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== Events ==
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=== January–June ===
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* [[January 1]] – [[John V of Portugal|John V]] is crowned [[King of Portugal and the Algarves]] in [[Lisbon]].
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* [[January 16]] – The [[Acts of Union 1707|Treaty (or Act) of Union]], of the two Kingdoms of [[Kingdom of Scotland|Scotland]] and [[Kingdom of England|England]], is ratified by the [[Parliament of Scotland]].
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* [[March 3]] – [[Mughal Empire|Emperor]] [[Aurangzeb]] dies in Delhi.
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* [[March 19]] – The [[Acts of Union 1707|Act of Union]] with Scotland is ratified by the [[Parliament of England]].
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* [[April 25]] (April 14 [[Old Style]]) &ndash; [[War of the Spanish Succession]] &ndash; [[Battle of Almansa]]: The [[House of Bourbon|Bourbon]] army of [[Enlightenment in Spain|Spain]] and [[Kingdom of France|France]] (with Irish mercenaries) under the French-born Englishman [[James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick]], soundly defeats the allied forces of [[Kingdom of Portugal|Portugal]], [[Kingdom of England|England]], and the [[Dutch Republic]] led by the French-born [[Huguenot]] (in English service) [[Henri de Massue, Earl of Galway]]. Following this, [[Philip V of Spain]] promulgates the first [[Nueva Planta decrees]], bringing the Kingdoms of [[Kingdom of Valencia|Valencia]] and [[Kingdom of Aragon|Aragon]] under the laws of the [[Crown of Castile]].<ref>Payne, Stanley G. "Chapter 16: The Eighteenth-Century Bourbon Regime in Spain". A History of Spain and Portugal. 2. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 0-299-06270-8. Retrieved April 17, 2008.</ref>
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* [[May 12]] (May 1 [[Old Style]]) &ndash; The new sovereign state of Great Britain comes into being, as a result of the [[Acts of Union 1707|Acts of Union]], which combine the Kingdoms of [[Kingdom of Scotland|Scotland]] and [[Kingdom of England|England]] into a single united [[Kingdom of Great Britain]],<ref>http://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/evolutionofparliament/legislativescrutiny/</ref> and merge the Parliaments of [[Parliament of England|England]] and [[Parliament of Scotland|Scotland]], to form the [[Parliament of Great Britain]].<ref>Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. p. 291</ref>
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* [[May 23]] &ndash; [[Volcanic eruption]] in the [[Santorini caldera]] begins.
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=== July&ndash;December ===
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* [[July 29]]&ndash;[[August 21]] &ndash; [[War of the Spanish Succession]] &ndash; [[Battle of Toulon (1707)|Battle of Toulon]]:  The Allies are obliged to withdraw, but the French fleet is effectively put out of action.
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* [[October 22]] &ndash; [[Scilly naval disaster of 1707|Scilly naval disaster]]: Four British [[Royal Navy]] ships run aground in the [[Isles of Scilly]], because of faulty [[navigation]]. Admiral Sir [[Cloudesley Shovell]] and at least 1,450 sailors all drown.
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* [[October 23]] &ndash; The Parliament of the [[Kingdom of Great Britain]] first meets in London.
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* [[October 28]] &ndash; The [[1707 Hōei earthquake|Hōei earthquake]] (the most powerful in Japan until [[2011]]) strikes, with an estimated [[Richter magnitude scale|local magnitude]] of 8.6.
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* [[November 30]] &ndash; [[War of the Spanish Succession]]: The [[Siege of Pensacola (1707)|Siege of Pensacola]] ends, with the Spanish successfully defending their fort.
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* [[December 16]] &ndash; The [[Hōei eruption of Mount Fuji|last recorded eruption of Mount Fuji]] begins in Japan.
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* [[December 24]] &ndash; The first British Governor of [[Gibraltar]], directly appointed by [[Anne, Queen of Great Britain|Queen Anne]], [[Roger Elliott]], takes up his residence in the Convent of the Franciscan Friars.
