Editing 1712

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[[File:Villars a Denain1.jpg|thumb|300px|[[July 24]]: [[Battle of Denain]]]]
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{{Year article header|1712}} In the [[Swedish calendar]] it began as a [[leap year starting on Monday]] and remained so until Thursday, [[February 29]]. By adding a second leap day, Friday, [[February 30]], Sweden reverted to the Julian calendar and the rest of the year (from Saturday, [[March 1]]) was in sync with the Julian calendar. Sweden finally made the switch from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar in [[1753]]. This year had 367 days.

== Events ==
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=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 8]] &ndash; Total eclipse of the sun visible from {{coord|60.6|S|49.2|E}}
* [[January 12]] &ndash; The premiere of the opera ''[[Idoménée]]'' by [[André Campra]] takes place at the [[Théâtre du Palais-Royal (rue Saint-Honoré)|Théâtre du Palais-Royal]] in Paris.
* [[January 16]] &ndash; A military engineering school is established in [[Moscow]] which is to become the [[A.F. Mozhaysky Military-Space Academy]].
* [[January 26]] &ndash; The Old [[Pummerin]], a 18,161&nbsp;kg bell newly installed in the [[Stephansdom]], [[St. Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna|St. Stephen's Cathedral]],  in [[Vienna]], is rung for the first time to mark the entry of [[Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor|Charles VI]] to [[Vienna]] from [[Frankfurt]] after his coronation as [[Holy Roman Emperor|Emperor]]. It takes a quarter-hour for 16 men pulling on the bell rope to swing the heavy bell back-and-forth enough for the clapper to strike; the resulting forces endanger the tower so the architect orders that in future the bell be rung only by pulling its [[Bell (instrument)|clapper]].
* [[February 10]] &ndash; [[Huilliche uprising of 1712]]: [[Huilliche people]] in Chile's [[Chiloé Archipelago]] rise up against Spanish ''[[Encomienda|encomenderos]]'' as vengeance for perceived injustices.
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* Early March &ndash; Start of the [[Cassard expedition]], a sea voyage by [[French Navy]] captain [[Jacques Cassard]] during which he ransacks [[Santiago, Cape Verde|Santiago]] in the [[Portuguese Cape Verde|Cape Verde Islands]] and pillages [[Montserrat]], [[Antigua]], [[Surinam (Dutch colony)|Surinam]], [[Berbice]], [[Essequibo (colony)|Essequibo]], [[St. Eustatius]] and [[Curaçao]], returning to France with loot worth over nine million francs. 
* [[March 3]] &ndash; [[Scottish Episcopalians Act 1711]] comes into effect, leading to incorporation of the [[Scottish Episcopal Church]].
* [[March 11]] (February 30 [[Swedish Calendar|Swedish Style]], February 29 on the Julian calendar) &ndash; [[Sweden]] temporarily adopts the rare [[February 30]], as a day to adjust the [[Swedish Calendar]] back to the [[Julian calendar]]. 
* [[March 15]] &ndash; [[HMS Dragon (1660)|HMS ''Dragon'']], a 38-gun [[fourth rate]] [[Frigate#Origins|frigate]] of the British [[Royal Navy]], is wrecked on [[Les Casquets]] rocks to the west of [[Alderney]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://sites.google.com/site/alderneylocalhistory/Home/1700s/1712-wreck-of-hms-dragon|title=Alderney Local History - 1712 Wreck of HMS Dragon|website=sites.google.com}}</ref>
* [[March 30]] &ndash; [[Anne, Queen of Great Britain]] administers the [[Royal touch]] (a ritual with the intent to cure illness) for the last time; 300 [[Mycobacterial cervical lymphadenitis|scrofulous]] people are touched, the last of whom is [[Samuel Johnson]].

=== April &ndash;June ===
* [[April 6]]&ndash;[[April 7|7]] &ndash; [[New York Slave Revolt of 1712]]: An insurrection in New York City results in nine whites being killed, and 21 slaves and other blacks being convicted and executed. 
* [[April 11]] &ndash; [[Great Northern War]]: the [[Battle of Fladstrand]] takes place at sea near [[Fladstrand]], [[Jylland]], between [[Sweden|Swedish]] and [[Denmark-Norway|Danish]] forces.
* [[May 15]] &ndash; [[Curuguaty]] in [[Paraguay]] is founded by Juan Gregorio de Bazán y Pedraza on the banks of the Curuguaty River.
