Event of Interest
Jan 24 Tsar Peter the Great begins civil system
Peter the Great
- Jan 24 Edward Wigglesworth appointed 1st north American divinity professor (Harvard)
Easter Island Moai
Apr 5 Dutch navigator Jacob Roggeveen discovers Easter Island / Rapa Nui in the southeastern Pacific
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- Apr 6 Peter the Great, Tsar of Russia, ends tax on men with beards
- Apr 22 19 VOC "komplotteurs" in Batavia executed
- Apr 30 Game of Billiards is mentioned in New England Courant
- May 3 Pierre de Marivaux' "La Double Inconstance" premieres in Paris
Event of Interest
Jun 30 Hungarian Parliament condemns Emperor Charles VI's Pragmatic Sanctions
Charles VI
- Jul 25 The Three Years War begins along the Maine and Massachusetts border
- Sep 12 Russian troops occupy Baku & Derbent in Persia
- Oct 19 French C. Hopffer patents the automatic fire extinguisher in England
- Nov 2 Willem KH Friso (11) appointed viceroy of Gelderland
- Nov 7 Richard Steele's "Conscious Lovers" premieres in London