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* [[December]] &ndash; [[Charles XII of Sweden]] launches his campaign to conquer Russia, marching to the east from [[Leipzig]] with 60,000 coalition troops. Another 16,000 soldiers are waiting on the outskirts of [[Riga]], guarding the [[Sweden|Swedish]] supply lines.
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=== Date unknown ===
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* A fortress is founded on the future site of [[Abakan|Ust-Abakanskoye]] (modern [[Abakan]]).
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* The [[Lao people|Lao]] empire of [[Lan Xang]] officially ends, and splits into the kingdoms of [[Vientiane]], [[Luang Prabang]], and [[Kingdom of Champasak|Champasak]].
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* ''Hacienda [[Juriquilla]]'' is built in [[Querétaro]], Mexico.
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== Births ==
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=== January&ndash;March ===
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* [[January 2]] &ndash; [[Johann Adam Lehmus]], German poet of numerous spiritual songs (d. [[1788]])
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* [[January 8]] &ndash; [[Louis, Duke of Brittany (1707–1712)|Louis, Duke of Brittany]], second son of Louis of France (d. [[1712]])
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* [[January 11]] &ndash; [[Giuseppe Bonito]], Neapolitan painter of the Rococo period (d. [[1789]])
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* [[January 13]] &ndash; [[John Boyle, 5th Earl of Cork]], Irish writer (d. [[1762]])
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* [[January 17]] &ndash; [[Prospero Colonna di Sciarra]], Italian cardinal of the family of the dukes of Carbognano (d. [[1765]])
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* [[January 22]] &ndash; [[Carl Höckh]], German violinist and composer (d. [[1773]])
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* [[January 26]] &ndash; [[Abbé François Blanchet]], French littérateur (d. [[1784]])
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* [[February 1]] &ndash; [[Frederick, Prince of Wales]] (d. [[1751]])
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* [[February 13]]
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** [[Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon]], French novelist (d. [[1777]])
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** [[Johann William, Count of Erbach-Fürstenau]], member of the German House of Erbach who held the fiefs of Fürstenau (d. [[1742]])
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* [[February 25]] &ndash; [[Carlo Goldoni]], Italian playwright (d. [[1793]])
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* [[February 26]] &ndash; [[Mariano Arciero]], Italian Roman Catholic priest (d. [[1788]])
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* [[February 27]] &ndash; [[Joseph Johann Kauffmann]], Austrian painter known for his portraits, church decorations and castle depictions (d. [[1782]])
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* [[February 28]] &ndash; [[Johann Christian Senckenberg]], German physician (d. [[1772]])
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* [[March 1]]
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** [[Pierre-Antoine de La Place]], French writer and playwright (d. [[1793]])
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** [[Jedidiah Preble]], Captain of Infantry in Samuel Waldo’s Regiment (d. [[1784]])
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* [[March 2]]
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** [[Louis-Michel van Loo]], French painter (d. [[1771]])
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** [[Guillaume Barthez de Marmorières]], French civil engineer (d. [[1799]])
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* [[March 3]] &ndash; [[Johan Ihre]], Swedish philologist and historical linguist (d. [[1780]])
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* [[March 7]] &ndash; [[Stephen Hopkins (politician)|Stephen Hopkins]], governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (d. [[1785]])
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* [[March 8]]
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** [[William Irby, 1st Baron Boston]], British peer and Member of Parliament (d. [[1775]])
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** [[Mary Jones (poet)|Mary Jones]], English poet (d. [[1778]])
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* [[March 20]] &ndash; [[Hugh Boscawen, 2nd Viscount Falmouth]] (d. [[1782]])
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* [[March 23]]
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** [[Stephen van Rensselaer I]], second son of Kiliaen van Rensselaer and Maria van Cortlandt (d. [[1747]])
