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Historical Event(s)
– The charter of the Massachusetts Bay Colony is revoked via a scire facias writ issued by an English court.
– Isaac Newton’s derivation of Kepler’s laws from his theory of gravity, contained in the paper De motu corporum in gyrum, is read to the Royal Society by Edmund Halley.
Who Were Born On ?
– Arnold Drakenborch, Dutch classical scholar (d. 1748)
– Jean-Baptiste van Loo, French painter (d. 1745)
– Matthias Braun, Czech sculptor (d. 1738)
– Francesco Durante, Italian composer (d. 1755)
– Jean Astruc, French physician and scholar (d. 1766)
– Empress Catherine I of Russia (d. 1727)
– Françoise Charlotte d'Aubigné, niece of Madame de Maintenon and ancestress of the Heir to the Belgian throne (d. 1739)
– Johann Gottfried Walther, German composer (d. 1748)
– Edward Vernon, English Royal Navy admiral (d. 1757)