Events

• January 11 - Eruption of Mt. Etna.
• February 8 - The College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia is granted a charter
• July 29 - The Battle of Landen
• October 11 – Charleloi falls to the French forces
• China concentrates all its foreign trade to Canton – European ships are forbidden to land anywhere else
• Sect of Amish formed
• Knights of Apocalypse formed in Italy
• Academia operosorum Labacensis established in Ljubljana, Slovenia
• Financier Richard Hoare founds Hoare's Bank in London.

Births

• February 7 - Princess Anna Ivanova Romanov later Empress Anna I of Russia
• March 5 - Johann Jakob Wettstein, theologian, (d. 1754)
• March 7 - Pope Clement XIII (d. 1769)
• April 3 - George Edwards, naturalist (d. 1773)
• Thomas Secker, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1768)

Deaths

• September - Janez Vajkard Valvasor, Slovenian nobleman and polymath
• William Sancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1616)