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** [[Henry Scudamore, 3rd Duke of Beaufort]] (d. [[1745]])
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=== April&ndash;June ===
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* [[April 4]] &ndash; [[Hans Karl von Winterfeldt]], Prussian general (d. [[1757]])
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* [[April 6]] &ndash; [[Abraham de Haen]], Dutch draughtsman, engraver, painter and poet (d. [[1748]])
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* [[April 10]]
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** [[Michel Corrette]], French composer (d. [[1795]])
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** [[John Pringle (physician)|John Pringle]], Scottish physician (d. [[1782]])
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** [[Sir John Pringle, 1st Baronet]] (d. [[1782]])
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* [[April 13]] &ndash; [[Sir Henry Cavendish, 1st Baronet]], British politician who held several appointments in the Kingdom of Ireland (d. [[1776]])
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* [[April 15]]
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** [[Stefano Evodio Assemani]], Ottoman-born orientalist, translator, working in the Vatican library (d. [[1782]])
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** [[Leonhard Euler]], Swiss mathematician and physicist (d. [[1783]])
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** [[Claude Louis, Comte de Saint-Germain]] (d. [[1778]])
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* [[April 20]] &ndash; [[Robert Foulis (printer)|Robert Foulis]], Scottish printer and publisher (d. [[1776]])
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* [[April 22]] &ndash; [[Henry Fielding]], English novelist and dramatist known for his earthy humour and satire (d. [[1754]])
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* [[April 25]] &ndash; [[Léopold Clément, Hereditary Prince of Lorraine]], French prince (d. [[1723]])
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* [[April 26]] &ndash; [[Johannes Burman]], Dutch botanist and physician (d. [[1780]])
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* [[April 28]] &ndash; [[Olivier de Vézin]], Canadian ironmaster and chief surveyor of Louisiana (d. [[1776]])
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* [[May 1]] &ndash; [[Herbert Windsor, 2nd Viscount Windsor]] (d. [[1758]])
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* [[May 2]] &ndash; [[Jean-Baptiste Barrière]], French cellist and composer (d. [[1747]])
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* [[May 12]] &ndash; [[Francisco Salzillo]], Spanish sculptor (d. [[1781]])
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* [[May 14]] &ndash; [[António Teixeira]], Portuguese composer (d. [[1774]])
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* [[May 19]] &ndash; [[Robert Hamilton (moderator)|Robert Hamilton]], moderator (d. [[1787]])
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* [[May 23]] &ndash; [[Carl Linnaeus]], Swedish botanist (d. [[1778]])
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* [[May 31]] &ndash; [[Pietro De Martino]], Italian mathematician and astronomer (d. [[1746]])
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* [[June 4]]
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** [[Benito Fernández de Santa Ana]], Franciscan friar, president of the Texas missions of the College of Santa Cruz de Querétaro from 1734 to 1750 (d. [[1761]])
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** [[Henning Alexander von Kleist (1707–1784)|Henning Alexander von Kleist]], Prussian Lieutenant-General and Chief of Fusiliers (d. [[1784]])
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* [[June 15]] &ndash; [[Johannes Grubenmann]], member of the Swiss family Grubenmann who were famous as carpenters and civil engineers (d. [[1771]])
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* [[June 18]] &ndash; [[Pietro Correr (politician)|Pietro Correr]], Italian politician and diplomat (d. [[1768]])
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* [[June 20]] &ndash; [[Louis de Cardevac, marquis d'Havrincourt]] (d. [[1767]])
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=== July&ndash;September ===
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* [[July 7]] &ndash; [[Henry Cunningam]], Irish Anglican priest (d. [[1777]])
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* [[July 8]] &ndash; [[Jacques-Philippe Le Bas]], French engraver (d. [[1783]])
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* [[July 10]] &ndash; [[Sir William Lowther, 1st Baronet, of Little Preston]], English landowner and curate (d. [[1788]])
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* [[July 17]] &ndash; [[Johann Joseph von Trautson]], Roman Catholic clergyman (d. [[1757]])