* [[May 19]] &ndash; [[Peter the Great]] moves the capital of [[Tsardom of Russia|Russia]] from [[Moscow]] to [[Saint Petersburg]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.historyorb.com/events/date/1712 |title=Historical Events for Year 1712 &#124; OnThisDay.com |website=Historyorb.com |access-date=2017-07-26}}</ref>
* [[May 22]] &ndash; [[Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor]] is crowned King of [[Kingdom of Hungary|Hungary]].
* [[June 5]] &ndash; [[Reus]] in [[Catalonia]], [[Spain]] is given the title  of [[imperial city]] by [[Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel|Elisabeth Christine]], wife of [[Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor|Archduke Charles]].
* [[June 10]] &ndash; [[Kurtkulağı Caravanserai]] in Adana Province, Turkey, is restored and 50 soldiers are appointed to guard it.
* [[June 11]] &ndash; [[Chatham, Massachusetts|Chatham]], [[Barnstable County, Massachusetts|Barnstable County]], [[Massachusetts]] is incorporated as a town.
* [[June 17]] &ndash; The newly built [[St Ann's Church, Manchester]], England, is consecrated by the [[Bishop of Chester]].

=== July&ndash;September ===
* [[July 8]] &ndash; The British [[Royal Navy]] 50-gun ship [[HMS Advice (1712)|HMS ''Advice'']] is launched at [[Deptford Dockyard]].
* [[July 20]] &ndash; [[Jesus College, Oxford]], England, inherits the extensive library of its Principal [[Jonathan Edwards (academic)|Jonathan Edwards]] on his death.
* [[July 24]] 
** [[Battle of Denain]]: The French defeat a combined Dutch-Austrian force.
** [[Toggenburg War|Battle of Villmergen]]: The [[Reformation in Switzerland|Reformed]] [[cantons of Switzerland]] defeat the [[Roman Catholic Church|Catholic]] cantons. 
* [[August 1]] &ndash; The [[Stamp Act 1712]] is passed in the United Kingdom, imposing a tax on publishers, particularly of newspapers.
* [[August 11]] &ndash; The Peace of Aarau is signed by [[Catholic Church|Catholics]] and [[Protestantism|Protestants]], ending the [[Toggenburg War]] and establishing Protestant dominance in  [[Switzerland]], while preserving the rights of Catholics.
* [[August 23]] &ndash; The British [[Royal Navy]] 60-gun ship [[HMS Rippon (1712)|HMS ''Rippon'']] is launched at [[Deptford Dockyard]].
* September &ndash; Composer [[George Frideric Handel]] re-locates to London with the permission of his patron, the future King [[George I of Great Britain]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.gramophone.co.uk/features/article/handel-conquers-london|title=Handel conquers London|website=Gramophone}}</ref>
* [[September 8]] &ndash; A severe hurricane buffets [[Bermuda]] for eight hours, destroying most of the churches.

=== October&ndash;December ===
* [[October 3]] &ndash; In Scotland a warrant is issued for the arrest of outlaw [[Rob Roy MacGregor]] by [[Sir James Stewart (Lord Advocate)]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Notable Dates in History|url=http://scotsindependent.scot/oldsitearchive/scotind/dates1-d.htm|work=The Flag in the Wind|publisher=[[The Scots Independent]]|access-date=2016-03-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160126115905/http://scotsindependent.scot/oldsitearchive/scotind/dates1-d.htm|archive-date=26 January 2016|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref>
* [[October 31]] &ndash; King [[Philip V of Spain]] establishes the [[Biblioteca Nacional de España]] as the Palace Public Library (Biblioteca Pública de Palacio) in [[Madrid]].
* [[November 4]] &ndash; The [[Bandbox Plot]] aims to kill British [[Lord Treasurer]] [[Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford]] but is foiled by [[Jonathan Swift]] (author of ''Gulliver’s Travels'').
* [[November 22]] &ndash; The first performance of [[George Frideric Handel]]'s opera ''[[Il pastor fido (Handel)|Il pastor fido]]'' takes place at [[His Majesty's Theatre, London|the Queen's Theatre]] in the [[Haymarket, London]].
* [[December 7]] &ndash; The charter of [[Buchach Monastery]] in Ukraine, founded by [[Stefan Aleksander Potocki]] and his wife Joanna née Sieniawska, is signed in [[Lublin]].
