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Contents

1 Events
2 Unknown dates
3 Births
4 Deaths

Events

Building of the Student's Monument in Aiud, Romania.
February 29 - Québécois and Native Americans sack Deerfield, Massachusetts.
April 24 - The first regular newspaper in British North America, the Boston, Massachusetts New-Letter, is published.
July 23 - British forces under Sir George Rooke capture Gibraltar.
August 13 - War of the Spanish Succession: Battle of Blenheim - British troops under John Churchill, the Earl of Marlborough and Prince Eugene of Savoy defeat Franco-Bavarian army.
August 24 - French and British fleets clash off Malaga, causing heavy casualties in both sides but without sinking any ships.

Unknown dates

The Sultanate of Brunei cedes its north-east territories to the Sultanate of Sulu.
The lower three counties of the Province of Pennsylvania become the colony of Delaware.
Earthquake strikes Gondar in Ethiopia.

Births

January 1 - Soame Jenyns, English writer (d. 1787)
February 12 - Charles Pinot Duclos, French writer (d. 1772)
February 28 - Louis Godin, French astronomer (d. 1760)
April 10 - Benjamin Heath, English classical scholar (d. 1766)
June 4 - Benjamin Huntsman, English inventor and manufacturer (d. 1776)
June 11 - Carlos Seixas, Portuguese composer (d. 1742)
June 17 - John Kay, English inventor (d. 1780)
June 22 - John Taylor, English classical scholar (d. 1766)
June 24 - Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens, French writer (d. 1771)
July 15 - August Gottlieb Spangenberg, German religious leader (d. 1792)
July 31 - Gabriel Cramer, Swiss mathematician (d. 1752)
October 29 - John Byng, British admiral (d. 1757)
November 1 - Paul Daniel Longolius, German encylopedist (d. 1779)

Deaths

February 2 - Guillaume François Antoine, Marquis de l'Hôpital, French mathematician (b. 1661)
February 23 - Georg Muffat, German composer (b. 1645)
February 24 - Marc-Antoine Charpentier, French composer (b. 1643)
March 17 - Menno van Coehoorn, Dutch military engineer (b. 1641)
April 8 - Hiob Ludolf, German orientalist (b. 1624)
April 8 - Henry Sydney, 1st Earl of Romney, English statesman (b. 1641)
April 10 - William Egon of Fürstenberg, Bishop of Strassburg (b. 1629)
April 12 - Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, French bishop and writer (b. 1627)
April 15 - Johann van Waveren Hudde, Dutch mathematician (b. 1628)
May 3 - Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber, Austrian composer (b. 1644)
May 13 - Louis Bourdaloue, French Jesuit preacher (b. 1632)
June 18 - Tom Brown, English satirist (b. 1662)
July 3 - Sophia Alekseyevna, regent of Russia (b. 1657)
July 7 - Pierre-Charles Le Sueur, French fur trader and explorer
July 20 - Peregrine White, first English child born in the Massachusetts Bay Colony (b. 1620)
August 14 - Roland Laporte, French protestant leader (b. 1675)
October 28 - John Locke, English philosopher (b. 1632)
November 4 - Andreas Acoluthus, German orientalist (b. 1654)

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