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Contents
1 Events
2 Ongoing events
3 Births
4 Deaths
Events
January 6
- The Committee of Inquiry on the
South Sea Bubble
publishes its findings
February 11
-
Sweden
and
Prussia
sign the (2nd Treaty of Stockholm ) declaring peace.
February 29
- Queen
Ulrike Eleonora of Sweden
resigns.
The
Tuscarora
fled
North Carolina
as a result of European colonisation
Edmond Halley
appointed
Astronomer Royal
The Academia Real da Historia is founded in
Lisbon
,
Portugal
Jonathan Swift
begins
Gulliver's Travels
Ongoing events
Great Northern War
(
1700
-
1721
)
Births
January 4
-
Johann Friedrich Agricola
, composer (died
1774
)
May 11
-
Karl Friedrich Hieronymus Freiherr von Münchhausen
, officer and adventurer (died
1797
)
July 18
-
Gilbert White
, English naturalist and cleric (died
1793
)
October 4
- Giambattista Piranesi , Italian architect
December 31
-
Bonnie Prince Charlie
of
Great Britain
, later leader of
Jacobitism
(died
1788
)
Emperor Sakuramachi of Japan
Deaths
(Buried
July 7
) - Maria Barbara Bach , first wife of
Johann Sebastian Bach
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