* [[December 20]] &ndash; [[Great Northern War]]: the [[Battle of Gadebusch]] is Sweden's final great victory in the war, preventing the [[Siege of Stralsund (1711–1715)|loss of the city of Stralsund]] to [[Denmark|Danish]] and [[Saxony|Saxon]] forces.
* [[December 27]] &ndash; The premiere of the opera ''[[Callirhoé]]'' by [[André Cardinal Destouches]] takes place at the [[Théâtre du Palais-Royal (rue Saint-Honoré)|Théâtre du Palais-Royal]] in Paris.
* [[December 28]] &ndash; Total eclipse of the sun visible from {{coord|21.5|S|159.0|E}}

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* The first known working [[Newcomen steam engine]] is built by [[Thomas Newcomen]] with [[John Calley (engineer)|John Calley]], to pump water out of mines in the [[Black Country]] of [[England]], the first device to make practical use of the power of [[steam]] to produce [[mechanical work]].<ref>{{cite book|author-link=L. T. C. Rolt|first1=L. T. C.|last1=Rolt|first2=J. S.|last2=Allen|title=The Steam Engine of Thomas Newcomen|chapter=The First Newcomen Engines c1710-15|pages=44–57|edition=new|location=Hartington|publisher=Moorland|year=1977|isbn=0-903485-42-7}}</ref>
* After many years of settlement, the ''Town on Queen Anne's Creek'' is established as a courthouse for [[Chowan County, North Carolina|Chowan County]], [[North Carolina]].  The town is renamed [[Edenton, North Carolina|Edenton]] in [[1720]], and incorporated in [[1722]].
* The VOC ''[[Zuytdorp]]'' is wrecked off the coast of [[Western Australia]].
* [[John Arbuthnot]] creates the character of ''[[John Bull]]'' to represent Britain.
* A translation of the [[Book of Common Prayer (1662)|1662 ''Book of Common Prayer'']] into [[Irish language|Irish]], made by John Richardson (1664–1747), is published.<ref name="ProfessorBooks2006">{{cite book|chapter=Ireland|first=Brian|last=Mayne|editor-first1=Charles|editor-last1=Hefling|editor-first2=Cynthia|editor-last2=Shattuck|title=[[The Oxford Guide to the Book of Common Prayer: A Worldwide Survey]]|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ezVH2h6PKUcC|access-date=22 February 2015|date=1 July 2006|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|isbn=978-0-19-972389-8|page=207}}</ref></onlyinclude>

== Births ==
[[File:Lodewijck van Beethoven - Die Gartenlaube (1879) b 613.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Ludwig van Beethoven (1712–1773)]] born [[5 January]]]]
[[File:Friedrich der Große (1781 or 1786) - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Frederick the Great]] born [[24 January]]]]
[[File:Tokugawa Ieshige.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Tokugawa Ieshige]] born [[28 January]]]]
[[File:Nasir Jung, Nizam of Hyderabad.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Nasir Jung]] born [[26 February]]]]
[[File:Louis-Joseph de Montcalm cph.3g09407.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Louis-Joseph de Montcalm]] born [[28 February]]]]
[[File:《孝贤纯皇后朝服像》.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Empress Xiaoxianchun]] born [[28 March]]]]
[[File:Devasahayam Pillai 2a.JPG|thumb|right|110px|[[Devasahayam Pillai]] born [[23 April]]]]
[[File:Thomas Cotes (1712-1767).jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Thomas Cotes (Royal Navy officer)]] born [[4 June]]]]
[[File:Benjamin Ingham.JPG|thumb|right|110px|[[Benjamin Ingham]] born [[11 June]]]]
[[File:George Grenville (1712–1770) by William Hoare (1707-1792) Cropped.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[George Grenville]] born [[14 October]]]]
[[File:John Thomas, Bishop of Rochester, by Joshua Reynolds.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[John Thomas (bishop of Rochester)]] born [[14 October]]]]
