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Events
- January 26 - Treaty of Karlowitz signed
- March 30 - the tenth Sikh Master, Guru Gobind Singh created the Khalsa.
- May 1 - Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville founds the first European settlement in the Mississippi River Valley
- William Dampier explores the northwest coast of Australia.
Births
- March 23 - John Bartram, American botanist (d. 1777)
- March 25 - Johann Adolf Hasse, German composer (d. 1783)
- May 1 - Hans Joachim von Zieten, Prussian field marshal (d. 1786)
- May 13 - Marquis of Pombal, Prime Minister of Portugal (d. 1782)
- November 2 - Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, French painter (d. 1779)
- December 10 - King Christian VI of Denmark (d. 1746)
- Robert Blair, Scottish poet and cleric (d. 1746)
- Pierre Subleyras, French painter (d. 1749)
Deaths
- January 21 - Obadiah Walker, English writer (b. 1616)
- February 27 - Charles Paulet, 1st Duke of Bolton, English politician
- March 12 - Peder Griffenfeld, Danish statesman (b. 1635)
- April 21 - Jean Racine, French playwright (b. 1639)
- April 22 - Hans Erasmus Aßmann, Freiherr von Abschatz, German statesman and poet (b. 1646)
- May 12 - Lucas Achtschellinck, Flemish painter (b. 1626)
- May 15 - Edward Petre, English Jesuit and privy councillor (b. 1631)
- June 22 - Josiah Child, English Governor of the East India Company (b. 1630)
- September 26 - Simon Arnauld de Pomponne, French diplomat and minister of Louis XIV (b. 1618).
- August 25 - Christian V, King of Denmark and Norway (b. 1646)
- November 29 - Patrick Gordon, Scottish general (b. 1635)
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