Events

January–March

January 17 Events Pre-1600 * 38 BC – Octavian divorces his wife Scribonia and marries Livia Drusilla, ending the fragile peace between the Second Triumvirate and Sextus Pompey. * 1362 – Saint Marcellus' flood kills at least 25,000 people ...

–

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 ...

: Colonel James Moore leads the Carolina militia out of

Albemarle County, North Carolina Albemarle County, North Carolina was a county located in the Province of North Carolina. It contained what is now the northeastern portion of the U.S. state of North Carolina. History Albemarle County was named for George Monck, 1st Duke of Al ...

, in a second offensive against the Tuscarora. Heavy snows force the troops to take refuge in Fort Reading, on the Pamlico River. *

February 1 Events Pre-1600 * 1327 – The teenaged Edward III is crowned King of England, but the country is ruled by his mother Queen Isabella and her lover Roger Mortimer. * 1411 – The First Peace of Thorn is signed in Thorn (Toruń), ...

– Skirmish at Bender, Moldova:

Charles XII of Sweden Charles XII, sometimes Carl XII ( sv, Karl XII) or Carolus Rex (17 June 1682 – 30 November 1718 O.S.), was King of Sweden (including current Finland) from 1697 to 1718. He belonged to the House of Palatinate-Zweibrücken, a branch line of ...

is defeated by the

Ottoman Empire The Ottoman Empire, * ; is an archaic version. The definite article forms and were synonymous * and el, Оθωμανική Αυτοκρατορία, Othōmanikē Avtokratoria, label=none * info page on book at Martin Luther University ...

. *

February 4 Events Pre–1600 * 211 – Following the death of the Roman Emperor Septimius Severus at Eboracum (modern York, England) while preparing to lead a campaign against the Caledonians, the empire is left in the control of his two quarrelling ...

– Tuscarora War: The Carolina militia under Colonel James Moore leaves Fort Reading, to continue the campaign against the Tuscarora. *

February 25 Events Pre-1600 *138 – Roman emperor Hadrian adopts Antoninus Pius as his son, effectively making him his successor. * 628 – Khosrow II, the last great Shah of the Sasanian Empire (Iran), is overthrown by his son Kavadh II. * ...

–

Frederick William I of Prussia Frederick William I (german: Friedrich Wilhelm I.; 14 August 1688 – 31 May 1740), known as the "Soldier King" (german: Soldatenkönig), was King in Prussia and Elector of Brandenburg from 1713 until his death in 1740, as well as Prince of Neu ...

begins his reign. *

March 1 Events Pre-1600 * 509 BC – Publius Valerius Publicola celebrates the first triumph of the Roman Republic after his victory over the deposed king Lucius Tarquinius Superbus at the Battle of Silva Arsia. * 293 – Emperor Dioclet ...

– Tuscarora War: Colonel James Moore's Carolina militia lays siege to the Tuscaroran stronghold of Fort Neoheroka, located a few miles up

Contentnea Creek Contentnea Creek is a major tributary of the Neuse River in North Carolina, USA. It is part of the Neuse River Basin, and flows for 91 miles between the Buckhorn Reservoir (confluence of Moccasin and Turkey Creeks), where it begins, and Grifton ...

from Fort Hancock. *

March 20 Events Pre-1600 * 673 – Emperor Tenmu of Japan assumes the Chrysanthemum Throne at the Palace of Kiyomihara in Asuka. * 1206 – Michael IV Autoreianos is appointed Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople. * 1600 – The Link ...

– Tuscarora War: Colonel James Moore's Carolina militia launches a major offensive against Fort Neoheroka. *

March 23 Events Pre-1600 *1400 – The Trần dynasty of Vietnam is deposed, after one hundred and seventy-five years of rule, by Hồ Quý Ly, a court official. *1540 – Waltham Abbey is surrendered to King Henry VIII of England; the last rel ...

– Tuscarora War: Fort Neoheroka falls to the Carolina militia, effectively ending the Tuscarora nation's military strength. Two Tuscaroran allies, the

Machapunga The Machapunga are a small Algonquian language-speaking Native American tribe from coastal northeastern North Carolina. They were part of the Secotan people. They were a group from the Powhatan Confederacy who migrated from present-day Virgini ...

and

Coree The Coree (also Connamox, Cores, Corennines, Connamocksocks, Coranine Indians, Neuse River Indians) were a very small Native American tribe, who once occupied a coastal area south of the Neuse River in southeastern North Carolina in the area no ...

tribes, continue offensive actions against

North Carolina North Carolina () is a U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern region of the United States. The state is the List of U.S. states and territories by area, 28th largest and List of states and territories of the United ...

. *

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 ...

– First Treaty of Utrecht between Great Britain and Spain: Philip V is accepted by Britain and Austria as king of Spain; Spain cedes

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and

Menorca Menorca or Minorca (from la, Insula Minor, , smaller island, later ''Minorica'') is one of the Balearic Islands located in the Mediterranean Sea belonging to Spain. Its name derives from its size, contrasting it with nearby Majorca. Its cap ...

to Britain.

April–June

April 11 Events Pre-1600 * 491 – Flavius Anastasius becomes Byzantine emperor, with the name of Anastasius I. *1241 – Batu Khan defeats Béla IV of Hungary at the Battle of Mohi. *1512 – War of the League of Cambrai: Franco-Ferrare ...

– The

Second 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 of ...

between Great Britain and France ends the

War of the Spanish Succession The War of the Spanish Succession was a European great power conflict that took place from 1701 to 1714. The death of childless Charles II of Spain in November 1700 led to a struggle for control of the Spanish Empire between his heirs, Phil ...

. France cedes

Newfoundland Newfoundland and Labrador (; french: Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador; frequently abbreviated as NL) is the easternmost province of Canada, in the country's Atlantic region. The province comprises the island of Newfoundland and the continental region ...

Acadia Acadia (french: link=no, Acadie) was a colony of New France in northeastern North America which included parts of what are now the Maritime provinces, the Gaspé Peninsula and Maine to the Kennebec River. During much of the 17th and earl ...

Hudson Bay Hudson Bay ( crj, text=ᐐᓂᐯᒄ, translit=Wînipekw; crl, text=ᐐᓂᐹᒄ, translit=Wînipâkw; iu, text=ᑲᖏᖅᓱᐊᓗᒃ ᐃᓗᐊ, translit=Kangiqsualuk ilua or iu, text=ᑕᓯᐅᔭᕐᔪᐊᖅ, translit=Tasiujarjuaq; french: b ...

and

St Kitts Saint Kitts, officially the Saint Christopher Island, is an island in the West Indies. The west side of the island borders the Caribbean Sea, and the eastern coast faces the Atlantic Ocean. Saint Kitts and the neighbouring island of Nevis cons ...

to Great Britain. *

April 14 Events Pre-1600 * 43 BC – Legions loyal to the Roman Senate, commanded by Gaius Pansa, defeat the forces of Mark Antony in the Battle of Forum Gallorum. * 69 – Vitellius, commanding Rhine-based armies, defeats Roman emperor O ...

