaining 1,600 defenders. The fortress is then leveled by the Danes.February 28 – (February 17 old style) Russia's TsarPeter the Great issues a decree requiring compulsory education in mathematics for children of government officials and nobility, applying to children between the ages of 10 and 15 years old.[ 36] March 2 – (February 19 old style) TheBattle of Storkyro is fought between troops of the Swedish Empire and the Russian Empire, near what is now the village of Napue inFinland . The outnumbered Swedish forces, under the command of GeneralCarl Gustaf Armfeldt , suffer 1,600 troops killed in action while the Russians led by GeneralMikhail Golitsyn lose 400 men.March 7 – TheTreaty of Rastatt is signed betweenAustria andFrance , concluding theWar of the Spanish Succession between them. Austria receives the Spanish territories in Italy (theKingdom of Naples ,Duchy of Milan andKingdom of Sardinia ), as well as theSouthern Netherlands ; and from France,Freiburg andLandau . The AustrianHabsburg Empire reaches its largest territorial extent yet, withCharles VI, Holy Roman Emperor succeedingPhilip V of Spain , as ruler in the ceded territories.April 11 – France signs five separate treaties— with Great Britain, the Netherlands, Portugal, Prussia and Savoy— to end hostilities in the War of the Spanish Succession following the negotiations of thePeace of Utrecht .April 12 – Italian Jesuit missionaryNiccolò Gianpriamo is dispatched fromPortugal on an evangelical trip to Asia starting with the Portuguese Indian colony ofGoa , where he arrives after five months.May 19 –Anne, Queen of Great Britain , refuses to allow members of theHouse of Hanover to settle in Britain during her lifetime.[ 37] May 20 –Johann Sebastian Bach leads the first performance of his cantata for Pentecost,Erschallet, ihr Lieder , BWV 172Schloss Weimar .June 3 – The city ofKassel inGermany inaugurates the summer tradition of the "water stairs" or "great cascades" (Grossen Kaskaden ) emptying from the base of theHercules monument down to the Wilhelmshöhe castle.June 20 – In France,Henri-Charles du Cambout de Coislin , the Roman Catholic Bishop of Metz, condemns the papal bullUnigenitus Pope Clement XI against the 1671 commentary byPasquier Quesnel of the four Gospels and inflaming theJansenist controversy.June 26 – Spain and the Netherlands sign a peace treaty to end hostilities between those two nations in the War of the Spanish Succession.July 8 –Longitude prize : TheParliament of Great Britain votes "to offer a reward for such person or persons as shall discover theLongitude " (£10,000 for any method capable of determining a ship's longitude within 1 degree; £15,000, within 40 minutes, and £20,000 within ½ a degree).[ 38] July 27 – TheImperial Russian Navy gains its first important victory against theSwedish Navy in theBattle of Gangut .August 1 –Georg Ludwig von Braunschweig-Lüneburg , Elector ofHanover , becomes KingGeorge I of Great Britain and Ireland, on the death ofQueen Anne . Anne's death brings an end to the reign of theHouse of Stuart , in that her half-brotherJames Francis Edward Stuart , the eldest son ofJames II of England , has been ineligible for the British throne based on theAct of Settlement 1701 had barred members of theRoman Catholic church from becoming monarchs. George of Hanover, as great-grandson of James I of England and a second cousin to Anne, is deemed the eldest living Protestant descendant of James I.September 11 –War of the Spanish Succession :Barcelona is taken after ayear's siege , andCatalonia surrenders to Spanish and French Bourbon armies.September 18 –George I , the new King of Great Britain and Ireland, arrives in Britain for the first time in his life, after having departedHannover and sailing from the Netherlands.[ 39] September 29 –The Great Hatred : theCossacks of theRussian Empire kill about 800 people overnight on the Finnish island ofHailuoto .[ 40] Archbishop Tenison's School , the world's earliest surviving mixed gender school, is established byThomas Tenison ,Archbishop of Canterbury , inCroydon , south of London, England.Louis Juchereau de St. Denis establishes Fort St. Jean Baptiste, at the site of present dayNatchitoches, Louisiana (the first permanent European settlement in theLouisiana Territory , afterBiloxi (1699 ) andMobile, Alabama (1702 ) were separated).Worcester College ,University of Oxford is founded (formerlyGloucester College , closed during theDissolution of the Monasteries ).Stockholm County is founded.The riverKander (Switzerland) is redirected intoLake Thun .
1715 For dates within Great Britain and theBritish Empire , as well as in theRussian Empire , the "old style"Julian calendar was used in 1715, and can be converted to the "new style"Gregorian calendar (adopted in the British Empire in 1752 and in Russia in 1923) by adding 11 days.
January 13 – A fire in London, described by some as the worst since theGreat Fire of London (1666) almost 50 years earlier, starts onThames Street when fireworks prematurely explode "in the house of Mr. Walker, an oil man"; more than 100 houses are consumed in the blaze, which continues over toTower Street before it is controlled.[ 42] January 22 –Voting begins for the British House of Commons and continues for the next 46 days in different constituencies on different days.February 11 –Tuscarora War : The Tuscarora and their allies sign a peace treaty with theProvince of North Carolina , and agree to move to a reservation nearLake Mattamuskeet , effectively ending the Tuscarora War. Large numbers of Tuscarora subsequently move to New York.March 9 –Voting for the British House of Commons concludes, with the liberalWhig Party winning 341 of the 558 seats, and reducing the conservative Tory Party share to 217 seats.Spencer Compton , the Earl of Wilmington, becomes the Speaker of the House of Commons.March 14 –James Stuart , the "Old Pretender" attempting to restore the House of Stuart to control of Great Britain as King James III of England and James VIII of Scotland, meets with Pope Clement XI for the assistance of the Roman Catholic Church in theJacobite rising .March 27 –Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke , flees from Great Britain to France. His part in secret negotiations with France, leading to theTreaty of Utrecht , has cast suspicion on him in the eyes of theWhig government of Britain. He becomes secretary of state to thePretender ,James Edward Stuart .[ 43] April 1 – TheBattle of Gurdas Nangal begins during the Mughal-Sikh Wars inIndia , as the Mughal Army begins an eight-month siege of a fortress nearGurdaspur (in what is now the Punjab state), where Sikh GeneralBanda Singh Bahadur and 1,250 of his men have fled. The siege ends on December 7 when the 750 survivors, including Banda Singh, are captured. By June 1716, most of the Sikh prisoners have been tortured, killed and executed, with Banda Singh dying on June 9.April 15 – In the British colonialProvince of South Carolina , theYamasee Confederation launches an attack on English settlements in disputed territory onGood Friday , launching the two-year longYamasee War . The day before, agentsThomas Nairne , William Bray and Samuel Warner had participated in peace negotiations with the Yamasee atPocotaligo .[ 44] April 24 – TheBattle of Fehmarn takes place in theBaltic Sea as part of theGreat Northern War . Ten warships of Denmark, under the command of Christian Gabel, overwhelm a force of Swedish Navy ships led by Carl Wachtmeister. By the time the battle ends the next day, five Swedish ships and 1,626 crewmen have been captured, and another 353 killed. The Danish navy suffers 65 deaths.[ 45] May 3 – A totalsolar eclipse is seen across southern England,Sweden and Finland (the last total eclipse visible in London for almost 900 years). English astronomerEdmond Halley (who is using the old style Julian calendar date of April 22) records the first observation noted of the phenomenon of "Baily's beads ", in which higher elevations on the moon can be observed obscuring portions of the light moments before and after totality.May 28 –Rioting begins in England on the birthday of King George I as supporters of the Old Pretender, James of the House of Stuart, begin mass protesting against the rule of the House of Hanover, nearLondon in the towns ofSmithfield andHighgate , and theCheapside financial district in London.June 9 –King Philip , ruler of theKingdom of Castile and theKingdom of Aragon unifies the two governments into a single state, centralizing rule of a unifiedKingdom of Spain .June 22 – TsarPeter I of Russia witnesses the attempt of 45 Dutch and English ships to enter the small harbor atSaint Petersburg and decides that additional harbors are necessary for Russia to be able import Western goods.June 29 – Britain'sTreason Act 1714 takes effect, providing for forfeiture to the British Crown of property owned by any person convicted of treason in the Kingdom. The Act remains in effect until June 24, 1718.July 20 –Ottoman–Venetian War (1714–18) : Thefall ofNauplion , the capital of the Venetian "Kingdom of the Morea ", seals the fate of thePeloponnese Peninsula, which is sooncompletely retaken by the Ottomans.July 24 –1715 Treasure Fleet : ASpanish treasure fleet of 12 ships, under General Don Juan Ubilla, leavesHavana ,Cuba for Spain. Seven days later, 11 of them sink in a storm off the coast ofFlorida (some centuries later, treasure salvage is found from these wrecks).August 31 –Old Dock ,Liverpool , England, the world's first enclosed commercialwet dock (Thomas Steers , engineer), opens.[ 46] [ 47] September 1 – KingLouis XIV of France dies after a reign of 72 years, leaving his throne to his 5 year old great-grandsonLouis XV .Philippe d'Orléans , the nephew of Louis XIV, serves asRegent .September 6 – Thefirst major Jacobite rising in Scotland against the rule of KingGeorge I of Great Britain breaks out.The Earl of Mar raises the standard ofJames Edward Stuart , and marches onEdinburgh . James, the son of the deposed KingJames VII , arrives from France.September 14 – Less than two weeks after King Louis XIV's death,Daniel Voysin de la Noiraye ,France 'sSecretary of State for War since 1709, steps down at the request of the new regent, the Duke of Orleans.October 2 – During therebellion in Great Britain by supporters of the Pretender to the Throne,James Stuart , the Jacobites raid the Scottish parish ofBurntisland , capture an arsenal of weapons, and begin an occupation of the area on October 9 in the name of Stuart as King James VIII of Scotland.October 11 –William Aislabie resigns as theBritish East India Company 's administrator ofBombay and the company's territories and is replaced at year's end byCharles Boone .October 12 October 28 – TheTreaty of Greifswald is signed between Russia and the Electorate of Hanover, with George I of Great Britain and Hanover agreeing to Russia's annexation ofSwedish Ingria andEstonia , and Hanover claiming theBremen-Verden Swedish duchies of Bremen and Verden.November 13 –Jacobite rising in Scotland –Battle of Sheriffmuir : The forces of theKingdom of Great Britain , led byJohn Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll , halt the Jacobite advance, although the action is inconclusive.[ 48] November 14 –Battle of Preston : Government forces defeat theJacobite incursion, at the conclusion of a five-day siege and action.November 15 – The ThirdBarrier Treaty is signed by Britain, theHoly Roman Empire and theDutch Republic .[ 49] November 28 – The application of theNueva Planta decrees , inMajorca and the otherBalearic Islands (formerly under theCrown of Aragon ), bring them under the laws of theCrown of Castile .December 22 –James Edward Stuart rejoins Jacobite rebels in Scotland,[ 43]
1716 January 16 – The application of theNueva Planta decrees toCatalonia make it subject to the laws of theCrown of Castile , and abolishes thePrincipality of Catalonia as a political entity, concluding theunification of Spain underPhilip V .[ 51] January 27 – TheTugaloo massacre changes the course of theYamasee War , allying theCherokee nation with the Britishprovince of South Carolina against theCreek Indian nation.[ 52] January 28 – The town ofCrieff , Scotland, is burned to the ground byJacobites returning from theBattle of Sheriffmuir .[ 53] [ 54] February 3 – The1716 Algiers earthquake sequence began with an Mw 7.0 mainshock that caused severe damage and killed 20,000 in Algeria.[ 55] February 10 –James Edward Stuart flees from Scotland to France with a handful of supporters, following the failure of theJacobite rising of 1715 .February 24 – Jacobite leadersJames Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Derwentwater andWilliam Gordon, 6th Viscount of Kenmure are executed in London.[ 56] March 6 – At night, anaurora borealis was seen throughout Europe, from Ireland to Italy.[ 57] [ 58] March 8 – KingCharles XII of Sweden leads an invasion ofNorway , crossing the border atBasmo , near the modern-day town ofMarker .March 10 –Simon Fraser , a former Scottish rebel who had helped end theSiege of Inverness during thefirst Jacobite rising , is given a pardon by King George I of Great Britain.[ 59] March 18 – Italian Jesuit missionaryIppolito Desideri arrives inLhasa to become one of the first Europeans to attempt to bring Christianity to BuddhistTibet .[ 60] March 23 –Jeremias III becomes the newEcumenical Patriarch of Constantinople , leader of the Eastern Orthodox Christian Church.April 13 –Austria , ruled by King Charles VI, renews its alliance with theRepublic of Venice , leading theOttoman Empire , ruled byAhmed III , to declare war.May 20 –John Law founds theBanque Générale Privée inParis .[ 61] May 26 – Two regular companies of field artillery, each 100 men strong, are raised atWoolwich , by Royal Warrant of KingGeorge I of Great Britain .May 28 –John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough , suffers aparalytic stroke .June 9 – InIndia , 600 imprisoned members of the failedSikh Khalsa rebellion against theMughal Empire are executed on orders of the EmperorFarrukhsiyar .[ 62] Banda Singh Bahadur , leader of the rebellion, is brutally tortured and mutilated before being killed.[ 63] June 19 – The newTokugawa Shogun of Japan ,Tokugawa Yoshimune , assumes control of the monarchy's military after the illness and death of the six-year-oldIetsugu , last of the male descendants ofTokugawa Ieyasu .[ 64] Kyōhō Era, which continues until Year 21 in1736 .June 25 – With the Holy Roman Empire having been ceded the "Southern Netherlands" (nowBelgium ) from Spain,Prince Eugene of Savoy arrives inBrussels as the first Governor-General of theAustrian Netherlands . Eugene soon returns home and leaves administration of the area to a dictatorialHercule-Louis Turinetti .[ 65] July 5 – PrinceErnest Augustus is createdDuke of York and Albany , in thepeerage of Great Britain .July 8 – TheBattle of Dynekilen : TheSwedish fleet is defeated by aDanish–Norwegian fleet.July 8 –August 21 –Seventh Ottoman–Venetian War : TheOttoman Empire unsuccessfully lays siege toCorfu , the last bastion of theRepublic of Venice in the Greek islands.[ 66] August 3 –Natchez , one of the oldest towns on theMississippi River , is founded by French civilians at the site of Fort Rosalie.[ 67] August 4 –George Seton, 5th Earl of Winton , under sentence of death for his part in theJacobite rising of 1715 , escapes from theTower of London and flees into exile on the continent.August 5 –Battle of Petrovaradin : 83,300 Austrian troops ofPrince Eugene of Savoy defeat 150,000Ottoman Turks underSilahdar Damat Ali Pasha (who is killed).August 24 –Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor , returns from Italy.September 15 –"Maria" , an African slave of theDutch West India Company on the Caribbean island ofCuraçao , murders the plantation overseer, Christiaan Muller, then leads a rebellion, killing Muller's family and much of the white staff on the company's plantation. The uprising is suppressed after 10 days, and Maria is later executed by burning at the stake on November 9.[ 68] September 26 –Alexei Petrovich, Tsarevich of Russia , eldest son of the TsarPeter the Great and heir to the throne, flees fromSaint Petersburg with his mistress,Efrosinya Fedorova , along with her brother and three servants. After spending more than a year in Austria, he returns to Russia where he is arrested and dies in prison in 1718.[ 69] [ 70] October 12 – During thewar between the Habsburg Empire ruling Austria and the Ottoman Empire ruling Turkey, thesix week siege of the fortified city ofTemeşvar is surrendered by the Turks to the Austrians. Under a flag of truce, the Turks are permitted to depart but have to leave behind their artillery as they give up their claim toHungary . Austro-Hungarian rule lasts until World War One, and in 1919, the city ofTimișoara becomes part of the Kingdom ofRomania .November 1 – Two new laws go into effect in theHighlands ofScotland to prevent a threat to Britain's rulingHouse of Hanover by theJacobites who supported the restoration of theHouse of Stuart . TheDisarming Act requires government authorization to carry swords and firearms, and the amendments to theTreason Act 1714 permit trials for treason to take place in any court in England, regardless of where the crime was committed.December 4 – Fifty people are killed, and 150 houses burned, when a fire breaks out inWapping ,London . The blaze comes two days after a fire at theSpring Gardens atSt. James's , London, which destroyed the French Chapel there and which was put out by several rescuers, including the future King George II.[ 71] December 12 –Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend , is demoted from his office asSecretary of State for the Northern Department in the British government, and replaced byJames Stanhope, 1st Earl Stanhope . This is a move towards theWhig Split of 1717.
