Events in History
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)
- Mar 8 Afghan monarch Mir Mahmud occupies Persia
- Mar 17 Willem KH Friso appointed mayor of Drente
- Apr 5 Jacob Roggeveen discovers Easter Island
- 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
- Jun 30 Hungarian Parliament condemns Emperor Charles VI's Pragmatic Sanctions
- Jul 25 The Three Years War begins along the Maine and Massachusetts border
- Sep 12 Russian troops occupy Baku & Derbent in Persia
- Oct 19 Frenchman C Hopffer patents the fire extinguisher
- Nov 2 Willem KH Friso (11) appointed viceroy of Gelderland
- Nov 7 Richard Steele's "Conscious Lovers" premieres in London
Birthdays in History
- Jan 3 Fredric Hasselquist, Swedish naturalist (d. 1752)
- Jan 26 Alexander Carlyle, Cummertrees, Dumfriesshire, Scottish church leader (Moderator of the General Assembly 1770)
- Feb 19 Tiphaigne de la Roche, French writer (d. 1774)
- Apr 11 Christopher Smart, English poet & journalist (Ceremony of Carols), born in Shipbourne, England (d. 1771)
- May 11 Peter Camper, Leyden Holland, anatomist/professor (Amsterdam)
- May 29 James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster, Irish politician (d. 1773)
- Jul 16 Joseph Wilton, English sculptor (Westminster Abbey), born in London (d. 1803)
- Jul 22 Jean-Noel/Joannes Natalis Paquot, Belgian priest/historian
- Aug 9 Augustus William, Prince of Prussia, born in Stadtschloss, Berlin, Prussia (d. 1758)
- Aug 11 Richard Brocklesby, English physician (d. 1797)
- Sep 5 Frederick Christian, Elector of Saxony, born in Dresden Castle, Dresden, Germany (d. 1763)
- Sep 16 Gabriel Christie, British general (d. 1799)
- Sep 22 John Home, Scottish writer (d. 1808)
Samuel Adams
Sep 27 Samuel Adams, US revolutionary and politician (Lt Gov-Mass, 1789-94), born in Boston, Massachusetts
Samuel Adams
- Oct 2 Leopold Widhalm, Austrian luthier (d. 1776)
- Nov 5 William Byron, 5th Baron Byron, English duelist (d. 1798)
- Nov 19 Leopold Auenbrugger, Austrian physician (d. 1809)
- Nov 19 Benjamin Chew, Chief Justice of colonial Pennsylvania (d. 1810)
- Nov 22 Hryhorii Skovoroda, Ukrainian poet (d. 1794)
- Nov 30 Theodore Gardelle, Swiss painter and enameler (d. 1761)
- Dec 1 Anna Louisa Karsch "Die Karschin", German poet, born in Hammer, Silesia (d. 1791)
- Dec 23 Axel Fredrik Cronstedt, Turinge, Swedish Chemist who discovered nickel and tungsten
- Dec 30 Charles Yorke, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (d. 1770)
Deaths in History
- Jan 7 Antoine Coypel, French painter and poet, dies at 60
- Jan 21 Charles Paulet, 2nd Duke of Bolton, English supporter of William III of England (b. 1661)
- Feb 10 Bartholomew Roberts, Welsh pirate (b. 1682)
- Mar 11 John Toland, Irish philosopher (b. 1670)
- Mar 31 Campegius Vitringa, Dutch theologist/exegete, dies at 62
- Apr 13 Charles Leslie, Irish controversialist, dies
- Apr 14 Pieter Erberveld, German-Thai merchant on Java, Indonesia. He was accused of plotting a rebellion with the Javanese, tortured and executed at around 62
- Apr 21 Robert Beverley, Jr., historian of Colonial Virginia (b. 1673)
- May 20 Sébastien Vaillant, French botanist (b. 1669)
- Jun 16 John Churchill up Marlborough, English general strategist, dies at 72
- Sep 3 Ivan Skoropadsky, Hetman of Ukraine (b. 1646)
- Sep 18 André Dacier, French classical scholar (b. 1651)
- Oct 8 Gerard Callenbach, Dutch admiral, dies at 80
- Nov 12 Adriaen van der Werff, Dutch painter/engraver/architect, dies at 63
- Dec 8 Elisabeth C "Liselotte" van Palts, German/French duchess, dies at 70
- Dec 20 Kangxi Emperor of China (b. 1654)
- Dec 23 Pierre Varignon, French mathematician (b. 1654)