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Historical Event(s)
– The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England, opens as the world’s first university museum.
– William Penn signs a friendship treaty with Lenni Lenape Indians in Pennsylvania.
– Manchu Qing Dynasty naval forces under traitorous commander Shi Lang defeat the Kingdom of Tungning in the Battle of Penghu near the Pescadores Islands.
– Battle of Vienna.
– Austro-Ottoman War: Battle of Vienna – several European armies join forces to defeat the Ottoman Empire.
– Antonie van Leeuwenhoek writes a letter to the Royal Society describing “animalcules”: the first known description of protozoa.
– The Qing Dynasty naval commander Shi Lang reaches Taiwan (under the Kingdom of Tungning) to receive the formal surrender of Zheng Keshuang and Liu Guoxuan after the Battle of Penghu.
– German immigrant families found Germantown in the colony of Pennsylvania, marking the first major immigration of German people to America.
– The British crown colony of New York is subdivided into 12 counties.
Who Were Born On ?
– René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, French scientist (d. 1757)
– Tsangyang Gyatso, 6th Dalai Lama (d. 1706)
– John Theophilus Desaguliers, French-British philosopher (d. 1744)
– Etienne Fourmont, French orientalist (d. 1745)
– Edward Young, English poet (d. 1765)
– Jean-Philippe Rameau, French composer (d. 1764)
– Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton, British politician (d. 1757)
– Ludwig Andreas Graf Khevenhüller, Austrian field marshal (d. 1744)
– Philip V of Spain (d. 1746)
– Conyers Middleton, English minister (d. 1750)