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Contents
1 Events
2 Ongoing events
3 Births
4 Deaths
Events
March 23
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James Francis Edward Stuart
lands at the
Firth of Forth
September 28
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Peter the Great
defeats the Swedes at the
Battle of Lesnaya
Kandahar
conquered by Mir Wais
In
Masuria
one third of the population die during the
plague
J.S. Bach
appointed as chamber musician and organist at the court in
Weimar, Germany
Ongoing events
Great Northern War
(
1700
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1721
)
War of the Spanish Succession
(
1702
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1713
)
Births
April 23
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Friedrich von Hagedorn
, German poet (died
1754
)
October 16
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Albrecht von Haller
, Swiss anatomist and physiologist (died
1777
)
November 15
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William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
, British politician (died 1778)
December 8
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Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor
(died
1765
)
Pompeo Batoni
, Italian painter (died
1787
)
Richard Dawes
, British classical scholar (died
1766
)
Deaths
March 29
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John Partridge
, astrologer and almanack-maker (b.
1644
)
October 1
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John Blow
, British composer (b.
1648
)
October 7
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Guru Gobind Singh
, Indian religious leader (b.
1666
)
October 11
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Ehrenfried Walter von Tschirnhaus
, German
mathematician
(b.
1651
)
October 24
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Seki Kowa
, Japanese
mathematician
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