[[File:Johanna Elisabeth Holstein-Gottorp by Antoine Pesne.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Joanna Elisabeth of Holstein-Gottorp]] born [[24 October]]]]
[[File:Francesco Algarotti (Liotard).jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Francesco Algarotti]] born [[11 December]]]]
[[File:PeterBoehler.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Peter Boehler]] born [[31 December]]]]

=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 1]] &ndash; [[Sir Richard Acton, 5th Baronet]], English baronet (d. [[1791]])
* [[January 2]] &ndash; [[Marie-Angélique Memmie Le Blanc]], French feral child (d. [[1775]])
* [[January 5]]
** [[Ludwig van Beethoven (1712–1773)|Ludwig van Beethoven]], Flemish-born German professional singer and music director, grandfather of the well known composer of the same name (d. [[1773]])
** [[Hongzhou (prince)|Hongzhou]], Manchu prince of the Qing dynasty (d. [[1770]])
* [[January 17]] &ndash; [[John Stanley (composer)|John Stanley]], English composer and organist (d. [[1786]])
* [[January 24]]
** [[Frederick the Great]], King of Prussia (1740–1786) (d. [[1786]])
** [[Charles Moore, 1st Earl of Charleville]], Irish peer (d. [[1764]])
** [[Georg Friedrich Schmidt]], German engraver and designer (d. [[1775]])
* [[January 26]] &ndash; [[James Habersham]], merchant and statesman in the British North American colony of Georgia (d. [[1775]])
* [[January 28]] &ndash; [[Tokugawa Ieshige]], ninth ''shōgun'' of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan (d. [[1761]])
* [[January 29]] &ndash; [[Ralph Bigland]], English officer of arms (d. [[1784]])
* [[February 2]] &ndash; [[Lydia Taft]], American suffragist (d. [[1778]])
* [[February 12]] &ndash; [[Felton Hervey]], aristocratic English politician (d. [[1773]])
* [[February 19]] &ndash; [[Arthur Devis]], English painter (d. [[1787]])
* [[February 20]] &ndash; [[Sir Cordell Firebrace, 3rd Baronet]], English landowner and politician (d. [[1759]])
* [[February 22]] &ndash; [[Péter Bod]], Hungarian theologian and historian (d. [[1768]])
* [[February 26]] &ndash; [[Nasir Jung]], Nizam of Hyderabad State (d. [[1750]])
* [[February 28]] &ndash; [[Louis-Joseph de Montcalm]], French general (d. [[1759]])
* [[March 4]] &ndash; [[Joachim Friedrich Henckel]], Prussian surgeon at Charité hospital in Berlin (d. [[1779]])
* [[March 8]] &ndash; [[John Fothergill (physician)|John Fothergill]], British botanist (d. [[1780]])
* [[March 12]]
** [[Sir Hew Dalrymple, 2nd Baronet]], Scottish politician and MP for Haddington Burghs on two occasions (d. [[1790]])
** [[Ioan II Mavrocordat]], prince of Moldva (d. [[1747]])
* [[March 14]] &ndash; [[Charles-Antoine Jombert]], French bookseller and publisher (d. [[1784]])
* [[March 15]] &ndash; [[Lambert Krahe]], German history painter and art collector (d. [[1790]])
* [[March 19]]
** [[Joseph Frye]], American general (d. [[1794]])
** [[Henry Gervais]], Anglican priest in Ireland (d. [[1790]])
* [[March 22]] &ndash; [[Edward Moore (dramatist)|Edward Moore]], English dramatist (d. [[1757]])<ref>{{cite book |title=Restoration and 18th-Century Drama |date=November 1980 |publisher=Macmillan International Higher Education |isbn=978-1-349-16422-6 |page=109 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OD9dDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA109 |language=en }}{{Dead link|date=September 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
* [[March 27]]
** [[Claude Bourgelat]], French veterinary surgeon (d. [[1779]])
** [[Jane Mecom]], American correspondent, youngest sister of Benjamin Franklin and one of his closest confidants (d. [[1794]])
* [[March 28]] &ndash; [[Empress Xiaoxianchun]], empress consort of Qing dynasty China (d. [[1748]])
* [[March 31]] &ndash; [[Anders Johan von Höpken]], Swedish politician (d. [[1789]])

=== April&ndash;June ===
