English History (Part 7)

Events 601 - 700 of 1,326

• 1699-06-11 England, France & Netherlands agree on 2nd Extermination Treaty of Spain

• 1700-08-18 Swedish, English & Dutch army lands on Seeland, Denmark
• 1701-06-12 Act of Settlement gives English crown to Sophia, Princess of Hanover
• 1701-09-07 Germany, England & Netherlands sign anti-French covenant
• 1701-09-16 James Francis Edward Stuart "The Old Pretender", becomes the Jacobite claimant to the thrones of England and Scotland on the death of his father James II

• 1702-03-11 1st English daily newspaper "Daily Courant" publishes
• 1702-03-21 Queen Anne addresses English parliament
• 1702-05-14 England & Netherlands declare war on France & Spain
• 1702-08-19 -24] Battle at Santa Marta Venz: English fleet beat French
• 1702-10-13 Dutch and English troops occupy Liège
• 1702-10-23 Battle of Bay of Vigo: Dutch & English fleet destroy & occupy Spanish silver fleet & French squadron
• 1703-05-02 Portugal signs treaty with England to become a Great Covenant
• 1703-05-18 Dutch & English troops occupy Cologne
• 1703-09-12 English army under arch duke Charles of Austria lands in Portugal
• 1703-12-07 Great storm of 1703 hits Southern England - thousands killed, Royal Navy losses 13 ships and around 1,500 seamen
• 1703-12-27 England & Portugal sign Methuen-Asiento-trade agreement
• 1704-07-24 English and Dutch troops occupy Gibraltar
• 1704-08-03 English/Dutch fleet under Rooke/Callenburgh occupy Gibraltar
• 1704-08-04 War of Spanish Succession, English and Dutch troops occupy Gibraltar

• 1705-10-15 English fleet under Lord Peterborough occupies Barcelona
• 1707-04-29 English and Scottish parliaments accept Act of Union; creates the United Kingdom of Great Britain (comes into being 1st May)
• 1707-05-01 Acts of Union comes into force, uniting England and Scotland to form the United Kingdom of Great Britain
• 1708-03-23 Pretender to the English throne James III attempts to land at Firth of Forth, Scotland, but is turned away by the British Royal Navy
• 1708-03-27 Pretender to the English throne James III flees to Dunkirk
• 1708-10-21 Dutch & English troops occupy Lille (Rijsel)
• 1709-09-11 Battle at Malplaquet during War of the Spanish Succession: English, Austrian and Dutch Great Alliance defeat France
• 1709-10-29 England & Netherlands sign anti-French "Barrieretraktaat"
• 1710-08-07 Sidney, 1st Earl of Godolphin resigns as English minister of Finance
• 1710-10-13 English troops occupy Acadia (Nova Scotia)
• 1711-03-08 Antoin de Guiscard tries English premier Haley for murder

• 1712-07-17 Great Britain, Portugal and France sign ceasefire [or 19th]
• 1713-01-30 England & Netherlands sign 2nd anti-French boundary treaty
• 1713-04-11 Great Britain, Spain, the Netherlands, Prussia, Savoy, Portugal & France agree the Treaty of Utrecht; France cedes Maritime provinces in North America to Britain
• 1714-01-07 Typewriter patented by Englishman Henry Mill (built years later)

• 1715-11-25 First English patent granted to an American, for processing corn
• 1715-12-22 English pretender to the throne James III lands at Peterhead
• 1716-05-25 Great Britain and Holy Roman Empire sign the Treaty of Westminster, a defensive pact [1]
• 1717-03-02 The Loves of Mars and Venus becomes the first ballet performed in England

• 1720-06-10 Mrs Clements of England markets first paste-style mustard
• 1721-03-09 British Chancellor Exchequer John Aislabie confined in London Tower
• 1721-06-13 England signs Treaty of Madrid