– First performance, in London, of

Joseph Addison Joseph Addison (1 May 1672 – 17 June 1719) was an English essayist, poet, playwright and politician. He was the eldest son of The Reverend Lancelot Addison. His name is usually remembered alongside that of his long-standing friend Richar ...

's libertarian play ''

Cato, a Tragedy ''Cato, a Tragedy'' is a play written by Joseph Addison in 1712 and first performed on 14 April 1713. It is based on the events of the last days of Marcus Porcius Cato Uticensis (better known as Cato the Younger) (95–46 BC), a Stoic whose deeds ...

'', which will be influential on both sides of the Atlantic. *

April 19 Events Pre-1600 * AD 65 – The freedman Milichus betrays Piso's plot to kill the Emperor Nero and all the conspirators are arrested. * 531 – Battle of Callinicum: A Byzantine army under Belisarius is defeated by the Persi ...

– With no living male heirs,

Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor , house = Habsburg , spouse = , issue = , issue-link = #Children , issue-pipe = , father = Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor , mother = Eleonore Magdalene of Neuburg , birth_date ...

, issues the

Pragmatic Sanction of 1713 The Pragmatic Sanction ( la, Sanctio Pragmatica, german: Pragmatische Sanktion) was an edict issued by Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, on 19 April 1713 to ensure that the Habsburg hereditary possessions, which included the Archduchy of Austria ...

, to ensure one of his daughters will inherit the

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lands. *

May 2 Events Pre-1600 * 1194 – King Richard I of England gives Portsmouth its first Royal Charter. *1230 – William de Braose is hanged by Prince Llywelyn the Great. * 1536 – Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, is arrested and imprison ...

– In 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-Swe ...

, a fleet of the Russian Navy, transporting 12,000 soldiers, sails from

Kronstadt Kronstadt (russian: Кроншта́дт, Kronshtadt ), also spelled Kronshtadt, Cronstadt or Kronštádt (from german: link=no, Krone for " crown" and ''Stadt'' for "city") is a Russian port city in Kronshtadtsky District of the federal city ...

to attack the Swedish Army at

Helsinki Helsinki ( or ; ; sv, Helsingfors, ) is the Capital city, capital, primate city, primate, and List of cities and towns in Finland, most populous city of Finland. Located on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, it is the seat of the region of U ...

. *

May 6 Events Pre-1600 * 1527 – Spanish and German troops sack Rome; many scholars consider this the end of the Renaissance. * 1536 – The Siege of Cuzco commences, in which Incan forces attempt to retake the city of Cuzco from the Sp ...

– The

Parliament of Ireland The Parliament of Ireland ( ga, Parlaimint na hÉireann) was the legislature of the Lordship of Ireland, and later the Kingdom of Ireland, from 1297 until 1800. It was modelled on the Parliament of England and from 1537 comprised two ch ...

is dissolved by Queen Anne and new elections are set. * May 13 – King

Philip V of Spain Philip V ( es, Felipe; 19 December 1683 – 9 July 1746) was King of Spain from 1 November 1700 to 14 January 1724, and again from 6 September 1724 to his death in 1746. His total reign of 45 years is the longest in the history of the Spanish mo ...

issues an ''auto accordado'' that changes the

order of succession An order of succession or right of succession is the line of individuals necessitated to hold a high office when it becomes vacated such as head of state or an honour such as a title of nobility.Queen Isabella II Isabella II ( es, Isabel II; 10 October 1830 – 9 April 1904), was Queen of Spain from 29 September 1833 until 30 September 1868. Shortly before her birth, the King Ferdinand VII of Spain issued a Pragmatic Sanction to ensure the successio ...

. *

May 17 Events Pre-1600 *1395 – Battle of Rovine: The Wallachians defeat an invading Ottoman army. *1521 – Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, is executed for treason. * 1527 – Pánfilo de Narváez departs Spain to explore Flo ...

– ''

Ottone in villa ''Ottone in villa'' (''Otho at his villa'', RV 729) is an opera in three acts by Antonio Vivaldi to an Italian libretto by Domenico Lalli (the pseudonym of Sebastiano Biancardi). It was Vivaldi's first opera and premiered on 17 May 1713 at the ...

'', the first opera by composer

Antonio Vivaldi Antonio Lucio Vivaldi (4 March 1678 – 28 July 1741) was an Italian composer, virtuoso violinist and impresario of Baroque music. Regarded as one of the greatest Baroque composers, Vivaldi's influence during his lifetime was widespread ...

, is given its initial performance, debuting at the Teatro delle Grazie in

Vicenza Vicenza ( , ; ) is a city in northeastern Italy. It is in the Veneto region at the northern base of the ''Monte Berico'', where it straddles the Bacchiglione River. Vicenza is approximately west of Venice and east of Milan. Vicenza is a thr ...

May 21 Events Pre-1600 * 293 – Roman Emperors Diocletian and Maximian appoint Galerius as ''Caesar'' to Diocletian, beginning the period of four rulers known as the Tetrarchy. * 878 – Syracuse, Sicily, is captured by the Muslim Aghlabi ...

–

: The Russian fleet lands a force of 10,000 men at

Pernå Pernå (, Sweden ; fi, Pernaja) is a former municipality of Finland. Pernå is located in the province of Southern Finland and was part of the Eastern Uusimaa region. The municipality had a population of 3,961 (31 December 2009) and covered a ...

on the southern coast of Finland. *

June 1 Events Pre-1600 * 1215 – Zhongdu (now Beijing), then under the control of the Jurchen ruler Emperor Xuanzong of Jin, is captured by the Mongols under Genghis Khan, ending the Battle of Zhongdu. *1252 – Alfonso X is proclaimed ki ...

''(approx.)'' – Tuscarora War: Colonel James Moore leads the Carolina militia into the Pamlico Peninsula to defeat the Machapunga and Coree tribes. *

June 23 Events Pre-1600 * 229 – Sun Quan proclaims himself emperor of Eastern Wu. *1266 – War of Saint Sabas: In the Battle of Trapani, the Republic of Venice, Venetians defeat a larger Republic of Genoa, Genoese fleet, capturing all its s ...

