Events

• 1727 to 1800 - Lt. Col. Francisco de Melo Palheta smuggles coffee seeds to Brazil in a bouquet starting a coffee empire.
• June 11 - George, Prince of Wales becomes King George II of Great Britain.
• November 18 – Earthquake in Tazriz, Persia - about 77,000 dead
• Last execution for witchcraft in Scotland
• First Amish move to America
• The Royal Bank of Scotland is founded by royal charter in Edinburgh.
• Catholic Charities is founded in New Orleans, USA, by the French Ursuline Sisters

Births

• January 2 - James Wolfe, British general (d. 1759)
• May 10 - Anne Robert Turgot, French statesman (d. 1781)
• May 14 - Thomas Gainsborough, English artist (d. 1788)
• November 26 - Artemas Ward, American Major General (d. 1800)
• A Modest Proposal written by Jonathan Swift

Deaths

• February 22 - Francesco Gasparini, Italian composer (b. 1661)
• March 31 - Sir Isaac Newton, British scientist (b. 1642)
• May 17 - Empress Catherine I of Russia
• June 8 - August Hermann Francke, German protestant minister (b. 1663)
• June 11 - King George I of Great Britain (b. 1660)
• July 23 - Simon Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain
• August 4 - Victor-Maurice, comte de Broglie, French general (b. 1647)
• August 14 - William Croft, English composer (b. 1678)
• September 7 - Glückel of Hameln, German businesswoman and diarist (b. 1647)
• November 10 - Alphonse de Tonty, French explorer and American settler (b. 1659)
• Jakob Abbadie, Swiss protestant preacher

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