Events

For dates within Great Britain and the

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, as well as in the

Russian Empire The Russian Empire was an empire and the final period of the Russian monarchy from 1721 to 1917, ruling across large parts of Eurasia. It succeeded the Tsardom of Russia following the Treaty of Nystad, which ended the Great Northern War. ...

, the "old style"

Julian calendar The Julian calendar, proposed by Roman consul Julius Caesar in 46 BC, was a reform of the Roman calendar. It took effect on , by edict. It was designed with the aid of Greek mathematicians and astronomers such as Sosigenes of Alexandr ...

was used in 1715, and can be converted to the "new style"

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(adopted in the British Empire in 1752 and in Russia in 1923) by adding 11 days.

January–March

* January 13 – A fire in London, described by some as the worst since the Great Fire of London (1666) almost 50 years earlier, starts on Thames 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 to Tower Street before it is controlled. * 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 War was fought in North Carolina from September 10, 1711 until February 11, 1715 between the Tuscarora people and their allies on one side and European American settlers, the Yamassee, and other allies on the other. This was con ...

: The Tuscarora and their allies sign a peace treaty with the

Province of North Carolina Province of North Carolina was a province of Great Britain that existed in North America from 1712(p. 80) to 1776. It was one of the five Southern colonies and one of the thirteen American colonies. The monarch of Great Britain was repre ...

, and agree to move to a reservation near

Lake Mattamuskeet Lake Mattamuskeet is the largest natural lake in North Carolina. It is a shallow coastal lake, averaging 2–3 ft (0.61–0.91 m) feet in depth, and stretches long and wide. Lake Mattamuskeet lies on the Albemarle-Pamlico Peninsula. Lake ...

, effectively ending the Tuscarora War. Large numbers of Tuscarora subsequently move to New York. *

March 9 Events Pre-1600 * 141 BC – Liu Che, posthumously known as Emperor Wu of Han, assumes the throne over the Han dynasty of China. * 1009 – First known mention of Lithuania, in the annals of the monastery of Quedlinburg. * 1226 &nda ...

– Voting for the British House of Commons concludes, with the liberal Whig Party winning 341 of the 558 seats, and reducing the conservative Tory Party share to 217 seats.

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, 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 the

Jacobite rising , war = , image = Prince James Francis Edward Stuart by Louis Gabriel Blanchet.jpg , image_size = 150px , caption = James Francis Edward Stuart, Jacobite claimant between 1701 and 1766 , active ...

. *

March 27 Events Pre-1600 *1309 – Pope Clement V imposes excommunication and interdiction on Venice, and a general prohibition of all commercial intercourse with Venice, which had seized on Ferrara, a papal fiefdom. * 1329 – Pope John XXII ...

– Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, flees from Great Britain to France. His part in secret negotiations with France, leading to the

Treaty of Utrecht The Peace of Utrecht was a series of peace treaties signed by the belligerents in the War of the Spanish Succession, in the Dutch city of Utrecht between April 1713 and February 1715. The war involved three contenders for the vacant throne ...

, has cast suspicion on him in the eyes of the Whig government of Britain. He becomes secretary of state to the

Pretender A pretender is someone who claims to be the rightful ruler of a country although not recognized as such by the current government. The term is often used to suggest that a claim is not legitimate.Curley Jr., Walter J. P. ''Monarchs-in-Waiting'' ...

, James Edward Stuart.

April–June

April 1 Events Pre-1600 * 33 – According to one historian's account, Jesus Christ's Last Supper is held. * 527 – Byzantine Emperor Justin I names his nephew Justinian I as co-ruler and successor to the throne. *1081 – Alexios I Ko ...

– The

Battle of Gurdas Nangal The Battle of Gurdas Nangal was a battle that took place in April 1715 between the Sikhs, led by Banda Singh Bahadur, and the Mughals, led by Abd al-Samad Khan. Banda at that time was carrying out operations and small raids to the north of Amrit ...

begins during the

Mughal-Sikh Wars This is a list of battles and campaigns between Mughal and Sikhs armies, which started with the martyrdom of fifth Sikh Guru Arjan Dev on the orders of Jahangir. Guru Hargobind, the sixth Sikh Guru introduced the militarization to Sikhism. In r ...