1717 January 1 – CountCarl Gyllenborg , theSwedish ambassador to theKingdom of Great Britain , is arrested inLondon over a plot to assist thePretender to the British throne,James Francis Edward Stuart .[ 73] January 4 (December 24,1716 Old Style ) – The kingdoms ofGreat Britain ,France and theDutch Republic sign theTriple Alliance ,[ 73] Treaty of Utrecht (1713 ), Britain having signed a preliminary alliance with France on November 28 (November 17) 1716.February 1 – TheSilent Sejm , in thePolish–Lithuanian Commonwealth , marks the beginning of theRussian Empire 's increasing influence and control over the Commonwealth.February 6 – Following the treaty between France and Britain, the Pretender James Stuart leaves France, and seeks refuge withPope Clement XI .[ 74] [ 73] February 26 –March 6 – What becomes the northeastern United States is paralyzed by aseries of blizzards that bury the region.March 2 – DancerJohn Weaver performs in the firstballet in Britain, shown at theTheatre Royal, Drury Lane ,The Loves of Mars and Venus March 31 –Benjamin Hoadly ,Bishop of Bangor , brings theBangorian Controversy within theChurch of England into the open by delivering a sermon to, and supposedly at the request of, KingGeorge I of Great Britain , onThe Nature of the Kingdom of Christ with the text "My kingdom is not of this world" (John 18:36), concluding there is noBiblical justification for church government.[ 75] April 26 – TheWhydah Gally "Black Sam" Bellamy , is wrecked in a storm offWellfleet, Massachusetts . TheWhydah sinks with a reputed4+ 1 ⁄2 tons of treasure on board, and all but two of her crew are lost, including Bellamy.May 27 –Spain creates theViceroyalty of New Granada inSouth America from the northern section of theViceroyalty of Peru .[ 76] Bogotá , later declares independence and splits up into what become the nations ofColombia ,Ecuador andVenezuela .June 24 – ThePremier Grand Lodge of England , theModern and firstFree-Masonic Grand Lodge (which merges with theAncient Grand Lodge of England in1813 to form theUnited Grand Lodge of England ), is founded inLondon .July 17 –Water Music George Frederick Handel is first performed, on aThames barge inLondon .August 17 – The month-longSiege of Belgrade ends, withPrince Eugene of Savoy 'sAustrian troops capturing the city from theOttoman Empire .August 22 – Spanish troops arrive on the island ofSardinia , at this time a part of theHoly Roman Empire , beginningthe conquest of the island , completed by October 30.September 5 – KingGeorge I of Great Britain issues the "Proclamation for Suppressing of Pirates in the West Indies ", an offer ofamnesty topirates , declaring that any pirates who surrender themselves to the government of Britain or one of its overseas territories, on or before September 5, 1718, "shall have Our Gracious Pardon of and for his or their Piracy or Piracies" committed before January 5, 1718. The amnesty is later extended to July 1, 1719.[ 77] September 21 – The first known Druid revival ceremony is held byJohn Toland atPrimrose Hill , inLondon , at theAutumnal Equinox , to found the Mother Grove, what will later become theAncient Order of Druids .September 29 –Guatemala earthquake : A 7.4 magnitudeearthquake strikesAntigua Guatemala , destroying much of the city, and making authorities consider moving the capital ofGuatemala to a different location.October 9 – KingPhilip V of Spain orders the closure of all universities inCatalonia , including the historicEstudi General de Lleida .[ 78] October 16 –Antonio Vivaldi 's operaTieteberga Teatro San Moisè inVenice October 18 – Trial begins inBoston for sixpirates who had survived the April 26 wreck ofSamuel Bellamy 's shipsWhydah Mary Anne . Five of them (John Brown, Hendrick Quintor, Thomas Baker, Peter Cornelius Hoof and John Shuan) are convicted on October 22 of piracy and robbery and hanged on November 15.[ 79] October 30 – TheSpanish conquest of Sardinia , at this time part of theHoly Roman Empire , is finished two months after Spanish forces had landed on the island on August 22, as the last Sardinian outpost,Castelsardo , surrenders.[ 80] November 28 – Pirates led byEdward Teach , more popularly referred to as "Blackbeard ", andBenjamin Hornigold capture the French slave transportConcorde near island ofSaint Vincent the West Indies.[ 81] Queen Anne's Revenge [ 82] Stede Bonnet and begins plundering ships approaching North American ports.December 9 (November 29, O.S.) – KingGeorge I of Great Britain banishes his son and daughter-in-law,George, Prince of Wales andCaroline of Ansbach , from the royal household after the Prince threatens the King's personal assistant,the Duke of Newcastle , the royal Lord Chamberlain. The altercation takes place at the baptismal ceremony for the Prince's newborn son,George William .December 24 –25 –Christmas flood : A disastrous flood hits theNorth Sea coast, between theNetherlands andDenmark ; thousands die or lose their houses.The1717 Omani invasion of Bahrain removes the control of Persia over the Arabian kingdom of Bahrain. François-Marie Arouet is sentenced to imprisonment in theBastille for eleven months, because of a satirical verse against theRégent of France and his infamous daughterMarie Louise Élisabeth d'Orléans , who is hiding an illegitimate pregnancy and soon to give birth;[ 83] Voltaire and the completed text of his first play,Œdipe TheTatar invasions inTransylvania devastate many towns, includingCavnic ,Sighet andDej . Lady Mary Wortley Montagu , wife of the British ambassador toIstanbul , has her soninoculated .TheCasa de Contratación (House of Trade ) is set up inCádiz . MaharajaPamheiba ofManipur is converted toHinduism byShantidas Goswami , and decrees it to be the official religion of his state. Most recent rupture ofNew Zealand 'sAlpine Fault , with an earthquake estimated to have had a magnitude between 7.8 and 8.1. TheCharleville musket enters service inFrance . Thomas Fairchild , anurseryman atHoxton in theEast End of London , becomes the first person to produce a successful scientific planthybrid ,Dianthus Caryophyllus barbatus , known asFairchild's Mule .[ 84] Murshid Quli Khan declares himself the firstNawab of theBengal Subah . TheNawabs of Bengal willeffectively function as near-sovereign rulers of Bengal while beingnominally loyal to theMughal Empire .[ 85]
1718 January 7 – In India,Sufi rebel leaderShah Inayat Shaheed fromSindh who had led attacks against theMughal Empire , is beheaded days after being tricked into meeting with the Mughals to discuss peace.[ 86] January 17 –Jeremias III reclaims his role as theEcumenical Patriarch of Constantinople , chief leader within the Eastern Orthodox Church, 16 days after the Metropolitan Cyril IV of Pruoza had engineered an election to become the Patriarch.[ 87] February 14 – The reign ofVictor Amadeus over the principality ofAnhalt-Bernburg (now within the state ofSaxony-Anhalt in northeastern Germany) ends after 61 years and 7 months. He had ascended the throne on September 22, 1656. He is succeeded by his sonKarl Frederick .February 21 –Manuel II (Mpanzu a Nimi) becomes the new monarch of theKingdom of Kongo (located in western Africa in present dayAngola ) whenKing Pedro IV (Nusamu a Mvemba) dies after a reign of 22 years. Manuel reigns until 1743.[ 88] March 12 –Anton Florian becomes the newPrince of Liechtenstein , succeedingJoseph Wenzel March 13 –Daniel Overbeek becomes the newDutch Governor of Ceylon (now the nation ofSri Lanka ), arriving after a 10-month sea voyage from the Netherlands.March 18 –Edward Wortley Montagu , the four-year-old son of the British Ambassador to Turkey, becomes the first British person to be inoculated with the smallpox vaccine, administered byDr. Charles Maitland at the request of Edward's mother,Lady Mary Wortley Montagu .[ 89] March 20 – ThePrivy Council of the United Kingdom , at the time the British Government prior to the creation of the officer of Prime Minister, is reorganized, with a reorganizedSecond Stanhope–Sunderland ministry . Secretary of State for the Northern DepartmentCharles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland succeedsJames Stanhope as the newFirst Lord of the Treasury , and Stanhope takes Sunderland's job.May 7 :New Orleans April 4 – Great Britain, France and the Dutch Republic agree on the phasing out of the authority of theHouse of Medici over the semi-independentGrand Duchy of Tuscany by declaring thatGian Gastone de' Medici will be the last of the Medici family to rule the Italian duchy and that Spain'sHouse of Borbón will eventually control the Tuscan monarchy.Don Carlos of Spain , the two-year old son ofKing Philip V , is designated as the eventual heir, despite the objections of the 75-year old Grand Duke,Cosimo III de' Medici .[ 90] May 1 –San Antonio is founded byFather Antonio de San Buenaventura y Olivares with the construction of the initialMission San Antonio de Valero .May 7 – The settlement ofNew Orleans is founded inNew France .[ 91] May 22 – Sailing theQueen Anne's Revenge pirate Edward Teach ("Blackbeard ") leads 400 sailors in four ships, and blockades the port ofCharleston, South Carolina for an entire week, plundering all arriving ships.[ 92] Queen Anne's Revenge andAdventure are both lost at Beaufort Inlet,North Carolina ; a week later. Blackbeard allowsStede Bonnet to command theRevenge (which is renamed theRoyal James ) once again. Bonnet rescues 25 sailors abandoned by Blackbeard on a sandbar and continues his life of piracy.June 3 – Pirates "Blackbeard" and Stede Bonnet accidentally run aground in the shipQueen Anne's Revenge Topsail Inlet in the British colony ofNorth Carolina . Learning of the royal pardon available to all pirates who surrender before September 5, Teach negotiates a settlement with Colonial GovernorCharles Eden for a pardon for himself, Bonnet and the rest of his crew in return for the Governor receiving some of the pirates' plunder.[ 93] June 16 – TheTreaty of Baden is signed, ending theToggenburg War .June 19 – A7.5 earthquake shakesTongwei County inChina , killing 73,000 people.July 21 – TheTreaty of Passarowitz , ending theAustro-Turkish War , is signed.July 25 – At the behest of TsarPeter the Great , the construction ofKadriorg Palace , dedicated to his wifeCatherine , began inTallinn .[ 94] August 11 –Battle of Cape Passaro : a Spanish fleet is defeated by the BritishRoyal Navy under AdmiralGeorge Byng , offCapo Passero , Sicily, a prelude to theWar of the Quadruple Alliance .September 10 – In France,Armande Félice de La Porte Mazarin and the Vicomtesse de Polignac, both mistresses of theDuc de Richelieu , fight a duel with pistols at theBois de Boulogne near Paris. Lady Mazarin, who had initiated the duel, is wounded in the shoulder and both survive. Richelieu, though impressed by the willingness of the ladies to fight over his affections, commentsJe ne sacrifierai pas un de mes cheveux, ni à l’une, ni à l’autre ("I will not sacrifice anything, not to one, nor to the other.")[ 95] September 27 – TheBattle of Cape Fear River begins as pirateStede Bonnet and his crew on theRoyal James are confronted inNorth Carolina by ColonelWilliam Rhett and the shipsHenry andSea Nymph .September – InTibet , forces of the TibetanDzungar Khanate destroys an advancing expedition of theChinese Imperial Army , under the command of General Erentei, in theBattle of the Salween River .October 3 –Stede Bonnet and his crew are captured near the mouth of theCape Fear River and taken to Charleston, South Carolina, where they are tried for piracy. All but four are found guilty and sentenced to death (with 22 hanged on November 8), but Bonnet escapes from prison on October 24.October 31 – The Mughal Emperor of India,Farrukhsiyar , restores the titles and responsibilities of his chief adviser,Mir Jumla III , almost three years after dismissing him.November 11 – Lightning strikes the powder magazine at theOld Fortress, Corfu , causing an explosion that kills a large number of people on the island.November 18 –Voltaire 's first play,Oedipus Comédie-Française in Paris. This is his first use of the pseudonym.November 22 – Citing violations of the amnesty agreement with Blackbeard,Virginia GovernorAlexander Spotswood sends aRoyal Navy contingent to North Carolina, where they battle Blackbeard and his crew inOcracoke Inlet . Blackbeard is killed in action, after receiving five musketball wounds and twenty sword lacerations.December 4 – Fifty people are killed, and 150 houses burned, when a fire breaks out inWapping ,London . The blaze comes two days after a fire at theSpring Gardens atSt. James's , London, which destroyed the French Chapel there and which was put out by several rescuers, including the future King George II.[ 96] December 5 – Following the death of Charles XII onNovember 30 , his sisterUlrika Eleonora proclaims herself Queen regnant ofSweden , as the news of her brother's death reaches Stockholm.December 10 – Stede Bonnet is hanged at Charleston, after being recaptured.December 17 – TheHoly Roman Empire ,Kingdom of Great Britain andDutch Republic join theKingdom of France in formally declaring war on Spain, launching theWar of the Quadruple Alliance .
1719 January 8 –Carolean Death March begins: A catastrophic retreat by a largely-FinnishSwedish -Carolean army under the command ofCarl Gustaf Armfeldt across theTydalen mountains in ablizzard kills around 3,700 men and cripples a further 600 for life.[ 98] January 23 – ThePrincipality of Liechtenstein is created, within theHoly Roman Empire .[ 99] February 3 (January 23Old Style ) – TheRiksdag of the Estates recognizesUlrika Eleonora 's claim to the Swedish throne, after she has agreed to sign a new Swedish constitution. Thus, she is recognized as queen regnant of Sweden.February 20 – The firstTreaty of Stockholm is signed.February 28 –Farrukhsiyar , theMughal Emperor ofIndia since 1713, is deposed by theSayyid brothers , who installRafi ud-Darajat in his place. In prison, Farrukhsiyar is strangled by assassins on April 19.March 6 – A serious earthquake (estimated magnitude >7) in El Salvador results in large fractures, liquefaction zones, and a sulphuric gas leak. It destroys houses, churches and monasteries.[ 100] March 17 – The coronation ofUlrika Eleonora asQueen of Sweden takes place in Stockholm.April 4 – The French army underJames FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick invades the Basque provinces of Spain, with 20,000 troops crossing into Navarre.[ 101] April 19 – InLouisiana (New France) ,Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville 's brother Serigny arrives on a French man-of-war, bringing news that war had been declared between France and Spain (since December1718 ).April 25 –Daniel Defoe publishesRobinson Crusoe April 26 – KingPhilip V of Spain departs Madrid and leads 15,000 men of the Spanish Army into Navare to fight the French under Berwick.[ 102] May 14 – InLouisiana (New France) ,Bienville , fromMobile , capturesPensacola , but Pensacola is later recaptured by the Spanish, and again re-taken by Bienville.[ 103] May 25 – An earthquake in Turkey damages İzmit and Istanbul, damaging some city walls and ruining mosques and palaces.[ 104] June 4 –Battle of Ösel Island : A Russian naval force defeats the Swedish fleet.June 18 – Captain John Perry fixesDagenham Breach .June 10 –Battle of Glen Shiel : British forces defeat theJacobites and their Spanish allies.June 20 –Battle of Francavilla : The Austrians are defeated by the Spanish.June 30 – French forces under theDuke of Berwick open theSiege of San Sebastian July 11 –Russia 'sBaltic Sea fleet is first spotted from the Swedish coast, starting theRussian Pillage of 1719–21 as part of theGreat Northern War .July 16 – TheCarlsten fortress in Sweden surrenders to a Danish and Norwegian forceafter a siege of seven days . ColonelHenrich Danckwardt , who surrendered the fortress toPeter Tordenskjold after being away from it while it was still defensible, is beheaded on September 16.August 13 – In theBattle of Stäket , Crown PrinceFrederick I of Sweden leads the successful defense ofStockholm from Russian AdmiralFyodor Apraksin 'sBaltic Fleet during theRussian Pillage .August 19 –Siege of San Sebastian . The Spanish garrison surrenders to the Duke of Berwick.August 20 – PrincessMaria Josepha of Austria , at one time the heir presumptive to the throne of Austria'sHabsburg Empire , marriesFrederick Augustus ,Elector of Saxony ten days after renouncing any claim to the Austrian throne.September 3 – The three-story tallOpernhaus am Zwinger Dresden by stagingAntonio Lotti 'sGiovi in Argo .[ 105] September 29 –Muhammad Shah is crowned as the 12thMughal Emperor of India atShahjahanabad (nowDelhi ), 12 days after the death ofShah Jahan II from tuberculosis.[ 106] October 11 –Fernando Manuel de Bustillo Bustamante y Rueda , the SpanishGovernor-General of the Philippines , is assassinated in a bloody coup d'etat by supporters of theArchbishop of Manila , whom Bustamante had imprisoned.October 14 – The British Army, under the command of Major GeneralGeorge Wade ,invades and captures the forts ofVigo on the Atlantic coast of Spain.[ 107] October 21 – TheRed Canal is opened in the Russian capital,Saint Petersburg , after seven years of construction, at a ceremony in the presence of the TsarPeter the Great .[ 108] October 28 –Sweden andDenmark-Norway sign an armistice, halting combat in theGreat Northern War between them, with final terms agreed to in theTreaty of Frederiksborg on July 3, 1720.[ 109] November 9 – Ina treaty between Sweden and Hanover at the close of theGreat Northern War , Sweden cedes theDuchies of Bremen and Verden (in northern Germany) to Hanover.December 22 –Andrew Bradford publishes theAmerican Weekly Mercury , Pennsylvania's first newspaper.
