See:
Wikipedia.
Events:
May 15 -
James Puckle, a London lawyer, patents the world's first machine gun.
July 21 - Treaty of Passarowitz signed.
November 22 - Off the coast of Virginia, English pirate
Edward Teach (best known
as "
Blackbeard") is killed in battle when a British boarding party cornered and then
shot and stabbed him more than 25 times.
Births:
May 16 -
Maria Gaetana Agnesi, mathematician (+ 1799).
Deaths:
Charles XII of Sweden.
November 22 -
Blackbeard the pirate.
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