India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...

, as the Mughal Army begins an eight-month siege of a fortress near

Gurdaspur Gurdaspur is a city in the Indian state of Punjab, between the rivers Beas and Ravi. It houses the administrative headquarters of Gurdaspur District and is in the geographical centre of the district, which shares a border with Pakistan. The ...

(in what is now the Punjab state), where Sikh General

Banda Singh Bahadur Banda Singh Bahadur (born Lachman Dev) (27 October 1670 – 9 June 1716), was a Sikh warrior and a commander of Khalsa army. At age 15, he left home to become an ascetic, and was given the name Madho Das Bairagi. He established a monastery ...

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 Events Pre-1600 * 769 – The Lateran Council ends by condemning the Council of Hieria and anathematizing its iconoclastic rulings. * 1071 – Bari, the last Byzantine possession in southern Italy, is surrendered to Robert Guiscar ...

– In the British colonial

Province of South Carolina Province of South Carolina, originally known as Clarendon Province, was a province of Great Britain that existed in North America from 1712 to 1776. It was one of the five Southern colonies and one of the thirteen American colonies. The monar ...

, the

Yamasee The Yamasees (also spelled Yamassees or Yemassees) were a multiethnic confederation of Native Americans who lived in the coastal region of present-day northern coastal Georgia near the Savannah River and later in northeastern Florida. The Yamas ...

Confederation launches an attack on English settlements in disputed territory on Good Friday, launching the two-year long

Yamasee War The Yamasee War (also spelled Yamassee or Yemassee) was a conflict fought in South Carolina from 1715 to 1717 between British settlers from the Province of Carolina and the Yamasee and a number of other allied Native American peoples, incl ...

. The day before, agents Thomas Nairne, William Bray and Samuel Warner had participated in peace negotiations with the Yamasee at Pocotaligo. Bray and Warner are killed that day, while Nairne is tortured to death and dies on April 17. *

April 24 Events Pre-1600 * 1479 BC – Thutmose III ascends to the throne of Egypt, although power effectively shifts to Hatshepsut (according to the Low Chronology of the 18th dynasty). *1183 BC – Traditional reckoning of the Fall of Troy ...

– The

Battle of Fehmarn A battle is an occurrence of combat in warfare between opposing military units of any number or size. A war usually consists of multiple battles. In general, a battle is a military engagement that is well defined in duration, area, and force ...

takes place in the

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as part of the

Great Northern War The Great Northern War (1700–1721) was a conflict in which a coalition led by the Tsardom of Russia successfully contested the supremacy of the Swedish Empire in Northern, Central and Eastern Europe. The initial leaders of the anti-Swed ...

. 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. *

May 3 Events Pre-1600 * 752 – Mayan king Bird Jaguar IV of Yaxchilan in modern-day Chiapas, Mexico, assumes the throne. * 1481 – The largest of three earthquakes strikes the island of Rhodes and causes an estimated 30,000 casualties. ...

– A total solar eclipse is seen across southern England, Sweden and Finland (the last total eclipse visible in London for almost 900 years). English astronomer

Edmond Halley Edmond (or Edmund) Halley (; – ) was an English astronomer, mathematician and physicist. He was the second Astronomer Royal in Britain, succeeding John Flamsteed in 1720. From an observatory he constructed on Saint Helena in 1676–77, H ...

(who is using the old style Julian calendar date of April 22) records the first observation noted of the phenomenon of "

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", in which higher elevations on the moon can be observed obscuring portions of the light moments before and after totality. *

May 28 Events Pre-1600 *585 BC – A solar eclipse occurs, as predicted by the Greek philosopher and scientist Thales, while Alyattes is battling Cyaxares in the Battle of the Eclipse, leading to a truce. This is one of the cardinal dates from ...

– 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, near

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in the towns of Smithfield and

Highgate Highgate ( ) is a suburban area of north London at the northeastern corner of Hampstead Heath, north-northwest of Charing Cross. Highgate is one of the most expensive London suburbs in which to live. It has two active conservation organisat ...

