See:
Wikipedia.
Events:
Adam Smith enters Balliol College, Oxford.
George Whitefield founds the Bethesda orphanage.
The song Rule Britannia is first performed at Cliveden.
May 31 -
Friedrich II comes to power in Prussia upon the death of his father,
Friedrich Wilhelm I.
October 20 -
Maria Theresia of Austria inherits the Habsburg hereditary dominions
(Austria, Bohemia, Hungary and present-day Belgium). However, her succession
to the Holy Roman Empire is contested widely because she is a woman.
December 16 -
Friedrich II of Prussia invades the Habsburg possession of Silesia,
starting the War of the Austrian Succession.
Births:
June 2 -
Marquis de Sade, aristocrat and author.
August 23 - Emperor
Ivan VI of Russia.
November 6 -
Catharina van den Houten.
Juan Andres, Spanish Jesuit.
Empress
Go-Sakuramachi of Japan.
Baptized:
October 29 -
Anna van Ginneken.
Deaths:
January 5,
Antonio Lotti, composer.
May 31 -
Friedrich Wilhelm I, King of Prussia.
October 20 -
Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor.
October 28 -
Anna Ivanova (Anna I of Russia).
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