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1729 In France
Events from the year 1729 in France Incumbents * Monarch – Louis XV Events * 9 November – France signed The Treaty of Seville with Britain and Spain bringing an end to the Angelo-Spanish War started in 1727. Births * 18 April – Gaétan Vestris, dancer (died 1808) * 12 November – Louis Antoine de Bougainville, admiral and explorer (died 1811) * 4 September – Dauphin Louis, Son of Louis XV (d. 1765) Full date missing * *Jean-Baptiste Marie de Piquet, Marquess of Méjanes, aristocrat and book collector (died 1786) Deaths * 26 March – Simon de la Loubère, diplomat, mathematician and poet (born 1642) * 27 June – Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, French harpsichordist and composer (b. 1665) * 18 October – Nicolas Ravot d'Ombreval, magistrate (born 1680) *1 December – Giacomo F. Maraldi, astronomer and mathematician (born 1665) *26 December – Honoré Tournély Honoré Tournély (28 August 1658 – 26 December 1729) was a French Cath ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
France
France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of Overseas France, overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, Pacific Ocean, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Its Metropolitan France, metropolitan area extends from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean and from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea; overseas territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the North Atlantic, the French West Indies, and many islands in Oceania and the Indian Ocean. Due to its several coastal territories, France has the largest exclusive economic zone in the world. France borders Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, Monaco, Italy, Andorra, and Spain in continental Europe, as well as the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Netherlands, Suriname, and Brazil in the Americas via its overseas territories in French Guiana and Saint Martin (island), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1765
Events January–March * January 23 – Prince Joseph of Austria marries Princess Maria Josepha of Bavaria in Vienna. * January 29 – One week before his death, Mir Jafar, who had been enthroned as the Nawab of Bengal and ruler of the Bengali people with the support and protection of the British East India Company, abdicates in favor of his 18-year-old son, Najmuddin Ali Khan. * February 8 – **Frederick the Great, the King of Prussia, issues a decree abolishing the historic punishments against unmarried women in Germany for "sex crimes", particularly the ''Hurenstrafen'' (literally "whore shaming") practices of public humiliation. **Isaac Barré, a member of the British House of Commons for Wycombe and a veteran of the French and Indian War in the British American colonies, coins the term "Sons of Liberty" in a rebuttal to Charles Townshend's derisive description of the American colonists during the introduction of the proposed Stamp Act. MP Barré no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
