1709

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1709 (MDCCIX) was the year in which many European events happened:

Contents

1 Events
2 Ongoing events
3 Births
4 Deaths

Events

January 12 - Two-month freezing period begins in France - The coast of the Atlantic and Seine River freeze, crops fail and at least 24.000 Parisians die
February 2 - Alexander Selkirk is rescued from shipwreck on a desert island, inspiring the book Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
June 27- Peter the Great defeats Charles XII of Sweden at the Battle of Poltava.
July 8 - Battle of Poltava - In the Ukraine, Peter I of Russia defeats Charles XII of Sweden at Poltava thus effectively ending Sweden's role as a major power in Europe
August 8 - Hot air balloon of Bartholome de Gusmao flies in Portugal
September 11 - Battle of Malplaquet - Great Britain, Netherlands and Austria defeat France
October 12 - The City of Chihuahua, México is founded.

Emperor Nakamikado ascends to the throne of Japan
Teofania di Adamo, inventor of the poison Aqua Tofana, is executed in Naples, Italy
Trinity School is founded as the Charity School of Trinity Church in New York City.

Ongoing events

Births

February 24 - Jacques de Vaucanson, French inventor (d. 1782)
March 10 - Georg Steller, German naturalist (d. 1746)
August 7 - Jean-Jacques Lefranc, marquis de Pompignan, French poet (d. 1784)
August 8 - Tokugawa Ietsugu, 7th Tokugawa Shogunate of Japan (d. 1716)
September 18 - Samuel Johnson, English writer and lexicographer (d. 1784)
November 2 - Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange, (d. 1759)

December 18 - Elizabeth of Russia, reigning Empress of Russia (d. 1762)
John Cleland, English novelist (d. 1789)
Charles Collé, French dramatist (d. 1783)

Deaths

January 16 - Emperor Higashiyama of Japan (b. 1675)
January 20 - François de la Chaise, French confessor of Louis XIV of France (b. 1624)
January 24 - George Rooke, English admiral (b. 1650)
February 8 - Giuseppe Torelli, Italian composer (b. 1658)
February 9 - François Louis, Prince of Conti, French general (b. 1664)
March 9 - Ralph Montagu, 1st Duke of Montagu, English diplomat
June 30 - Edward Llwyd, Welsh scientist (b. 1660)
July 17 - Robert Bolling, English settler in Virginia (b. 1646)
September 14 - Luis Manuel Fernández de Portocarrero, Spanish cardinal and archbishop of Toledo (b. 1635)
October 9 - Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland, English mistress of Charles II of England (b. 1640)
December 1 - Abraham a Sancta Clara, Austrian preacher (b. 1644)
December 8 - Thomas Corneille, French dramatist (b. 1625)

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