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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

• The Town on Queen Anne's Creek, North Carolina is renamed Edenton in honor of North Carolina Governor Charles Eden. It is later incorporated in 1722.
• The Tuscarora fled North Carolina as a result of European colonisation
• Edmond Halley appointed Astronomer Royal
• The Academia Real da Historia is founded in Lisbon, Portugal
• Jonathan Swift begins Gulliver's Travels
• Emperor Kangxi announced that all western businessmen could only trade in Guangzhou.

January

• January 6 - The Committee of Inquiry on the South Sea Bubble publishes its findings

February

• February 11 - Sweden and Prussia sign the (2nd Treaty of Stockholm) declaring peace.
• February 17 - Spain signs the Treaty of the Hague, ending the War of the Quadruple Alliance.
• February 29 - Queen Ulrike Eleonora of Sweden resigns.

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Ongoing events

• Great Northern War (1700-1721)

Births

• January 4 - Johann Friedrich Agricola, German composer (d. 1774)
• January 13 - Richard Hurd, English bishop and writer (d. 1808)
• January 27 - Samuel Foote, English dramatist and actor (d. 1777)
• January 30 - Charles De Geer, Swedish industrialist and entomologist (d. 1778)
• February 8 - Emperor Sakuramachi of Japan (d. 1750)
• March 9 - Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke, English politician (d. 1790)
• March 13 - Charles Bonnet, Swiss naturalist and writer (d. 1793)
• March 22 - Nicolas-Henri Jardin, French architect (d. 1799)
• April 23 - Vilna Gaon, Lithuanian rabbi (d. 1797)
• May 11 - Karl Friedrich Hieronymus Freiherr von Münchhausen, German officer and adventurer (d. 1797)
• May 15 - Maximilian Hell, Slovakian astronomer (d. 1792)
• July 18 - Gilbert White, English naturalist and cleric (d. 1793)
• August 8 - Carl Fredrik Pechlin, Swedish politician (d. 1796)
• August 12 - Konrad Ekhof, German actor (d. 1778)
• August 18 - Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers, English murderer (d. 1760)
• August 30 - Samuel Whitbread, English brewer and politician (d. 1796)
• October 3 - Johann Peter Uz, German poet (d. 1796)
• October 4 - Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian artist (d. 1778)
• October 8 - Jonathan Mayhew, American minister and patriot (d. 1766)
• October 19 - John Woolman, American Quaker preacher and abolitionist (d. 1772)
• November 1 - Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte, French admiral (d. 1791)
• November 16 - Carlo Antonio Campioni, French-born composer (d. 1788)
• December 14 - Justus Möser, German statesman (d. 1794)
• December 26 - Gian Francesco Albani, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1803)
• December 31 - Charles Edward Stuart, pretender to the British throne (d. 1788)

Deaths

• January 31 - Thomas Grey, 2nd Earl of Stamford, English privy councillor
• February 27 - Samuel Parris, English-born Puritan minister (b. 1653)
• April 2 - Joseph Dudley, colonial Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1647)
• April 21 - Antoine Hamilton, French writer (b. 1646)
• June 27 - Guillaume Amfrye de Chaulieu, French poet (b. 1639)
• August 3 - Anthonie Heinsius, Dutch statesman (b. 1641)
• August 9 - Simon Ockley, English orientalist (b. 1678)
• August 17 - Anne Lefèvre, French scholar (b. 1654)
• September 3 - Henri de Massue, Marquis de Ruvigny, 1st Viscount Galway, French soldier and diplomat (b. 1648)
• October 10 - Antoine Coysevox, French sculptor (b. 1640)