Births 1710
Jakob Langebek born23 January Louis XV of France born15 February György Klimó born4 April Peter Anton von Verschaffelt born8 May John Cruger Jr. born18 July William Heberden born13 August Abraham Trembley born3 September Anne-Marie du Boccage born22 October Adam Gottlob Moltke born10 November Paolo Renier born21 November Carlo Bertinazzi born2 December January 3 –Richard Gridley , American Revolutionary soldier (d.1796 )January 4 January 5 –Friedrich Wilhelm Riedt , German flautist (d.1783 )January 16 –Sir William Ashburnham, 4th Baronet , Church of England priest and baronet (d.1797 )January 23 –Jakob Langebek , Danish historian (d.1775 )January 28 –Jean-Martial Frédou , French portrait painter (d.1795 )January 30 February 1 –Konrad Ernst Ackermann , German actor (d.1771 )February 12 –John Affleck , British Tory politician (d.1776 )February 15 – KingLouis XV of France , Bourbon monarch who ruled as King of France and of Navarre 1715–1774 (d.1774 )February 21 –Willem van Haren , Dutch nobleman and poet (d.1768 )February 28 –Peter Delmé , wealthy English merchant and landowner (d.1770 )March 3 –Johann Sigismund Mörl , German theologian (d.1791 )March 4 –Aert Schouman , painter from the Dutch Republic (d.1792 )March 7 –Casto Innocenzio Ansaldi , Italian professor (d.1780 )March 10 –Christian Ditlev Reventlow , Danish Privy Councillor (d.1775 )March 15 –George Forbes, 4th Earl of Granard , Irish soldier and politician (d.1769 )March 18 –Ezekiel Worthen , New Hampshire native who participated in the American Revolutionary War (d.1793 )March 19 –Otto Didrik Schack, 3rd Count of Schackenborg , Danish nobleman and enfeoffed count (d.1741 )March 26 –Louis Guillouet, comte d'Orvilliers (d.1792 )March 27 –Joseph Abaco , Italian violoncellist and composer (d.1805 )April 2 –Samuel White , lawyer in the Province of Massachusetts Bay (d.1769 )April 4 April 10 –George Charles Dyhern , Saxon general (d.1759 )April 12 –Caffarelli , Italian castrato and opera singer (d.1783 )April 13 –Jonathan Carver , colonial American military officer (d.1780 )April 15 April 17 –Henry Erskine, 10th Earl of Buchan , British Freemason (d.1767 )April 18 –Friedrich Bogislav von Tauentzien , Prussian general during the wars of King Frederick the Great (d.1791 )April 20 –Jean-Joseph Sue , French surgeon and anatomist (d.1792 )April 23 –John Tempest Sr. , landowner and Member of Parliament (d.1776 )April 24 –Louis-Philippe Mariauchau d'Esgly , eighth bishop of the diocese of Quebec (d.1788 )April 25 –James Ferguson , Scottish astronomer (d.1776 )April 26 –Thomas Reid , Scottish philosopher (d.1796 )April 30 –Johann Kaspar Basselet von La Rosée , Bavarian general (d.1795 )May 6 –Richard Bland , American planter and statesman from Virginia (d.1776 )May 8 May 10 –François Bonamy , French botanist and physician (d.1786 )May 14 –Adolf Frederick, King of Sweden (d.1771 )May 16 May 18 May 21 –Thomas Thynne, 2nd Viscount Weymouth (d.1751 )May 23 –François Gaspard Adam , French rococo sculptor (d.1761 )June 6 – Andrea Scacciati, Italian painter (b.1642 )June 10 –James Short , Scottish mathematician and optician (d.1768 )June 14 –Peder Kofod Ancher , Danish jurist (d.1788 )June 15 –Robert Oliver , priest (d.1784 )June 18 –Klaas Annink , notorious Dutch serial killer in Twente, Netherlands (d.1775 )July 4 –Thomas Hay, 9th Earl of Kinnoull (d.1787 )July 10 –Robert O'Callaghan , politician (d.1761 )July 11 –Sir John Morgan, 4th Baronet (d.1767 )July 18 –John Cruger Jr. , speaker of the Province of New York assembly, Mayor of New York City (d.1791 )July 21 –Paul Möhring , German physician and scientist (d.1792 )July 23 –Jonathan Belcher , British-American lawyer (d.1776 )July 26 –John Lambton , senior officer in the British Army and MP (d.1794 )July 31 –Jacob Houblon , British landowner and Tory politician (d.1770 )August 6 –Frances Jones , colonist (d.1785 )August 10 –Princess Luise Dorothea of Saxe-Meiningen , member of German royalty (d.1767 )August 13 August 14 –Corbyn Morris , English official and economic writer (d.1779 )August 18 –Landon Carter , American planter from Lancaster County (d.1778 )August 19 –Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont (d.1763 )August 20 –Thomas Simpson , British mathematician (d.1761 )August 22 –Johann August Nahl , German sculptor and plasterer (d.1781 )August 27 August 28 –Pierre Augustin Boissier de Sauvages , French naturalist, researcher in provençal dialect and encyclopédist (d.1795 )September 3 –Abraham Trembley , Genevan naturalist (d.1784 )September 9 –Friedrich Rudolf von Rothenburg , lieutenant general (d.1751 )September 11 –Louis Frederick of Saxe-Hildburghausen , Prince, General Field Marshal in the Bavarian army (d.1759 )September 22 –Georg Matthias Bose , famous early experimenter in electrostatics (d.1761 )September 24 –William Bull II , landowner (d.1791 )September 25 September 29 September 30 –John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford , British statesman (d.1771 )October 3 –Jean Robert Tronchin , Attorney General, member of the State Council of Geneva (d.1793 )October 7 –François-Josué de La Corne Dubreuil , officer in the colonial regular troops of New France and (d.1759 )October 11 –Christophe-Gabriel Allegrain , French sculptor who tempered a neoclassical style with Rococo charm and softness (d.1795 )October 12 –Jonathan Trumbull , Governor of the Colony and the state of Connecticut (d.1785 )October 13 –Alban Butler , English Roman Catholic priest and hagiographer (d.1773 )October 16 –András Hadik , Austro-Hungarian general (d.1790 )October 19 –Franz Karl Ludwig von Wied zu Neuwied , lieutenant general in Frederick the Great's army (d.1765 )October 22 –Anne-Marie du Boccage , French writer (d.1802 )October 26 –Lukrecija Bogašinović Budmani , Serb-catholic poet (d.1784 )October 31 –Ole Tidemand , Norwegian theologian and priest (d.1778 )November 2 –Andrea Negroni , Italian Cardinal who was Cardinal-Deacon of the titular Church of Santi Vito (d.1789 )November 4 –Charles-François Tarieu de La Naudière , officer in the colonial regular troops and seigneur in Lower Canada (d.1776 )November 6 –David McGregore , Presbyterian minister and member of the Colonial America Christian Clergy (d.1777 )November 8 –Sarah Fielding , English author, sister of the novelist Henry Fielding (d.1768 )November 10 –Adam Gottlob Moltke , Danish statesman (d.1792 )November 13 –Charles Simon Favart , French playwright (d.1792 )November 19 November 21 November 22 –Wilhelm Friedemann Bach , German composer (d.1784 )[ 112] November 27 –Robert Lowth , English bishop and grammarian (d.1787 )November 28 –Henry Hyde, Viscount Cornbury (d.1753 )December 1 –Michele Marieschi , Italian painter and engraver (d.1744 )December 2 –Carlo Bertinazzi , Italian actor and writer (d.1783 )December 5 –Nicolò Porta , Italian painter of the late-Baroque period (d.1784 )December 15 –Francesco Zahra , Maltese painter (d.1773 )December 24 –Tibout Regters , portrait painter from the Northern Netherlands (d.1768 )December 28 –Henrik Teofilus Scheffer , Swedish chemist (d.1759 )date unknown –Ahmad bin Said al-Busaidi , first ruler of theAl Said Dynasty ofOman (d.1783 )1711
Charles Sackville, 2nd Duke of Dorset born6 February Samuel Gotthold Lange born22 March Paul II Anton, Prince Esterházy born22 April Eleazar Wheelock born22 April Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont born26 April David Hume born26 April Daniel Liénard de Beaujeu born19 August Henry Muhlenberg born6 September Charles Holmes (Royal Navy officer) born19 September Qianlong Emperor born25 September Daniel Parke Custis born15 October Robert Hay Drummond born10 November January 1 –Baron Franz von der Trenck , Austrian noble (d.1749 )January 3 January 12 –Gaetano Latilla , Italian opera composer (d.1788 )January 15 –Sidonia Hedwig Zäunemann , German poet (d.1740 )January 22 –Johann Phillip Fabricius , German missionary (d.1791 )January 28 –Johan Hörner , Swedish-born Danish portrait painter (d.1763 )January 29 –Giuseppe Bonno , Austrian composer (d.1788 )January 30 –Abraham Roentgen , German Ébéniste (cabinetmaker) (d.1793 )February 2 –Wenzel Anton, Prince of Kaunitz-Rietberg , Austrian diplomat and chancellor (d.1794 )February 3 –Omar Ali Saifuddin I , Sultan of Brunei (d.1795 )February 4 –Józef Aleksander Jabłonowski , Polish prince (d.1777 )February 5 –Joseph Umstatt , Austrian composer of the early Classical era (d.1762 )February 6 –Charles Sackville, 2nd Duke of Dorset , English cricketer (d.1769 )February 9 February 10 –John Plumptre , British politician (d.1791 )February 13 –Domènec Terradellas , Spanish opera composer (d.1751 )February 14 –Alexandra Kurakina , daughter of Lieutenant-General and Senator Ivan Panin (d.1786 )February 23 –Louis de Brienne de Conflans d'Armentières , French general (d.1774 )February 25 February 27 March 4 –Matthäus Stach , Moravian missionary in Greenland (d.1787 )March 5 –Carl Gustaf Pilo , Swedish-born artist and painter (d.1793 )March 11 –Joseph Leeson, 1st Earl of Milltown , Irish peer and politician (d.1783 )March 22 –Samuel Gotthold Lange , German poet (d.1781 )March 24 –William Brownrigg , doctor and scientist (d.1800 )April 2 –Job Baster , Dutch naturalist (d.1775 )April 3 –Hartwig Karl von Wartenberg , Royal Prussian major general (d.1757 )April 10 –John Gambold , British bishop (d.1771 )April 13 –John Mitchell , colonial American physician and botanist (d.1768 )April 14 –Lord John Murray , British general and politician (d.1787 )April 22 April 26 May 1 –Richard Clarke , Massachusetts merchant (d.1795 )May 7 –Johann Friedrich Gräfe , German civil servant and an amateur composer (d.1787 )May 9 –Sir Mark Sykes, 1st Baronet , priest in the Church of England (d.1783 )May 10 –Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth , member of the House of Hohenzollern (d.1763 )May 12 –Abraham Darby II , English ironmaster (d.1763 )May 17 –Agustín de Jáuregui , Spanish colonial governor (d.1784 )May 18 –Roger Joseph Boscovich , Croatian-Italian priest and mathematician (d.1787 )May 22 –Guillaume du Tillot , French politician (d.1774 )May 23 –Ulla Tessin , Swedish courtier (d.1768 )May 31 –Johann Heinrich Samuel Formey , German writer (d.1797 )June 6 –Jean-Baptiste Coye , Occitan language writer (d.1771 )June 7 –François Jacquier , French Franciscan mathematician and physicist (d.1788 )June 8 –Charles Morris , Canadian judge (d.1781 )June 12 –Louis Legrand , French Sulpician priest and theologian (d.1780 )June 13 –Sir Richard Glyn, 1st Baronet, of Ewell , British banker and politician (d.1773 )June 16 –François-Louis de Pourroy de Lauberivière , fifth bishop of the diocese of Quebec (1739–1740) (d.1740 )June 19 –Jacob Bremer , Swedish merchant and industrialist (d.1785 )June 23 –Giovanni Battista Guadagnini , Italian luthier (d.1786 )July 10 –Princess Amelia of Great Britain , Second daughter of George II of Great Britain (d.1786 )July 11 –Anne Poulett , British politician (d.1785 )July 18 –John Olmius, 1st Baron Waltham , of Ireland (d.1762 )July 22 –Georg Wilhelm Richmann , German physicist (d.1753 )July 24 –Richard FitzWilliam, 6th Viscount FitzWilliam (d.1776 )July 26 July 27 –Christian Ancher , Norwegian merchant (d.1765 )July 29 –Claude-Adrien Nonnotte , French writer (d.1793 )August 19 August 21 –Bernardo de Hoyos , Beatified Spanish priest (d.1735 )September 1 –William IV, Prince of Orange , first hereditary stadtholder of the Netherlands (d.1751 )[ 113] September 2 –Noël Hallé , French painter (d.1781 )September 5 –Johann Nathanael Lieberkühn , German physician (d.1756 )September 6 –Henry Muhlenberg , Lutheran clergyman and missionary (d.1787 )September 8 –Flavio Chigi , Italian Catholic cardinal (d.1771 )September 9 –Thomas Hutchinson , historian and last civilian Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay (d.1780 )September 11 –Alexandre Guy Pingré , Catholic priest and scientist (d.1796 )September 14 –Michele Foschini , Italian painter (d.1770 )September 15 –Heinrich IX, Count Reuss of Köstritz , Count of Reuss-Köstritz and Minister of Prussia (d.1780 )September 17 –John Zephaniah Holwell , British surgeon (d.1798 )September 18 –Ignaz Holzbauer , composer of symphonies (d.1783 )September 19 –Charles Holmes , Rear admiral in the British Navy during the Seven Years' War (d.1761 )September 20 September 22 –Thomas Wright , English astronomer (d.1786 )September 23 –Louis Nicolas Victor de Félix d'Ollières , Marshal of France (d.1775 )September 25 –Qianlong Emperor , sixth Emperor of the Qing dynasty in China (d.1799 )September 26 –Richard Grenville-Temple, 2nd Earl Temple , British politician and first Lord of the Admiralty (d.1779 )September 28 –Joseph Richardson Sr. , American silversmith (d.1784 )October 8 –Kumara Swamy Desikar , Indian philosopher (d.1810 )October 9 –James Grimston, 2nd Viscount Grimston , British peer and Member of Parliament (d.1773 )October 14 –John Smith , British astronomer (d.1795 )October 15 October 17 –Jupiter Hammon , American writer (d.1806 )October 20 –Timothy Ruggles , American colonial politician (d.1795 )October 21 –Armand-Jérôme Bignon , French lawyer (d.1772 )October 31 –Laura Bassi , Italian physicist and academic (d.1778 )November 1 –Marcus Fredrik Bang , Norwegian bishop (d.1789 )November 5 –Kitty Clive , British actor (d.1785 )November 10 –Robert Hay Drummond , Archbishop of York (d.1776 )November 11 –Stepan Krasheninnikov , Russian scientist (d.1755 )November 18 –Franz Töpsl , German historian and Augustinian Canon Regular (d.1796 )November 19 November 20 –Niclas Gustaf Duncan , Swedish post official and spy (d.1771 )November 21 –Samuel Morris , merchant and Patriot in colonial and revolutionary-era Philadelphia (d.1782 )November 27 –Gerard Joan Vreeland , 28th Governor of Ceylon during the Dutch period in Ceylon (d.1752 )November 30 –Ebenezer Kinnersley , American scientist (d.1778 )December 4 –Barbara of Portugal , infanta of Portugal and later Queen of Ferdinand VI of Spain (d.1758 )December 21 –Thomas Whitmore , British Whig politician and MP (d.1773 )December 23 –Jacob Fortling , German-Danish sculptor (d.1761 )December 25 –Jean-Joseph de Mondonville , French composer and violinist (d.1772 )December 26 –Maria Menshikova , daughter of Aleksandr Danilovich Menshikov (d.1729 )December 28 –Samuel Egerton , British landowner and politician (d.1780 )Full Date Unknown –Mariot Arbuthnot , British admiral during theAmerican War for Independence (d.1794 )1712
