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Contents
1 Events
2 Ongoing events
3 Births
4 Deaths
Events
January 4
— The
Netherlands
,
Britain
&
France
sign
Triple Alliance
March 2
— Dancer John Weaver performs in the first
ballet
in Britain shown in
Drury Lane
The Loves of Mars and Venus
March 31
- Bishop
Benjamin Hoadly
, acting on the advice of
King George
begins the
Bangorian Controversy
by saying that God favors churches with no government.
June 24
— Anglo branch of
Freemasonry
(
UGLE
) founded in
London
.
December 24
/
25
A desastrous
storm flood
hits the
North Sea
coast between the
Netherlands
and
Danmark
. Thousands die or loose their housings. (German article on this flood )
Voltaire
is sentenced to
Bastille
for a year because of his satirical writings
Spain
unites its
South American
colonies as New Grenada
Montevideo
,
Uruguay
, founded by
Portuguese
Ongoing events
Great Northern War
(
1700
–
1721
)
Births
January 5
-
William Wildman Shute Barrington
, British statesman
January 29
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Jeffrey Amherst
, British soldier, conqueror of
Quebec
February 19
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David Garrick
, actor
May 13
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Maria Theresa of Austria
August 15
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Blind Jack of Knaresborough, England
, violinist and road builder
September 24
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Horace Walpole
, British writer (d.
1797
)
November 16
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Jean le Rond d'Alembert
, mathematician and encyclopędist
December 9
-
Johann Joachim Winckelmann
,
German
archaeologist
December 27
-
Pope Pius VI
Deaths
March 3
—
Pierre Allix
, French Protestant clergyman
May 10
—
John Hathorne
, magistrate
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