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Contents 1 Events 1.1 January 1.2 February 1.3 March 1.4 April 1.5 May 1.6 June 1.7 July 1.8 August 1.9 September 1.10 October 1.11 November 1.12 December 2 Ongoing events 3 Births 4 Deaths

Events

• Province of Carolina goes to war with the Yamasee Native Americans

January

February

• February 11 - Tuscarora War: The Tuscarora and their allies sign a peace treaty with the Province of Carolina and agree to move to a reservation near Lake Mattamuskeet, effectively ending the Tuscarora War. Large numbers of Tuscarora subsequently move to New York.

March

April

May

June

July

• July 24 - Spanish treasure fleet of ten ships under admiral Ubilla leave Havana, Cuba for Spain. Three days later nine of them sink in a storm off the coast of Florida

August

September

• First of the major Jacobite Rebellions in Scotland against the rule of King George I. John Erskine, 22nd Earl of Mar raised the standard of James Francis Edward Stuart and marched on Edinburgh. James, the son of the deposed King James VII, briefly arrived from France, but left as it became clear that there was no support for him in England; he took Mar with him, but left most of his supporters behind. (December).
• September 1 - King Louis XIV of France dies after a reign of 72 years, leaving the throne of his exhausted and indebted country to his great-grandson Louis XV. Regent for the new, five years old monarch is Philippe d'Orléans, nephew of Louis XIV.

October

November

December

• December 24 - Swedish troops occupy Norway.

Ongoing events

• Great Northern War (1700-1721)
• Tuscarora War (1711 - 1715)

Births

• January 10 - Christian August Crusius, German philosopher and theologian (d. 1775)
• January 12 - Jacques Duphly, French composer (d. 1789)
• January 29 - Georg Christoph Wagenseil, Austrian composer (d. 1777)
• February 26 - Claude Adrien Helvétius, French philosopher (b. 1771)
• March 7 - Ewald Christian von Kleist, German poet (d. 1759)
• March 7 - Ephraim Williams, American philanthropist (d. 1755)
• April 3 - John Hanson, American delegate to the Continental Congress (d. 1783)
• April 3 - William Watson, English physician and scientist (d. 1787)
• April 28 - Franz Sparry, composer (d. 1767)
• May 4 - Richard Graves, English writer (d. 1804)
• May 22 - François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis, French cardinal and statesman (d. 1794)
• June 25 - Joseph-François Foulon, French politician (d. 1789)
• July 4 - Christian Fürchtegott Gellert, German poet (d. 1769)
• August 6 - Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues, French writer (d. 1747)
• September 15 - Jean Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval, French artillery specialist (d. 1789)
• September 22 - Jean-Étienne Guettard, French physician and scientist (d. 1786)
• September 30 - Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, French philosopher (d. 1780)
• October 4 - Victor Riqueti, Marquis de Mirabeau, French economist (d. 1789)
• October 8 - Michel Benoist, French Jesuit missionary and scientist (d. 1774)
• October 23 - Emperor Peter II of Russia (d. 1730)
• November 5 - John Brown, English writer (d. 1766)
• November 8 - Elisabeth Christine von Braunschweig-Bevern, queen of Frederick II of Prussia (d. 1797)
• November 23 - Pierre Charles Le Monnier, French astronomer (d. 1799)
• December 27 - Philippe de Noailles, duc de Mouchy, French soldier (d. 1794)
• Robert-François Damiens, attempted assassin of Louis XV of France

Deaths

• February 17 - Antoine Galland, French archaeologist (b. 1646)
• February 21 - Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore, Governor of the Province of Maryland (b. 1637)
• March 17 - Gilbert Burnet, Scottish Bishop of Salisbury (b. 1643)
• May 19 - Charles Montagu, English Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1661)
• July 5 - Charles Ancillon, French Huguenot pastor (b. 1659)
• July 30 - Nahum Tate, Irish poet (b. 1652)
• September 1 - François Girardon, French sculptor (b. 1628)
• September 1 - King Louis XIV of France (b. 1638)
• October 13 - Nicolas Malebranche, French philosopher (b. 1638)
• October 14 - Thomas Tenison, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1636)
• October 15 - Humphry Ditton, English mathematician (b. 1675)
• December 15 - George Hickes, English minister and scholar (b. 1642)
• December 28 - William Carstares, Scottish clergyman (b. 1649)af:1715

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