, and the

Cheapside Cheapside is a street in the City of London, the historic and modern financial centre of London, which forms part of the A40 London to Fishguard road. It links St. Martin's Le Grand with Poultry. Near its eastern end at Bank junction, where ...

financial district in London. *

June 9 Events Pre-1600 *411 BC – The Athenian coup succeeds, forming a short-lived oligarchy. * 53 – The Roman emperor Nero marries Claudia Octavia. * 68 – Nero dies by suicide after quoting Vergil's ''Aeneid'', thus ending th ...

– King Philip, ruler of the

Kingdom of Castile The Kingdom of Castile (; es, Reino de Castilla, la, Regnum Castellae) was a large and powerful state on the Iberian Peninsula during the Middle Ages. Its name comes from the host of castles constructed in the region. It began in the 9th cent ...

and the Kingdom of Aragon unifies the two governments into a single state, centralizing rule of a unified

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. *

June 22 Events Pre-1600 * 217 BC – Battle of Raphia: Ptolemy IV Philopator of Egypt defeats Antiochus III the Great of the Seleucid kingdom. * 168 BC – Battle of Pydna: Romans under Lucius Aemilius Paullus defeat Macedonian King Perseus ...

– Tsar Peter I of Russia witnesses the attempt of 45 Dutch and English ships to enter the small harbor at

Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

and decides that additional harbors are necessary for Russia to be able import Western goods. *

June 29 Events Pre-1600 * 226 – Cao Rui succeeds his father as emperor of the Kingdom of Wei. *1149 – Raymond of Poitiers is defeated and killed at the Battle of Inab by Nur ad-Din Zangi. * 1194 – Sverre is crowned King of Norway, ...

– Britain's Treason 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–September

July 20 Events Pre-1600 * 70 – Siege of Jerusalem: Titus, son of emperor Vespasian, storms the Fortress of Antonia north of the Temple Mount. The Roman army is drawn into street fights with the Zealots. * 792 – Kardam of Bulgaria defea ...

– Ottoman–Venetian War (1714–18): The

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Nauplion Nafplio ( ell, Ναύπλιο) is a coastal city located in the Peloponnese in Greece and it is the capital of the regional unit of Argolis and an important touristic destination. Founded in antiquity, the city became an important seaport in the ...

, the capital of the Venetian "

Kingdom of the Morea The Kingdom of the Morea or Realm of the Morea ( it, Regno di Morea) was the official name the Republic of Venice gave to the Peloponnese peninsula in southern Greece (which was more widely known as the Morea until the 19th century) when it was ...

", seals the fate of the Peloponnese Peninsula, which is soon completely retaken by the Ottomans. *

July 24 Events Pre-1600 *1132 – Battle of Nocera between Ranulf II of Alife and Roger II of Sicily. * 1148 – Louis VII of France lays siege to Damascus during the Second Crusade. *1304 – Wars of Scottish Independence: Fall of Stirl ...

– 1715 Treasure Fleet: A

Spanish treasure fleet The Spanish treasure fleet, or West Indies Fleet ( es, Flota de Indias, also called silver fleet or plate fleet; from the es, label=Spanish, plata meaning "silver"), was a convoy system of sea routes organized by the Spanish Empire from 1566 to ...

of 12 ships, under General Don Juan Ubilla, leaves

Havana Havana (; Spanish: ''La Habana'' ) is the capital and largest city of Cuba. The heart of the La Habana Province, Havana is the country's main port and commercial center.

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for Spain. Seven days later, 11 of them sink in a storm off the coast of

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(some centuries later, treasure salvage is found from these wrecks). *

August 31 Events Pre-1600 * 1056 – After a sudden illness a few days previously, Byzantine Empress Theodora dies childless, thus ending the Macedonian dynasty. * 1057 – Abdication of Byzantine Emperor Michael VI Bringas after just one year ...

–

Old Dock The Old Dock, originally known as Thomas Steers' dock, was the world's first commercial wet dock. The dock was built on the River Mersey in Liverpool, England, starting in 1710 and completed in 1716. A natural tidal pool off the River Mersey ...

