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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 Ongoing events 3 Births 4 Deaths

Events

• first Orrery built by George Graham

January

• January 17 - Tuscarora War: Colonel James Moore leads the Carolina militia out of Albermarle County, North Carolina in a second offensive against the Tuscarora. Heavy snows force the troops to take refuge in Fort Reading on the Pamlico River.

February

• February 4 - Tuscarora War: The Carolina militia under Colonel James Moore leaves Fort Reading to continue the campaign against the Tuscarora.

March

• March 1 - Tuscarora War: Colonel James Moore's Carolina militia lays siege to the Tuscaroran stronghold of Fort Neoheroka, located a few miles up Contentnea Creek from Fort Hancock.
• March 20 - Tuscarora War: Colonel James Moore's Carolina militia launches a major offensive against Fort Neoheroka.
• March 23 - Tuscarora War: Fort Neoheroka falls to the Carolina militia, effectively ending the Tuscarora nation's military strength. Two Tuscaroran allies, the Machapunga and Coree tribes, continue offensive actions against North Carolina.

April

• April 11 - War of the Spanish Succession: Treaty of Utrecht

May

June

• June 1 - Tuscarora War: Colonel James Moore leads the Carolina militia into the Pamlico Peninsula to defeat the Machapunga and Coree tribes. This date is approximate.
• June 23 - French residents of Acadia given one year to declare allegiance to Britain or leave Nova Scotia Canada

July

August

September

• September 1 - Tuscarora War: The Carolina militia led by Colonel James Moore returns to South Carolina after mixed success in the campaign against the Machapunga and Coree.

October

November

December

Ongoing events

• Great Northern War (1700-1721)
• War of the Spanish Succession (1702-1713)
• Tuscarora War (1711 - 1715)

Births

• January 2 - Marie Dumesnil, French actress (d. 1803)
• March 15 - Nicolas Louis de Lacaille, French astronomer (d. 1762)
• March 21 - Francis Lewis, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1803)
• March 29 - John Ponsonby, Irish politician (d. 1789)
• April 10 - John Whitehurst, English clockmaker and scientist (d. 1788)
• April 12 - Guillaume Thomas François Raynal, French writer (d. 1796)
• April 21 - Louis, 4th duc de Noailles, Marshal of France (d. 1793)
• May 3 - Alexis Claude Clairault, French mathematician (d. 1765)
• May 6 - Charles Batteux, French philosopher (d. 1780)
• May 25 - John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, Prime Minister of Great Britain (d. 1792)
• June 11 - Edward Capell, English critic (d. 1781)
• June 16 - Meshech Weare, Governor of New Hampshire (d. 1786)
• June 22 - Lord John Philip Sackville, English cricketer (d. 1765)
• July 22 - Jacques-Germain Soufflot, French architect (d. 1780)
• August 1 - Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1780)
• September 23 - King Ferdinand VI of Spain (d. 1759)
• October 5 - Denis Diderot, French philosopher and encyclopedist (d. 1784)
• October 7 - Granville Elliott, British military officer (d. 1759)
• October 8 - Yechezkel Landau, Polish rabbi and Talmudist (d. 1793)
• October 13 - Allan Ramsay, Scottish painter (d. 1784)
• November 24 - Junipero Serra, Spanish Franciscan missionary (d. 1784)
• November 24 - Laurence Sterne, Irish writer (d. 1768)
• December 4 - Gasparo Gozzi, Italian critic and dramatist (d. 1786)
• December 15 - Welbore Ellis, 1st Baron Mendip, British statesman (d. 1802)

Deaths

• January 8 - Arcangelo Corelli, Italian composer (b. 1653)
• January 11 - Pierre Jurieu, French protestant leader (b. 1637)
• February 4 - Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, English politician and philosopher (b. 1671)
• February 25 - King Friedrich I of Prussia (b. 1657)
• May 20 - Thomas Sprat, English minister (b. 1635)
• July 7 - Henry Compton, Bishop of Oxford and privy councillor (b. 1632)
• October 20 - Archibald Pitcairne, Scottish physician (b. 1652)
• November 7 - Elizabeth Barry, English actress (b. 1658)
• November 17 - Abraham van Riebeeck, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (b. 1653)
• December 14 - Thomas Rymer, English historian (b. 1641)
• Thomas Ellwood, English religious writer (b. 1639)