– French residents of

are given one year to declare allegiance to Great Britain, or leave

Nova Scotia Nova Scotia ( ; ; ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is one of the three Maritime provinces and one of the four Atlantic provinces. Nova Scotia is Latin for "New Scotland". Most of the population are native Eng ...

July–September

July 9 Events Pre-1600 *118 – Hadrian, who became emperor a year previously on Trajan's death, makes his entry into Rome. * 381 – The end of the First Council of Christian bishops convened in Constantinople by the Roman Emperor Theodos ...

– The

Junta de Braços The Junta de Braços or Braços Generals (''States-General'') was, during the early modern age, an institution of the Principality of Catalonia, convened by the Generalitat of Catalonia in cases of emergency or urgency. It was composed by the rep ...

(parliament) of the

Principality of Catalonia The Principality of Catalonia ( ca, Principat de Catalunya, la, Principatus Cathaloniæ, oc, Principat de Catalonha, es, Principado de Cataluña) was a medieval and early modern state in the northeastern Iberian Peninsula. During most of it ...

votes in favour of staying in the

against

Army of Catalonia An army (from Old French ''armee'', itself derived from the Latin verb ''armāre'', meaning "to arm", and related to the Latin noun ''arma'', meaning "arms" or "weapons"), ground force or land force is a fighting force that fights primarily on ...

raised. *

July 13 Events Pre-1600 * 1174 – William I of Scotland, a key rebel in the Revolt of 1173–74, is captured at Alnwick by forces loyal to Henry II of England. * 1249 – Coronation of Alexander III as King of Scots. *1260 – The Livon ...

– The

Treaty of Portsmouth A treaty is a formal, legally binding written agreement between actors in international law. It is usually made by and between sovereign states, but can include international organizations, individuals, business entities, and other legal pers ...

brings an end to

Queen Anne's War Queen Anne's War (1702–1713) was the second in a series of French and Indian Wars fought in North America involving the colonial empires of Great Britain, France, and Spain; it took place during the reign of Anne, Queen of Great Britain. In E ...

. *

August 8 Events Pre-1600 * 685 BC – Spring and Autumn period: Battle of Qianshi: Upon the death of the previous Duke of Qi, Gongsun Wuzhi, Duke Zhuang of Lu sends an army into the Duchy of Qi to install the exiled Qi prince Gongzi Jiu as the ...

– The

Parliament of Great Britain The Parliament of Great Britain was formed in May 1707 following the ratification of the Acts of Union by both the Parliament of England and the Parliament of Scotland. The Acts ratified the treaty of Union which created a new unified Kingdo ...

, third since the Act of Union, is dissolved *

August 22 Events Pre-1600 * 392 – Arbogast has Eugenius elected Western Roman Emperor. * 851 – Battle of Jengland: Erispoe defeats Charles the Bald near the Breton town of Jengland. *1138 – Battle of the Standard between Scotland a ...

– Voting begins in the

1713 British general election The 1713 British general election produced further gains for the governing Tory party. Since 1710 Robert Harley had led a government appointed after the downfall of the Whig Junto, attempting to pursue a moderate and non-controversial policy, ...

in various constituencies and continues to November 12 * September 1 – Tuscarora War: The Carolina militia, led by Colonel James Moore, returns to South Carolina, after mixed success in the campaign against the Machapunga and Coree tribes.

October–December

October 6 Events Pre-1600 * 105 BC – Cimbrian War: Defeat at the Battle of Arausio accelerates the Marian reforms of the Roman army of the mid-Republic. * 69 BC – Third Mithridatic War: The military of the Roman Republic subdue Armenia. *A ...

– The

Treaty of Schwedt The Treaty of Schwedt was concluded on 6 October 1713, during the Great Northern War, between the Tsardom of Russia and Brandenburg-Prussia in Schwedt. Brandenburg-Prussia was promised southern Swedish Pomerania up to the Peene river, which had ju ...

is signed between Russia and

Brandenburg-Prussia Brandenburg-Prussia (german: Brandenburg-Preußen; ) is the historiographic denomination for the early modern realm of the Brandenburgian Hohenzollerns between 1618 and 1701. Based in the Electorate of Brandenburg, the main branch of the Hohe ...

, with the latter accepting the annexation of Baltic territories and paying Russia expenses in return for the southern part of

Pomerania Pomerania ( pl, Pomorze; german: Pommern; Kashubian: ''Pòmòrskô''; sv, Pommern) is a historical region on the southern shore of the Baltic Sea in Central Europe, split between Poland and Germany. The western part of Pomerania belongs to ...

, recently taken from Sweden in the

. *

October 17 Events Pre-1600 * 690 – Empress Wu Zetian establishes the Zhou Dynasty of China. *1091 – London tornado of 1091: A tornado thought to be of strength T8/F4 strikes the heart of London. *1346 – The English capture King Davi ...

– The

Battle of Pälkäne The Battle of Pälkäne, sometimes called the Battle at Kostianvirta or Battle on the Pialkiane River (russian: link=no, Битва на реке Пялькяне) was fought between the Russian army under Admiral Fyodor Apraksin and the defendi ...

is fought in what is now Finland between Russia and Sweden, with Russia's Fyodor Arpaskin forcing Finnish troops under

Carl Gustaf Armfeldt Carl Gustaf Armfeldt (9 November 1666 – 24 October 1736) was a Swedish officer, general and friherre (baron) who took part in the Great Northern War. Early life Carl Gustaf Armfeldt was born in Swedish Ingria to lieutenant colonel Gustaf Armfe ...

to withdraw. *

November 6 Events Pre-1600 * 447 – A powerful earthquake destroys large portions of the Walls of Constantinople, including 57 towers. * 963 – Synod of Rome: Emperor Otto I calls a council at St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. Pope John XII is ...

– The Dublin election riot breaks out during the fiercely contested Irish General Election. * November 12 – The

concludes with the conservative

Tories A Tory () is a person who holds a political philosophy known as Toryism, based on a British version of traditionalism and conservatism, which upholds the supremacy of social order as it has evolved in the English culture throughout history. The ...

winning 358 of the 558 available seats in the House of Commons, and the liberal Whigs having 200. *

December 9 Events Pre-1600 * 536 – Gothic War: The Byzantine general Belisarius enters Rome unopposed; the Gothic garrison flees the capital. * 730 – Battle of Marj Ardabil: The Khazars annihilate an Umayyad army and kill its commander, ...