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* [[July 23]] &ndash; [[Edward Bentham]], Oxford based theologian who in 1763 (d. [[1776]])
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* [[August 4]] &ndash; [[Johann August Ernesti]], German Rationalist theologian and philologist (d. [[1781]])
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* [[August 5]] &ndash; [[Pierre Adamoli]], French collector (d. [[1769]])
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* [[August 7]] &ndash; [[Carl Günther Ludovici]], German philosopher, lexicographer and economist (d. [[1778]])
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* [[August 20]] &ndash; [[Jacques Roettiers]], engraver in England and France (d. [[1784]])
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* [[August 24]] &ndash; [[Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon]], English Methodist leader (d. [[1791]])
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* [[August 25]] &ndash; King [[Louis I of Spain]] (d. [[1724]])
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* [[August 27]] &ndash; [[Zanetta Farussi]], Italian comedic actress (d. [[1776]])
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* [[August 30]] &ndash; [[Johannes Browallius]], Finnish and Swedish Lutheran theologian, physicist, botanist, friend of Carl Linnaeus (d. [[1755]])
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* September &ndash; [[Nathan Alcock]], English physician (d. [[1779]])
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* [[September 1]] &ndash; [[John Salusbury (diarist)|John Salusbury]], Welsh nobleman (d. [[1762]])
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* [[September 2]] &ndash; [[Gian Benedetto Mittarelli]], Italian monk and monastic historian (d. [[1777]])
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* [[September 3]] &ndash; [[Johann Peter Süssmilch]], German Protestant pastor (d. [[1767]])
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* [[September 5]] &ndash; [[John Forbes (British Army officer)|John Forbes]], British general (d. [[1759]])
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* [[September 7]] &ndash; [[Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon]], French scientist (d. [[1788]])
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* [[September 22]] &ndash; [[John Rattray (surgeon)|John Rattray]], Edinburgh surgeon who served as surgeon to Prince Charles Edward Stuart (d. [[1771]])
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* [[September 29]] &ndash; [[Antoine Clériadus de Choiseul-Beaupré]] (d. [[1774]])
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* [[September 30]]
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** [[Pietro Rotari]], Italian painter (d. [[1762]])
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** [[Richard Trevor (bishop)|Richard Trevor]], bishop (d. [[1771]])
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=== October&ndash;December ===
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* [[October 4]] &ndash; [[Francesco Fontebasso]], Italian painter of the late-Baroque or Rococo period of Venice (d. [[1769]])
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* [[October 6]] &ndash; [[Thomas Falkner]], English Jesuit missionary (d. [[1784]])
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* [[October 20]] &ndash; [[Thomas Church (priest)|Thomas Church]], British priest and controversialist (d. [[1756]])
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* [[October 30]] &ndash; [[Jeanne Thérèse du Han]], Lorraine nobility (d. [[1748]])
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* [[November 7]] &ndash; [[Dieterich Bernhard Ludewig]], German organist (d. [[1740]])
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* [[November 9]] &ndash; [[Louis de Pardaillan de Gondrin (1707–1743)|Louis de Pardaillan de Gondrin]], French courtier, freemason and great-grandson of Madame de Montespan (d. [[1743]])
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* [[November 12]]
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** [[Emmerich Joseph von Breidbach zu Bürresheim]], Archbishop-Elector of Mainz from 1763 to 1774 and Prince-Bishop of Worms from 1768 to 1774 (d. [[1774]])
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** [[Joseph du Pont Duvivier]], Acadian-born military leader of the French (d. [[1760]])
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* [[November 15]] &ndash; [[Prince Adarnase of Kartli]], Georgian prince royal (d. [[1784]])
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* [[November 23]] &ndash; [[Anna Karolina Orzelska]], adventuress and Polish ''szlachcianka'' (noblewoman) (d. [[1769]])
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* [[November 28]] &ndash; [[Giammaria Mazzucchelli]], Italian writer, bibliographer and historian (d. [[1765]])
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* [[December 2]]
