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Events
January 11
- Eruption of Mt.
Etna
.
February 8
- The
College of William and Mary
in
Williamsburg, Virginia
is granted a charter
July 29
- The
Battle of Landen
October 11
– Charleloi falls to the French forces
China
concentrates all its
foreign trade
to
Canton
– European ships are forbidden to land anywhere else
Sect of
Amish
formed
Knights of Apocalypse formed in Italy
Academia operosorum Labacensis
established in Ljubljana, Slovenia
Financier
Richard Hoare
founds Hoare's Bank in
London
.
Births
February 7
- Princess Anna Ivanova Romanov later Empress
Anna I of Russia
March 5
-
Johann Jakob Wettstein
, theologian, (d.
1754
)
March 7
-
Pope Clement XIII
(d.
1769
)
April 3
-
George Edwards
, naturalist (d.
1773
)
Thomas Secker
, Archbishop of Canterbury (d.
1768
)
Deaths
September
-
Janez Vajkard Valvasor
, Slovenian nobleman and polymath
William Sancroft
, Archbishop of Canterbury (b.
1616
)
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