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Events

January 14 - King Philip V of Spain abdicates the throne
January 28 - The Saint Petersburg State University was established.
February 20 - The premiere of Giulio Cesare, an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel, takes place in London
June 23 - Treaty of Constantinople signed. Partitioned Persia between the Ottoman Empire and Russia
July 27 - Wild Peter of Hanover captured near Helpensen in Hanover
November 16 – Jack Sheppard hanged in London
China expels foreign missionaries
Blenheim Palace construction is completed. It is presented as a gift to the Duke of Marlborough for his involvement in the Battle of Blenheim in 1704
Catherine I was named czarina by Peter the Great in Russia, while her lover Willem Mons was beheaded.
The Austrian Netherlands agree to the Pragmatic Sanction
Mahmud of Afghanistan goes insane
Pierro Orsini becomes Pope Benedict XIII
Longman, oldest publishing house in England, is founded

Births

January 24 - Frances Brooke, English writer (d. 1789)
February 28 - George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend, British field marshal (d. 1807)
April 12 - Lyman Hall, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1790)
April 22 - Immanuel Kant, German philosopher (d. 1804)
April 29 - John Michell, English scientist and geologist (d. 1793)
May 7 - Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser, Alsatian-born Austrian general (d. 1797)
May 19 - Augustus Hervey, 3rd Earl of Bristol, British admiral and politician (d. 1779)
June 8 - John Smeaton, English civil engineer (d. 1792)
July 2 - Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, German poet (d. 1803)
July 31 - Noël François de Wailly, French lexicographer (d. 1801)
August 23 - Abraham Yates, American Continental Congressman (d. 1796)
August 25 - George Stubbs, English painter (d. 1806)
August 27 - John Joachim Zubly, Swiss-born Continental Congressman (d. 1781)
September 3 - Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester, British soldier and Governor of Quebec (d. 1808)
October 31 - Christopher Anstey, English writer (d. 1805)
December 12 - Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood, British admiral (d. 1816)
December 13 - Franz Aepinus, German scientist (d. 1802)
December 18 - Louise of Great Britain, queen of Frederick V of Denmark (d. 1751)
December 24 - Johann Conrad Ammann, Swiss physician and naturalist (d. 1811)
December 30 - Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée, French painter (d. 1805)

Deaths

January 6 - Chikamatsu Monzaemon, Japanese dramatist (b. 1653)
February 12 - Elkanah Settle, English writer (b. 1648)
March 7 - Pope Innocent XIII (b. 1655)
May 3 - John Leverett the Younger, American President of Harvard (b. 1662)
May 21 - Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, English statesman (b. 1661)
June 15 - Henry Sacheverell, English churchman and politician (b. 1674)
October 2 - François-Timoléon de Choisy, French writer (b. 1644)
October 29 - William Wollaston, English philosophical writer (b. 1659)
November 16 - Jack Sheppard, English criminal (executed) (b. 1702)
November 18 - Bartolomeu de Gusmão, Portuguese naturalist (b. 1685)

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