• 1727-09-08 A barn fire during a puppet show in the village of Burwell in Cambridgeshire, England kills 78 people, many of whom are children.
• 1730-08-04 Crown prince Frederick of Prussia escapes to England
• 1732-08-01 Foundations laid for Bank of England
• 1733-01-13 James Oglethorpe & 130 English colonists arrive at Charleston, South Carolina
• 1737-07-31 Prince Frederick of Wales escapes English court
• 1738-05-09 Britain sends fleet to the Mediterranean Sea & West Indies
• 1739-04-07 Dick Turpin executed in England for horse stealing
• 1739-10-19 England declares war on Spain [OS=Oct 30]
• 1741-03-09 British fleet under admiral Ogle begins assault on Cartagena
• 1741-04-13 Royal Military Academy forms at Woolwich, England
• 1743-08-16 Champion of England titleholder Jack Broughton publishes 'Rules of the Ring' - earliest boxing code
• 1744-02-09 Battle at Toulon (French/Spanish vs English fleet of Adm Matthews)
• 1744-03-11 English auction house Sotheby's holds its first ever auction (of books) in London

• 1745-03-09 Bells for 1st American carillon shipped from England to Boston [1]

• 1749-11-02 English Ohio Trade Company forms first trading post
• 1751-07-29 1st international world title prize fight: Jack Stack of England, beats challenger M. Petit of France in 29 mins in England
• 1751-08-24 Thomas Colley executed in England for drowning a supposed witch
• 1753-06-13 Austria, Great Britain & Modena sign secret military treaty

• 1755-12-02 The second Eddystone Lighthouse on Eddystone Rocks off English southern coast is destroyed by fire
• 1756-08-29 England & France meet in war
• 1757-08-09 English Fort William Henry, NY, surrenders to French & Indians troops
• 1759-08-18 -19] 2nd sea battle of Lagos: England vs France
• 1762-08-14 English fleet occupies Havana

• 1764-02-21 John Wilkes is thrown out of English House of Commons for his "Essay on Women"
• 1766-05-09 John Byron back in England after trip around the world
• 1767-06-18 Samuel Wallis, an English sea captain, sights Tahiti; considered the first European to reach the island

• 1771-07-12 The Endeavour captained by James Cook, with Joseph Banks aboard, returns from its first voyage to the Pacific after two years
• 1772-06-22 Somerset v Stewart court case finds slavery unsupported by English common law, encouraging the abolitionist movement

• 1772-11-02 Boston: anti-English Committee of Correspondence forms

• 1775-06-23 1st regatta held on river Thames, England
• 1775-07-30 Captain James Cook with Resolution returns to England
• 1777-01-15 People of New Connecticut (Vermont) declare independence from England
• 1779-10-08 English engraver and poet William Blake begins study at the Royal Academy, Old Somerset House, London
• 1780-08-22 HMS Resolution, without Captain James Cook, returns to England
• 1785-01-07 1st balloon flight across English Channel by Jean Pierre Blanchard and John Jeffries
• 1787-05-17 English slave ship Sisters, en route from Africa to Cuba, capsizes killing hundreds
• 1788-01-18 First elements of the First Fleet carrying 736 convicts from England to Australia arrives at Botany Bay to set up a penal colony
• 1790-03-27 The modern shoelace with an aglet patented in England by Harvey Kennedy
• 1790-11-11 Chrysanthemums are introduced to England from China

• 1792-11-14 Captain George Vancouver is first Englishman to enter San Francisco Bay
• 1793-04-15 Bank of England issues first £5 note

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Birthdays 601 - 700 of 4,621

• 1756-07-14 Thomas Rowlandson, English painter, cartoonist and etcher, born in London, England (d. 1827)
• 1757-01-11 Samuel Bentham, English mechanical engineer (d. 1831)
• 1757-02-01 John Philip Kemble, British actor and director (Drury Lane, Covent Garden), born in Prescot, Lancashire, England (d. 1823)
• 1757-02-20 John 'Mad Jack' Fuller, English philanthropist (d. 1834)
• 1757-07-08 Richard Wainwright, English composer and church organist (d. 1825)

• 1759-09-19 William Kirby, English entomologist and original member of the Linnean Society and a Fellow of the Royal Society, born in Witnesham, Suffolk, England (d. 1850)