Ludwig van Beethoven (1712–1773) born5 January Frederick the Great born24 January Tokugawa Ieshige born28 January Nasir Jung born26 February Louis-Joseph de Montcalm born28 February Empress Xiaoxianchun born28 March Devasahayam Pillai born23 April Thomas Cotes (Royal Navy officer) born4 June Benjamin Ingham born11 June George Grenville born14 October John Thomas (bishop of Rochester) born14 October Joanna Elisabeth of Holstein-Gottorp born24 October Francesco Algarotti born11 December Peter Boehler born31 December January 1 –Sir Richard Acton, 5th Baronet , English baronet (d.1791 )January 2 –Marie-Angélique Memmie Le Blanc , French feral child (d.1775 )January 5 Ludwig van Beethoven , Flemish-born German professional singer and music director, grandfather of the well known composer of the same name (d.1773 )Hongzhou , Manchu prince of the Qing dynasty (d.1770 )January 17 –John Stanley , English composer and organist (d.1786 )January 24 January 26 –James Habersham , merchant and statesman in the British North American colony of Georgia (d.1775 )January 28 –Tokugawa Ieshige , ninthshōgun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan (d.1761 )January 29 –Ralph Bigland , English officer of arms (d.1784 )February 2 –Lydia Taft , American suffragist (d.1778 )February 12 –Felton Hervey , aristocratic English politician (d.1773 )February 19 –Arthur Devis , English painter (d.1787 )February 20 –Sir Cordell Firebrace, 3rd Baronet , English landowner and politician (d.1759 )February 22 –Péter Bod , Hungarian theologian and historian (d.1768 )February 26 –Nasir Jung , Nizam of Hyderabad State (d.1750 )February 28 –Louis-Joseph de Montcalm , French general (d.1759 )March 4 –Joachim Friedrich Henckel , Prussian surgeon at Charité hospital in Berlin (d.1779 )March 8 –John Fothergill , British botanist (d.1780 )March 12 March 14 –Charles-Antoine Jombert , French bookseller and publisher (d.1784 )March 15 –Lambert Krahe , German history painter and art collector (d.1790 )March 19 March 22 –Edward Moore , English dramatist (d.1757 )[ 114] March 27 March 28 –Empress Xiaoxianchun , empress consort of Qing dynasty China (d.1748 )March 31 –Anders Johan von Höpken , Swedish politician (d.1789 )April 8 –Pierre Pouchot , French military engineer officer (d.1769 )April 23 –Devasahayam Pillai , beatified Indian Catholic (d.1752 )April 28 –James Hewitt, 1st Viscount Lifford , Lord Chancellor of Ireland (d.1789 )May 2 –Thomas Bond , American physician and surgeon (d.1784 )May 5 –Janusz Aleksander Sanguszko , magnate in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (d.1775 )May 9 –William Pitcairn , Scottish physician and botanist (d.1791 )May 12 –Charles William Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (d.1757 )May 13 –Count Johann Hartwig Ernst von Bernstorff , German-Danish statesman (d.1772 )May 17 –Jean-Baptiste Greppo , French canon and archaeologist (d.1767 )May 18 –Increase Moseley , American politician (d.1795 )May 27 –Sir Thomas Cave, 5th Baronet of England (d.1778 )May 28 –Jacques Claude Marie Vincent de Gournay , French economist (d.1759 )May 29 –Thomas Dimsdale , English physician, banker (d.1800 )June 4 –Thomas Cotes , British Royal Navy officer, Commander-in-Chief of the Jamaica Station (d.1767 )June 7 –Infante Philip of Spain , Spanish infante (d.1719 )June 11 –Benjamin Ingham , American missionary (d.1772 )June 14 June 15 –Andrew Gordon , Scottish Benedictine monk (d.1751 )June 21 –Luc Urbain de Bouëxic, comte de Guichen , French admiral (d.1790 )June 22 –Michael Heltzen , Norwegian mining engineer (d.1770 )June 25 –Exupere Joseph Bertin , French anatomist (d.1781 )June 26 –Johann Andreas Silbermann , German organ-builder (d.1783 )June 28 –Jean-Jacques Rousseau , Genevan philosopher (d.1778 )July 4 –George Hadow , British historian (d.1780 )July 9 –Charles-Étienne Pesselier , French playwright and librettist (d.1763 )July 12 July 18 –Karl Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen , German noble (d.1743 )July 19 –Carl Fredrik Mennander , Swedish bishop (d.1786 )July 21 –Johann Karl Philipp von Cobenzl , Habsburg politician (d.1770 )July 24 –Richard Handcock , Irish priest (d.1791 )July 25 –Vincenzo Miotti , Italian physicist and astronomer (d.1787 )July 26 July 31 –Johann Samuel König , German mathematician (d.1757 )August 2 –Prince George of Kartli , Georgian prince (d.1786 )August 12 August 15 –César Gabriel de Choiseul , French officer (d.1785 )August 24 –Michel-Barthélémy Ollivier , French painter and engraver (d.1784 )August 26 –Tadeusz Franciszek Ogiński , Polish noble (d.1783 )August 27 –William Graham, 2nd Duke of Montrose , member of the peerage of Scotland, son of James Graham (d.1790 )August 30 –George Montgomerie , British Member of Parliament (d.1766 )September 4 –Jan Verbruggen , Dutch master gun-founder in the Netherlands and later at the Royal Arsenal in Woolwich (d.1781 )September 11 –Giovanni Targioni Tozzetti , Italian naturalist (d.1783 )September 15 –Pierre Simon Fournier , French punch-cutter (d.1768 )September 22 –François-Joseph-Gaston de Partz de Pressy , French cleric (d.1789 )September 25 –James Veitch, Lord Elliock , Scottish politician (d.1793 )September 26 October 1 –William Shippen Sr. , American physician, anatomist and public figure (d.1801 )October 5 –Francesco Guardi , Italian painter (d.1793 )October 8 –Alison Cockburn , Scottish poet (d.1794 )October 14 October 15 –Leslie Corry , Irish politician (d.1741 )October 17 October 18 –Jeremias van Riemsdijk , Dutch colonial governor (d.1777 )October 19 October 20 –Gregor Zallwein , Bavarian-born expert on canon law (d.1766 )October 21 –James Steuart , Scottish economist (d.1780 )[ 116] October 22 –James Hamilton, 8th Earl of Abercorn , member of the peerage of Scotland and landowner in Ireland (d.1789 )October 24 October 29 –Paolo Gamba , Italian painter (d.1782 )October 30 October 31 –Prince Moritz of Anhalt-Dessau , German prince of the House of Ascania (d.1760 )November 4 November 7 –Antoine Choquet de Lindu , French architect (d.1790 )November 11 –Hugolín Gavlovič , Slovak Franciscan priest, author of religious, moral and educational writings (d.1787 )November 20 –Guillaume Voiriot , French portrait painter (d.1799 )November 24 November 27 –Fernando de Sousa e Silva , fourth Patriarch of Lisbon (d.1786 )December 1 –George Boscawen , British Army general and politician (d.1775 )December 3 December 9 –Alexander Murray of Elibank , Scottish Jacobite intriguer, fourth son of Alexander Murray (d.1778 )December 11 –Francesco Algarotti , Venetian philosopher (d.1764 )December 12 December 25 –Pietro Chiari , Italian playwright (d.1785 )December 31 1713
Marie Dumesnil born2 January Gang Se-hwang born25 January Diane Adélaïde de Mailly-Nesle born11 February Domènec Terradellas born13 February Anna Maria Elvia born20 February Gian Carlo Passeroni born8 March Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille born15 March Luise Gottsched born11 April Pierre Jélyotte born13 April Edward Wortley Montagu born15 May Georg Anton Urlaub born20 June Anna Rosina de Gasc born10 July Jacques-Germain Soufflot born22 July Princess Elisabeth Albertine of Saxe-Hildburghausen born4 August Imperial Noble Consort Shujia born14 September Denis Diderot born5 October Marie Fel born24 October Abraham Bäck born9 December January 1 –Carl Gustaf Warmholtz , Swedish writer (d.1785 )January 2 –Marie Dumesnil , French actress (d.1803 )January 5 –Jorge Juan y Santacilia , Spanish mathematician and naval officer (d.1773 )January 7 –Giovanni Battista Locatelli , Italian impresario and librettist (d.1785 )January 13 –Charlotte Charke , British actor and writer (d.1760 )January 17 –Jean Chrétien Fischer , French general (d.1762 )January 18 –Grigory Spiridov , Russian admiral (d.1790 )January 22 –Marc-Antoine Laugier , French Jesuit priest and architectural theorist (d.1769 )January 25 –Gang Se-hwang , Joseon Dynasty painter (d.1791 )January 29 –Edmé-François Mallet , French writer (d.1755 )January 31 February 2 –Maria Margarida de Lorena, 2nd Duchess of Abrantes , Portuguese noblewoman and courtier (d.1780 )February 5 –Edwin Lascelles, 1st Baron Harewood , British Baron (d.1795 )February 7 –Sir Henry Moore, 1st Baronet , Governor of Jamaica and New York (d.1769 )February 11 –Diane Adélaïde de Mailly-Nesle , Mistress of Louis XV (d.1769 )February 12 –Kenrick Clayton , British politician (d.1769 )February 13 –Domènec Terradellas , Spanish opera composer (d.1751 )February 14 February 20 –Anna Maria Elvia , Swedish feminist writer (d.1784 )February 26 –Pyotr Sheremetev , Russian noble (d.1788 )February 28 –Louis-Auguste-Augustin d'Affry , French diplomat (d.1793 )March 2 –Giammaria Ortes , Italian composer and academic (d.1790 )March 5 March 8 –Gian Carlo Passeroni , Italian writer (d.1803 )March 9 –Daniel Fones , American military commander (d.1790 )March 12 –Johann Adolph Hass , German clavichord maker (d.1771 )March 15 –Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille , French astronomer (d.1762 )March 17 –Sir Charles Asgill, 1st Baronet , British politician (d.1788 )March 21 –Francis Lewis , Signatory of the US Declaration of Independence, from Wales (d.1803 )March 23 –Bowen Southwell , Irish politician (d.1796 )March 26 –Peter Oliver , Massachusetts loyalist colonial judge (d.1791 )March 28 –Juan Nentvig , German anthropologist (d.1768 )March 29 –John Ponsonby , Irish politician (d.1787 )April 2 –Pier Francesco Foggini , Italian writer (d.1783 )April 3 –William Inglis , Scottish surgeon (d.1792 )April 7 –Nicola Sala , Italian opera composer and music theorist (d.1801 )April 10 –John Whitehurst , English clockmaker (d.1788 )April 11 –Luise Gottsched , German poet, playwright, essayist and translator (d.1762 )April 12 April 13 –Pierre Jélyotte , French operatic tenor (d.1797 )April 17 –Samuel Graves , British Royal Navy admiral (d.1787 )April 21 April 22 May 6 –Charles Batteux , French philosopher, writer on aesthetics (d.1780 )May 7 –Charles Townley , British Officer of Arms (d.1774 )May 11 –James Drummond, 3rd Duke of Perth , Scottish Jacobite army officer (d.1746 )May 13 May 15 May 17 –Élie Bertrand , Swiss scientist (d.1797 )May 25 May 31 –Giuseppe Maria Buonaparte , Corsican politician (d.1763 )June 3 –Robert Petre, 8th Baron Petre , British peer, renowned horticulturist (d.1742 )June 10 –Princess Caroline of Great Britain , fourth child and third daughter of George II (d.1757 )June 11 June 13 June 16 –Meshech Weare , First Governor of New Hampshire (d.1786 )June 17 –Hongjiao , Chinese Qing dynasty imperial prince (d.1764 )June 20 –Georg Anton Urlaub , German painter (d.1759 )June 22 –Lord John Sackville , English gentleman and cricketer (d.1765 )June 25 –Marie-Marguerite Brun , French poet (d.1794 )June 29 –Johannes de Bosch , painter from the Northern Netherlands (d.1785 )July 1 –Benjamin Green , Nova Scotian merchant, judge, and political figure (d.1772 )July 5 July 9 –John Newbery , English publisher and bookseller (d.1767 )July 10 –Anna Rosina de Gasc , German portrait painter (d.1783 )July 14 –Nicole du Hausset , French memoirist (d.1801 )July 16 –Carlo Murena , architect (d.1764 )July 18 July 22 –Jacques-Germain Soufflot , French architect in neoclassicism (d.1780 )July 23 July 27 –Princess Sophie Charlotte of Brandenburg-Bayreuth , duchess consort of Saxe-Weimar (d.1746 )August 1 –Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel , Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (d.1780 )August 3 –Johan Georg Lillienberg , Swedish count and politician (d.1798 )August 4 August 6 –Marie Sophie de Courcillon , French noblewoman and Duchess of Rohan-Rohan, Princess of Soubise by marriage (d.1756 )August 9 –James Murray , loyalist during the American Revolution (d.1781 )August 11 –Lebbeus Harris , Canadian politician (d.1792 )August 13 –David Franco Mendes , Dutch poet (d.1792 )August 17 –Antoine de Montazet , French archbishop (d.1788 )August 18 –Arthur Champagne , Irish Anglican priest (d.1799 )August 25 –Vijaya Raghunatha Raya Tondaiman I , Raja of Pudukkottai (d.1769 )August 27 –Anton August Beck , German engraver (d.1787 )September 3 –Jean Baptiste de La Vérendrye , one of the founders of the present province of Manitoba (d.1736 )September 9 –Robert Bremner , British music publisher (d.1789 )September 10 September 13 –Giuseppe Maria Buondelmonti , Italian philosopher (d.1757 )September 14 September 16 –Charles Lucas , Irish apothecary, physician and politician (d.1771 )September 20 –Louis Du Pont Duchambon de Vergor , French military officer (d.1775 )September 21 –Domingo de Bonechea , Spanish explorer (d.1775 )September 22 –Ferenc Farkas de Boldogfa , Hungarian nobleman, jurist, landowner, vice-ispán of the county of Zala (d.1770 )September 23 –Ferdinand VI of Spain , king of Spain, lived (d.1759 )October 2 –Henry Tucker of The Grove , Bermudian merchant, politician and Militia officer (d.1787 )October 3 –Antoine Dauvergne , French composer and violinist (d.1797 )October 5 –Denis Diderot , French philosopher (d.1784 )October 7 –Granville Elliott , Army General, British military expert, working for Britain and Palatine forces (d.1759 )October 8 –Yechezkel Landau , influential Polish authority on halakha (Jewish law) (d.1793 )October 9 –Mikhail Volkonsky , Russian statesman and military figure from the House of Volkonsky (d.1788 )October 12 –Khawaja Muhammad Zaman of Luari , Sindhi Sufi poet (d.1775 )October 13 October 20 October 23 –Pieter Burman the Younger , Dutch lawyer and philologist (d.1778 )October 24 –Marie Fel , French opera singer (d.1794 )October 30 –Giuseppe Antonio Landi , Italian architect and painter (d.1791 )November 1 –Antonio Genovesi , Italian economist (d.1769 )November 5 –Gorges Lowther , Member of the Irish House of Commons (d.1792 )November 6 –Thomas Osborne, 4th Duke of Leeds , British politician (d.1789 )November 13 –Nicolas Luton Durival , French historian (d.1795 )November 14 –Blasius Columban, Baron von Bender , Luxembourgish politician (d.1798 )November 17 –August de la Motte , German general (d.1788 )November 24 November 28 –Georg Friedrich Brander , German precision mechanic and mathematician (d.1783 )November 30 –Johann Balthasar Bullinger , Swiss landscape painter (d.1793 )December 4 –Gasparo Gozzi , Venetian critic and dramatist (d.1786 )December 9 –Abraham Bäck , physician (d.1795 )December 10 –Johann Nicolaus Mempel , German composer and musician (d.1747 )December 13 –John Baptist Caryll , third Jacobite Baron Caryll of Durford (d.1788 )December 14 –Martin Knutzen , German philosopher (d.1751 )December 15 –Welbore Ellis, 1st Baron Mendip , English politician (d.1802 )December 17 –Antoine-Noé de Polier de Bottens , Swiss theologian (d.1783 )December 19 –Jonathan Toup , British philologist (d.1785 )December 23 –Maruyama Gondazaemon , Japanese sumo wrestler (d.1749 )December 27 –Giovanni Battista Borra , Italian architect and engineer (d.1770 )December 29 1714
