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Contents
1 Events
2 Ongoing events
3 Births
4 Deaths
Events
May 15
-
James Puckle
, a
London
lawyer, demonstrates the
Puckle Gun
.
July 21
-
Treaty of Passarowitz
signed
November 22
- Off the coast of
Virginia
,
English
pirate Edward Teach (best known as "
Blackbeard
") is killed in battle when a
British
boarding party cornered and then shot and stabbed him more than 25 times.
November 30
- After the death of Charles XII,
Ulrika Eleonora
becomes Queen of
Sweden
Ongoing events
Great Northern War
(
1700
-
1721
)
Births
May 16
-
Maria Gaetana Agnesi
, mathematician (d.
1799
)
September 18
-
Nikita Ivanovich Panin
, Russian statesman (d.
1783
)
Deaths
July 30
-
William Penn
November 22
-
Blackbeard
the
pirate
November 30
-
Charles XII of Sweden
December 6
-
Nicholas Rowe
, English poet and dramatist (b.
1674
)
Roderick O Flaherty
, Irish chieftan, historian
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