Liverpool Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England. With a population of in 2019, it is the 10th largest English district by population and its metropolitan area is the fifth largest in the United Kingdom, with a populat ...

, England, the world's first enclosed commercial

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( Thomas Steers, engineer), opens. *

September 1 Events Pre-1600 *1145 – The main altar of Lund Cathedral, at the time seat of the archiepiscopal see of all the Nordic countries, is consecrated. *1173 – The widow Stamira sacrifices herself in order to raise the siege of Ancona b ...

– King

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dies after a reign of 72 years, leaving his throne to his 5 year old great-grandson

Louis XV Louis XV (15 February 1710 – 10 May 1774), known as Louis the Beloved (french: le Bien-Aimé), was King of France from 1 September 1715 until his death in 1774. He succeeded his great-grandfather Louis XIV at the age of five. Until he reached ...

. Philippe d'Orléans, the nephew of Louis XIV, serves as

Regent A regent (from Latin : ruling, governing) is a person appointed to govern a state '' pro tempore'' (Latin: 'for the time being') because the monarch is a minor, absent, incapacitated or unable to discharge the powers and duties of the monarchy ...

. *

September 6 Events Pre-1600 * 394 – Battle of the Frigidus: Roman emperor Theodosius I defeats and kills Eugenius the usurper. His Frankish ''magister militum'' Arbogast escapes but commits suicide two days later. *1492 – Christopher Colu ...

– The first major Jacobite rising in Scotland against the rule of King

George I of Great Britain George I (George Louis; ; 28 May 1660 – 11 June 1727) was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 1 August 1714 and ruler of the Electorate of Hanover within the Holy Roman Empire from 23 January 1698 until his death in 1727. He was the first ...

breaks out. The Earl of Mar raises the standard of James Edward Stuart, and marches on

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. James, the son of the deposed King

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, arrives from France. *

September 14 Events Pre-1600 *AD 81 – Domitian becomes Emperor of the Roman Empire upon the death of his brother Titus. * 629 – Emperor Heraclius enters Constantinople in triumph after his victory over the Persian Empire. * 786 – "Night ...

– Less than two weeks after King Louis XIV's death, Daniel Voysin de la Noiraye,

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's Secretary of State for War since 1709, steps down at the request of the new regent, the Duke of Orleans.

October–December

October 2 Events Pre-1600 * 829 – Theophilos succeeds his father Michael II as Byzantine Emperor. * 939 – Battle of Andernach: Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, crushes a rebellion against his rule, by a coalition of Eberhard of Franconia and ...

– During the rebellion in Great Britain by supporters of the Pretender to the Throne, James Stuart, the Jacobites raid the Scottish parish of Burntisland, 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 Events Pre-1600 *1138 – A massive earthquake strikes Aleppo; it is one of the most destructive earthquakes ever. *1142 – A peace treaty ends the Jin–Song wars. * 1311 – The peerage and clergy restrict the authority of Engl ...

– William Aislabie resigns as the

British East India Company The East India Company (EIC) was an English, and later British, joint-stock company founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. It was formed to trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (the Indian subcontinent and South ...

's administrator of

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and the company's territories and is replaced at year's end by Charles Boone. *

October 12 Events Pre-1600 * 539 BC – The army of Cyrus the Great of Persia takes Babylon, ending the Babylonian empire. (Julian calendar) * 633 – Battle of Hatfield Chase: King Edwin of Northumbria is defeated and killed by an alliance u ...

– ** William Mackintosh of Borlum, leader of the

against Great Britain, lands with 1,500 men in

Scotland Scotland (, ) is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. Covering the northern third of the island of Great Britain, mainland Scotland has a Anglo-Scottish border, border with England to the southeast ...

after crossing the Firth of Forth from France. ** Baron Onslow resigns as Great Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer and is replaced by future Prime Minister Robert Walpole. *

October 28 Events Pre-1600 * 97 – Roman emperor Nerva is forced by the Praetorian Guard to adopt general Marcus Ulpius Trajanus as his heir and successor. * 306 – Maxentius is proclaimed Roman emperor. * 312 – Constantine I defe ...