Christoph Willibald Gluck Alaungpaya Hedvig Taube January 1 January 6 January 9 –Elisabeth Stierncrona , Swedish noble (d.1769 )[ 120] January 10 –Johann Georg Dominicus von Linprun , German scientist (d.1787 )January 16 January 20 –Hugh Farmer , British theologian (d.1787 )January 21 –Anna Morandi Manzolini , internationally known Italian anatomist and anatomical wax modeler (d.1774 )January 24 –Henri Joseph Bouchard d'Esparbès de Lussan d'Aubeterre , Marshal of France (d.1788 )January 26 –Jean-Baptiste Pigalle , French sculptor (d.1785 )February 1 February 2 –Gottfried August Homilius , German composer, cantor and organist (d.1785 )[ 121] February 5 –Johann Gottlieb Gleditsch , German botanist (d.1786 )February 11 –Count Karl-Wilhelm Finck von Finckenstein , German-Prussian diplomat and later Prime Minister of Prussia (d.1800 )February 12 –Sebastian Sailer , German Premonstratensian preacher, writer (d.1777 )February 14 –William Vane, 2nd Viscount Vane of Ireland (d.1789 )February 18 –John Howe, 2nd Baron Chedworth of England, eldest son of John Howe (d.1762 )February 22 February 25 February 26 –James Hervey , English clergyman and writer (d.1758 )February 28 –Gioacchino Conti , Italian opera singer (d.1761 )March 1 –Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Menshikov , Russian army officer (d.1764 )March 2 –John Hamilton , Royal Navy officer (d.1755 )March 6 –Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre , French painter (d.1789 )March 7 –Charles Thomas, Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort , German nobleman, head of the House of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort (d.1789 )March 8 –Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach , German Classical composer (d.1788 )[ 122] March 11 –Cornelis Elout , Dutch regent (d.1779 )March 17 –Maximilian Reichsgraf von Hamilton , German-born Czech Catholic bishop (d.1776 )March 19 –Aymar Joseph de Roquefeuil et du Bousquet , French admiral (d.1782 )March 21 –Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden , British judge (d.1794 )March 25 March 27 –Francesco Antonio Zaccaria , Italian theologian (d.1795 )March 29 –Mahadhammaraza Dipadi , last Toungoo Dynasty king of Burma (Myanmar) (1733–1752) (d.1754 )April 1 –Jean-François de Neufforge , Flemish architect and engraver (d.1791 )April 7 –John Elwes (politician) , British politician (d.1789 )April 14 –Adam Gib , Scottish religious leader (d.1788 )April 15 –Claude Yvon , French encyclopedist (d.1791 )April 16 –Pedro António Avondano , Italian composer (d.1782 )April 18 –Jacques-Nompar III de Caumont, duc de La Force , French nobleman (d.1755 )April 25 –Emer de Vattel , Swiss philosopher (d.1767 )May 6 May 10 –Sophie Charlotte Ackermann , German actress from Berlin (d.1792 )May 12 –Johan Daniel Berlin , Norwegian composer and organist (d.1787 )May 14 –William Whitmore , British general (d.1771 )May 17 –Princess Anne Charlotte of Lorraine , French royal (d.1773 )May 20 –Henry Bathurst, 2nd Earl Bathurst , British lawyer and politician (d.1794 )June 6 –Joseph I of Portugal , Prince of Brazil (d.1777 )June 17 –César-François Cassini de Thury , French astronomer and cartographer (d.1784 )June 23 –Giovanni Sarnelli , Italian painter (d.1793 )July 1 –Michael Lally (brigadier-general) , Irish-born French brigadier-general (d.1773 )July 2 –Christoph Willibald Gluck , German composer (d.1787 )[ 123] July 8 July 12 –Mikhail Illarionovich Vorontsov , Russian noble, politician (d.1767 )July 16 –Marc René, marquis de Montalembert , French military engineer and writer (d.1800 )July 17 July 21 –Grand Duchess Natalya Alexeyevna of Russia (1714–1728) , Russian grand duchess (d.1728 )August 1 August 14 –Claude Joseph Vernet , French painter (d.1789 )[ 124] August 15 –Philip Stanhope, 2nd Earl Stanhope of Great Britain (d.1786 )August 18 –Landgravine Caroline of Hesse-Rotenburg , German noble (d.1741 )August 23 –Hans Jacob Scheel , Norwegian general (d.1774 )August 28 August 29 –Princess Friederike Luise of Prussia , Prussian princess (d.1784 )September 1 –Samuel Martin (Secretary to the Treasury) , British politician (d.1788 )September 10 –Niccolò Jommelli , Italian composer (d.1774 )[ 125] September 17 –Gottlieb Rabener , German writer of prose satires (d.1771 )September 19 –Charles Humphreys , miller and statesman from Haverford Township, Pennsylvania (d.1786 )September 23 –Eugene Jean, Count of Soissons , Prince of Savoy (d.1734 )September 24 –Alaungpaya , King of Burma (d.1760 )September 29 September 30 –Étienne Bonnot de Condillac , French academic (d.1780 )October 1 October 3 –Joseph Spencer , American general (d.1789 )October 14 –Christoph Anton Migazzi , Austrian Catholic bishop (d.1803 )October 16 –Giovanni Arduino (geologist) , Italian geologist (d.1795 )October 19 –Joseph von Petrasch , German philologist (d.1772 )October 25 –James Burnett, Lord Monboddo , Scottish judge, scholar of language evolution and philosopher (d.1799 )October 26 –Princess Marie Victoire d'Arenberg , Margravine of Baden-Baden as consort of Augustus George (d.1793 )October 27 –Fernando de Silva, 12th Duke of Alba , Spanish duke (d.1776 )October 31 –Hedvig Taube , Swedish courtier (d.1744 )November 1 –Johann Joachim Spalding , German theologian (d.1804 )November 2 –Camillo Almici , Italian priest (d.1779 )November 3 –Anica Bošković , Ragusan writer (d.1804 )November 4 –John Boyle, 3rd Earl of Glasgow , Scottish nobleman (d.1775 )November 10 –Mathieu Tillet , French botanist (d.1791 )November 18 –William Shenstone , English poet and landscape gardener (d.1763 )[ 126] November 24 –Thomas Zebrowski , Lithuanian Jesuit scientist (d.1758 )November 26 –Pierre-François Brice , French artist (d.1794 )November 27 –Jean Philippe Goujon de Grondel , French general (d.1807 )December 1 –Pierre Gaultier de La Vérendrye , French-Canadian explorer (d.1755 )December 3 –Edward Pickard , British minister (d.1778 )December 4 –Israel Acrelius , Swedish missionary and clergyman (d.1800 )December 14 –Leonard Lispenard , American politician (d.1790 )December 15 –Étienne Mignot de Montigny , French engineer, geographer (d.1782 )December 16 –George Whitefield , English Anglican priest (d.1770 )December 18 December 19 –John Winthrop (educator) , 2nd Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy in Harvard College (d.1779 )December 21 December 23 December 31 1715
January 9 –Robert-François Damiens , French domestic servant, executed for the attempted assassination of Louis XV of France (d.1757 )January 10 January 12 –Jacques Duphly , French composer (d.1789 )January 23 –Jean-Olivier Briand , French-born Catholic bishop of Quebec (d.1794 )January 24 –Ōkubo Tadaoki , Japanese daimyō (d.1764 )January 25 January 29 –Georg Christoph Wagenseil , Austrian composer (d.1777 )January 30 –Jean-Baptiste Lestiboudois , French botanist (d.1804 )January 31 February 4 –John Hamilton , British politician (d.1796 )February 5 –Baltazar Adam Krčelić , Croatian historian and theologian (d.1778 )February 11 –Margaret Bentinck, Duchess of Portland , British duchess (d.1785 )February 12 –James Grenville , British Member of Parliament (d.1783 )Charles-Nicolas Cochin Claude Adrien Helvétius February 26 –Claude Adrien Helvétius , French philosopher (d.1771 )February 27 –Mateo Aimerich , Spanish philologist (d.1799 )March 4 –James Waldegrave, 2nd Earl Waldegrave of Great Britain (d.1763 )March 7 March 14 –Johan Martin Preisler , German artist (d.1794 )March 18 –John Bushell , first (Massachusetts-born) Canadian printer (d.1761 )March 24 –William Strahan , British politician (d.1785 )March 25 –Mary Frances of the Five Wounds , Italian Franciscan saint (d.1791 )March 28 –Margrave Frederick William of Brandenburg-Schwedt , Prussian major general and titular Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt (d.1744 )March 31 –Johan Samuel Augustin , German-Danish astronomical writer, civil servant (d.1785 )April 3 –William Watson , English scientist (d.1787 )April 9 –Giovanni Carlo Boschi , Italian Catholic cardinal (d.1788 )April 11 April 13 –John Martin Mack , American missionary (d.1784 )April 19 –James Nares , English composer of mostly sacred vocal works (d.1783 )April 20 April 23 April 28 May 4 May 7 –Charles Roe , English businessman (d.1781 )May 11 May 12 –Otto William Schwartz , Canadian politician (d.1785 )May 20 –William Whitfield II , American Army officer (d.1795 )May 22 –François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis , French cardinal and statesman (d.1794 )June 7 –Lodewijk Caspar Valckenaer , Dutch classical scholar (d.1785 )June 12 June 13 –Anna Wilhelmine of Anhalt-Dessau , German noblewoman (d.1780 )June 15 –John Blennerhassett , Anglo-Irish politician (d.1763 )June 18 –Harry Grey, 4th Earl of Stamford , British earl, politician (d.1768 )June 25 –Joseph Foullon de Doué , French politician and a Controller-General of Finances under Louis XVI (d.1789 )June 29 –Pedro Antonio de Cevallos , Spanish military Governor of Buenos Aires between 1757 and 1766 (d.1778 )July 2 –Samuel Finley , American clergyman and educator (d.1766 )July 4 July 11 –Jean-Joseph Balechou , French artist (d.1765 )July 14 –Caterina Sagredo Barbarigo , Venetian aristocrat and salon holder (d.1772 )July 16 –Charles, Prince of Soubise , Marshal of France (d.1787 )July 17 –Fredericka of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg , German noblewoman member of the House of Wettin and by marriage Duchess of Saxe-Weissenfels (d.1775 )July 26 –Jakob van der Schley , Dutch engraver (d.1779 )August 5 –Charlotte Sophie of Aldenburg , German sovereign (d.1800 )August 6 –Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues , French writer (d.1747 )August 18 –Cyrus Trapaud , British Army general (d.1801 )August 25 –Luis González Velázquez , Spanish painter (d.1763 )September 5 –Ignác Raab , Czech artist (d.1787 )September 15 –Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval , French artillery officer and engineer who revolutionized French cannon (d.1789 )September 19 September 22 –Jean-Étienne Guettard , French scientist (d.1786 )September 25 –Princess Victoria Charlotte of Anhalt-Zeitz-Hoym , Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (d.1772 )September 26 –Lord George Graham , Royal Navy officer and MP (d.1747 )October 1 –Richard Jago , English clergyman poet and minor landscape gardener from Warwickshire (d.1781 )October 2 –Domenico Caracciolo , Italian politician (d.1789 )October 5 October 6 –Antoine-Gabriel-François Benoist , soldier in the French army, served in North America (d.1776 )October 16 –Joseph Allegranza , Historian, archaeologist, antiquary (d.1785 )October 23 –Peter II of Russia , Emperor of Russia (d.1730 )October 29 –Aaron Cleveland , American clergyman (d.1757 )November 5 November 6 –Heneage Finch, 3rd Earl of Aylesford , Member of the Parliament of Great Britain (d.1777 )Queen Elisabeth Christine November 8 –Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern , Crown Princess of Prussia (d.1797 )November 9 –Edward Bligh, 2nd Earl of Darnley , British noble (d.1747 )November 12 –Kajetan Sołtyk , Polish Catholic priest (d.1788 )November 13 –Dorothea Erxleben , first German female physician (d.1762 )November 16 –Girolamo Abos , Maltese-Italian composer (d.1760 )November 17 –Sir Danvers Osborn, 3rd Baronet , British politician and colonial governor (d.1753 )November 19 –Bertrand Philip, Count of Gronsveld , Dutch diplomat (d.1772 )November 20 –Pierre Charles Le Monnier , French astronomer (d.1799 )November 24 –Anna Nitschmann , German poet (d.1760 )November 26 –Jean-Charles Gervaise de Latouche , French writer (d.1782 )November 27 –Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost , German physician (d.1794 )November 30 December 4 –Abraham Drake , New Hampshire politician (d.1781 )December 9 –Joseph Marie Terray , Controller-General of Finances during the reign of Louis XV of France (d.1778 )December 11 –Johann Valentin Tischbein , German painter (d.1768 )December 12 –Gennaro Manna , Italian composer (d.1779 )December 18 –Johan Heinrich Becker , German physician and chemist who settled in Norway (d.1761 )December 21 December 27 –Philippe de Noailles , Marshal of France (d.1794 )December 30 –Thomas Watson, 3rd Earl of Rockingham , British politician (d.1746 )December 31 –Nicolas-Sylvestre Bergier , French Catholic theologian (d.1790 )1716 *January 1 –Joshua Loring , colonial American captain in British service (d.1781 ), Gaspar de Portola, Spanish California Expedition (d.1786)
Charles III of Spain Lancelot Brown September 2 –Jacques-Nicolas Tardieu , French engraver (d.1791 )September 6 –Charles Bennet, 3rd Earl of Tankerville , British Earl (d.1767 )September 16 –Angelo Maria Amorevoli , Italian musician (d.1798 )September 19 –Jan Jacob Schultens , Dutch linguist (d.1788 )October 1 –Benjamin Waller , American politician (d.1786 )October 3 –Giovanni Battista Beccaria , Italian physicist (d.1781 )October 4 –James Lind , Scottish physician (d.1794 )October 5 –Alexei Senyavin , Russian admiral (d.1797 )October 6 –George Montagu-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax , British statesman (d.1771 )October 8 –Gaspar of Braganza, Archbishop of Braga , Portuguese clergyman (d.1780 )October 16 –Lord Augustus FitzRoy , Royal Navy officer during the War of the Austrian Succession (d.1741 )October 26 –Charles Christian Erdmann, Duke of Württemberg-Oels (d.1792 )1717
January 2 –Edward Seymour, 9th Duke of Somerset , English nobleman, son of Edward Seymour, 8th Duke of Somerset and Mary Webb (d.1792 )January 5 –William Barrington, 2nd Viscount Barrington , English statesman (d.1793 )January 18 –Jean-François-Marie de Surville , French trader and navigator (d.1770 )January 21 –Antonio María de Bucareli y Ursúa , Spanish military officer (d.1779 )January 23 –Benjamin Beddome , English Baptist minister and hymnist (d.1795 )January 28 –Mustafa III ,Ottoman Sultan (d.1773 )January 29 –Jeffrey Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst , British soldier and conqueror of Quebec (d.1797 )February 2 –Ernst Gideon Freiherr von Laudon , Austrian field marshal (d.1790 )February 3 –Nicholas Cooke , first Governor of Rhode Island (d.1782 )c.February 11 –William Williams Pantycelyn , Welsh hymn-writer, a key leader of the 18th century Methodist revival (d.1791 ) February 17 –Adam Friedrich Oeser , German etcher (d.1799 )February 19 –David Garrick , English actor (d.1779 )February 27 –Johann David Michaelis , German biblical scholar and teacher (d.1791 )April 6 –Luis de Unzaga , American-Spanish governor (d.1793 )April –Pieter Barbiers , Dutch artist (d.1780 )April 9 –Georg Matthias Monn , Austrian composer (d.1750 )April 10 –Isaac de Pinto , Dutch Jew of Portuguese origin, investor and scholar (d.1787 )May 8 –Charles Guillaume Le Normant d'Étiolles , French official, husband of Madame de Pompadour (d.1799 )Maria Theresa of Austria May 13 –Maria Theresa of Austria , Archduchess of Austria and Queen of Hungary and Bohemia, consort of the Holy Roman Emperor (d.1780 )[ 127] June 5 –Emanuel Mendes da Costa , English botanist (d.1791 )June 8 –John Collins , Continental Congressman, third Governor of Rhode Island (d.1795 )June 19 –Johann Stamitz , Czech-born composer (d.1757 )June 20 –Jacques Saly , French sculptor (d.1776 )June 27 –Louis Guillaume Lemonnier , French botanist (d.1799 )June 28 –Matthew Stewart , Scottish mathematician (d.1785 )July 5 –Peter III of Portugal , consort of QueenMaria I of Portugal (d.1786 )August –Sophie de Lafont , Russian educator (d.1797 )August 13 –Louis François, Prince of Conti , French nobleman, military leader (d.1776 )August 15 September 4 –Job Orton , English dissenting minister (d.1783 )September 7 September 22 –Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin , Swedish astronomer (d.1783 )September 24 –Horace Walpole , English art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and politician (d.1797 )September 28 –William Nassau de Zuylestein, 4th Earl of Rochford , British diplomat and statesman (d.1781 )October –James Paine , English architect (d.1789 )October 5 –Marie-Anne de Mailly-Nesle duchess de Châteauroux , French mistress of KingLouis XV of France (d.1744 )October 13 –John Armstrong , American civil engineer, major general in the Revolutionary War (d.1795 )October 30 –Jonathan Hornblower , English pioneer of steam power (d.1780 )November 13 –Prince George William of Great Britain , member of the British Royal Family (d.1718 )November 16 –Jean le Rond d'Alembert , French mathematician and encyclopædist (d.1783 )November 17 –Caroline Townshend, 1st Baroness Greenwich , English peeress (d.1794 )November 23 –Antoine Guenée , French priest and Christian apologist (d.1803 )November 25 –Alexander Sumarokov , Russian poet and playwright (d.1777 )Johann Joachim Winckelmann December 9 –Johann Joachim Winckelmann , German classical scholar and archaeologist (d.1768 )December 16 –Elizabeth Carter , English writer (d.1806 )[ 128] December 25 –George Augustus Eliott, 1st Baron Heathfield , British army officer (d.1790 )December 27 –Pope Pius VI , born Count Giovanni Angelo Braschi, Italian pontiff (d.1799 )December 28 –Johann Heinrich Gottlob Justi , leading German Kameralist in the 18th century (d.1771 )December 29 –Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes , French statesman and diplomat (d.1785 )date unknown Giambattista Almici , Italian jurist (d.1793 )Claude Humbert Piarron de Chamousset , French philanthropist (d.1773 )Gottlieb Sigmund Gruner , Swiss cartographer and geologist (d.1778 )Elimelech of Lizhensk , Polish Orthodox Jewish rabbi, one of the great foundingrebbes ofHasidic Judaism (d.1787 )Henry Middleton , South Carolina plantation owner, second President of the Continental Congress (d.1784 )Lewis Nicola , Irish-born officer in the American army during theAmerican Revolutionary War (d.1807 )Anne Steele ("Theodosia"), English Baptist hymn-writer (d.1778 )Molla Panah Vagif , Azerbaijani poet (d.1797 )1718