– As part of the agreements made at Utrecht to end the

Great Britain Great Britain is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean off the northwest coast of continental Europe. With an area of , it is the largest of the British Isles, the largest European island and the ninth-largest island in the world. It ...

and

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sign a treaty of commerce and navigation. *

December 10 Events Pre-1600 * 1317 – The "Nyköping Banquet": King Birger of Sweden treacherously seizes his two brothers Valdemar, Duke of Finland and Eric, Duke of Södermanland, who were subsequently starved to death in the dungeon of Nyköpi ...

– The rebellion of against the British East India Company by Richard Raworth, Deputy Governor of

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(now abandoned and in the Indian state of

Tamil Nadu Tamil Nadu (; , TN) is a state in southern India. It is the tenth largest Indian state by area and the sixth largest by population. Its capital and largest city is Chennai. Tamil Nadu is the home of the Tamil people, whose Tamil language ...

near

Cuddalore Cuddalore, also spelt as Kadalur (), is the city and headquarters of the Cuddalore District in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Situated south of Chennai, Cuddalore was an important port during the British Raj. While the early history of Cudd ...

), comes to an end after two months when forces sent by Bridish Madras Governor Edward Harrison to negotiate a settlement allowing Raworth to surrender in return for amnesty. *

December 21 Events Pre-1600 *AD 69 – The Roman Senate declares Vespasian emperor of Rome, the last in the Year of the Four Emperors. *1124 – Pope Honorius II is consecrated, having been elected after the controversial dethroning of Pope Celes ...

– Victor Amadeus, Duke of Savoy is crowned

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Palermo Palermo ( , ; scn, Palermu , locally also or ) is a city in southern Italy, the capital of both the autonomous region of Sicily and the Metropolitan City of Palermo, the city's surrounding metropolitan province. The city is noted for its ...

, and his wife

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is crowned as Queen consort.Antonio Gallenga, ''History of Piedmont'', Volume 3 (Chapman and Hall, 1855) p. 118 The coronation follows

's recognition of Sicilian independence, effective September 22, as part of 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 ...

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* ''

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'', a seminal work on

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, is published eight years after his death, by his nephew, Niklaus Bernoulli. *

Basil Matthew II Basil Matthew II was the Syriac Orthodox Maphrian of the East from 1713 until his death in 1727. Biography Matthew was born at Mosul in the 17th century, and was the son of Maqdisi Lazarus. He had a brother named Isaac. Matthew became a monk at ...

becomes

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Maphrian of the East. *

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officially becomes the first free town in America, being the first independent place in America from Europeans.

Births

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Elizabeth Albertine of Saxe-Hildburghausen

January

January 1 January 1 or 1 January is the first day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 364 days remaining until the end of the year (365 in leap years). This day is also known as New Year's Day since the day marks the beginning of the ye ...

– Carl Gustaf Warmholtz, Swedish writer (d. 1785) *

January 2 Events Pre-1600 * 69 – The Roman legions in Germania Superior refuse to swear loyalty to Galba. They rebel and proclaim Vitellius as emperor. * 366 – The Alemanni cross the frozen Rhine in large numbers, invading the Roman Empire ...

–

Marie Dumesnil Marie Françoise Dumesnil (2 January 171320 February 1803), original name Marie-Françoise Marchand, was a French actress. She was born in Paris, daughter of a poor nobleman, and began her stage career in the provinces, whence she was summoned i ...

, French actress (d.

1803 Events * January 1 – The first edition of Alexandre Balthazar Laurent Grimod de La Reynière's ''Almanach des gourmands'', the first guide to restaurant cooking, is published in Paris. * January 5 – William Symington demonstrates his ...

) *

January 5 Events Pre-1600 * 1477 – Battle of Nancy: Charles the Bold is defeated and killed in a conflict with René II, Duke of Lorraine; Burgundy subsequently becomes part of France. 1601–1900 *1675 – Battle of Colmar: The French a ...

–

Jorge Juan y Santacilia Jorge Juan y Santacilia ( Novelda, Alicante, 5 January 1713 – Madrid, 21 June 1773) was a Spanish mathematician, scientist, naval officer, and mariner. He determined that the Earth is not perfectly spherical but is oblate, i.e. flattened at th ...

, Spanish mathematician and naval officer (d. 1773) *

January 7 Events Pre-1600 * 49 BC – The Senate of Rome says that Caesar will be declared a public enemy unless he disbands his army. This prompts the tribunes who support him to flee to Ravenna, where Caesar is waiting. * 1325 – Alfonso I ...

– Giovanni Battista Locatelli, Italian impresario and librettist (d. 1785) *

January 13 Events Pre-1600 * 27 BC – Octavian transfers the state to the free disposal of the Roman Senate and the people. He receives Spain, Gaul, and Syria as his province for ten years. * 532 – The Nika riots break out, during the raci ...

–

Charlotte Charke Charlotte Charke (née Cibber, also Charlotte Secheverell, aka Charles Brown) (13 January 1713 – 6 April 1760) was an English actress, playwright, novelist, autobiographer, and noted cross-dresser. She acted on the stage from the age of 17, ...

, British actor and writer (d.

1760 Events January–March * January 9 – Battle of Barari Ghat: Afghan forces defeat the Marathas. * January 22 – Seven Years' War – Battle of Wandiwash, India: British general Sir Eyre Coote is victorious over the Fr ...

) *

– Jean Chrétien Fischer, French general (d.

1762 Events January–March * January 4 – Britain enters the Seven Years' War against Spain and Naples. * January 5 – Empress Elisabeth of Russia dies, and is succeeded by her nephew Peter III. Peter, an admirer of Frederick ...

) *

January 18 Events Pre-1600 * 474 – Seven-year-old Leo II succeeds his maternal grandfather Leo I as Byzantine emperor. He dies ten months later. * 532 – Nika riots in Constantinople fail. *1126 – Emperor Huizong abdicates the Chin ...

–

Grigory Spiridov Grigory Andreyevich Spiridov () (1713, Vyborg - , Moscow) was a leading Russian naval commander and admiral (1769). Grigory Spiridov began his career in the Russian Navy in 1723. He was promoted to an officer rank in 1733. Spiridov had been co ...

, Russian admiral (d.

1790 Events January–March * January 8 – United States President George Washington gives the first State of the Union address, in New York City. * January 11 – The 11 minor states of the Austrian Netherlands, which t ...

) *

January 22 Events Pre-1600 * 613 – Eight-month-old Constantine is crowned as co-emperor ('' Caesar'') by his father Heraclius at Constantinople. * 871 – Battle of Basing: The West Saxons led by King Æthelred I are defeated by the Danelaw ...

