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Historical Event(s)
– The Kalabalik or Tumult in Bendery results from the Ottoman sultan’s order that his unwelcome guest, King Charles XII of Sweden, be seized.
– War of the Spanish Succession (Queen Anne’s War): Treaty of Utrecht.
– With no living male heirs, Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, issues the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713 to ensure that Habsburg lands and the Austrian throne would be inherited by his daughter, Maria Theresa of Austria (not actually born until 1717).
– The French residents of Acadia are given one year to declare allegiance to Britain or leave Nova Scotia, Canada.
Who Were Born On ?
– Edward Cornwallis, English military officer (d. 1776)
– Francis Lewis, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1803)
– Guillaume Thomas François Raynal, French writer (d. 1796)
– Louis, 4th duc de Noailles, Marshal of France (d. 1793)
– Jacques-Germain Soufflot, French architect (d. 1780)
– Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1780)
– Allan Ramsay, Scottish painter (d. 1784)
– Laurence Sterne, Irish novelist (d. 1768)
– Gasparo Gozzi, Italian critic and dramatist (d. 1786)