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Historical Event(s)
– Battle of Colmar: the French army beats Brandenburg.
– John Flamsteed is appointed the first Astronomer Royal of England.
– King Charles II of England orders the construction of the Royal Greenwich Observatory.
– The foundation stone of the Royal Greenwich Observatory in London is laid.
– Franco-Dutch War: forces of the Holy Roman Empire defeat the French in the Battle of Konzer Brücke.
– Leibniz makes the first use of the long s (∫) as a symbol of the integral in calculus.
– King Philip’s War: A combined effort by the Plymouth, Rhode Island, Massachusetts Bay and Connecticut colonies attacks the Great Swamp Fort, owned by the Narragansetts.
– Gottfried Leibniz demonstrates integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the graph of y = ƒ(x).
Who Were Born On ?
– Franz Xaver Josef von Unertl, Bavarian politician (d. 1750)
– Guillaume Delisle, French cartographer (d. 1726)
– Pope Benedict XIV (d. 1758)
– Francesco Scipione, marchese di Maffei, Italian archaeologist (d. 1755)
– Mary Walcott, American accuser at the Salem witch trials (d. after 1719)
– Claude Alexandre de Bonneval, French soldier (d. 1747)
– William Somervile, English poet (d. 1742)
– Paul Dudley, Attorney-General of Massachusetts (d. 1751)
– Emperor Higashiyama of Japan (d. 1710)
– Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham, English soldier and politician (d. 1749)