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Contents

1 Events

1.1 January
1.2 February
1.3 March
1.4 April
1.5 May
1.6 June
1.7 July
1.8 August
1.9 September
1.10 October
1.11 November
1.12 December

2 Births
3 Deaths

Events

January

February

February 12 - British colonist James Oglethorpe founds Savannah, Georgia.

March

April

North Carolina Commissioners John Watson, Joshua Grainger, Michael Higgins and James Wimble plan the town of New Carthage on the east side of the Cape Fear River. New Carthage is later renamed New Liverpool, then New Town, and finally Newton before being incorporated as Wilmington, North Carolina in 1740.

May

May 29 - Right of Canadians to keep Indian slaves upheld at Quebec.

June

July

July 30 - First Freemasons lodge opened in what will become the United States.

August

September

October

November

December

Births

March 13 - Joseph Priestley, English scientist and minister (d. 1804)
May 4 - Jean-Charles de Borda, French mathematician, physicist, political scientist, and sailor (d. 1799)
July 27 - Jeremiah Dixon, English surveyor and astronomer (d. 1779)
September 18 - George Read, American lawyer and signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1798)
October 14 - François Sebastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt, Austrian field marshal (d. 1798)

Deaths

January 25 - Gilbert Heathcote, Mayor of London
February 1 - King August II of Poland (b. 1670)
March 4 - Claude de Forbin, French naval commander (b. 1656)
April 19 - Elizabeth Villiers, mistress of William II of England
May 10 - Barton Booth, English actor (b. 1681)
May 18 - Georg Böhm, German organist (b. 1661)
August 16 - Matthew Tindal, English deist (b. 1657)
June 23 - Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Swiss scholar (b. 1672)
September 12 - François Couperin, French composer (b. 1668)
October 25 - Giovanni Gerolamo Saccheri, Italian mathematician (b. 1667)
October 31 - Eberhard IV Ludwig, Duke of Württemberg, (b. 1676)

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