Infanta Mariana Victoria of Spain January 7 –Israel Putnam , American Revolutionary War general (d.1790 )January 29 –Paul Rabaut , French Huguenot pastor (d.1794 )February 17 –Matthew Tilghman , American delegate to the Continental Congress (d.1790 )March 31 –Infanta Mariana Victoria of Spain , queen regent of Portugal (d.1781 )April 4 –Benjamin Kennicott , English churchman and Hebrew scholar (d.1783 )April 7 –Hugh Blair , Scottish preacher and man of letters (d.1800 )April 20 –David Brainerd , American missionary (d.1747 )April 24 –Nathaniel Hone , Irish-born painter (d.1784 )April 26 –Esek Hopkins , American Revolutionary War admiral (d.1802 )April 27 –Thomas Lewis , Irish-born Virginia settler (d.1790 )May 16 –Maria Gaetana Agnesi , Italian mathematician (d.1799 )May 17 –Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holderness , English diplomat and politician (d.1778 )May 23 –William Hunter , Scottish anatomist (d.1783 )May 30 –Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire , English politician (d.1793 )May 31 –Jacob Christian Schäffer , German inventor, botanist and professor (d.1790 )June 5 –Thomas Chippendale , English furniture maker (d.1779 )June 17 –George Howard , British field marshal (d.1796 )July 5 –Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford , Viceroy of Ireland (d.1794 )July 18 –Saverio Bettinelli , Italian writer (d.1808 )July 31 –John Canton , English physicist (d.1772 )August 11 –Frederick Haldimand , Swiss-born British colonial governor (d.1791 )September 18 –Nikita Ivanovich Panin , Russian statesman (d.1783 )October 19 –Victor-François, 2nd duc de Broglie , Marshal of France (d.1804 )October 2 –Louisa Catharina Harkort , German ironmaster (d.1795 )October 28 –Ignacije Szentmartony , Croatian Jesuit missionary and geographer (d.1793 )November 3 –John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich , English statesman (d.1792 )November 28 –Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht , Swedish writer (d.1763 )date unknown 1719
Jacques-Alexandre Laffon de Ladebat born2 January Guillaume de Barrême de Châteaufort born6 January Joseph Liesganig born13 February Ferdinand Christoph Oetinger born18 February John Hawkins born29 March Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim born2 April Reza Qoli Mirza Afshar born5 April Christian Gottfried Krause born17 April Charlotte of Monaco born19 May Julia von Mengden born22 May Giuseppe Toaldo born11 July Frances Boscawen born23 July Johann Gottlob Lehmann born4 August Robert Glynn born5 August Itakura Katsuzumi born13 August Louis-Alexandre de Cessart born25 August Abraham Gotthelf Kästner born27 September François Poulletier de la Salle born30 September Leopold Mozart born14 November Johann Gottlob Immanuel Breitkopf born23 November Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha born30 November George Campbell born25 December January 1 –Pierre-François Hugues d'Hancarville , art historian and historian of ideas (d.1805 )January 2 January 3 January 6 January 10 –Maria Dorothea Wagner , German painter (d.1792 )January 14 –Daniel Nettelbladt , German jurist and philosopher (d.1791 )January 15 –William Fitzwilliam, 3rd Earl Fitzwilliam , British peer (d.1756 )January 17 January 22 January 23 –John Landen , English mathematician (d.1790 )January 25 –Princess Sophia Dorothea of Prussia (d.1765 )January 30 –Magnus Gottfried Lichtwer , German writer (d.1783 )February 2 –Edward Coke, Viscount Coke , British politician (d.1753 )February 4 –Ernst Wilhelm von Schlabrendorf , German politician (d.1769 )February 6 –Alberto Pullicino , Maltese painter (d.1765 )February 10 –Clemente Sibiliato , Italian cleric (d.1795 )February 11 –Vasilije Božičković , Eparch of Križevci (d.1785 )February 13 February 14 –David Doig , writer (d.1800 )February 15 February 18 –Ferdinand Christoph Oetinger , German physician (d.1772 )February 19 –Arthur Blennerhassett , Anglo-Irish politician (d.1799 )February 20 February 22 –Joshua Thomas , Historian of Welsh Baptists (d.1797 )February 23 –Moses Mather , American clergyman (d.1806 )February 27 –Alejandro González Velázquez , Spanish architect and painter (d.1772 )March 1 –Daniel Thurston , American army officer (d.1805 )March 4 –George Pigot, 1st Baron Pigot , British governor of Madras (d.1777 )March 6 March 10 –Pierre-Paul Lemercier de La Rivière de Saint-Médard , French economist (d.1801 )March 13 –John Griffin, 4th Baron Howard de Walden , British nobleman and soldier (d.1797 )March 16 –Prince Georg Ludwig of Holstein-Gottorp , Prussian lieutenant-general, Imperial Russian field marshal (d.1763 )March 17 –Gabriel Podoski , Catholic archbishop (d.1777 )March 23 –Anna Catharina Bischoff , Lady (or mummy) of the Barfüsser Church (d.1787 )March 26 –Lubbert Jan van Eck , Dutch noble (d.1765 )March 29 –John Hawkins , English author and music historian (d.1789 )March 30 –John Wentworth , American jurist, soldier, leader of the American Revolution in New Hampshire (d.1781 )April 2 April 3 April 4 –Mary Draper , American revolutionary character (d.1810 )April 5 April 8 –Edmund Pery, 1st Viscount Pery , Irish politician, Speaker of the Irish House of Commons (d.1806 )April 9 –Sir Edward Blackett, 4th Baronet , British politician and barrister (d.1804 )April 11 –Jakob Friedrich Heusinger , German classical philologist (d.1778 )April 13 –John Breynton , Welsh missionary and minister (d.1799 )April 16 April 17 April 19 –William Banks , British politician (d.1761 )April 22 –Jacques Rochette de La Morlière , French writer (d.1785 )April 24 –Giuseppe Marc'Antonio Baretti , Italian-born English literary critic and author (d.1789 )April 28 –Sir Edward Turner, 2nd Baronet , British politician (d.1766 )May 5 –Andrew Meikle , Scottish engineer (d.1811 )May 6 –Jean Baptiste Christy de La Pallière , French Navy officer (d.1787 )May 8 –Nicholas Dias Abeysinghe , ceylonese Dutch colonial administrator (d.1794 )May 17 –Bjarni Pálsson , Icelandic doctor (d.1779 )May 19 May 20 –Roger Newdigate , English politician, antiquities collector (d.1806 )May 22 May 24 –Eyre Massey, 1st Baron Clarina , Irish Baron (d.1804 )May 27 –Henri-Joseph Dulaurens , French writer (d.1793 )May 29 –Lorenzo De Caro , Italian painter (d.1777 )May 31 –Robert Rutherfurd , Scottish merchant, Baron of the Russian Empire (d.1794 )June 2 –Michel-Jean Sedaine , French dramatist and librettist (d.1797 )June 3 –Louis Paul Abeille , economist (d.1807 )June 5 –Domenico Orsini d'Aragona , Italian cardinal (d.1789 )June 10 June 11 –François-Charles de Velbrück , Roman Catholic bishop (d.1784 )June 17 –Joshua Parry , Welsh nonconformist minister and writer (d.1776 )June 19 –Sir Thomas Clavering, 7th Baronet , British politician (d.1794 )June 28 –Étienne François, duc de Choiseul , French general, diplomat, statesman (d.1785 )July 2 –Josip Šišković , Hapsburg military officer (d.1783 )July 7 July 11 –Giuseppe Toaldo , Italian physicist (d.1797 )July 16 July 23 –Frances Boscawen , English literary hostess; (d.1805 )July 25 –Chevalier de Johnstone , Jacobite Army officer (d.1800 )July 26 –Elizabeth Pakenham, 1st Countess of Longford , English noblewoman (d.1794 )July 29 –William Innes , British Member of Parliament (d.1795 )August 4 –Johann Gottlob Lehmann , German and Russian mineralogist (d.1767 )August 5 –Robert Glynn , British doctor (d.1800 )August 7 August 10 –Philip Thicknesse , author (d.1792 )August 11 –George Selwyn , British politician (d.1791 )August 13 –Itakura Katsuzumi , Japanese samurai (d.1769 )August 18 –Bernard Ward, 1st Viscount Bangor , Irish politician and peer (d.1781 )August 19 –Charles-François de Broglie, marquis de Ruffec , French soldier, diplomat (d.1781 )August 20 August 23 –Pierre Poivre , French horticulturalist (d.1786 )August 25 August 26 –Carlo Sebastiano Berardi , Italian jurist (d.1768 )September 3 –Ferdinand Zellbell the Younger , Swedish composer (d.1780 )September 6 –Somerset Hamilton Butler, 1st Earl of Carrick (d.1754 )September 11 –Tanuma Okitsugu , Japanese government official (d.1788 )September 13 –Étienne Ficquet , engraver (d.1794 )September 15 –Friedrich Christian Meuschen , German zoologist (d.1811 )September 17 September 21 September 24 –Florian Baucke , Jesuit missionary (d.1780 )September 27 –Abraham Gotthelf Kästner , German mathematician (d.1800 )September 30 –François Poulletier de la Salle , chemist and medical doctor (d.1788 )October 1 –John Bligh, 3rd Earl of Darnley , British politician (d.1781 )October 3 –Paul Henry Ourry , British Member of Parliament (d.1783 )October 7 –Jacques Cazotte , French writer (d.1792 )October 9 –Georg Mathias Fuchs , German painter in Denmark (d.1797 )October 10 –Francis Greville, 1st Earl of Warwick , English Earl (d.1773 )October 12 –Ignaz Franz , German priest, hymnwriter (d.1790 )October 13 –Josef Ignaz Mildorfer , Austrian painter (d.1775 )October 14 –John Holker , English Jacobite soldier, industrialist and commercial spy (d.1786 )October 18 –Charles Bulkley , British minister (d.1797 )October 20 –Gottfried Achenwall , German philosopher, historian, economist, jurist, statistician (d.1772 )October 23 –Peter Fenger , Danish merchant (d.1774 )October 24 October 25 –Edward Townshend , Anglican dean of Norwich (d.1765 )October 26 October 30 –Lazzaro Opizio Pallavicino , Italian priest (d.1785 )November 6 –Louis-Antoine Caraccioli , French writer, poet and historian (d.1803 )November 9 –Domenico Lorenzo Ponziani , Italian chess player (d.1796 )November 14 November 17 November 22 –Johann Friedrich Reiffenstein , German artist (d.1793 )November 23 November 30 –Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha , Princess of Wales (d.1772 )December 8 –Andrés Marcos Burriel , historian (d.1762 )December 13 –Thomas Gillespie , North Carolina planter (d.1797 )December 15 –Louis IX, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (d.1790 )December 18 –William Stanhope, 2nd Earl of Harrington , British Army general (d.1779 )December 25 –George Campbell , figure of the Scottish Enlightenment (d.1796 )December 26 –Salvatore Maria di Blasi , Italian priest (d.1814 )December 27 –John Phillips , American academic (d.1795 )December 28 –Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes , French diplomat (d.1787 )
Deaths 1710
January 4 –Sir Richard Newdigate, 2nd Baronet , English landowner (b.1644 )January 6 –Thomas Fairfax, 5th Lord Fairfax of Cameron , English politician (b.1657 )January 16 –Emperor Higashiyama of Japan (b.1675 )January 28 –Philip Verheyen , Flemish physician (b.1648 )January 21 January 30 February 16 –Esprit Fléchier , French writer andBishop of Nîmes (b.1632 )February 17 –George Bull , English theologian and Bishop of St David's (b.1634 )February 20 –Johan Vibe , Norwegian noble (b.1637 )February 25 –Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut , French explorer (b. c.1639 )March 4 –Louis III, Prince of Condé (b.1668 )March 5 –John Holt , English politician (b.1642 )March 14 –Michel Bégon , French ancien regime official (b.1638 )March 28 –Charles Fanshawe, 4th Viscount Fanshawe , English politician (b.1643 )April 7 –Sir Richard Bulkeley, 2nd Baronet of England (b.1660 )April 28 –Thomas Betterton ,English actor (b. c.1635 )May 13 –Henry, Duke of Saxe-Römhild (b.1650 )May 29 June 1 –David Mitchell , British admiral (b.1642 )June 4 –James Stuart, 1st Earl of Bute (b.1661 )June 7 –Louise de La Vallière , mistress of King Louis XIV of France (b.1644 )July 2 –Domenico Freschi , Italian opera composer, Catholic priest (b.1634 )July 12 –Robert Treat , American colonial leader (b.1624 )July 25 –Gottfried Kirch , German astronomer, first 'Astronomer Royal' in Berlin (b.1639 )Ole Rømer September 19 –Ole Rømer , Danish astronomer (b.1644 )September 22 –Jacques-René de Brisay de Denonville, Marquis de Denonville (b.1637 )September 24 –Charles Berkeley, 2nd Earl of Berkeley , English diplomat (b.1649 )September 26 –Sir Robert Kemp, 2nd Baronet , English politician (b.1627 )October 19 –Suzanne Henriette of Lorraine , French noblewoman, Duchess of Mantua and Montferrat (b.1686 )November 3 –Maria de Croll , Swedish vocalistNovember 21 –Bernardo Pasquini , Italian composer of operas (b.1637 )December 15 –Albert Anton, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (b.1641 )December 18 –Petrus Codde , Dutch cleric, first Old Catholic bishop (b.1648 )date unknown –Anna Maria Thelott , Swedish artist (b.1683 )1711
