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Historical Event(s)
– The city of New Orleans is founded by Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville.
– James Puckle, a London lawyer, patents the world’s first machine gun.
– Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich of Russia, Peter the Great’s son, mysteriously dies after being sentenced to death by his father for plotting against him.
– The Treaty of Passarowitz between the Ottoman Empire, Austria and the Republic of Venice is signed.
– Off the coast of North Carolina, British pirate Edward Teach (best known as “Blackbeard”) is killed in battle with a boarding party led by Royal Navy Lieutenant Robert Maynard.
– Swedish king Charles XII dies during a siege of the fortress Fredriksten in Norway.
– Great Britain declares war on Spain.
Who Were Born On ?
– Matthew Tilghman, American Continental Congressman (d. 1790)
– Infanta Mariana Victoria of Spain (d. 1781)
– Benjamin Kennicott, English churchman and Hebrew scholar (d. 1783)
– Thomas Lewis, Irish-born Virginia settler (d. 1790)
– Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian mathematician (d. 1799)
– Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holderness, English diplomat and politician (d. 1778)
– George Howard, British field marshal (d. 1796)
– Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford, English Viceroy of Ireland (d. 1794)
– John Canton, English physicist (d. 1772)
– Ignacije Szentmartony, Croatian Jesuit missionary (d. 1793)