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Arts
Architecture - Literature - Music
Other topics
Canada - Science
Lists of leaders:
Colonial governors - State leaders ---- From Categories:
births - deaths
Events
- August 5 - In the Battle of Peterwardein 40.000 Austrian troops of Prince Eugene of Savoy defeat 150,000 Ottoman Turks under Darnad Ali Pasha
- Pirate Edward Teach the "Blackbeard" raids shipping in the Caribbean
- Natchez, one of the oldest towns on the Mississippi, founded.
- Crieff, Scotland burned to the ground in revenge for the Jacobite defeat at the Battle of Sheriffmuir.
- Kangxi dictionary published this year. This dictionary lays the foundation of most references to Han characters studies nowadays.
Ongoing events
Births
- January 12 - Antonio de Ulloa, Spanish general and governor of Louisiana (d. 1795)
- January 15 - Philip Livingston, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1778)
- January 20 - King Charles III of Spain (d. 1788)
- January 26 - George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville, British soldier and politician (d. 1785)
- March 6 - Pehr Kalm, Finnish explorer and naturalist (d. 1779)
- May 29 - Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton, French naturalist (d. 1800)
- June 18 - Joseph-Marie Vien, French painter (d. 1809)
- June 23 - Fletcher Norton, 1st Baron Grantley, English politician (d. 1789)
- October 3 - Giovanni Battista Beccaria, Italian physicist (d. 1781)
- October 6 - George Montague-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax, English statesman (d. 1771)
- December 16 - Louis-Jules Mancini-Mazarini, Duc de Nivernais, French diplomat and writer (d. 1798)
- December 25 - Johann Jacob Reiske, German scholar and physician (d. 1774)
- December 26 - Thomas Gray, English writer (d. 1771)
- December 26 - Jean François de Saint-Lambert, French poet (d. 1803)
- Jean Jacques Barthelemy, French writer and numismatist
Deaths
- January 1 - William Wycherley, English playwright
- April 14 - Arthur Herbert, 1st Earl of Torrington, British admiral
- April 26 - John Somers, 1st Baron Somers, Lord Chancellor of England (b. 1651)
- June 2 - Ogata Korin, Japanese painter
- June 5 - Roger Cotes, English mathematician and philosopher (b. 1682)
- June 8 - Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (b. 1658)
- June 9 -- Banda Bahadur , Sikh military commander (executed)
- June 28 - George FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Northumberland, English general (b. 1665)
- July 8 - Robert South, English churchman (b. 1634)
- October 28 - Stephen Fox, English politician (b. 1627)
- November 2 - Engelbert Kaempfer, German traveler and physician (b. 1651)
- November 14 - Gottfried Leibniz, German philosopher, scientist, and mathematician (b. 1646)
- December 13 - Charles de La Fosse, French painter (b. 1640)