Joseph Vaz January 16 – BlessedJoseph Vaz , Apostle of Ceylon (b.1651 )January 10 –John Manners, 1st Duke of Rutland , English nobleman and politician (b.1638 )January 21 –Augustinus Terwesten , 18th century painter from the Northern Netherlands (b.1649 )January 26 –Luis Francisco de la Cerda , Spanish noble, politician (b.1660 )February 3 –Francesco Maria de' Medici, Duke of Rovere and Montefeltro , Italian Catholic cardinal (b.1660 )March 3 –Charles, Landgrave of Hesse-Wanfried (1676–1711) (b.1649 )March 13 –Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux , French poet and critic (b.1636 )March 15 –Eusebio Kino , Italian Catholic missionary (b.1645 )March 19 –Thomas Ken , English bishop and hymn-writer (b.1637 )March 29 –Gabriel Gerberon , French Jansenist monk (b.1628 )April 9 –Charles Duncombe , British politician (b.1648 )Louis, Grand Dauphin April 14 –Louis, Grand Dauphin , son ofLouis XIV of France (b.1661 )April 17 –Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor (b.1678 )May 2 –Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester , English statesman (b.1641 )June 7 –Henry Dodwell , Irish theologian (b.1641 )June 8 –Katharyne Lescailje , Dutch writer (b.1649 )June 16 –Maria Amalia of Courland , Landgravine of Hesse-Kassel (b.1653 )July 6 –James Douglas, 2nd Duke of Queensberry , Scottish politician (b.1662 )July 11 –Joseph Ball , American settler, public servant, and maternal grandfather ofGeorge Washington (b.1649 )[ 129] July 15 –John Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle , England (b.1662 )July 18 –Richard Verney, 11th Baron Willoughby de Broke , English baron (b.1622 )July 19 –Date Tsunamune , Japanese daimyō of Sendai han (b.1640 )August 22 –Louis François, duc de Boufflers , Marshal of France (b.1644 )August 25 –Edward Villiers, 1st Earl of Jersey , English politician (b. c.1656 )August 30 –Pieter Spierinckx , Flemish painter (b.1635 )August 31 –Jean Le Pelletier , French polygraph and alchemist (b.1633 )September 3 –Élisabeth Sophie Chéron , French musician (b.1648 )September 14 –Claude Aveneau , French missionary (b.1650 )September 17 –Giovanni Maria Gabrielli , Italian Catholic cardinal (b.1654 )September 19 –Davide Cocco Palmieri , Italian Catholic bishop (b.1632 )October 5 –Paulet St John, 3rd Earl of Bolingbroke , English politician (b.1634 )October 14 –Tewoflos ,Emperor of Ethiopia October 30 –Wilhelmus à Brakel , Dutch theologian (b.1635 )November 3 Date unknown –Cille Gad , Norwegian poet (b.1675 )1712
January 5 –Richard Jones, 1st Earl of Ranelagh , Irish politician (b.1641 )January 10 –John Houblon , first Governor of the Bank of England (1694-1697) (b.1632 )February 2 –Martin Lister , English naturalist, physician (b. c.1638 )February 12 –Marie Adélaïde of Savoy , wife ofLouis, Dauphin of France, Duke of Burgundy (b.1685 )February 18 –Louis, duc de Bourgogne , heir to the throne of France (b.1682 )February 22 –Nicolas Catinat , French military commander and Marshal of France under Louis XIV (b.1637 )February 27 –Bahadur Shah I ,Mughal Emperor of India (b.1643 )March 2 –Lorenzo Magalotti , Italian philosopher (b.1637 )March 18 –Azim-ush-Shan , Mughal prince (b.1664 )March 25 –Nehemiah Grew , English naturalist (b.1641 )Jan van der Heyden March 28 –Jan van der Heyden , Dutch painter (b.1637 )March 30 –Johann Friedrich Mayer , German Lutheran theologian (b.1650 )April 9 –Giuseppe Archinto , Italian cardinal, Archbishop of Milan (b.1651 )April 11 –Richard Simon , French Biblical critic (b.1638 )April 27 –John Crowne , English playwright (b.1641 )April 29 –Juan Bautista Cabanilles , Spanish composer (b.1644 )April 30 –Philipp van Limborch , Dutch Protestant theologian (b.1633 )May 6 –Henric Piccardt , Dutch lawyer (b.1636 )May 20 –Christian Ernst, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1655–1712) (b.1644 )June 10 –Christian Franz Paullini , German physician (b.1643 )June 11 –Louis Joseph, Duke of Vendôme , French military commander (b.1654 )June 24 –Simon van der Stel , last Commander and first Governor of the Cape Colony (b.1639 )July –Baltacı Mehmet Pasha , Ottoman (Turkish) grand vizier (b.1662 ) July 1 –William King , English poet (b.1663 )July 4 –Johann Kasimir Kolbe von Wartenberg , Prussian politician (b.1643 )Richard Cromwell July 12 –Richard Cromwell , Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland (b.1626 )July 13 –Isaac de Porthau , Gascon black musketeer of the Maison du Roi (b.1617 )July 28 –Theodorus Janssonius van Almeloveen , Dutch classical scholar (b.1657 )July 26 –Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds , English statesman (b.1631 )August 3 –Joshua Barnes , English scholar (b.1654 )August 7 –Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow , German composer (b.1663 )August 11 –Magdalena Sibylla of Hesse-Darmstadt , German regent (b.1652 )August 18 –Richard Savage, 4th Earl Rivers , English soldier (b. c.1660 )August 26 –Sebastian Anton Scherer , German organist and composer (b.1631 )August 29 –Gregory King , English statistician (b.1648 )September 9 –Edward Hyde , Governor of North Carolina (b. c.1650 )Giovanni Domenico Cassini September 14 –Giovanni Domenico Cassini , Italian-French astronomer and engineer (b.1625 )September 15 –Sidney Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphin , English politician (b. c.1645 )September 23 –Thomas Halyburton , Scottish theologian (b.1674 )October 4 –Philip Reinhard, Count of Hanau-Münzenberg (b.1664 )October 25 –Ōkubo Tadatomo , Japanese daimyō (b.1632 )October 30 –Daniel Erich , German organist and composer (b.1649 )November 5 –Charles Honoré d'Albert, duc de Luynes , French noble (b.1646 )November 12 –Tokugawa Ienobu , Japanese Edo shōgun (b.1662 )November 15 November 19 –Wolfgang Carl Briegel , German organist and composer (b.1626 )November 20 –Humphrey Humphreys , British bishop (b.1648 )November 26 –Pietro Dandini , Italian painter (b.1646 )November 30 –Sir Henry Furnese, 1st Baronet , English merchant and politician (b.1658 )1713
Arcangelo Corelli died8 January Michael II Apafi died1 February Jahandar Shah died12 February Anne Clausdatter died11 April Dorothea Marie of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg died18 April Thomas Sprat died20 May Georg Otho died28 May Henry Compton (bishop) died7 July Atanasie Anghel died19 August Jacob van Oost the Younger died29 September Salomon van Til died31 October Elizabeth Barry died7 November Thomas Tompion died20 November January 1 January 2 –Lady Mary Butler , British noble; (b.1689 )January 5 –Jean Chardin , French jeweler, traveler and author (b.1643 )January 8 –Arcangelo Corelli , Italian violinist and composer (b.1653 )January 11 –Pierre Jurieu , French Protestant leader (b.1637 )January 12 –John Vaughan, 3rd Earl of Carbery , Governor of Jamaica, President of the British Royal Society (b.1639 )January 20 –Pavao Ritter Vitezović , Croatian writer, historian, linguist and publisher (b.1652 )January 26 –Scrope Howe, 1st Viscount Howe , English politician (b.1648 )February 1 –Michael II Apafi , Prince of Transylvania (b.1676 )February 2 –Marko Mesić , Croatian Roman Catholic priest (b.1640 )February 3 –William Milman , English lawyer (b.1650 )February 4 –Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury , English politician and philosopher (b.1671 )February 11 –Zulfiqar Khan Nusrat Jung , Nawab of the Carnatic (b.1657 )February 12 February 14 February 15 –Carlo Vigarani , Italian scenic designer (b.1637 )February 25 – KingFrederick I of Prussia (b.1657 )February 26 –William Paget, 6th Baron Paget , English peer and ambassador (b.1637 )February 28 –Samuel Whiting Jr. , American clergyman 1633–1713 (b.1633 )March 4 –Ireneo della Croce , Carmelite preacher and chronicler (b.1625 )March 14 –Mary Cromwell, Countess Fauconberg , daughter of Oliver Cromwell (b.1637 )March 15 –Wolfgang William Romer , Dutch military engineer (b.1640 )March 17 –Juraj Jánošík , Slovak outlaw, known as theSlovak Robin Hood (executed) (b.1688 )March 20 –Owen Buckingham , MP and Lord Mayor of London (b.1649 )March 21 –Feodor Lopukhin , Russian lawyer, nobleman, colonel, courtier and Boyar (b.1638 )March 22 –Robert Petre, 7th Baron Petre , British peer (b.1689 )March 24 –Toussaint de Forbin-Janson , French Catholic cardinal and Bishop of Beauvais (b.1631 )March 26 March 29 –Christian Thomsen Carl , Danish naval officer (b.1676 )March 30 –Govert Bidloo , Dutch physician, anatomist, poet and playwright (b.1649 )April 3 –Henri, Count of Brionne , French noble (b.1661 )April 8 April 11 –Anne Clausdatter , Norwegian businesswoman (b.1659 )April 15 –Valentin Molitor , Swiss composer (b.1637 )April 17 –David Hollatz , German theologian (b.1648 )April 18 –Dorothea Marie of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg , German princess (b.1674 )April 20 –John Hay, 2nd Marquess of Tweeddale , Scottish nobleman (b.1645 )April 21 –Paolo Naldini , Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Capodistria (b.1632 )April 24 –Edmund Meyrick , Welsh cleric (b.1636 )April 27 –Marie Elisabeth zu Mecklenburg , princess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (b.1646 )May 3 –Salathiel Lovell , British judge (b.1631 )May 15 –Giuseppe Antonio Torri , architect (b.1655 )May 19 –Samuel Keeler , Connecticut politician (b.1656 )May 20 –Thomas Sprat , English minister (b.1635 )May 28 –Georg Otho , German librarian (b.1634 )June 11 –Felix Meyer , painter from Switzerland (b.1653 )July 7 –Henry Compton , Bishop of Oxford; Bishop of London (b.1632 )July 11 –Joseph Stennett , English Baptist minister and hymnwriter (b.1663 )July 25 –Thomas Northmore , English Member of Parliament (b.1643 )July 31 –Frederick William, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (b.1675 )August 2 –Artus de Lionne , French missionary (b.1655 )August 4 –William Cave , English cleric and scholar (b.1637 )August 10 –Giovanni Battista Visconti Aicardi , Roman Catholic prelate (b.1644 )August 15 –Kujō Morotaka , Japanese noble (b.1688 )August 19 –Atanasie Anghel , Romanian Greek-Catholic bishop of Alba Iulia (b.1660 )August 26 (bur.) –Denis Papin , French inventor (b.1647 )September 5 –Ivan Andreyevich Tolstoy , Russian noble (b.1644 )September 6 –François-Séraphin Régnier-Desmarais , French diplomat and writer (b.1632 )September 8 –Livio Odescalchi , Italian noble (b.1652 )September 9 September 14 –Ōkubo Tadamasu , daimyo (b.1656 )September 15 –Tokugawa Yoshimichi , daimyo (b.1689 )September 20 –Francisco Martín Fernández de Posadas , Spanish presbyter (b.1644 )September 21 –Charles Fox , English politician (b.1660 )September 22 –Yurij Vynnyckyj , Metropolitan of Kiev (b.1660 )September 29 –Jacob van Oost the Younger , Flemish Baroque painter (b.1639 )October 5 –Charles Schomberg, Marquess of Harwich , British Army officer and noble (b.1683 )October 14 –Johan de la Faille , Dutch art collector (b.1628 )October 15 –Johann Michael Feuchtmayer the Elder , German artist (b.1666 )October 17 –Ambrose Crowley , English ironmonger (b.1658 )October 18 –Tripo Kokolja , Venetian painter (b.1661 )October 20 –Archibald Pitcairne , Scottish physician (b.1652 )October 22 –Sir John Cropley, 2nd Baronet , English politician (b.1663 )October 28 –Paolo Lorenzani , Italian composer (b.1640 )October 31 November 2 –Narcissus Marsh , English clergyman (b.1638 )November 6 –Franz Karl of Auersperg , Prince of Auersperg, Duke of Münsterberg (b.1660 )November 7 –Elizabeth Barry , British actress (b.1658 )November 8 November 9 –Armand Charles de La Porte de La Meilleraye , French general (b.1632 )November 17 –Abraham van Riebeeck , Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (b.1653 )November 18 –Charles Hickman , Anglican Bishop of Derry (b.1648 )November 20 –Thomas Tompion , British clockmaker (b.1638 )November 26 –John Belding , Connecticut politician (b.1650 )November 30 –Nishio Tadanari , daimyo (b.1653 )December 1 –Richard Lowther, 2nd Viscount Lonsdale , English noble (b.1692 )December 2 –Gershom Bulkeley , Christian minister, physician, surgeon, magistrate (b.1636 )December 3 –Noadiah Russell , one of the clergymen who founded Yale (b.1659 )December 4 –François Pétis de la Croix , French orientalist (b.1653 )December 5 –Tokugawa Gorōta , daimyo (b.1711 )December 14 December 15 December 17 –Nicolò Beregan , Italian noble and singer (b.1627 )December 18 –Frederick Henry, Duke of Saxe-Zeitz-Pegau-Neustadt , German Duke (b.1668 )December 31 –Edward Proger , Member of Parliament for Brecknockshire (b.1621 )date unknown 1714
PrinceMamia III Gurieli Eugen Alexander Franz Anthony Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel Charles, Duke of Berry Anne, Queen of Great Britain Christoffel Pierson Pedro, Prince of Brazil January 4 –Atto Melani , Italian opera singer (b.1626 )January 5 –Mamia III Gurieli , Prince of GuriaJanuary 10 –Constantin Ranst de Jonge , son of Hieronimus Rans(t) (1607–1660) (b.1635 )January 17 –Gabriel Álvarez de Toledo , Royal Librarian of King Felipe V of Spain (b.1662 )February 2 –John Sharp , English Archbishop of Yorkshire (b.1643 )February 21 –Eugen Alexander Franz, 1st Prince of Thurn and Taxis (b.1652 )February 24 –Edmund Andros , English governor in North America (b.1637 )March 3 –Hans Carl von Carlowitz , German forester (b.1645 )March 13 –John Talbot of Lacock , British politician and general (b.1630 )March 27 April 10 –Samuel Carpenter , Deputy Governor of colonial Pennsylvania (b.1649 )April 15 –Esther Liebmann , German banker (b.1649 )April 17 May 5 –Charles, Duke of Berry , grandson of Louis XIV of France (b.1686 )May 15 –Roger Elliott , British general and Governor of Gibraltar (b. c.1665 )May 18 –Ivan Botsis , Russian admiral of Greek origin (unknown birth date)May 24 –Henry Somerset, 2nd Duke of Beaufort (b.1684 )May 27 –George Saunderson, 5th Viscount Castleton , English Member of Parliament (b.1631 )May 30 –Gottfried Arnold , German church historian (b.1666 )June 8 – ElectressSophia of Hanover , heir to the throne of Great Britain (b.1630 )June 22 –Matthew Henry , English non-conformist minister (b.1662 )June 28 –Daniel Papebroch , Flemish Jesuit hagiographer (b.1628 )July 4 –Antonio Magliabechi , Italian librarian (b.1633 )August 1 –Anne, Queen of Great Britain (b.1665 )[ 131] August 11 –Christoffel Pierson , Dutch painter (b.1631 )August 26 –Constantin Brâncoveanu , Prince of Wallachia (b.1654 )August 26 –Edward Fowler , English Bishop of Gloucester (b.1632 )September 20 –Anna Waser , Swiss painter (b.1678 )September 27 –Thomas Britton , English concert promoter (b.1644 )October –Raja Sitaram Ray , autonomous king, vassal of the Mughal Empire (b.1658 )October 3 –Jeanne Le Ber , religious recluse in New France (b.1662 )October 5 –Kaibara Ekiken , Japanese philosopher (b.1630 )October 10 –Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert , French economist (b.1646 )October 25 –Sébastien Leclerc , French painter (b.1637 )October 29 –Pedro, Prince of Brazil , second child of John V of Portugal and Maria Ana of Austria (b.1712 )November 5 –Bernardino Ramazzini , Italian physician (b.1633 )November 7 –Charles Davenant , English economist, politician and pamphleteer (b.1656 )[ 132] November 8 –Filippo II Colonna , Italian noble (b.1663 )November 29 –Jerolim Kavanjin , Croatian poet (b.1641 )December 10 –Anthony Günther, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst (b.1653 )December 29 –Charles Churchill , British general (b.1656 )December 30 –François Adhémar de Monteil, Comte de Grignan , French aristocrat (b.1632 )date unknown –Julianna Géczy , Hungarian heroine (b.1680 )1715