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** [[Karl Christoph von der Goltz]], lieutenant general in the Prussian army during the reign of Frederick the Great (d. [[1761]])
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** [[Johann Julius Hecker]], German educator who established the first Realschule and Prussia's first teacher-education institution (d. [[1768]])
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* [[December 4]] &ndash; [[Louise Françoise de Bourbon, Mademoiselle du Maine]], granddaughter of Louis XIV of France and his mistress Françoise-Athénaïs (d. [[1743]])
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* [[December 11]] &ndash; [[Paul von Werner]], chief of the Prussian Hussar Regiment No. 6 (d. [[1785]])
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* [[December 17]] &ndash; [[Ernest Frederick II, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen]] (d. [[1745]])
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* [[December 18]]
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** [[Walter Calverley-Blackett]], British baronet and politician (d. [[1777]])
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** [[Charles Wesley]], English Methodist leader, brother of [[John Wesley]] (d. [[1788]])
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* [[December 22]] &ndash; [[Johann Amman]], Swiss-Russian botanist (d. [[1741]])
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* [[December 25]] &ndash; [[Sir Joseph Hoare, 1st Baronet]], Anglo-Irish politician (d. [[1801]])
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* ''date unknown''
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**[[Giuseppe Bonici]], Maltese architect and military engineer (d. [[1779]])
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**[[Moshe Chaim Luzzatto]], Italian rabbi, mystic, and philosopher (d. [[1746]])
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* ''probable'' [[William Hoare]], English painter (d. [[1792]])
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== Deaths ==
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* [[January 4]] &ndash; [[Louis William, Margrave of Baden-Baden]], Germany (b. [[1655]])
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* [[January 8]] &ndash; [[John Dalrymple, 1st Earl of Stair]], Scottish politician (b. [[1648]])
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* [[January 10]] &ndash; [[Philibert, comte de Gramont]], French writer (b. [[1621]])
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* [[January 16]] &ndash; [[William Bowes]], English politician (b. [[1657]])
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* [[January 20]]
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** [[Humphrey Hody]], English theologian (b. [[1659]])
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** [[Leopold Karl von Kollonitsch]], Hungarian Catholic cardinal (b. [[1631]])
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* [[January 22]] &ndash; [[Richard Towneley]], English mathematician and astronomer from Towneley near Burnley (b. [[1629]])
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* [[February 22]] &ndash; [[Giacinto Calandrucci]], Italian painter (b. [[1646]])
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* [[March 3]] &ndash; [[Aurangzeb]], [[Mughal Emperor]] of India (b. [[1618]])
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* [[March 17]] &ndash; [[Elisabeth Charlotte, Countess of Holzappel]] (b. [[1640]])
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* [[March 27]] &ndash; [[Jean-François Gerbillon]], French Jesuit missionary active in China (b. [[1654]])
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* [[March 30]] &ndash; [[Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban]], French noble and military engineer noted for designing fortifications (b. [[1633]])
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* [[April 2]] &ndash; [[Gérard Edelinck]], Flemish engraver (b. [[1640]])
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* [[April 6]] &ndash; [[Willem van de Velde the Younger]], Dutch painter (b. [[1633]])
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* [[April 24]] &ndash; [[Walter Charleton]], English natural philosopher (b. [[1619]])
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* [[April 26]] &ndash; [[Johann Christoph Denner]], German musical instrument maker (b. [[1655]])
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* [[April 28]] &ndash; [[Christian, Duke of Saxe-Eisenberg]] (b. [[1653]])
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* [[April 29]] &ndash; [[George Farquhar]], Irish dramatist (b. [[1677]])
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* [[May 9]] &ndash; [[Dieterich Buxtehude]], German composer (b. c. [[1637]])
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* [[May 10]] &ndash; [[Johann Ernst III, Duke of Saxe-Weimar]] (b. [[1664]])
