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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 ?
– Jean-Baptiste van Loo, French painter (d. 1745)
– 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)
– Francesco Manfredini, Italian baroque composer (d. 1762)
– Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin, Prussian field marshal (d. 1757)
– Edward Vernon, English Royal Navy admiral (d. 1757)
– Ludvig Holberg, Norwegian historian and writer (d. 1754)