* [[April 8]] &ndash; [[Pierre Pouchot]], French military engineer officer (d. [[1769]])
* [[April 23]] &ndash; [[Devasahayam Pillai]], beatified Indian Catholic (d. [[1752]])
* [[April 28]] &ndash; [[James Hewitt, 1st Viscount Lifford]], Lord Chancellor of Ireland (d. [[1789]])
* [[May 2]] &ndash; [[Thomas Bond (American physician)|Thomas Bond]], American physician and surgeon (d. [[1784]])
* [[May 5]] &ndash; [[Janusz Aleksander Sanguszko]], magnate in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (d. [[1775]])
* [[May 9]] &ndash; [[William Pitcairn]], Scottish physician and botanist (d. [[1791]])
* [[May 12]] &ndash; [[Charles William Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach]] (d. [[1757]])
* [[May 13]] &ndash; [[Count Johann Hartwig Ernst von Bernstorff]], German-Danish statesman (d. [[1772]])
* [[May 17]] &ndash; [[Jean-Baptiste Greppo]], French canon and archaeologist (d. [[1767]])
* [[May 18]] &ndash; [[Increase Moseley]], American politician (d. [[1795]])
* [[May 27]] &ndash; [[Sir Thomas Cave, 5th Baronet]] of England (d. [[1778]])
* [[May 28]] &ndash; [[Jacques Claude Marie Vincent de Gournay]], French economist (d. [[1759]])
* [[May 29]] &ndash; [[Thomas Dimsdale]], English physician, banker (d. [[1800]])
* [[June 4]] &ndash; [[Thomas Cotes (Royal Navy officer)|Thomas Cotes]], British Royal Navy officer, Commander-in-Chief of the Jamaica Station (d. [[1767]])
* [[June 7]] &ndash; [[Infante Philip of Spain (1712–1719)|Infante Philip of Spain]], Spanish infante (d. [[1719]])
* [[June 11]] &ndash; [[Benjamin Ingham]], American missionary (d. [[1772]])
* [[June 14]]
** [[Samuel Blair (pastor)|Samuel Blair]], Ulster-born American pastor (d. [[1751]])
** [[Sayat-Nova]], Armenian musician and poet (d. [[1795]])
* [[June 15]] &ndash; [[Andrew Gordon (Benedictine)|Andrew Gordon]], Scottish Benedictine monk (d. [[1751]])
* [[June 21]] &ndash; [[Luc Urbain de Bouëxic, comte de Guichen]], French admiral (d. [[1790]])
* [[June 22]] &ndash; [[Michael Heltzen]], Norwegian mining engineer (d. [[1770]])
* [[June 25]] &ndash; [[Exupere Joseph Bertin]], French anatomist (d. [[1781]])
* [[June 26]] &ndash; [[Johann Andreas Silbermann]], German organ-builder (d. [[1783]])
* [[June 28]] &ndash; [[Jean-Jacques Rousseau]], Genevan philosopher (d. [[1778]])

=== July&ndash;September ===
* [[July 4]] &ndash; [[George Hadow]], British historian (d. [[1780]])
* [[July 9]] &ndash; [[Charles-Étienne Pesselier]], French playwright and librettist (d. [[1763]])
* [[July 12]]
** [[Sir Francis Bernard, 1st Baronet]], British Colonial governor of New Jersey and Massachusetts Bay (d. [[1779]])
** [[Thomas Estcourt Cresswell]], English politician (d. [[1788]])
* [[July 18]] &ndash; [[Karl Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen]], German noble (d. [[1743]])
* [[July 19]] &ndash; [[Carl Fredrik Mennander]], Swedish bishop (d. [[1786]])
* [[July 21]] &ndash; [[Johann Karl Philipp von Cobenzl]], Habsburg politician (d. [[1770]])
* [[July 24]] &ndash; [[Richard Handcock (priest)|Richard Handcock]], Irish priest (d. [[1791]])
* [[July 25]] &ndash; [[Vincenzo Miotti]], Italian physicist and astronomer (d. [[1787]])
* [[July 26]]
** [[George Montagu, 1st Duke of Montagu]], English peer (d. [[1790]])
** [[William Pery, 1st Baron Glentworth]], Anglican bishop (d. [[1794]])
* [[July 31]] &ndash; [[Johann Samuel König]], German mathematician (d. [[1757]])
* [[August 2]] &ndash; [[Prince George of Kartli]], Georgian prince (d. [[1786]])
* [[August 12]]
** [[Jonas Hanway]], English traveller and philanthropist (d. [[1786]])
** [[Karl Jakob Weber]], Italian archaeologist (d. [[1764]])
* [[August 15]] &ndash; [[César Gabriel de Choiseul]], French officer (d. [[1785]])
* [[August 24]] &ndash; [[Michel-Barthélémy Ollivier]], French painter and engraver (d. [[1784]])
