See:
Wikipedia.
Events:
April 11 - War of the Spanish Succession: Treaty of Utrecht.
First Orrery built by George Graham.
Births:
March 19 -
Anthoni Johan van den Houte.
March -
Francis Lewis - a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence.
April 12 -
Guillaume Thomas François Raynal - French writer.
March 15 -
Nicolas Louis de Lacaille - French astronomer.
May 3 -
Alexis Claude Clairault - French mathematician.
September 23 -
King Ferdinand VI of Spain.
October 5 -
Denis Diderot - French writer and philosopher.
November 26 -
Maetje van den Houten.
Allan Ramsay - Scottish painter.
Richard Wilson - Welsh landscape painter.
Junipero Serra - a Spanish Franciscan.
Baptized:
December 3 -
Lambertus van den Houten.
Deaths:
January 8 -
Arcangelo Corelli - composer.
May 20 -
Thomas Sprat - English divine.
Thomas Ellwood - English religious writer.
Elizabeth Barry - English actor.
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