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Historical Event(s)
– Explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle, searching for the mouth of the Mississippi River, is murdered by his own men.
– Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
– Battle of Mohács: Charles of Lorraine defeats the Ottomans.
– The Parthenon in Athens is partially destroyed by an explosion caused by the bombing from Venetian forces led by Morosini who are besieging the Ottoman Turks stationed in Athens.
– The first Huguenots set sail from France to the Cape of Good Hope.
Who Were Born On ?
– Johann Balthasar Neumann, German architect (d. 1753)
– Jean Lebeuf, French historian (d. 1760)
– Sophia Dorothea of Hanover, Queen consort in Prussia (d. 1757)
– Johann Albrecht Bengel, German scholar (d. 1757)
– Durastante Natalucci, Italian historian (d. 1772)
– Robert Simson, Scottish mathematician (d. 1768)
– Nicolaus I Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (d. 1759)
– William Stukeley, English antiquarian (d. 1765)
– Francesco Geminiani, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1762)
– Johann Georg Pisendel, German musician (d. 1755)