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Contents

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Other

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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