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* [[May 19]] &ndash; [[Jean II d'Estrées]], French noble (b. [[1624]])
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* [[May 21]] &ndash; [[Joan Geelvinck (1644–1707)|Joan Geelvinck]], Dutch politician (b. [[1644]])
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* [[May 24]] &ndash; [[Henri Albert de La Grange d'Arquien]], French Catholic cardinal (b. [[1613]])
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* [[May 27]] &ndash; [[Françoise-Athénaïs, marquise de Montespan|Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart de Mortemart]], mistress of King [[Louis XIV of France]] (b. [[1641]])
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* [[May 3]] &ndash; [[Michiel de Swaen]], Flemish poet (b. [[1654]])
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* [[May 31]] &ndash; [[Simon Patrick]], English theologian and bishop (b. [[1626]])
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* [[June 8]] &ndash; [[Muhammad Azam Shah]], Mughal emperor (b. [[1653]])
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* [[June 15]] &ndash; [[Giorgio Baglivi]], Armenian doctor and writer (b. [[1668]])
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* [[June 21]] &ndash; [[Robert Phelips (Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster)|Robert Phelips]], English politician (b. [[1619]])
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* [[June 23]] &ndash; [[John Mill (theologian)|John Mill]], English theologian (b. c. [[1645]])
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* [[June 27]] &ndash; [[Johann Zahn]], German author (b. [[1641]])
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* [[August 7]] &ndash; [[Henry Poley]], English politician (b. [[1654]])
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* [[August 18]] &ndash; [[William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire]], English soldier, statesman (b. [[1640]])
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* [[August 20]] &ndash; [[Nicolas Gigault]], French organist and composer (b. [[1627]])
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* [[September 12]] &ndash; [[Samuel Willard]], American theologian (b. [[1640]])
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* [[September 15]] &ndash; [[George Stepney]], British poet and diplomat (b. [[1663]])
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* [[September 21]] &ndash; [[Wilhelmus Beekman]], Dutch politician (b. [[1623]])
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* [[September 24]] &ndash; [[Vincenzo da Filicaja]], Italian poet (b. [[1642]])
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* [[October 10]] &ndash; [[Johann Patkul]], Livonian nobleman, politician (b. [[1660]])
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* [[October 22]] &ndash; Sir [[Cloudesley Shovell]], British admiral, drowned (b. [[1650]])
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* [[November 26]] &ndash; [[Leonhard Dientzenhofer]], German architect (b. [[1660]])
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* [[November 27]] &ndash; [[Fitz-John Winthrop]], Governor of the Connecticut Colony (b. [[1637]])
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* [[December 1]] &ndash; [[Jeremiah Clarke]], English composer and organist, suicide (b. [[1674]])
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* [[December 24]]
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** [[Noël Coypel]], French painter (b. [[1628]])
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** [[Karolina of Legnica-Brieg]], Silesian noblewoman (b. [[1652]])
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* [[December 27]]
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** [[Robert Leke, 3rd Earl of Scarsdale]], English earl, politician (b. [[1654]])
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** [[Jean Mabillon]], French palaeographer, diplomat (b. [[1632]])
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* ''date unknown''
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** [[Maria Clara Eimmart]], German astronomer, engraver and designer (b. [[1676]])
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** [[Julie d'Aubigny]], French swordswoman, opera singer (b. [[1670]])
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** [[Umze Peljor]], Bhutanese head of government and monk

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Year 1707

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  • Payne, Stanley G. "Chapter 16: The Eighteenth-Century Bourbon Regime in Spain". A History of Spain and Portugal. 2. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 0-299-06270-8. Retrieved April 17, 2008.
  • http://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/evolutionofparliament/legislativescrutiny/
  • Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. p. 291