• 1760-03-28 Thomas Clarkson, English abolitionist (Negro Emancipation), born in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, England (d. 1846)
• 1761-05-16 John Opie, English painter, born in Trevellas, Cornwall (d. 1807)
• 1761-06-03 Henry Shrapnel, English Army officer and inventor (created the shrapnel shell), born in Wiltshire, England (d. 1842)
• 1761-11-22 Dorothy Jordan, Irish-English actress, courtesan, mistress of future King William IV of the United Kingdom, born in Waterford, Ireland (d. 1816)
• 1762-09-24 William Lisle Bowles, English poet (14 Sonnets), born in Kings Sutton, England (d. 1850)
• 1763-03-09 William Cobbett, English journalist and author, born in Farnham, Surrey (d. 1835)
• 1763-06-26 George Morland, English artist of rural landscapes, born in London (d. 1804)
• 1763-07-30 Samuel Rogers, English poet (Italy, a poem), born in Newington Cross, Islington, England (d. 1855)
• 1763-10-12 John Ross, English composer and organist, born in Newcastle upon Tyne (d. 1837)
• 1763-12-23 John Davy, English composer, born at Creedy Bridge, Devon (d. 1824)
• 1764-01-18 Samuel Whitbread, English politician, born in Cardington, Bedfordshire (d. 1815)

• 1764-04-03 John Abernethy, English surgeon, born in London, England (d. 1831)
• 1764-06-19 John Barrow, 1st Baronet, English statesman and founder of the Royal Geographical Society, born in Ulverston, Lancashire, England (d. 1848)
• 1764-07-09 Ann Radcliffe, English Gothic novelist (The Mysteries of Udolpho, The Romance of the Forest), born in London (d. 1823)
• 1764-09-17 John Goodricke, English deaf astronomer (first to notice that some variable stars were periodic), born in Groningen, Netherlands (d. 1786)

• 1764-12-03 Mary Lamb, British author (Tales from Shakespeare), born in London, England (d. 1847)
• 1765-03-04 Charles Dibdin, British composer, author (Sea Songs), and actor, baptized in Hampshire, England (d. 1814)
• 1765-03-21 Henry Fagel, Dutch/English baron/diplomat
• 1765-10-08 Harman Blennerhassett, Irish lawyer, born in Hampshire, England (d. 1831)
• 1766-02-24 Samuel Wesley, British organist and composer referred to as "The English Mozart" (Exultate Deo), born in Bristol, England
• 1766-08-06 William Hyde Wollaston, English chemist and physicist (famous for discovering the chemical elements palladium and rhodium), born in East Dereham, Norfolk, England (d. 1828)

• 1768-04-19 Adrian Hardy Haworth, English entomologist and botanist, born in Hull, England (d. 1833)
• 1768-05-17 Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, English general, born in London (d. 1854)
• 1768-11-08 Princess Augusta Sophia of the United Kingdom, 6th child and second daughter of King George III and Queen Charlotte, born in London (d. 1840)
• 1768-12-22 John Crome (Old Crome), English landscape artist, born in Norwich, England (d. 1821)
• 1769-03-10 Joseph Williamson, English philanthropist and tunnel builder (Williamson tunnels in Liverpool), born in West Riding, England (d. 1840)
• 1769-04-13 Thomas Lawrence, English portrait painter, born in Bristol, England (d. 1830)
• 1770-03-13 Daniel Lambert, English gaol keep and famous for his unusually large size (weighed 739 lbs (334 kg) at death), born in Blue Boar Lane, Leicester (d. 1809)

• 1770-04-30 David Thompson, English-Canadian explorer (Columbia River), born in Westminster, England (d. 1857)
• 1771-05-14 Robert Owen, Welsh factory owner and utopian socialist, born in Newtown, Wales (d. 1858)
• 1771-08-22 Henry Maudslay, English inventor of the metal lathe, born in Woolwich, London (d. 1831)
• 1771-12-25 Dorothy Wordsworth, English poet, diarist and sister of William Wordsworth, born in Cockermouth, Cumberland, England (d. 1855)
• 1772-05-20 William Congreve, English artillery officer and inventor who designed fire rockets, born in London (d. 1829)

• 1773-01-09 Cassandra Austen, English watercolorist and sister of Jane Austen (d. 1845)
• 1773-05-19 Arthur Aikin, English mineralogist (d. 1854)
• 1773-12-27 George Cayley, England, found science of aerodynamics