– The Treaty of Greifswald is signed between Russia and the Electorate of Hanover, with George I of Great Britain and Hanover agreeing to Russia's annexation of Swedish Ingria and

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, and Hanover claiming the

Bremen-Verden ), which is a public-law corporation established in 1865 succeeding the estates of the Prince-Archbishopric of Bremen (established in 1397), now providing the local fire insurance in the shown area and supporting with its surplusses cultural effor ...

Swedish duchies of Bremen and Verden. *

November 13 Events Pre-1600 * 1002 – English king Æthelred II orders the killing of all Danes in England, known today as the St. Brice's Day massacre. *1093 – Battle of Alnwick: in an English victory over the Scots, Malcolm III of Scotla ...

–

in Scotland – Battle of Sheriffmuir: The forces of the

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, led by John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll, halt the Jacobite advance, although the action is inconclusive. * November 14 – Battle of Preston (1715), Battle of Preston: Government forces defeat the Jacobite rising of 1715, Jacobite incursion, at the conclusion of a five-day siege and action. * November 15 – The Third Barrier Treaty is signed by Britain, the Holy Roman Empire and the Dutch Republic. * November 28 – The application of the Nueva Planta decrees, in Majorca and the other Balearic Islands (formerly under the Crown of Aragon), bring them under the laws of the Crown of Castile. * December 22 – James Edward Stuart rejoins Jacobite rebels in Scotland, but fails to rouse his army. * December 24 – Swedish troops occupy Norway.

Date unknown

* Karlsruhe Palace is built, resulting in the town of Karlsruhe growing up around it. * The ancient right to evaluate royal decrees publicly, before they are given the force of law by the Parliament of Paris, is restored. * Filippo Juvarra starts working on the previously postponed construction of the church of Santa Cristina, Turin, Santa Christina in Turin. * Filippo Juvarra starts rebuilding the church of San Filippo Neri, Turin, in which the roof had collapsed, during the siege of Turin, during the War of the Spanish Succession. * Coffee is first grown in the Kingdom of France, French colony of Saint-Domingue. * Around this year, a Breech-loading weapon, breech loading firearm is made for Philip V of Spain.

Births

* January 9 – Robert-François Damiens, French domestic servant, executed for the attempted assassination of Louis XV of France (d. 1757) * January 10 ** Christian August Crusius, German philosopher, Protestant theologian (d. 1775) ** Johan Sparre af Söfdeborg, Swedish general, nobleman (d. 1791) * 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 ** George Hay (politician), George Hay, British politician (d. 1778) ** Thomas Walker (explorer), Thomas Walker, distinguished Virginia physician, explorer (d. 1794) * January 29 – Georg Christoph Wagenseil, Austrian composer (d. 1777) * January 30 – Jean-Baptiste Lestiboudois, French botanist (d. 1804) * January 31 ** Giovanni Fagnano, Italian mathematician (d. 1797) ** John Wayles, American lawyer and planter (d. 1773) * February 4 – John Hamilton (1715–1796), 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)

* February 22 ** Charles-Nicolas Cochin, French artist (d. 1790) ** Jean Georges Lefranc de Pompignan, Roman Catholic archbishop (d. 1790)

