See:
Wikipedia.
Events:
Act of Union with Scotland becomes law, making the separate Kingdoms of England
and Scotland into one country.
April 25 - Allied austriacist army is defeated by borbonic army at Almansa (Spain) in
the War of the Spanish Succession.
May 1 - Union of the Parliaments of Scotland and England forms the Kingdom of
Great Britain (See: 1707 Act of Union).
October 23 - First Parliament of Great Britain.
Births:
February 1 -
Frederick, Prince of Wales.
February 25 -
Carlo Goldoni, playwright.
April 15 -
Leonhard Euler, (Swiss mathematician).
April 22 -
Henry Fielding, author (+ 1754).
May 23 -
Carolus Linnaeus, Swedish botanist (+ 1778).
August 25 -
King Louis of Spain.
September 7 -
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, French philosopher († 1788).
Baptized:
January 14 -
Joanna Petronilla van den Hout.
January 14 -
Maria Catharina van den Hout.
March 18 -
Joanna Henricx.
April 25 -
Rumoldus Bernardus van den Houten.
Deaths:
May 27 -
Marquise de Montespan, mistress of the French King Louis XIV.
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