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Tue Mar 06 2001 at 2:10:20
Born in 1711:
English composer
William Boyce
.
Eleazar Wheelock
, founder of
Dartmouth College
.
Scottish
moral philosopher
and
economist
David Hume
.
English painter
Arthur Devis
.
British naval officer
Edward Boscawen
.
English actress
Catherine "Kitty" Clive
.
Swedish painter
Carl Gustaf Pilo
.
Austrian composer
Giuseppe Bonno
(in
Vienna
to Italian parents).
Russian
chemist
and
grammarian
Mikhail Vasilievich Lomonosov
.
English astronomer
Thomas Wright
.
Croatian natural philosopher
Rudjer Boskovic
.
Austrian composer
Ignaz Holzbauer
.
French composer
Jean-Joseph Cassanea de Mondonville
.
American
mapmaker
John Mitchell
.
Future Chinese emperor
Qianlong
.
Died in 1711:
French poet
Nicolas Boileau
.
Dutch painter
Gerard de Lairesse
.
German
organ
composer
Johann Nikolaus Hanff
.
Holy Roman Emperor
Josef I
, of smallpox. His brother becomes Archduke of Austria as
Charles VI
.
Half a million people
of
pneumonic plague
in
Austria
,
Poland
,
Lithuania
,
Latvia
,
Germany
, and
Denmark
. This is the plague that leads
Thomas Malthus
to his frightening
theory
.
Chinese poet
Wang Shizhen
.
Events of 1711:
Thomas Newcomen
perfects the first practical
steam engine
for the purpose of pumping out mines; people often use this event as a starting point for the
Industrial Revolution
.
Joseph Addison
founds a
magazine
,
The Spectator
.
Alexander Pope
's
Essay on Criticism
is published.
The
Treaty of Szatmár
ends a revolt in
Transylvania
, guaranteeing religious freedom for Hungarians there. The revolt's leader,
Frantisek Rákóczi
, flees to
Turkey
.
The War of the Spanish Succession
/
Queen Anne's War
:
A French army captures
Rio de Janeiro
. (
Carnival
is celebrated in the capital of
Louisiana
,
Mobile
).
John Churchill
, the
Duke of Marlborough
and Prince
Eugene
of
Savoy
lay siege to
Bouchain
in
France
; it capitulates in
September
.
(September 27) Charles flees
Barcelona
.
The British Navy fails to capture
Quebec
.
The
Tories
, having taken control of
Parliament
from the
Whig
s, dismiss the
Duke of Marlborough
as commander of the British Army, and Britain quits the war.
The
Great Northern War
:
90% of the Russian state budget is epent on the war.
Swedish king
Charles XII
(currently living in the
Bessarabia
n town of
Bendery
) has convinced
Ottoman
Sultan
Ahmed III
to declare war on Russia. Ahmed defeats the Russians at the
Battle of the Pruth
and is given
Azov
(Russia's only outlet to the
Black Sea
in the resulting
treaty
. According to legend, Tsar
Peter the Great
's army is helpless but Peter's Mistress
Ekaterina
secures their release from the Sultan.
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1710
Rudjer Boskovic
John Perceval, 2nd Earl of Egmont
Bendery
Edward Boscawen
An Essay on Criticism
catastrophe theory
Holy Roman Empire
Dartmouth College
Qianlong
1865
Newcomen Engine
Laura Bassi
Mikhail Vasilievich Lomonosov
1705
Joseph Addison
David Hume
drawing and quartering
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1906
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War of the Spanish Succession