Fahrenheit Scale
Jan 1 GlassblowerDaniel Gabriel Fahrenheit proposes a system for making thermometers and the Fahrenheit temperature scale in a paper to the Royal Society of London and is elected a fellow on this basis
- Jan 14 Spanish King Philip V abdicates the throne in favor of his 17-year-old son Louis I; he returns to rule in September after Louis dies of smallpox
Russian Academy of Sciences
Jan 28 The Russian Academy of Sciences founded in St. Petersburg byPeter the Great, and implemented in a Senate decree. Called St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences until 1917.
Giulio Cesare in Egitto
Feb 20George Frideric Handel's opera "Giulio Cesare in Egitto" premieres at the King's Theatre in Haymarket, London
Pelham becomes Minister
Apr 1Henry Pelham becomes English minister of War
Drapier's Letters
Apr 1Jonathan Swift publishes "Drapier's Letters" a series of seven pamphlets against a privately minted copper coinage Swift saw as inferior and corrupt
Rise of Thomas Pelham-Holles
Apr 6Thomas Pelham-Holles becomes British Minister of Foreign Affairs
St John Passion
Apr 7Johann Sebastian Bach's "St John Passion" premieres on Good Friday at St. Nicholas Church in Leipzig, Electorate of Saxony (now Germany)
- Jun 23 Russia and Turkey sign Treaty of Constantinople
- Oct 13Jonathan Swift publishes last of Drapier's letters
- Oct 15 Cornelis Steenoven becomes the first archbishop of the Old Catholic Church in Utrecht, Netherlands
- Oct 31George Frideric Handel's opera "Tamerlano" premieres at the King's Theatre in London
- Dec 7 Tumult of Thorn - religious unrest is followed by the execution of nine Protestant citizens and the mayor of Thorn (Toruń) by Polish authorities
Caesar in Egypt
Dec 9Colley Cibber's play "Caesar in Egypt" premieres in London
Land Guardian
Dec 23 EmperorCharles VI names Archduchess Maria Elisabeth of Austria land guardian of the Austrian Netherlands
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Industrialists
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