* [[August 26]] &ndash; [[Tadeusz Franciszek Ogiński]], Polish noble (d. [[1783]])
* [[August 27]] &ndash; [[William Graham, 2nd Duke of Montrose]], member of the peerage of Scotland, son of James Graham (d. [[1790]])
* [[August 30]] &ndash; [[George Montgomerie]], British Member of Parliament (d. [[1766]])
* [[September 4]] &ndash; [[Jan Verbruggen]], Dutch master gun-founder in the Netherlands and later at the Royal Arsenal in Woolwich (d. [[1781]])
* [[September 11]] &ndash; [[Giovanni Targioni Tozzetti]], Italian naturalist (d. [[1783]])
* [[September 15]] &ndash; [[Pierre Simon Fournier]], French punch-cutter (d. [[1768]])
* [[September 22]] &ndash; [[François-Joseph-Gaston de Partz de Pressy]], French cleric (d. [[1789]])
* [[September 25]] &ndash; [[James Veitch, Lord Elliock]], Scottish politician (d. [[1793]])
* [[September 26]] 
** [[Alexander Hamilton (Maryland doctor)|Alexander Hamilton]], Scottish-born doctor and writer in colonial Maryland (d. [[1756]])
** [[Dominique de La Rochefoucauld]], French Catholic cardinal (d. [[1800]])

=== October&ndash;December ===
* [[October 1]] &ndash; [[William Shippen Sr.]], American physician, anatomist and public figure (d. [[1801]])
* [[October 5]] &ndash; [[Francesco Guardi]], Italian painter (d. [[1793]])
* [[October 8]] &ndash; [[Alison Cockburn]], Scottish poet (d. [[1794]])
* [[October 14]]
** [[George Grenville]], Prime Minister of Great Britain (1763–1765) (d. [[1770]])<ref>{{cite web |title=History of George Grenville - GOV.UK |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/history/past-prime-ministers/george-grenville |website=www.gov.uk |access-date=19 June 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
** [[John Thomas (bishop of Rochester)|John Thomas]], English churchman (Dean of Westminster, Bishop of Rochester) (d. [[1793]])
* [[October 15]] &ndash; [[Leslie Corry]], Irish politician (d. [[1741]])
* [[October 17]]
** [[Landgravine Eleonore of Hesse-Rotenburg]], countess (d. [[1759]])
** [[Age Wijnalda]], Dutch Mennonite minister (d. [[1792]])
* [[October 18]] &ndash; [[Jeremias van Riemsdijk]], Dutch colonial governor (d. [[1777]])
* [[October 19]]
** [[Pedro, Prince of Brazil]], second child of John V of Portugal and Maria Ana of Austria (d. [[1714]])
** [[Zenobia Revertera]], Italian noble and courtier (d. [[1779]])
* [[October 20]] &ndash; [[Gregor Zallwein]], Bavarian-born expert on canon law (d. [[1766]])
* [[October 21]] &ndash; [[James Steuart (economist)|James Steuart]], Scottish economist (d. [[1780]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Sir James Steuart Denham, 4th Baronet {{!}} Scottish economist {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sir-James-Steuart-Denham-4th-Baronet |website=www.britannica.com |access-date=31 May 2022 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[October 22]] &ndash; [[James Hamilton, 8th Earl of Abercorn]], member of the peerage of Scotland and landowner in Ireland (d. [[1789]])
* [[October 24]]
** [[Joanna Elisabeth of Holstein-Gottorp]], German duchess (d. [[1760]])
** [[Jonathan Nichols Jr.]], Rhode Island colonial deputy governor (d. [[1756]])
* [[October 29]] &ndash; [[Paolo Gamba]], Italian painter (d. [[1782]])
* [[October 30]]
** [[Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich]], German painter and art administrator (d. [[1774]])
** [[Giovanni Pietro Francesco Agius de Soldanis]], Maltese linguist, historian and cleric (d. [[1770]])
* [[October 31]] &ndash; [[Prince Moritz of Anhalt-Dessau]], German prince of the House of Ascania (d. [[1760]])
* [[November 4]]
** [[Charles de Fitz-James]], Marshal of France (d. [[1787]])
** [[Charles Louis de Marbeuf]], French general (d. [[1786]])
* [[November 7]] &ndash; [[Antoine Choquet de Lindu]], French architect (d. [[1790]])
