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Events

• January 23 - The Principality of Liechtenstein is created within the Holy Roman Empire
• April 25 - Daniel Defoe publishes Robinson Crusoe
• June 10 - Battle of Glen Shiel

• Prussia conducts Europe's first systematic census
• Miners in Falun, Sweden find an apparently petrified body of Fet-Mats Israelsson in an unused part of the copper mine
• France declares war on Spain

Unknown Dates

• Raine's Foundation School, Bethnal Green, opens in Wapping. Opened by Henry Raine.

Ongoing events

• Great Northern War (1700-1721)

Births

• January 2 - Jacques-Alexandre Laffon de Ladebat, French shipbuilder and merchant (d. 1797)
• January 3 - Francisco José Freire, Portuguese historian and philologist (d. 1773)
• January 17 - William Vernon, American merchant (d. 1806)
• January 23 - John Landen, English mathematician (d. 1790)
• January 28 - Johann Elias Schlegel, German critic and poet (d. 1749)
• March 4 - George Pigot, Baron Pigot, British governor of Madras (d. 1777)
• March 13 - John Griffin Whitwell, 4th Baron Howard de Walden, British field marshal (d. 1797)
• April 2 - Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim, German poet (d. 1803)
• May 30 - Roger Newdigate, English politician (d. 1806)
• June 28 - Étienne François, duc de Choiseul, French statesman (d. 1785)
• July 4 - Michel-Jean Sedaine, French dramatist (d. 1797)
• August 4 - Johann Gottlob Lehmann, German minerologist and geologist (d. 1767)
• August 20 - Christian Mayer, Czech astronomer (d. 1783)
• August 20 - Charles-François de Broglie, marquis de Ruffec, French soldier and diplomat (d. 1791)
• August 25 - Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo, French painter (d. 1795)
• September 27 - Abraham Gotthelf Kästner, German mathematician (d. 1800)
• October 17 - Jacques Cazotte, French writer (d. 1792)
• October 20 - Gottfried Achenwall, German statistician (d. 1772)
• November 14 - Leopold Mozart, Austrian composer (d. 1787)
• November 23 - Spranger Barry, Irish actor (d. 1777)
• November 30 - Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, Princess of Wales (d. 1772)
• December 15 - Ludwig IX, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (d. 1742)

Deaths

• April 7 - Jean-Baptiste de la Salle, French educational reformer (b. 1651)
• April 15 - Françoise d'Aubigné, marquise de Maintenon, second wife of Louis XIV of France (b. 1635)
• April 21 - Philippe de la Hire, French mathematician and astronomer (b. 1640)
• June 17 - Joseph Addison, English politician and writer (b. 1672)
• July 5 - Meinhardt Schomberg, 3rd Duke of Schomberg, Irish general (b. 1641)
• September 7 - John Harris, English writer
• September 21 - Johann Heinrich Acker, German writer (b. 1647)
• September 27 - George Smalridge, English Bishop of Bristol (b. 1662)
• November 8 - Michel Rolle, French mathematician (b. 1652)
• December 2 - Pasquier Quesnel, French Jansenist theologian (b. 1634)
• November 26 - John Hudson, English classical scholar (b. 1662)
• December 31 - John Flamsteed, English astronomer (b. 1646)
• Christoph Ludwig Agricola, German painter (b. 1667)

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