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1 Events
2 Ongoing events
3 Births
4 Deaths
Events
Natchez
, one of the oldest towns on the
Mississippi
, founded.
Crieff, Scotland
was burned to the ground in revenge for the
Jacobite
defeat at the Battle of Sheriffmuir.
Kangxi Dictionary
was published this year. This dictionary laid the fundamental of most references to
Han characters
studies nowadays.
Ongoing events
Great Northern War
(
1700
-
1721
)
Births
January 20
- King
Charles III of Spain
(d.
1788
)
December 25
- Johann Jacob Reiske
December 26
-
Thomas Gray
, English poet and letter-writer (d.
1771
)
Jean Jacques Barthelemy ,
French
writer
and
numismatist
Deaths
April 26
-
John Somers, 1st Baron Somers
(b.
1651
)
June 2
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Ogata Korin
,
Japanese
painter
June 5
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Roger Cotes
,
English
mathematician
and
philosopher
(b.
1682
)
November 2
-
Engelbert Kaempfer
,
German
traveler and
physician
(b.
1651
)
November 14
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Gottfried Leibniz
, German philosopher, scientist, and mathematician (b.
1646
)
December 13
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Charles de La Fosse
,
French
painter
(b.
1640
)
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