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Contents
1 Events
2 Ongoing events
3 Births
4 Deaths
Events
Treaty of Aargau signed between
Catholic
and
Protestants
. Introduced Protestant faith in
Switzerland
.
Thomas Newcomen
builds the first piston-operated
steam engine
at
Tipton
,
Staffordshire
,
UK
.
Ongoing events
Great Northern War
(
1700
-
1721
)
War of the Spanish Succession
(
1702
-
1713
)
Births
January 24
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Frederick the Great
,
Prussian king
June 28
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
,
French
philosopher
Deaths
July 1
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William King
,
English
poet
July 12
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Richard Cromwell
, formerly
Lord Protector
of
England
,
Scotland
and
Ireland
.
September 14
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Giovanni Domenico Cassini
, Italian-French astronomer and engineer (born
1625
)
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