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Kyōhō 2 –
Events
* The
Funj warrior aristocracy deposes the reigning
mek and places one of their own ranks on the throne of
Sennar. (
History of Sudan (Coming of Islam to the Turkiyah))
January
France Declares war on Spain in the two-year War of the Quadruple Alliance.
February
March
April
May
* May -
Blackbeard leads 300 sailors in four ships to blockade the port of
Charleston,
South Carolina in late May. The "
Queen Anne's Revenge" and "Adventure" are both lost in
Beaufort Inlet,
North Carolina one week later. Blackbeard allows
Stede Bonnet to once again command the "Revenge", which is renamed the "Royal James". Bonnet rescues 25 sailors abandoned by Blackbeard on a sandbar and continues his life of piracy.
June
* June - Blackbeard takes refuge in
Bath, North Carolina where North Carolina Governor
Charles Eden pardons his entire crew.
July
*
July 21 -
Treaty of Passarowitz signed
August
*
August 12 — foundation of
New Orleans, Louisiana.
September
October
* October - Stede Bonnet and his crew are captured near the mouth of the
Cape Fear River and taken to Charleston, South Carolina where they are tried for piracy. All but four of Bonnet's crew are found guilty and sentenced to death.
November
*
November 8 - Stede Bonnet escapes from prison, but the remainder of his guilty crew members are hanged in Charleston, South Carolina.
*
November 22 - Citing violations of the amnesty agreement with Blackbeard, Virginia Governor
Alexander Spottswood sends a Royal Navy contingent to North Carolina where they battle Blackbeard and his crew in
Ocracoke Inlet. Blackbeard is killed in the action after receiving five musketball wounds and 20 sword lacerations.
December
*
December 6 - After the death of Charles XII on
November 30,
Ulrika Eleonora becomes Queen of
Sweden.
*
December 17 -
Austria,
Great Britain, and
France declare war on
Spain, launching the
War of the Quadruple Alliance.
*
December 18 - Stede Bonnet is hanged in Charleston, South Carolina after being recaptured.
Ongoing events
*
Great Northern War (
1700-
1721)
Births
*
January 7 -
Israel Putnam, American Revolutionary War general (died
1790)
*
January 29 -
Paul Rabaut, French Huguenot pastor (died
1794)
*
February 17 -
Matthew Tilghman, American delegate to the Continental Congress (died
1790)
*
March 31 -
Marianne Victoria of Borbón, queen regent of Portugal (died
1781)
*
April 4 -
Benjamin Kennicott, English churchman and Hebrew scholar (died
1783)
*
April 7 -
Hugh Blair, Scottish preacher and man of letters (died
1800)
*
April 20 -
David Brainerd, American missionary (died
1747)
*
April 24 -
Nathaniel Hone, Irish-born painter (died
1784)
*
April 26 -
Esek Hopkins, American Revolutionary War admiral (died
1802)
*
April 27 -
Thomas Lewis, Irish-born Virginia settler (died
1790)
*
April 30 -
John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich (died
1792)
*
May 16 -
Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian mathematician (died
1799)
*
May 17 -
Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holderness, English diplomat and politician (died
778)
*
May 23 -
William Hunter, Scottish anatomist (died
1783)
*
May 30 -
Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire, English politician (died
1793)
*
June 5 -
Thomas Chippendale, English furniture maker (died
1779)
*
June 17 -
George Howard, British field marshal (died
1796)
*
July 5 -
Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford, Viceroy of Ireland (died
1794)
*
July 18 -
Saverio Bettinelli, Italian writer (died
1808)
*
July 31 -
John Canton, English physicist (died
1772)
*
August 11 -
Frederick Haldimand, Swiss-born British colonial governor (died
1791)
*
September 18 -
Nikita Ivanovich Panin, Russian statesman (died
1783)
*
October 19 -
Victor-François, 2nd duc de Broglie, Marshal of France (died
1804)
*
October 28 -
Ignacije Szentmartony, Croatian Jesuit missionary and geographer (died
1793)
*
November 3 -
John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, English statesman (died
1792)
Deaths
*
January 6 -
Giovanni Vincenzo Gravina, Italian writer and jurist (born
1664)
*January 6 -
Richard Hoare, English goldsmith and banker (born
1648)
*
January 17 -
Captain Benjamin Church, Plymouth Colony settler (born c.
1639)
*
February 1 -
Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury, English politician (born
1660)
*
February 18 -
Pierre Antoine Motteux, French-born English dramatist (born
1663)
*
May 7 -
Mary of Modena, queen of
James II of England (born
1658)
*
May 30 -
Arnold Joost van Keppel, 1st Earl of Albemarle, Dutch favorite of
William III of England (born
1670)
*
July 28 -
Etienne Baluze, French scholar (born
1630)
*
July 30 -
William Penn, American settler, founder of Pennsylvania (born
1644)
*
November 22 -
Blackbeard, English pirate (born c.
1680)
*
November 30 - King
Charles XII of Sweden (born
1682)
*
December 6 -
Nicholas Rowe, English poet and dramatist (born
1674)
*
December 9 -
Vincenzo Coronelli, Italian cartographer and encylopedist (born
1650)
*
December 19 -
Stede Bonnet, the "gentleman pirate" (birth unknown)
*
Roderick O Flaherty, Irish chieftan and historian (born
1629)
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