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Historical Event(s)
– Frederick I becomes King of Prussia.
– The War of the Spanish Succession begins.
– After being convicted of piracy and of murdering William Moore, Captain William Kidd is hanged in London.
– War of the Spanish Succession: Austrians defeat France in the Battle of Carpi.
– Representatives of the Iroquois Confederacy sign the Nanfan Treaty, ceding a large territory north of the Ohio River to England.
– Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac founds the trading post at Fort Pontchartrain, which later becomes the city of Detroit, Michigan.
– James Francis Edward Stuart, sometimes called the “Old Pretender”, becomes the Jacobite claimant to the thrones of England and Scotland.
– The Collegiate School of Connecticut (later renamed Yale University) is chartered in Old Saybrook, Connecticut.
Who Were Born On ?
– Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim, German historian (d. 1790)
– Charles Marie de La Condamine, French mathematician and geographer (d. 1774)
– Enrique Florez, Spanish historian (d. 1773)
– Niclas Sahlgren, Swedish merchant and philanthropist (d. 1776)
– King Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia (d. 1773)
– William Emerson, English mathematician (d. 1782)
– Thomas Blackwell, Scottish classical scholar (d. 1757)
– Charles le Beau, French historian (d. 1778)
– Maria Amalia of Austria, Holy Roman Empire Empress (d. 1756)
– Anders Celsius, Swedish inventor and astronomer (d. 1744)