–

Marc-Antoine Laugier Marc-Antoine Laugier (Manosque, Provence, January 22, 1713 – Paris, April 5, 1769) was a Jesuit priest until 1755 than a Benedictine monk. He was one of the first architectural theorist. Laugier is best known for his ''Essay on Architectu ...

, French Jesuit priest and architectural theorist (d.

1769 Events January–March * February 2 – Pope Clement XIII dies, the night before preparing an order to dissolve the Jesuits.Denis De Lucca, ''Jesuits and Fortifications: The Contribution of the Jesuits to Military Architecture ...

) *

January 25 Events Pre-1600 * 41 – After a night of negotiation, Claudius is accepted as Roman emperor by the Senate. * 750 – In the Battle of the Zab, the Abbasid rebels defeat the Umayyad Caliphate, leading to the overthrow of the dynasty ...

–

Gang Se-hwang Kang Sehwang (1713–1791) was a high government official but also a representative painter, calligrapher and art critic of the mid Joseon period. He was born in Jinju, Gyeongsangnam-do, the son of Kang Hyeon. He entered royal service at over s ...

, Joseon Dynasty painter (d.

1791 Events January–March * January 1 – Austrian composer Joseph Haydn arrives in England, to perform a series of concerts. * January 2 – Northwest Indian War: Big Bottom Massacre – The war begins in the Ohio Country ...

) *

January 29 Events Pre-1600 * 904 – Sergius III is elected pope, after coming out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed antipope Christopher. * 946 – Caliph Al-Mustakfi is blinded and deposed by Emir Mu'izz al-Dawla, rul ...

–

Edmé-François Mallet Edmé-François Mallet, also abbé Mallet, (29 January 1713, Melun – 25 February 1755, Châteaurenard) was an 18th-century French theologian and encyclopédiste. Biography Edmé-François Mallet first received his education by the country pri ...

, French writer (d. 1755) *

January 31 Events Pre-1600 * 314 – Pope Sylvester I is consecrated, as successor to the late Pope Miltiades. *1208 – The Battle of Lena takes place between King Sverker II of Sweden and his rival, Prince Eric, whose victory puts him on the ...

Anthony Benezet Anthony Benezet, born Antoine Bénézet (January 31, 1713May 3, 1784), was a French-American abolitionist and educator who was active in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. One of the early American abolitionists, Benezet founded one of the world's fir ...

, French-born American abolitionist and educator (d.

1784 Events January–March * January 6 – Treaty of Constantinople: The Ottoman Empire agrees to Russia's annexation of the Crimea. * January 14 – The Congress of the United States ratifies the Treaty of Paris with Great Bri ...

) ** Adam Drummond, Scottish merchant banker and politician (d. 1786)

February

February 2 Events Pre-1600 * 506 – Alaric II, eighth king of the Visigoths, promulgates the Breviary of Alaric (''Breviarium Alaricianum'' or ''Lex Romana Visigothorum''), a collection of "Roman law". * 880 – Battle of Lüneburg Heath: ...

– Maria Margarida de Lorena, 2nd Duchess of Abrantes, Portuguese noblewoman and courtier (d.

1780 Events January–March * January 16 – American Revolutionary War – Battle of Cape St. Vincent: British Admiral Sir George Rodney defeats a Spanish fleet. * February 19 – The legislature of New York votes to allow ...

) *

February 5 Events Pre-1600 * 62 – Earthquake in Pompeii, Italy. * 1576 – Henry of Navarre abjures Catholicism at Tours and rejoins the Protestant forces in the French Wars of Religion. * 1597 – A group of early Japanese Christians ar ...

– Edwin Lascelles, 1st Baron Harewood, British Baron (d.

1795 Events January–June * January – Central England records its coldest ever month, in the CET records dating back to 1659. * January 14 – The University of North Carolina opens to students at Chapel Hill, becoming t ...

) *

February 7 Events Pre-1600 * 457 – Leo I becomes the Eastern Roman emperor. * 987 – Bardas Phokas the Younger and Bardas Skleros, Byzantine generals of the military elite, begin a wide-scale rebellion against Emperor Basil II. *1301 &nda ...

– Sir Henry Moore, 1st Baronet, Governor of Jamaica and New York (d.

) *

February 11 Events Pre-1600 *660 BC – Traditional date for the foundation of Japan by Emperor Jimmu. * 55 – The death under mysterious circumstances of Tiberius Claudius Caesar Britannicus, heir to the Roman empire, on the eve of his coming ...

– Diane Adélaïde de Mailly-Nesle, Mistress of Louis XV (d.

) *

February 12 Events Pre-1600 * 1404 – The Italian professor Galeazzo di Santa Sophie performed the first post-mortem autopsy for the purposes of teaching and demonstration at the Heiligen–Geist Spital in Vienna. * 1429 – English forces und ...

–

Kenrick Clayton Sir Kenrick Clayton, 2nd Baronet ( – 10 March 1769) of Marden Park, Surrey, was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1734 to 1769. Clayton was the eldest surviving son of Sir William Clayton, 1st Baronet ...

, British politician (d.

) *

February 13 Events Pre-1600 * 962 – Emperor Otto I and Pope John XII co-sign the ''Diploma Ottonianum'', recognizing John as ruler of Rome. * 1322 – The central tower of Ely Cathedral falls on the night of 12th–13th. * 1462 – The ...

–

Domènec Terradellas Domènec Terradellas (baptized 13 February 1713, Barcelona – 20 May 1751, Rome) was a Spanish opera composer. The birthdate is sometimes incorrectly given as 1711. Carreras i Bulbena did extensive research in contemporary documents, such as b ...

, Spanish opera composer (d.

1751 In Britain and its colonies (except Scotland), 1751 only had 282 days due to the British Calendar Act of 1751, which ended the year on 31 December (rather than nearly three months later according to its previous rule). Events January&n ...

) *

February 14 Events Pre-1600 * 748 – Abbasid Revolution: The Hashimi rebels under Abu Muslim Khorasani take Merv, capital of the Umayyad province Khorasan, marking the consolidation of the Abbasid revolt. * 842 – Charles the Bald and Louis t ...

Jan ten Compe Jan ten Compe (1713, Amsterdam – 1761, Amsterdam), was an 18th-century landscape painter from the Northern Netherlands. Biography According to his biographer Jan van Gool, he was a follower of Jan van der Heyden and Gerrit Berckheyde. ...

, painter from the Northern Netherlands (d. 1761) ** Vittoria Ligari, Italian painter (d.

1783 Events January–March * January 20 – At Versailles, Great Britain signs preliminary peace treaties with the Kingdom of France and the Kingdom of Spain. * January 23 – The Confederation Congress ratifies two October 8, ...