François Fénelon January 7 January 29 –Bernard Lamy , French Oratorian mathematician and theologian (b.1640 )January 27 –Caspar Neumann , German professor and clergyman (b.1648 )February 3 –Gottfried Vopelius , German academic (b.1645 )February 4 –Martín de Ursúa , Spanish conquistador (b.1653 )February 17 –Antoine Galland , French archaeologist (b.1646 )February 19 –Domenico Egidio Rossi , Italian architect (b.1659 )February 21 –Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore ,Colonial governor of Maryland (b.1637 )February 25 –Pu Songling , Qing Dynasty Chinese writer (b.1640 )March 2 –Cardinal de Bouillon , French Catholic cardinal (b.1643 )March 17 –Gilbert Burnet , Scottish Bishop of Salisbury (b.1643 )March 18 –William Fraser, 12th Lord Saltoun , (b.1654 )March 27 –August, Duke of Saxe-Merseburg-Zörbig , German prince (b.1655 )Perizonius April 6 –Perizonius , Dutch linguist (b.1651 )April 16 –Benedict Calvert, 4th Baron Baltimore ,Colonial governor of Maryland (b.1679 )May 8 –Marie Mancini , Italian courtier, third of the five Mancini sisters (b.1639 )May 19 –Charles Montagu , English Chancellor of the Exchequer (b.1661 )May 21 –Pierre Magnol , French botanist (b.1638 )May 30 –Roeloff Swartwout , American city founder in New York (b.1634 )June 19 –Nicolas Lemery , French chemist (b.1645 )June 25 –Jean-Baptiste du Casse , French admiral and buccaneer (b.1646 )July 5 –Charles Ancillon , French Huguenot pastor (b.1659 )July 28 –Jakub Kresa , Czech mathematician (b.1648 )July 30 –Nahum Tate , Irish poet (b.1652 )[ 133] August 21 –Countess Johanna Magdalene of Hanau-Lichtenberg , German countess (b.1660 )September 1 Louis XIV of France September 24 –Wilhelm Homberg , Dutch alchemist (b.1652 )October 13 –Nicolas Malebranche , French philosopher (b.1638 )October 14 –Thomas Tenison ,Archbishop of Canterbury (b.1636 )October 15 –Humphry Ditton , English mathematician (b.1675 )October 17 –Ernest, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen (b.1655 )October 30 –Juliane Louise of East Frisia , Princess of East Frisia (b.1657 )October 31 –Elisha Cooke, Sr. , Massachusetts colonial politician and judge (b.1637 )November –Mirwais Hotak , Pashtun emir, and founder of theHotaki Dynasty (b.1673 )November 24 –Hedwig Eleonora of Holstein-Gottorp , queen consort of King Charles X of Sweden (b.1636 )December 9 –Benedetto Gennari II , Italian painter (b.1633 )December 15 –George Hickes , English minister and scholar (b.1642 )December 28 date unknown –Elizabeth Boutell , British stage actor (b.1650 )1716 *January 1 –William Wycherley , English playwright (b.1641 )[ 135]
Painting byOgata Kōrin . Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1717
Maria Sibylla Merian February 18 –Giovanni Maria Morandi , Italian painter (b.1622 )February 21 –Jan Dobrogost Krasiński , Polish nobleman (szlachcic ) (b.1639 )February 23 –Magnus Stenbock , Swedish military officer (b.1664 )March 3 –Pierre Allix , French Protestant clergyman (b.1641 )March 5 –François de Callières , French diplomat, member of theAcadémie française (b.1645 )March 8 –Abraham Darby I , English ironmaster, first of that name of three generations of a Quaker family that was key to the development of the Industrial Revolution (b.1678 )March 19 –John Campbell, 1st Earl of Breadalbane and Holland , Scottish royalist (b.1636 )April 3 –Jacques Ozanam , French mathematician (b.1640 )April 5 –Jean Jouvenet , French painter (b.1647 )April 11 –Abraham ben Saul Broda , Bohemian Talmudist (b. c. 1640)April 26 May 10 –John Hathorne , American magistrate (b.1641 )May 17 –Bon Boullogne , French painter (b.1649 )May 20 –John Trevor , Welsh lawyer and politician, Speaker of the House of Commons of England (b.1637 )June 3 –Fernando de Alencastre, 1st Duke of Linares , Spanish nobleman and military officer (b. c.1641 )Jeanne Guyon June 9 –Jeanne Guyon , French mystic (b.1648 )June 11 –Louis de Carrières , French priest and Bible commentator (b.1662 )June 15 –Fabrizio Spada , Italian Catholic cardinal (b.1643 )June 23 –John Verney, 1st Viscount Fermanagh , British politician (b.1640 )July 1 –Princess Anna Sophie of Denmark , daughter of King Frederick III of Denmark (b.1647 )July 17 –Juan María de Salvatierra , Milanese Jesuit missionary to the Americas (b.1648 )August –William Cochrane , Scottish MP in the Parliament of Great BritainAugust 10 –Nicolaes Witsen , Mayor of Amsterdam, Netherlands (b.1641 )August 16 –William Blathwayt , English civil servant and politician (b.1649 )August 30 –William Lloyd , English bishop (b.1627 )September 17 –Robert Cotton , English politician (born1644 )October –Philippe Pastour de Costebelle , French naval officer and Governor of Newfoundland (b.1661 )October 22 –Henry Luttrell , Irish army officer, Jacobite commander (b. c.1655 ; shot and mortally wounded in his sedan chair in Dublin)October 26 –Catherine Sedley, Countess of Dorchester , English mistress ofJames II of England (b.1657 )November 16 –Hester Davenport , English stage actress (b.1642 )November 21 –Jean-Baptiste Santerre , French painter (b.1650 )November 26 –Daniel Purcell , English composer (b.1664 )December 4 –William Hamilton , surgeon in the British East India CompanyDecember 5 –Richard Onslow, 1st Baron Onslow , English politician (b.1654 )December 13 –Nicholas Noyes , Massachusetts colonial minister, during the time of the Salem witch trials (b.1647 )December 25 –Robert Shirley, 1st Earl Ferrers , English peer and courtier (b.1650 )date unknown 1718
January 6 January 7 –Empress Xiaohuizhang , Qing Dynasty empress and consort of the Shunzhi Emperor of China (b.1641 )January 17 –Captain Benjamin Church , Plymouth Colony settler and military officer (b. c.1639 )February 1 –Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury , English politician (b.1660 )February 5 –Elizabeth Capell, Countess of Essex , British countess (b.1636 )February 17 February 18 –Pierre Antoine Motteux , French-born English dramatist (b.1663 )March 9 –Marko Gerbec , Carniolan physician, scientist (b.1658 )March 13 –Friedrich Nicolaus Bruhns , German organist and composer (b.1637 )March 28 –Thomas Micklethwaite ,Lord Commissioner of the Treasury (d. 1678)[ 137] April 3 –Jacques Ozanam , French mathematician (b.1640 )April 18 –Michael Wening , German engraver (b.1645 )April 21 –Philippe de La Hire , French mathematician and astronomer (b.1640 )April 23 –Sir Edward Blackett, 2nd Baronet , English politician (b.1649 )Mary of Modena May 7 –Mary of Modena , queen ofJames II of England (b.1658 )May 19 –Juan Andrés de Ustariz , Royal Governor of Cuba (b.1656 )May 16 –Jonas Danilssønn Ramus , Norwegian priest and historian (b.1649 )May 24 –Jeremiah Dummer , American silversmith (b.1643 )May 30 June 9 –Jonathan Corwin , American judge of the Salem witch trials (b.1640 )June 13 –Louis, Count of Armagnac , French noble (b.1641 )June 17 July 21 –Shabbethai Bass , Polish Rabbi, author of Siftei Chachamim and founder of Jewish bibliography (b.1641 )July 28 –Étienne Baluze , French scholar (b.1630 )July 30 –William Penn , American settler, founder of Pennsylvania (b.1644 )August 2 –Al-Mahdi Muhammad , Yemeni imam (b.1637 )August 4 –René Lepage de Sainte-Claire , lord-founder ofRimouski in easternQuebec , Canada (b.1656 )September 11 –Domenico Martinelli , Italian architect (b.1650 )September 12 –Louise de Maisonblanche , illegitimate daughter of Louis XIV of France (b.1676 )September 20 –George St Lo , Royal Navy officer and administrator (b.1655 )October 9 –Richard Cumberland , English philosopher (b.1631 )October 19 –Alphonse Henri, Count of Harcourt , French noble (b.1648 )November 3 –Karl, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst (b.1652 )November 22 Charles XII of Sweden 1719
Sophie Amalie Moth died17 January Tikhon Streshnev died26 January Peeter van Bredael died9 March Jean-Baptiste de La Salle died7 April Françoise d'Aubigné died15 April Peter Petrovich died19 April Farrukhsiyar died28 April Lucia Wijbrants died23 May Rafi ud-Darajat died6 June Marie Louise Élisabeth d'Orléans died21 July Arp Schnitger died28 July Date Tsunamura died5 August Shah Jahan II died18 September Johannes Jacobus Rau died18 September Magdalena Sibylla died22 September Margaret Hughes died1 October Yamamoto Tsunetomo died30 November Philip of Spain died29 December John Flamsteed died31 December January 27 –William Munroe , Scottish soldier (b.1625 )January 3 –Jacob Toorenvliet , Dutch painter (b.1640 )January 5 January 6 –Richard Hoare , banker, founder of C. Hoare & Co. (b.1648 )January 11 –Mizoguchi Shigemoto , Japanese daimyō (b.1680 )January 16 –Petar Kanavelić , Venetian writer (b.1637 )January 17 –Sophie Amalie Moth , royal mistress of King Christian V of Denmark (b.1654 )January 18 –Samuel Garth , British writer (b.1661 )January 19 –Joachim Tielke , German musical instrument maker (b.1641 )January 22 January 26 –Tikhon Streshnev , Russian noble (b.1644 )January 27 –Ferdinando d'Adda , Italian Catholic cardinal (b.1650 )February 6 –Köprülüzade Numan Pasha , Ottoman Grand Vizier (b.1670 )February 12 –Adam Ludwig Lewenhaupt , Swedish general (b.1659 )February 14 –Carl Philipp, Reichsgraf von Wylich und Lottum , Prussian field Marshal (b.1650 )February 15 –Bernardino Belluzzi , Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Camerino (b.1642 )February 19 February 22 –Pakubuwono I of Mataram , Sultan of Mataram (b.1648 )February 23 –Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg , German Lutheran clergy (b.1682 )February 25 –Giovanni Maria Casini , Italian composer (b.1652 )February 27 –Johann Ernst, Count of Nassau-Weilburg (b.1664 )February 28 –Boris Sheremetev , Russian noble (b.1652 )March 1 –Richard Ingoldesby , British Army officer, lieutenant governor of New York and New Jersey (b.1617 )March 3 –Jacques-Louis de Valon , French poet (b.1659 )March 7 March 9 –Peeter van Bredael , Flemish painter (b.1629 )March 10 –Jean-Baptiste Alexandre Le Blond , French architect (b.1679 )March 12 –Giuseppe Antonio Torricelli , Italian artist (b.1659 )March 13 –Johann Friedrich Böttger , Saxon alchemist (b.1682 )March 14 –Mary Hamilton , executed Russian lady-in-waiting (b.1684 )March 17 –Isaac de Larrey , French historian (b.1638 )March 19 April 4 –Thomas Powys , English politician and judge; (b.1649 )April 5 –Edward Colston , politician (b.1670 )April 7 –Jean-Baptiste de La Salle , French priest, education reformer, saint in the Catholic Church (b.1651 )April 14 –Giovanni Tommaso Rovetta , Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Hvar (b.1632 )April 15 –Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon , mistress and later secret wife of King Louis XIV of France (b.1635 )April 16 –Ketevan of Kakheti , princess (batonishvili) of eastern Georgia (b.1648 )April 19 April 21 April 24 –Hyacinthe Robillard d'Avrigny , Jesuit (b.1675 )April 27 –Laurentius Christophori Hornæus , Swedish witch hunter (b.1645 )April 28 –Farrukhsiyar ,Mughal Emperor (b.1685 )May 3 –Pierre Le Gros the Younger , sculptor from France (b.1666 )May 5 –Prince Yeollyeong , Korean prince (b.1699 )May 7 –Sebastiano Bombelli , Italian painter (b.1635 )May 13 May 21 –Pierre Poiret , French philosopher and mystic (b.1646 )May 23 May 27 –Thomas Newport, 1st Baron Torrington , British politician and baron (b.1655 )May 29 May 31 –Edmund Dunch , English politician (b.1657 )June 2 –Charles Le Goux de La Berchère , French prelate (b.1647 )June 5 –Jean-Baptiste Delaveyne , French monk, priest and religious founder (b.1653 )June 6 June 7 –John Addenbrooke , English doctor and benefactor (b.1680 )June 17 June 19 June 20 –Willem Kerricx , Flemish sculptor (b.1652 )June 21 June 23 –Christopher Wandesford, 2nd Viscount Castlecomer , Member of Parliament (b.1684 )June 26 –Frederick William I, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck (b.1682 )July 5 –Samuel Schotten , German rabbi (b.1644 )July 16 July 17 –Elinor James , British pamphleteer (b.1644 )July 19 –Anna Katharina Block , German Baroque (b.1642 )July 21 July 22 July 27 –Cornelis de Graeff II. , Lords of Purmerland and Ilpendam (b.1671 )July 28 –Arp Schnitger , German organ builder (b.1648 )July 30 –Giambattista Felice Zappi , poet from Italy (b.1667 )August 2 –Karol Stanisław Radziwiłł , Polish prince (b.1669 )August 3 –Johann Philipp von Greifenclau zu Vollraths , Prince-Bishop of Wurzburg (b.1652 )August 5 –Date Tsunamura , Japanese daimyō at the center of the Date Sōdō (b.1659 )August 7 –Richard Farington , English politician (b.1644 )August 8 –Christoph Ludwig Agricola , German painter (b.1667 )August 9 –Charles Middleton, 2nd Earl of Middleton , English and Scottish politician (b.1649 )August 11 –Leonard Goffiné , German Catholic priest and writer (b.1648 )August 14 –Alexander Grant , Scottish army officer (b.1674 )August 18 –Heinrich von Cocceji , German scholar (b.1644 )August 19 –Carl Hildebrand von Canstein , German theologian, jurist and writer (b.1667 )August 30 –Daniel Cronström , Swedish architect (b.1655 )September 7 –John Harris , English writer, scientist, Anglican priest (b.1666 )September 8 –Carlo Cignani , Italian painter (b.1628 )September 16 –Henrich Danckwardt , Swedish military personnel (b.1670 )September 18 September 19 September 21 –Johann Heinrich Acker , German historian (b.1647 )September 22 September 25 –Michel Félibien , French historian and writer (b.1665 )September 27 –George Smalridge , English Bishop of Bristol (b.1662 )September 29 –Jean Orry , French economist (b.1652 )October 1 –Margaret Hughes , British actress (b.1630 )October 3 –Johann Gregor Thalnitscher , Carniolan lawyer, scholar of ancient inscriptions, chronicler, historian (b.1655 )October 7 –Pierre Remond de Montmort , French mathematician (b.1678 )October 9 –Charles Louis Bretagne de La Trémoille , French noble (b.1683 )October 11 October 14 –Arnold Houbraken , painter from the Northern Netherlands (b.1660 )October 15 –Jan Mortel , painter from the Northern Netherlands (b.1652 )October 25 –Catharina Wallenstedt , Swedish writer and courtier (b.1627 )October 26 –Laurens van der Meulen , Flemish sculptor (b.1643 )October 27 –François Baert , Belgian hagiographer (b.1651 )October 28 November 2 –Georg Johann Mattarnovi , German architect (b.1677 )November 3 –Jan Claesz Rietschoof , Dutch Golden Age painter (b.1652 )November 8 –Michel Rolle , French mathematician (b.1652 )November 9 –Oley Douglas , British Member of Parliament (b.1684 )November 19 –Charles-Claude Genest , French dramatist and playwright (b.1639 )November 22 –William Talman , British architect; (b.1650 )November 23 –John Mavrocordatos , Phanariote Prince (b.1684 )November 26 –John Hudson , English classical scholar (b.1662 )November 30 –Yamamoto Tsunetomo , Japanese samurai (b.1659 )December 2 –Pasquier Quesnel , French Jansenist theologian (b.1634 )December 3 –Adriaen Frans Boudewijns , Flemish painter and engraver (b.1644 )December 8 –Ulrik Christian Gyldenløve, Count of Samsø , Danish nobleman and admiral (b.1678 )December 9 –Charles Oliphant , British physician (b.1666 )December 11 December 15 –Mitford Crowe , English politician (b.1669 )December 24 –William O'Brien, 3rd Earl of Inchiquin , Irish Earl (b.1662 )December 28 –Jacob Bobart the Younger , English botanist (b.1641 )December 29 –Philip of Spain , Spanish Royal infante (b.1712 )December 30 –Lord James Murray , British politician (b.1663 )December 31 –John Flamsteed , English astronomer and the first Astronomer Royal (b.1646 )^ Penguin Pocket On This Day . 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