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Contents

1 Events
2 Ongoing events
3 Births
4 Deaths

Events

March 11 - Queen Anne withholds Royal Assent from a militia Bill, the last time a British monarch vetoes legislation.
March 23 - James Francis Edward Stuart unsuccessfully tries to land at the Firth of Forth.
July 1 - Tewoflos becomes Emperor of Ethiopia.
September 28 - Peter the Great defeats the Swedes at the Battle of Lesnaya.
Kandahar is conquered by Mir Wais.
In Masuria, one third of the population there dies during the plague.
J.S. Bach appointed as chamber musician and organist at the court in Weimar, Germany.

Ongoing events

Great Northern War (1700 - 1721)
War of the Spanish Succession (1702 - 1713)

Births

April 23 - Friedrich von Hagedorn, German poet (d. 1754)
October 16 - Albrecht von Haller, Swiss anatomist and physiologist (d. 1777)
October 22 - Frederic Louis Norden, Danish explorer (d. 1742)
November 15 - William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, British politician (d. 1778)
December 8 - Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1765)
Pompeo Batoni, Italian painter (d. 1787)
Richard Dawes, British classical scholar (d. 1766)
John Hulse, Divine (d. 1790)

Deaths

March 29 - John Partridge, English astrologer and almanack-maker (b. 1644)
May 6 - François de Laval, first bishop of New France (b. 1623)
May 11 - Jules Hardouin Mansart, French architect (b. 1646)
May 12 - Adolf Friedrich II of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1658)
June 30 - Emperor Tekle Haymanot I of Ethiopia (stabbed to death)
September 6 - John Morden, English merchant and philanthropist (b. 1623)
October 1 - John Blow, British composer (b. 1649)
October 2 - Anne-Jules, 2nd duc de Noailles, French general (b. 1650)
October 7 - Guru Gobind Singh, Sikh religious leader (b. 1666)
October 10 - David Gregory, Scottish astronomer (b. 1659)
October 11 - Ehrenfried Walter von Tschirnhaus, German mathematician (b. 1651)
October 22 - Hermann Witsius, Dutch theologian (b. 1636)
October 24 - Seki Kowa, Japanese mathematician
October 28 - Prince George of Denmark, consort of Anne of England (b. 1653)
November 17 - Ludolf Backhuysen, Dutch painter (b. 1631)
December 22 - Hedwig Sophia, duchess of Holstein-Gottorp, Swedish writer (b. 1681)
December 28 - Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, French botanist (b. 1656)

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