Events

• January 1 - John V is crowned King of Portugal
• March 26 - The Acts of Union becomes law, making the separate Kingdoms of England and Scotland into one country, the Kingdom of Great Britain.
• April 25 - Allied army is defeated by Bourbonic army at Almansa (Spain) in the War of the Spanish Succession.
• September 29 - Four British Royal Navy ships run aground near Scilly Isles because of faulty navigation - Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovel and thousands of sailors drown
• October 23 - First Parliament of Great Britain.
• A fortress is founded on the future site of Ust-Abakanskoye (modern Abakan).
• Mount Fuji in Japan erupts.
• The Lao empire of Lan Xang officially ends and splits into the kingdoms of Vientiane, Luang Prabang, and Champasak.

  Births

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  • January 13 - John Boyle, 5th Earl of Cork, Irish writer (d. 1762)
  • February 1 - Frederick, Prince of Wales (d. 1751)
  • February 14 - Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, French novelist (d. 1777)
  • February 25 - Carlo Goldoni, Italian playwright (d. 1793)
  • March 7 - Stephen Hopkins, founding father of the United States (d. 1785)
  • March 14 - Johan Ihre, Swedish philologist and historical linguist (d. 1780)
  • March 23 - Henry Somerset, 3rd Duke of Beaufort (d. 1745)
  • April 10 - John Pringle, Scottish physician (d. 1782)
  • April 15 - Leonhard Euler, Swiss mathematician and physicist (d. 1783)
  • April 22 - Henry Fielding, British novelist and dramatist (d. 1754)
  • May 12 - Francisco Salzillo, Spanish sculptor (d. 1781)
  • May 23 - Carolus Linnaeus, Swedish botanist (d. 1778)
  • August 14 - Johann August Ernesti, German theologian and philologist (d. 1781)
  • August 24 - Selina, Countess of Huntingdon, English Methodist leader (d. 1791)
  • August 25 - King Louis of Spain (d. 1724)
  • September 5 - John Forbes, British general (d. 1759)
  • September 7 - Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, French scientist (d. 1788)
  • December 12 - Charles Wesley, English Methodist leader, brother of John Wesley (d. 1788)
  • William Hoare, English painter (d. 1792)
  • Moshe Chaim Luzzatto, Italian rabbi, mystic, and philosopher (d. 1746)

  Deaths

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  • January 8 - John Dalrymple, 1st Earl of Stair, Scottish politician (b. 1648)
  • January 10 - Philibert, comte de Gramont, French writer (b. 1621)
  • January 20 - Humphrey Hody, English theologian (b. 1659)
  • March 3 - Aurangzeb, Mughal Emperor of India (b. 1618)
  • April 6 - William van de Velde, the Younger, Dutch painter (b. 1633)
  • April 29 - George Farquhar, Irish dramatist (b. 1677)
  • May 9 - Dieterich Buxtehude, German composer
  • May 27 - Marquise de Montespan, mistress of King Louis XIV of France (b. 1641)
  • June 23 - John Mill, English theologian
  • August 18 - William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire, English soldier and statesman (b. 1640)
  • August 20 - Nicolas Gigault, French organist and composer (b. 1627)
  • September 15 - George Stepney, British poet and diplomat (b. 1663)
  • September 24 - Vicenzo da Filicaja, Italian poet (b. 1642)
  • October 22 - Sir Cloudesley Shovell, British admiral (b. 1650)
  • December 1 - Jeremiah Clarke, English composer (b. 1674)
  • December 24 - Noël Coypel, French painter (b. 1628)
  • December 27 - Jean Mabillon, French palaeographer and diplomat (b. 1632)

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