• 1774-03-20 John Braham, English tenor singer and composer, born in London (d. 1856)
• 1774-04-28 Francis Baily, English astronomer and describer of "Baily's Beads" during solar eclipse, born in Newbury, Berkshire, England (d. 1844)
• 1774-08-12 Robert Southey, English writer (The Story of the Three Bears), Poet Laureate (1813-43) and biographer (Nelson), born in Bristol, England (d. 1843)
• 1775-02-10 Charles Lamb, British critic/poet/essayist (Essays of Elia), born in London, England (d. 1834)
• 1775-02-18 Thomas Girtin, artist/watercolorist, born in London, England

• 1775-07-09 Matthew Lewis, English novelist (The Monk), born in London (d. 1818)
• 1776-02-23 John Walter II, chief proprietor (The Times, 1812-47), born in London, England
• 1776-06-11 John Constable, English landscape painter (Hay Wain), born in East Bergholt, Suffolk, England (d. 1837)
• 1777-10-06 William Russell, English composer and organist, born in London (d. 1813)
• 1778-04-10 William Hazlitt, English essayist and critic, born in Kent, England (d. 1830)
• 1778-06-07 Beau [George Bryan] Brummel, English dandy, born in London, England (d. 1840)
• 1778-12-17 Humphry Davy, English chemist, studied electro-chemistry, invented the Davy lamp), born in Penzance, Cornwall, England (d. 1829)

• 1779-01-01 William Clowes, English printer (d. 1847)

• 1779-02-27 Thomas Hazlehurst, English soap and alkali manufacturer (d. 1842)

• 1780-06-03 William Hone, English author and bookseller (Every-Day Book)

• 1782-06-19 John Bray, English-born American actor and composer (The Indian Princess) (d. 1822)

• 1783-04-08 John Claudius Loudon, Scottish horticulturist, born in Cambuslang, Lanarkshire, Scotland (d. 1843)
• 1783-04-29 David Cox, English painter (Treatise on landscape painting), born in Birmingham, England (d. 1856)
• 1783-08-23 William Tierney Clark, English civil engineer, born in Bristol, England (d. 1852)
• 1784-02-03 John Fane, British politician, diplomat (11th Earl of Westmoreland), and composer (Royal Academy of Music, 1830), born in Piccadilly, London (d. 1859)
• 1784-07-27 George Onslow, English-French composer (chamber music), born in Clermont-Ferrand, France (d. 1853)
• 1785-07-06 William Jackson Hooker, English botanist and director (Kew Gardens), born in Norwich, England
• 1785-08-15 Thomas De Quincey, English writer (Confessions of English Opium Eater), born in Manchester (d. 1859)
• 1785-09-25 George Pinto [Sanders], British violin prodigy, keyboard virtuoso, and composer,, born in Lambeth, South London (d. 1806)
• 1785-10-18 Thomas Love Peacock, English author (Headlong Hall)
• 1785-10-20 George Ormerod, English historian and antiquarian (d. 1873)
• 1785-11-13 Caroline Lamb, English aristocrat, author (Glenarvon), wife of William Lamb, lover of Lord Byron (d. 1828)
• 1786-01-11 Joseph Jackson Lister, British optician who perfected the optical microscope by designing the achromatic objective lens, born in London, England
• 1786-01-12 Sir Robert Inglis, Bt, English politician (d. 1855)
• 1786-12-05 Henry Drummond, English banker and religious leader, born in The Grange, Hampshire (d. 1860)
• 1787-03-10 William Etty, English painter of historical nudes, born in York, England (d. 1849)
• 1787-08-24 James Weddell, British sailor and Antarctic explorer (Weddell Sea), born in Ostend, Belgium (d. 1834)
• 1787-11-04 Edmund Kean, British Shakespearean actor (Edmund Kean's Masonic Career), born in London, England (d. 1833)
• 1787-12-09 John Dobson, English architect, born in High Chirton, North Shields, England (d. 1865)
• 1787-12-15 Charles Cowden Clarke, English editor and Shakespearean critic, born in Enfield, Middlesex, England (d. 1877)
• 1787-12-16 Mary Russell Mitford, English writer (d. 1855)
• 1788-01-11 William Thomas Brande, English chemist (d. 1866)