) *

February 20 Events Pre-1600 *1339 – The Milanese army and the St. George's (San Giorgio) Mercenaries of Lodrisio Visconti clash in the Battle of Parabiago; Visconti is defeated. * 1472 – Orkney and Shetland are pawned by Norway to Scotlan ...

–

Anna Maria Elvia Anna Maria Elvia (20 February 1713 - 8 May 1784), was a Swedish feminist writer. Biography She was the daughter of a professor, Petrus Elvius, the sister of the mathematician Per Elvius the Younger and married professor Mårten Strömer in 1757, ...

, Swedish feminist writer (d.

) *

February 26 Events Pre-1600 * 747 BC – According to Ptolemy, the epoch (origin) of the Nabonassar Era began at noon on this date. Historians use this to establish the modern BC chronology for dating historic events. * 364 – Valentinian I is ...

– Pyotr Sheremetev, Russian noble (d.

1788 Events January–March * January 1 – The first edition of ''The Times'', previously ''The Daily Universal Register'', is published in London. * January 2 – Georgia ratifies the United States Constitution, and becomes the fourth U.S ...

) *

February 28 Events Pre-1600 * 202 BC – Liu Bang is enthroned as the Emperor of China, beginning four centuries of rule by the Han dynasty. * 870 – The Fourth Council of Constantinople closes. * 1525 – Aztec king Cuauhtémoc is execut ...

–

Louis-Auguste-Augustin d'Affry Louis-Auguste-Augustin d'Affry (Versailles, 28 February 1713 – Saint-Barthélemy, 10 June 1793) was a Swiss military officer and diplomat under the French kings Louis XV and Louis XVI. Biography Louis-Auguste-Augustin d'Affry was born in Ver ...

, French diplomat (d.

1793 The French Republic introduced the French Revolutionary Calendar starting with the year I. Events January–June * January 7 – The Ebel riot occurs in Sweden. * January 9 – Jean-Pierre Blanchard becomes the first to fl ...

)

March

March 2 Events Pre-1600 * 537 – Siege of Rome (537–38), Siege of Rome: The Ostrogoths, Ostrogoth army under king Vitiges begins the siege of the capital. Belisarius conducts a delaying action outside the Piazza del Popolo, Flaminian Gate; he a ...

– Giammaria Ortes, Italian composer and academic (d.

) *

March 5 Events Pre-1600 * 363 – Roman emperor Julian leaves Antioch with an army of 90,000 to attack the Sasanian Empire, in a campaign which would bring about his own death. *1046 – Nasir Khusraw begins the seven-year Middle Eastern j ...

Edward Cornwallis Edward Cornwallis ( – 14 January 1776) was a British career military officer and was a member of the aristocratic Cornwallis family, who reached the rank of Lieutenant General. After Cornwallis fought in Scotland, putting down the Jacob ...

, British military officer, first Governor of Nova Scotia (d.

1776 Events January–February * January 1 – American Revolutionary War – Burning of Norfolk: The town of Norfolk, Virginia is destroyed, by the combined actions of the British Royal Navy and occupying Patriot forces. * Januar ...

) **

Frederick Cornwallis Frederick Cornwallis (5 March 1713 – 19 March 1783) served as Archbishop of Canterbury, after an illustrious career in the Anglican Church. He was born the seventh son of an aristocratic family. His twin brother Edward Cornwallis had a mili ...

, Archbishop of Canterbury (d.

) *

March 8 Events Pre-1600 * 1010 – Ferdowsi completes his epic poem ''Shahnameh''. *1126 – Following the death of his mother, queen Urraca of León, Alfonso VII is proclaimed king of León. * 1262 – Battle of Hausbergen between bou ...

–

Gian Carlo Passeroni Gian Carlo Passeroni (8 March 1713 – 26 December 1803) was an Italian satirical poet, the most important of the 18th-century Nice poets. He was an ordained priest and for much of his career lived an ascetic life in Milan. He is best known for ...

, Italian writer (d.

) *

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 &ndas ...

–

Daniel Fones Captain Daniel Fones (born 9 March 1713, Conanicut Island, Jamestown, Rhode Island – , North Kingstown, Washington, Rhode Island) was the leading military commander for Rhode Island in the Siege of Louisbourg (1745). He was the captain of '' ...

, American military commander (d.

) *

March 12 Events Pre-1600 * 538 – Vitiges, king of the Ostrogoths ends his siege of Rome and retreats to Ravenna, leaving the city to the victorious Byzantine general, Belisarius. *1088 – Election of Urban II as the 159th Pope of the C ...

–

Johann Adolph Hass Johann Adolph Rudolph Hass (baptised 12 March 1713, buried 29 May 1771), usually known as Johann Adolph Hass, was a German maker of clavichords, harpsichords and possibly organs. He was the son of Hieronymus Albrecht Hass, also a maker of keyboa ...

, German clavichord maker (d.

1771 Events January– March * January 5 – The Great Kalmyk ( Torghut) Migration is led by Ubashi Khan, from the east bank of the Lower Volga River back to the homeland of Dzungaria, at this time under Qing Dynasty rule. * January ...

) *

March 15 Events Pre-1600 * 474 BC – Roman consul Aulus Manlius Vulso celebrates an ovation for concluding the war against Veii and securing a forty years' truce. * 44 BC – The assassination of Julius Caesar takes place. * 493 &ndash ...

–

Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille Abbé Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille (; 15 March 171321 March 1762), formerly sometimes spelled de la Caille, was a French astronomer and geodesist who named 14 out of the 88 constellations. From 1750 to 1754, he studied the sky at the Cape of Good ...

, French astronomer (d.

) *

March 17 Events Pre-1600 * 45 BC – In his last victory, Julius Caesar defeats the Pompeian forces of Titus Labienus and Pompey the Younger in the Battle of Munda. * 180 – Commodus becomes sole emperor of the Roman Empire at the age of ei ...

–

Sir Charles Asgill, 1st Baronet Sir Charles Asgill, 1st Baronet (17 March 1714 – 15 September 1788), merchant banker, was the third son of Henry Asgill, silkman, of St Clement Danes, Middlesex and was educated at Westminster School. Asgill's Bank Apprenticed to the banki ...

, British politician (d.

) *

March 21 Events Pre-1600 * 537 – Siege of Rome: King Vitiges attempts to assault the northern and eastern city walls, but is repulsed at the Praenestine Gate, known as the ''Vivarium'', by the defenders under the Byzantine generals Bessas an ...

