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Events

January 8 - Premiere of George Frideric Handel's opera Ariodante at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
June 17 - French troops take Philippsburg, but the Duke of Berwick is killed
June 21 - In Montreal in New France, a black slave known by the French name of Marie-Joseph Angélique, was tortured then hanged by the French authorities in a public ceremony that involved her disgrace and the amputation of a hand.
June 30 - The War of the Polish Succession: Russian troops take Gdańsk (German:Danzig) which had been besieged since October 1733. Gdańsk is captured after the failure of a French expedition to relieve the city.

Births

February 27 - Thomas Conway, American Revolutionary War general (d. 1800)
March 19 - Thomas McKean, American lawyer and signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1817)
May 23 - Franz Mesmer, Austrian physician (d. 1815)
September 3 - Joseph Wright, British painter (d. 1797)
October 7 - Sir Ralph Abercromby, British general (d. 1801)
November 2 - Daniel Boone, American frontiersman (d. 1820)
December 15 - George Romney, English painter (d. 1802)
December 17 - Maria I of Portugal, Portuguese queen, from Braganza Dinasty (d.1816)
Ueda Akinari, Japanese author and scholar (d. 1809)

Deaths

January 6 - John Dennis, English critic and dramatist (b. 1657)
February 1 - John Floyer, English physician and writer (b. 1649)
February 1 - Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni, Italian composer (b. 1657)
March 1 - Roger North, English biographer (b. 1653)
March 21 - Robert Wodrow, Scottish historian (b. 1679)
May 4 - James Thornhill, English painter (b. 1675 or 1676)
May 24 - Georg Ernst Stahl, German physician and chemist (b. 1660)
June 12 - James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick, illegitimate son of James II of England and French military commander (b. 1670)
June 17 - Claude-Louis-Hector de Villars, Marshall of France (b. 1653)
June 21 - Marie-Joseph Angélique, African slave
July 22 - Peter King, 1st Baron King, Lord Chancellor of England (b. c. 1669)
November 14 - Louise de Kérouaille, Duchess of Portsmouth, French-born mistress of Charles II of England (b. 1649)
December 28 - Rob Roy MacGregor, Scottish clan chief (b. 1671)

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