See:
Wikipedia.
Events:
February 8 -
Catherine I became empress of Russia.
February 20 - The first reported case of white men scalping Native
Americans takes place in New Hampshire colony.
Births:
March 11 -
Prince Henry Benedict Stuart, later claimant to the throne of
Great Britain as
King Henry IX and figurehead for Jacobitism.
April 2 -
Casanova, adventurer and writer (died in 1798).
July 24 -
John Newton Cleric, songwriter (Amazing Grace).
December 11 -
George Mason U.S. Patriot, "Father of the Bill of Rights".
December 25 -
Aard van den Houten.
Baptized:
August 1 -
Joannes van Ginneken.
Deaths:
February 8 -
Tsar Peter I of Russia.
Alessandro Scarlatti, Italian composer.
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