* 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 ** Ewald Christian von Kleist, German poet and officer (d. 1759) ** Ephraim Williams, English benefactor of Williams College, soldier in the French and Indian War (d. 1755) * March 14 – Johan Martin Preisler, German artist (d. 1794) * March 18 – John Bushell, first (Massachusetts-born) Canadian printer (d. 1761) * March 24 – William Strahan (publisher), 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 (1714–1744), 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 (scientist), William Watson, English scientist (d. 1787) * April 9 – Giovanni Carlo Boschi, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1788) * April 11 ** John Alcock (organist), John Alcock, English composer and organist (d. 1806) ** Jacob Rodrigues Pereira, academic, first teacher of deaf-mutes in France (d. 1780) * April 13 – John Martin Mack, American missionary (d. 1784) * April 19 – James Nares (composer), James Nares, English composer of mostly sacred vocal works (d. 1783) * April 20 ** James Brudenell, 5th Earl of Cardigan, English noble and politician (d. 1811) ** Saliha Sultan (daughter of Ahmed III), Saliha Sultan, daughter of Ottoman Sultan (d. 1778) * April 23 ** Johann Friedrich Doles, German composer (d. 1797) ** John Hicks (politician), John Hicks, Canadian politician (d. 1790) ** Auguste de Keralio, French nobleman (d. 1805) ** Carl Tersmeden, Swedish admiral (d. 1797) * April 28 ** Carl Fredrik Scheffer, Swedish politician (d. 1786) ** Franz Sparry, Austrian composer (d. 1767) * May 4 ** Richard Graves, English minister (d. 1804) ** Hieronim Florian Radziwiłł, Polish-Lithuanian noble (d. 1760) * May 7 – Charles Roe, English businessman (d. 1781) * May 11 ** Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach, fourth child of Johann Sebastian Bach and Maria Barbara Bach to reach adulthood (d. 1739) ** Ignazio Fiorillo, Italian composer (d. 1787) * 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 ** Nicolas Thyrel de Boismont, French abbot (d. 1786) ** Charles-René Dejordy de Villebon, French-Canadian explorer (d. 1761) * June 13 – Anna Wilhelmine of Anhalt-Dessau, German noblewoman (d. 1780) * June 15 – John Blennerhassett (1715–1763), 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) *

– 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 ** Christian Fürchtegott Gellert, German author (d. 1769) ** Charles François Hutin, French painter (d. 1776) * 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 ** Emmanuel-Félicité de Durfort de Duras, Marshal of France, politician (d. 1789) ** Ferenc Esterházy (1715–1785), Ferenc Esterházy, Hungarian politician (d. 1785) * 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) *

– Domenico Caracciolo, Italian politician (d. 1789) * October 5 ** John Hustler, English Quaker industrialist (d. 1790) ** Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau, French economist of the Physiocratic school (d. 1789) * 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 ** John Brown (essayist), John Brown, English divine and author (d. 1766) ** Felix of Nicosia, Cypriot Catholic saint (d. 1787) ** Johann Georg Wille, German engraver (d. 1808) * November 6 – Heneage Finch, 3rd Earl of Aylesford, Member of the Parliament of Great Britain (d. 1777) Koningin 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) *

– 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 ** Johann Philipp Bethmann, German merchant and banker (d. 1793) ** Johan Jacob Bruun, Danish artist (d. 1789) * 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 ** Tommaso Gherardini, Italian painter (d. 1797) ** Gottlieb Heinrich Totleben, German noble (d. 1773) ** François-Vincent Toussaint, French writer most famous for ''Les Mœurs'' (The Manners) (d. 1772) * 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)

Deaths

François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon

* January 7 ** François Fénelon, Archbishop of Cambrai (b. 1651) ** Mary Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort (1630–1715), Mary Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort, British botanist (b. 1630) * 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, List of colonial governors of Maryland, 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) *

– August, Duke of Saxe-Merseburg-Zörbig, German prince (b. 1655) Jakob Perizonius - Imagines philologorum

* April 6 – Perizonius, Dutch linguist (b. 1651) * April 16 – Benedict Calvert, 4th Baron Baltimore, List of colonial governors of Maryland, Colonial governor of Maryland (b. 1679) * May 8 – Marie Mancini, Italian courtier, third of the five Mancini sisters (b. 1639) * May 19 – Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax, 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) * August 21 – Countess Johanna Magdalene of Hanau-Lichtenberg, German countess (b. 1660) *

** François Girardon, French sculptor (b. 1628) ** King

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* 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 the Hotaki dynasty, Hotaki 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 (divine), George Hickes, English minister and scholar (b. 1642) * December 28 ** William Carstares, Scottish clergyman (b. 1649) ** Joanna Koerten, Dutch painter (b. 1650) * ''date unknown'' – Elizabeth Boutell, British stage actor (b. 1650)

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