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Historical Event(s)
– Russia begins using the Anno Domini era and no longer uses the Anno Mundi era of the Byzantine Empire.
– The magnitude 9 Cascadia Earthquake takes place off the west coast of the North America, as evidenced by Japanese records.
– The island of New Britain is discovered.
– Today is followed by March 1 in Sweden, thus creating the Swedish calendar.
– Sweden introduces its own Swedish calendar, in an attempt to gradually merge into the Gregorian calendar, reverts to the Julian calendar on this date in 1712, and introduces the Gregorian Calendar on this date in 1753.
– Battle of Narva – A Swedish army of 8,500 men under Charles XII defeats a much larger Russian army at Narva.
Who Were Born On ?
– Daniel Bernoulli, Dutch-born mathematician (d. 1782)
– Luigi Vanvitelli, Italian architect (d. 1773)
– Nicolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf, German religious and social reformer (d. 1760)
– Heinrich, count von Brühl, German statesman (d. 1763)
– Princess Anna Sophie of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (d. 1780)
– James Thomson, Scottish poet (d. 1748)
– Charlotte Aglaé of Orléans, Duchess of Modena (d. 1761)
– Jean-Antoine Nollet, French abbot and physicist (d. 1770)
– Sophia Magdalen of Brandenburg-Kulmbach, queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1770)
– Leopold II of Anhalt-Dessau, Prussian general (d. 1758)