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Historical Event(s)
– The Netherlands, Great Britain, and France sign the Triple Alliance.
– The Loves of Mars and Venus is the first ballet performed in England.
– A sermon on “The Nature of the Kingdom of Christ” by Benjamin Hoadly, the Bishop of Bangor, provokes the Bangorian Controversy.
– The Premier Grand Lodge of England, the first Masonic Grand Lodge in the world (now the United Grand Lodge of England), is founded in London, England.
– King George I of Great Britain sails down the River Thames with a barge of 50 musicians, where George Frideric Handel’s Water Music is premiered.
– Spanish troops land on Sardinia.
– An earthquake strikes Antigua Guatemala, destroying much of the city’s architecture and making authorities consider moving the capital to a different city.
Who Were Born On ?
– Jeffrey Amherst, British military leader (d. 1797)
– Ernst Gideon Freiherr von Laudon, Austrian field marshal (d. 1790)
– John Collins, American politician (d. 1795)
– Louis Guillaume Lemonnier, French botanist (d. 1799)
– Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin, Swedish astronomer (d. 1783)
– Marie-Anne de Mailly-Nesle duchess de Châteauroux, French mistress of King Louis XV of France (d. 1744)
– Jean le Rond d'Alembert, French mathematician (d. 1793)
– Johann Joachim Winckelmann, German art historian (d. 1768)
– Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes, French statesman and diplomat (d. 1787)
– Pope Pius VI (d. 1799)