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Events
- January 11 - Eruption of Mt. Etna.
- February 8 - The College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia is granted a Royal charter from King William III and Queen Mary II of England
- 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.
- Royal Hospital School founded in Greenwich, London.
Births
- February 7 - Empress Anna I of Russia (d. 1740)
- February 24 - James Quin, English actor (d. 1766)
- March 5 - Johann Jakob Wettstein, Swiss theologian (d. 1754)
- March 7 - Pope Clement XIII (d. 1769)
- March 24 - John Harrison, English clockmaker (d. 1776)
- April 3 - George Edwards, English naturalist (d. 1773)
- June 17 - Johann Georg Walch, German theologian (d. 1775)
- July 21 - Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, English statesman (d. 1768)
- August 8 - Laurent Belissen, French composer (d. 1762)
- September 3 - Charles Radclyffe, British politician (d. 1746)
- Thomas Secker, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1768)
Deaths
- February 7 - Paul Pellisson, French writer (b. 1624)
- April 5 - Anne, Duchess of Montpensier, French writer (b. 1627)
- April 9 - Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy, French writer (b. 1618)
- May 3 - Claude de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, French courtier (b. 1607)
- May 25 - Marie-Madeleine Pioche de la Vergne, comtesse de la Fayette, French writer (b. 1634)
- June 2 - John Wildman, English soldier and politician
- July 12 - John Ashby, English admiral
- September 19 - Janez Vajkard Valvasor, Slovenian nobleman and polymath (b. 1641)
- October 1 - Pedro Abarca, Spanish theologian (b. 1619)
- William Sancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1616)
Other
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