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Contents
1 Events
2 Ongoing events
3 Births
4 Deaths
Events
August 1
- George, elector of
Hanover
becomes King
George I of Great Britain
.
September 11
- Barcelona surrenders to Spanish and French Borbonic armies in the
War of the Spanish Succession
.
The Duchy of
Savoy
and
Piedmont
becomes the Kingdom of
Sardinia
Louis Juchereau de St. Denis establishes Fort St. Jean Baptiste at the site of present day
Natchitoches, Louisiana
, the first permanent European settlement in the
Louisiana Territory
.
Worcester College
,
University of Oxford
founded. Formerly Gloucester College, closed during the
Dissolution of the Monasteries
.
Ongoing events
Great Northern War
(
1700
-
1721
)
Births
January 6
-
Percivall Pott
, English surgeon
March 8
-
Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach
, German composer, son of
Johann Sebastian Bach
(d.
1788
)
July 2
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Christoph Willibald Gluck
, German composer
August 1
-
Richard Wilson
, Welsh painter
September 10
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Niccolò Jommelli
, Italian composer (d.
1774
)
October 16
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Giovanni Arduino
, geologist
November 13
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William Shenstone
, English poet (d.
1763
)
Deaths
June 8
- Electress
Sophia of Hanover
, heir to the throne of
Great Britain
(b.
1630
)
August 1
- Queen
Anne of Great Britain
.
Kaibara
, Japanese philosopher
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