–

Francis Lewis Francis Lewis (March 21, 1713 – December 31, 1802) was an American merchant and a Founding Father of the United States. He was a signatory of the United States Declaration of Independence and Articles of Confederation as a representative of Ne ...

, Signatory of the US Declaration of Independence, from Wales (d.

) *

–

Bowen Southwell Bowen Southwell (23 March 1713 – 1796) was an Irish politician. He was the third son of William Southwell and his wife Lucy Bowen, daughter of William Bowen. His uncles were Thomas Southwell, 1st Baron Southwell and Richard Southwell. Southw ...

, Irish politician (d.

1796 Events January–March * January 16 – The first Dutch (and general) elections are held for the National Assembly of the Batavian Republic. (The next Dutch general elections are held in 1888.) * February 1 – The capital ...

) *

March 26 Events Pre-1600 * 590 – Emperor Maurice proclaims his son Theodosius as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire. *1021 – On the feast of Eid al-Adha, the death of the Fatimid caliph al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, kept secret for six weeks, ...

– Peter Oliver, Massachusetts loyalist colonial judge (d.

) *

March 28 Events Pre-1600 *AD 37 – Roman emperor Caligula accepts the titles of the Principate, bestowed on him by the Senate. * 193 – After assassinating the Roman Emperor Pertinax, his Praetorian Guards auction off the throne to Didiu ...

–

Juan Nentvig Juan Bautista Nentvig (also spelled Nentuig) was a priest born in Glatz, Germany (now Klodzko, Poland) on March 28, 1713. He was active in the Pimaria Alta (now partially in Sonora, Mexico and the state of Arizona) where he worked with the various ...

, German anthropologist (d.

1768 Events January–March * January 9 – Philip Astley stages the first modern circus, with acrobats on galloping horses, in London. * February 11 – Samuel Adams's circular letter is issued by the Massachusetts House ...

) *

March 29 Events Pre-1600 * 845 – Paris is sacked by Viking raiders, probably under Ragnar Lodbrok, who collects a huge ransom in exchange for leaving. * 1430 – The Ottoman Empire under Murad II captures Thessalonica from the Republic of ...

– John Ponsonby, Irish politician (d.

1787 Events January–March * January 9 – The North Carolina General Assembly authorizes nine commissioners to purchase of land for the seat of Chatham County. The town is named Pittsborough (later shortened to Pittsboro), for ...

)

April

* April 2 – Pier Francesco Foggini, Italian writer (d.

) * April 3 – William Inglis (surgeon), 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.

) *

– Luise Gottsched, German poet, playwright, essayist and translator (d.

) * April 12 ** Sir Edward Crofton, 4th Baronet, Anglo-Irish politician (d. 1745) ** Guillaume Thomas François Raynal, French writer, man of letters (d.

) * April 13 – Pierre Jélyotte, French operatic tenor (d. 1797) * April 17 – Samuel Graves, British Royal Navy admiral (d.

) * April 21 ** Anna Maria Hilfeling, Swedish artist (d.

) ** Louis de Noailles, French peer and Marshal of France (d.

) * April 22 ** Brita Sophia De la Gardie, Swedish actress (d. 1797) ** Peter Du Cane Sr., British businessman (d.

)

May

– Charles Batteux, French philosopher, writer on aesthetics (d.

) * May 7 – Charles Townley (officer of arms), Charles Townley, British Officer of Arms (d. 1774) * May 11 – James Drummond, 3rd Duke of Perth, Scottish Jacobite army officer (d. 1746) * May 13 ** Alexis Clairaut, French mathematician, astronomer, and geophysicist (d. 1765) ** Louis François de Monteynard, French soldier, statesman (d.

) * May 15 ** József Károly Hell, Hungarian mining engineer (d. 1789) ** Edward Wortley Montagu (traveller), Edward Wortley Montagu, British politician, traveller and author (d.

) *

– Élie Bertrand, Swiss scientist (d. 1797) * May 25 ** Andrzej Mokronowski, Polish general (d.

) ** John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, British nobleman, art collector, Prime Minister of Great Britain (d. 1792) * May 31 – Giuseppe Maria Buonaparte, Corsican politician (d. 1763)

June

* 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 ** John Allen, 3rd Viscount Allen, Irish politician (d. 1745) ** Edward Capell, English Shakespearean scholar; (d. 1781) * June 13 ** Imperial Noble Consort Chunhui, Consort of Chinese Emperor (d.

) ** Antonio Eugenio Visconti, Italian cardinal (d.

) * 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

* July 1 – Benjamin Green (merchant), Benjamin Green, Nova Scotian merchant, judge, and political figure (d. 1772) * July 5 ** Stanhope Aspinwall, British diplomat (d.

) ** Jean Godin des Odonais, French cartographer and naturalist (d. 1792) *

– John Newbery, English publisher and bookseller (d. 1767) * July 10 – Anna Rosina de Gasc, German portrait painter (d.

) * July 14 – Nicole du Hausset, French memoirist (d. 1801) * July 16 – Carlo Murena, architect (d. 1764) * July 18 ** Robert Dundas of Arniston, the younger, Scottish judge (d.

) ** Gaetano Matteo Pisoni, Swiss-Italian architect (d. 1782) * July 22 – Jacques-Germain Soufflot, French architect in neoclassicism (d.

) * July 23 ** Juan de Miralles, Spanish diplomat (d.

) ** Luís António Verney, Portuguese philosopher and pedagogue (d. 1792) * July 27 – Princess Sophie Charlotte of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, duchess consort of Saxe-Weimar (d. 1746)

August

* August 1 – Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (d.

) * August 3 – Johan Georg Lillienberg, Swedish count and politician (d. 1798) * August 4 ** Bernardo de Miera y Pacheco, Spanish cartographer (d. 1785) ** Princess Elisabeth Albertine of Saxe-Hildburghausen, Duchess consort of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1761) * 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), 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.

) * August 18 – Arthur Champagne, Irish Anglican priest (d. 1799) * August 25 – Vijaya Raghunatha Raya Tondaiman I, Raja of Pudukkottai (d.

) * August 27 – Anton August Beck, German engraver (d.

)

September

* 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 ** Gowin Knight, British physicist (d. 1772) ** John Needham, English biologist and Roman Catholic priest (d. 1781) * September 13 – Giuseppe Maria Buondelmonti, Italian philosopher (d. 1757) * September 14 ** Johann Kies, German astronomer and mathematician (d. 1781) ** Imperial Noble Consort Shujia, consort of the Qianlong Emperor (d. 1755) * September 16 – Charles Lucas (politician), Charles Lucas, Irish apothecary, physician and politician (d.

) * 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

* October 2 – Henry Tucker of The Grove, Bermudian merchant, politician and Militia officer (d.

