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Jan 07 Antoine Coypel, French painter/poet, dies at 60. 
Jan 14 Friedrich Gottlob Fleischer, composer
Jan 24 Czar Peter the Great begins civil system
Jan 24 Edward Wigglesworth appointed inaugural US divinity professor (Harvard)
Jan 26 Prestonpans.
Jan 28 Johann Ernst Bach, composer.
Mar 08 Afghan monarch Mir Mahmud occupies Persia
Mar 17 Willem KH Friso appointed mayor of Drente
Mar 31 Campegius Vitringa, Dutch theologist/exegete, dies at 62.
Apr 05 Jacob Roggeveen discovers Easter Island
Apr 06 Peter the Great ends tax on men with beards
Apr 11 Christopher Smart, English poet and journalist (Ceremony of Carols).
Apr 12 Pietro Nardini, composer
Apr 13 Charles Leslie, Irish controversialist, dies
Apr 22 19 VOC "komplotteurs" in Batavia executed
Apr 22 Pieter Erberfeld, German/Thais merchant on Java, dies
Apr 30 Game of Billiards is mentioned in New England Courant
Apr 30 The game of Billiards is mentioned in the New England Courant
May 03 Pierre de Marivaux' "La Double Inconstance" premieres in Paris France.
May 03 Pierre de Marivaux' "La Double Inconstance," premieres in Paris.
May 11 Peter Camper, Leyden Holland, anatomist/professor (Amsterdam).
May 21 Wilhelm Gottfried Enderle, composer.
May 22 Johannes Schmidlin, composer
Jun 05 Johann Kuhnau, composer, dies at 62
Jun 06 Adrien Trudo Sale, composer
Jun 08 Jakob Friedrich Kleinknecht, composer.
Jun 16 John Churchill up Marlborough, English general strategist, dies at 72.
Jun 30 Hungarian Parliament condemns emperor Karel VI's Pragmatic Sanctions
Jun 30 Jiri Antonin Benda, composer
Jul 16 Joseph Wilton, sculptor.
Jul 22 Jean-Noel/Joannes Natalis Paquot, Belgian priest/historian.
Jul 25 The Three Years War begins along the Maine and Massachusetts border.
Sep 12 Russian troops occupy Baku and Derbent on Persia.
Sep 14 Joseph Paul Ziegler, composer
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