• 1788-08-22 Thomas Tredgold, British civil engineer (railway design), carpenter, and writer (Elementary Principles of Carpentry), born in Brandon, Durham, England (d. 1829)
• 1788-09-22 Theodore Hook, English author, famous practical joker and recipient of the world's 1st postcard, born in London (d. 1841)
• 1788-09-30 FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan, British Army officer (commander of the British forces during the Crimean War), born in Badminton, England (d. 1855)

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Deaths 601 - 700 of 2,331

• 1690-05-21 John Eliot, English missionary in Massachusetts, dies at 85
• 1691-02-01 George Etherege, English stage writer (Love in a Tub), dies at 56
• 1691-05-10 Colonel John Birch, English soldier (b. 1615)
• 1691-10-09 William Sacheverell, English statesman (b. 1638)
• 1691-12-08 Richard Baxter, English clergyman (b. 1615)
• 1691-12-31 Dudley North, English economist (b. 1641)
• 1692-05-18 Elias Ashmole, English antiquarian & collector (Ashmolean Museum), dies at 74
• 1692-11-19 Thomas Shadwell, English poet and playwright (2nd Poet Laureate 1689-92), dies at about 50
• 1692-12-09 William Mountfort, English actor and dramatist, dies at approximately 38
• 1693-06-02 John Wildman, English soldier and politician
• 1693-07-12 John Ashby, English admiral

• 1694-01-02 Henry Booth, 1st Earl of Warrington, English politician, dies at 42
• 1694-01-07 Charles Gerard, 1st Earl of Macclesfield, English general (bc. 1618)
• 1694-06-17 Philip Howard, English Roman Catholic Cardinal, dies at 64
• 1694-12-28 Mary II, Queen of England Scotland and Ireland, dies after 5 years of rule at 32
• 1695-01-07 Mary II, Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland, wife of William III, dies of smallpox at 32 [OS=Dec 28 1694]
• 1695-03-05 Henry Wharton, English writer (b. 1664)

• 1695-11-21 Henry Purcell, English organist and composer (Indian Queen), dies at 36
• 1695-11-28 Anthony Wood, English antiquarian, dies at 62
• 1696-03-18 Robert Charnock, English conspirator
• 1697-01-28 John Fenwick, English conspirator
• 1697-03-27 Simon Bradstreet, English colonial magistrate, last governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony, dies at 93
• 1699-01-21 Obadiah Walker, English writer (b. 1616)
• 1699-02-27 Charles Paulet, 1st Duke of Bolton, English politician (b. c. 1625)
• 1699-05-15 Edward Petre, English Jesuit and privy councilor (b. 1631)
• 1699-06-22 Josiah Child, English Governor of the East India Company (b. 1630)
• 1699-11-09 Hortense Mancini, mistress of Charles II, King of England (b. 1646)
• 1700-05-01 John Dryden, English poet and playwright, first Poet Laureate (1668-1688), dies at 68
• 1701-08-20 Charles Sedley, English playwright (b. 1639)
• 1701-08-22 John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English royalist statesman, dies at 72
• 1701-09-16 James II of England and James VII of Scotland [Stuart], King of England, Scotland and Ireland (1685-88), dies at 68
• 1701-10-03 Joseph Williamson, English politician (b. 1633)
• 1701-11-05 Charles Gerard, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield, French-born English politician, dies at about 40
• 1702-01-06 Thomas Franklin, English smith/uncle of B Franklin, dies [NS=Jan 17]
• 1702-01-17 Thomas Franklin, English smith/uncle of B Franklin, dies [OS=Jan 6]

• 1702-04-23 Margaret Fell, English founder of the Religious Society of Friends known as the "mother of Quakerism," dies at about 87
• 1702-11-04 John Benbow, English vice-admiral (Santa Marta), dies
• 1703-04-20 Lancelot Addison, English royal chaplain (b. 1632)

• 1704-04-08 Henry Sydney, 1st Earl of Romney, English statesman, dies at 63
• 1704-06-18 Thomas "Tom" Brown, English translator and writer of satire (Amusements Serious and Comical, calculated for the Meridian of London), dies at 41
• 1704-07-20 Peregrine White, First English child born in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, dies at 83

