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Historical Event(s)
– Pocotaligo Massacre triggers the start of the Yamasee War in colonial South Carolina.
– A Spanish treasure fleet of 10 ships under Admiral Ubilla leaves Havana, Cuba for Spain. Seven days later, 9 of them sink in a storm off the coast of Florida. A few centuries later, treasure is salvaged from these wrecks.
– King Louis XIV of France dies after a reign of 72 years – the longest of any major European monarch.
Who Were Born On ?
– Claude Adrien Helvétius, French philosopher (d. 1771)
– Ephraim Williams, American philanthropist (d. 1755)
– William Watson, English physician and scientist (d. 1787)
– François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis, French cardinal and statesman (d. 1794)
– Christian Fürchtegott Gellert, German poet (d. 1769)
– Jean-Étienne Guettard, French physician and scientist (d. 1786)
– Michel Benoist, French Jesuit missionary (d. 1774)
– Dorothea Erxleben, German, first female medical doctor (d. 1762)
– Philippe de Noailles, duc de Mouchy, French soldier (d. 1794)