) * October 3 – Antoine Dauvergne, French composer and violinist (d. 1797) * October 5 – Denis Diderot, French philosopher (d.

) * 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.

) * October 9 – Mikhail Volkonsky, Russian statesman and military figure from the House of Volkonsky (d.

) * October 12 – Khawaja Muhammad Zaman of Luari, Sindhi Sufi poet (d. 1775) * October 13 ** Allan Ramsay (artist), Allan Ramsay, Scottish portrait painter (d.

) ** Jacques de Romas, French physicist (d.

) * October 20 ** Benjamin Andrew, American politician (d.

) ** James Cecil, 6th Earl of Salisbury, English noble (d.

) ** Joseph Redlhamer, Austrian physicist (d. 1761) * 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.

)

November

* November 1 – Antonio Genovesi, Italian economist (d.

) * November 5 – Gorges Lowther (1713–1792), Gorges Lowther, Member of the Irish House of Commons (d. 1792) *

– Thomas Osborne, 4th Duke of Leeds, British politician (d. 1789) * November 13 – Nicolas Luton Durival, French historian (d.

) * November 14 – Blasius Columban, Baron von Bender, Luxembourgish politician (d. 1798) * November 17 – August de la Motte, German general (d.

) * November 24 ** Junípero Serra, Spanish Christian missionary (d.

) ** Laurence Sterne, Anglo-Irish novelist and Anglican cleric (d.

) * November 28 – Georg Friedrich Brander, German precision mechanic and mathematician (d.

) * November 30 – Johann Balthasar Bullinger, Swiss landscape painter (d.

)

December

* December 4 – Gasparo Gozzi, Venetian critic and dramatist (d. 1786) *

– Abraham Bäck, physician (d.

) *

– Johann Nicolaus Mempel, German composer and musician (d. 1747) * December 13 – John Baptist Caryll, third Jacobite Baron Caryll of Durford (d.

) * December 14 – Martin Knutzen, German philosopher (d.

) * December 15 – Welbore Ellis, 1st Baron Mendip, English politician (d. 1802) * December 17 – Antoine-Noé de Polier de Bottens, Swiss theologian (d.

) * 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 ** André-Joseph Blavier, Belgian composer (d. 1782) ** Nicolas Louis de Lacaille, French astronomer (d.

) ** Herman Petersen, Swedish merchant (d. 1765)

Deaths

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Dorothea Maria of Saxe-Gotha, duchess of Saxe-Meiningen

Henry Compton by Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt

January

** Giovanni Francesco Negroni, Italian cardinal (b. 1629) ** Giuseppe Maria Tomasi, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1649) *

– Lady Mary Butler, British noble; (b. 1689) *

– 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

– Michael II Apafi, Prince of Transylvania (b. 1676) *

– Marko Mesić (priest), Marko Mesić, Croatian Roman Catholic priest (b. 1640) * February 3 – William Milman (lawyer), William Milman, English lawyer (b. 1650) *

– Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, English politician and philosopher (b. 1671) *

– Zulfiqar Khan Nusrat Jung, Nawab of the Carnatic (b. 1657) *

** Florence MacMoyer, last hereditary keeper of the Book of Armagh, (b. 1630) ** Jahandar Shah, Mughal emperor (b. 1661) ** Michele Antonio Vibò, Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Turin, Apostolic Internuncio to France (b. 1630) *

** Louis Crato, Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken (b. 1663) ** William Harrison (poet), William Harrison, English poet and diplomat (b. 1685) * February 15 – Carlo Vigarani, Italian scenic designer (b. 1637) *

– King Frederick I of Prussia (b. 1657) *

– William Paget, 6th Baron Paget, English peer and ambassador (b. 1637) *

– Samuel Whiting Jr., American clergyman 1633–1713 (b. 1633)

March

* March 4 – Ireneo della Croce, Carmelite preacher and chronicler (b. 1625) * March 14 – Mary Cromwell, Countess Fauconberg, daughter of Oliver Cromwell (b. 1637) *

– Wolfgang William Romer, Dutch military engineer (b. 1640) *

– Juraj Jánošík, Slovak outlaw, known as the ''Slovak Robin Hood'' (executed) (b. 1688) *

– Owen Buckingham (died 1713), Owen Buckingham, MP and Lord Mayor of London (b. 1649) *

– 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) *

** Paul I, Prince Esterházy, Palatine of Hungary and Prince of Holy Roman Empire (b. 1635) ** Charles de Sévigné, French baron (b. 1648) *

– Christian Thomsen Carl, Danish naval officer (b. 1676) * March 30 – Govert Bidloo, Dutch physician, anatomist, poet and playwright (b. 1649)

April

* April 3 – Henri, Count of Brionne, French noble (b. 1661) * April 8 ** Leonardo Marsili, Roman Catholic archbishop (b. 1641) ** Lucas Smout the Younger, Flemish painter (b. 1671) *

– Anne Clausdatter, Norwegian businesswoman (b. 1659) * April 15 – Valentin Molitor, Swiss composer (b. 1637) * April 17 – David Hollatz (dogmatician), 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 (bishop), 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

* 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

* June 11 – Felix Meyer, painter from Switzerland (b. 1653)

July

* July 7 – Henry Compton (bishop), 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 (politician), Thomas Northmore, English Member of Parliament (b. 1643) * July 31 – Frederick William, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (b. 1675)

August

* 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

* 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 ** Giovanni Antonio Viscardi, Swiss architect (b. 1645) ** Johannes Voet, Dutch legal scholar (b. 1647) * 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 (1660–1713), 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

* 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) *

– 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 ** Ferdinando de' Medici, Grand Prince of Tuscany, Tuscan prince (b. 1663) ** Salomon van Til, Dutch theologian (b. 1643)

November

* November 2 – Narcissus Marsh, English clergyman (b. 1638) *

– Franz Karl of Auersperg, Prince of Auersperg, Duke of Münsterberg (b. 1660) * November 7 – Elizabeth Barry, British actress (b. 1658) * November 8 ** Samuel Angier, English minister (b. 1639) ** Fredrik Bagge, Swedish priest (b. 1646) * 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

* 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 ** Feodosia Alekseyevna of Russia, Tsarevna of Russia (b. 1662) ** Thomas Rymer, English Historiographer royal (b. 1641) * December 15 ** Frederik Johan van Baer, Dutch army commander (b. 1645) ** Carlo Maratta, Italian painter (b. 1625) * 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'' ** Basil Lazarus III,

Maphrian of the East ** Thomas Ellwood, English religious writer (b. 1639)

References

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