• 1705-01-17 John Ray, English naturalist (b. 1627)
• 1705-07-13 Titus Oates, English Protestant conspirator, dies at 55
• 1705-11-30 Catherine of Braganza, Portuguese Roman Catholic Queen of Charles II of England, dies at 67
• 1706-01-29 Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset, English poet and courtier (b. 1638)
• 1707-01-20 Humphrey Hody, English theologian (b. 1659)
• 1707-06-23 John Mill, English theologian
• 1707-08-18 William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire, English statesman and Whig politician (1661-84), dies at 67
• 1707-09-15 George Stepney, English poet and diplomat (b. 1663)
• 1708-01-23 Thomas Bullis, English composer, dies at 80 (buried)
• 1708-09-06 Sir John Morden, English merchant and philanthropist (b. 1623)
• 1708-10-28 Prince George of Denmark, Prince Consort of Anne of England, dies at 55
• 1709-01-24 George Rooke, English admiral (b. 1650)
• 1709-03-08 William Cowper/Cooper, English anatomist, dies at about 62
• 1709-03-09 Ralph Montagu, 1st Duke of Montagu, English diplomat, dies at 70
• 1709-07-17 Robert Bolling, English settler in Virginia (b. 1646)
• 1709-10-09 Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland, English mistress of Charles II of England, dies at 68
• 1709-11-23 Hans Willem baron Bentinck, Dutch-English earl of Portland, dies at 60
• 1710-04-28 Thomas Betterton, British actor & dramatist (Coriolanus), dies at 74
• 1711-03-19 Thomas Ken, English bishop and hymn-writer (b. 1637)
• 1711-05-02 Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester, English statesman (b. 1641)
• 1711-08-25 Edward Villiers, 1st Earl of Jersey, English politician
• 1712-02-02 Martin Lister, English naturalist and physician
• 1712-03-25 Nehemiah Grew, English naturalist (b. 1641)
• 1712-07-12 Richard Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland (1658-59), dies at 85
• 1712-07-26 Thomas Osborne, English PM (1690-94), dies at 80
• 1712-08-03 Joshua Barnes, English scholar (b. 1654)
• 1712-08-18 Richard Savage, 4th Earl Rivers, English soldier
• 1712-08-24 Thomas Bullis, Jr. English composer, dies at 54
• 1712-08-29 Gregory King, English statistician (law of King), dies at 63
• 1712-11-15 Charles Mohun, 4th Baron Mohun, English politician (b. 1675)
• 1712-12-15 Sidney 1st earl of Godolphine, English minister of Finance, dies at 67
• 1713-05-20 Thomas Sprat, English writer (b. 1635)
• 1713-11-07 Elizabeth Barry, English restoration actress, dies at 55
• 1713-11-20 Thomas Tompion, English clock maker (cylinder tunnel), dies at 74
• 1713-12-14 Thomas Rymer, English historian, dies at 72
• 1714-02-24 Edmund Andros, English governor in North America, dies at 76
• 1714-06-22 Matthew Henry, English non-conformist minister (b. 1662)

• 1714-08-26 Edward Fowler, English Bishop of Gloucester (b. 1632)
• 1715-08-12 Nahum Tate, English poet/playwright/poet laureate, dies
• 1715-10-15 Humphry Ditton, English mathematician, dies at 40
• 1715-12-15 George Hickes, English linguist (Old German Philology), dies at 73
• 1716-04-26 John Somers, 1st Baron Somers, Lord Chancellor of England, dies at 65
• 1716-06-05 Roger Cotes, English mathematician (Newton-Cates formulas), dies at 33
• 1716-06-28 George FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Northumberland, English general (b. 1665)
• 1716-07-08 Robert South, English churchman (b. 1634)
• 1717-10-26 Catherine Sedley, English mistress of James II of England (b. 1657)
• 1718-01-06 Richard Hoare, English goldsmith and banker (b. 1648)
• 1718-02-01 Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury, English politician, dies at 57
• 1718-02-18 Pierre Antoine Motteux, French-born English dramatist (b. 1663)
• 1718-05-07 Mary of Modena, Queen of James II of England, dies at 59

• 1718-12-06 Nicholas Rowe, English poet and dramatist (Tamerlane) Poet Laureate (1715-18), dies at 45

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