Events in History
- Jan 24 Edward Wigglesworth appointed 1st north American divinity professor (Harvard)
- Jan 24 Tsar Peter the Great begins civil system
- Mar 8 Afghan monarch Mir Mahmud occupies Persia
- Mar 17 Willem KH Friso appointed mayor of Drente
- Apr 5 Dutch navigator Jacob Roggeveen is the first European to discover Easter Island / Rapa Nui in the southeastern Pacific
- Apr 22 19 VOC "komplotteurs" in Batavia executed
- 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
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