* [[November 11]] &ndash; [[Hugolín Gavlovič]], Slovak Franciscan priest, author of religious, moral and educational writings (d. [[1787]])
* [[November 20]] &ndash; [[Guillaume Voiriot]], French portrait painter (d. [[1799]])
* [[November 24]]
** [[Ali II ibn Hussein]], fourth leader of the Husainid Dynasty, ruler of Tunisia (d. [[1782]])
** [[Charles-Michel de l'Épée]], French priest and educator of the deaf (d. [[1789]])
* [[November 27]] &ndash; [[Fernando de Sousa e Silva]], fourth Patriarch of Lisbon (d. [[1786]])
* [[December 1]] &ndash; [[George Boscawen (British Army general)|George Boscawen]], British Army general and politician (d. [[1775]])
* [[December 3]]
** [[Joseph Relph]], English poet (d. [[1743]])
** [[William Sawyer (cricketer)|William Sawyer]], English professional cricketer (d. [[1761]])
* [[December 9]] &ndash; [[Alexander Murray of Elibank]], Scottish Jacobite intriguer, fourth son of Alexander Murray (d. [[1778]])
* [[December 11]] &ndash; [[Francesco Algarotti]], Venetian philosopher (d. [[1764]])
* [[December 12]]
** [[Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine]], Lorraine-born Austrian general and soldier (d. [[1780]])
** [[François-Antoine Devaux]], Lorraine-born poet and man of letters (d. [[1796]])
** [[John Turner (Massachusetts politician)|John Turner]], Massachusetts politician and delegate from Pembroke (d. [[1794]])
* [[December 25]] &ndash; [[Pietro Chiari]], Italian playwright (d. [[1785]])
* [[December 31]]
** [[Peter Boehler]], German-English Moravian bishop and missionary (d. [[1775]])
** [[Charles, Prince of Nassau-Usingen]] (1718–1775) and Nassau-Saarbrücken (1728–1735) (d. [[1775]])

== Deaths ==
* [[January 5]] &ndash; [[Richard Jones, 1st Earl of Ranelagh]], Irish politician (b. [[1641]])
* [[January 10]] &ndash; [[John Houblon]], first Governor of the Bank of England (1694-1697) (b. [[1632]])
* [[February 2]] &ndash; [[Martin Lister]], English naturalist, physician (b. c. [[1638]])
* [[February 12]] &ndash; [[Marie Adélaïde of Savoy]], wife of [[Louis, Dauphin of France, Duke of Burgundy]] (b. [[1685]])
* [[February 18]] &ndash; [[Louis, Dauphin of France (1682-1712)|Louis, duc de Bourgogne]], heir to the throne of France (b. [[1682]])
* [[February 22]] &ndash; [[Nicolas Catinat]], French military commander and Marshal of France under Louis XIV (b. [[1637]])
* [[February 27]] &ndash; [[Bahadur Shah I]], [[Mughal Emperor]] of India (b. [[1643]])
* [[March 2]] &ndash; [[Lorenzo Magalotti]], Italian philosopher (b. [[1637]])
* [[March 18]] &ndash; [[Azim-ush-Shan]], Mughal prince (b. [[1664]])
* [[March 25]] &ndash; [[Nehemiah Grew]], English naturalist (b. [[1641]])
[[File:Portrait of Jan van der Heyden 001 cropped.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Jan van der Heyden]]]]
* [[March 28]] &ndash; [[Jan van der Heyden]], Dutch painter (b. [[1637]])
* [[March 30]] &ndash; [[Johann Friedrich Mayer (theologian)|Johann Friedrich Mayer]], German Lutheran theologian (b. [[1650]])
* [[April 9]] &ndash; [[Giuseppe Archinto]], Italian cardinal, Archbishop of Milan (b. [[1651]])
* [[April 11]] &ndash; [[Richard Simon (priest)|Richard Simon]], French Biblical critic (b. [[1638]])
* [[April 27]] &ndash; [[John Crowne]], English playwright (b. [[1641]])
* [[April 29]] &ndash; [[Juan Bautista Cabanilles]], Spanish composer (b. [[1644]])
* [[April 30]] &ndash; [[Philipp van Limborch]], Dutch Protestant theologian (b. [[1633]])
* [[May 6]] &ndash; [[Henric Piccardt]], Dutch lawyer (b. [[1636]])
* [[May 20]] &ndash; [[Christian Ernst, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth]] (1655–1712) (b. [[1644]])
* [[June 10]] &ndash; [[Christian Franz Paullini]], German physician (b. [[1643]])
* [[June 11]] &ndash; [[Louis Joseph, Duke of Vendôme]], French military commander (b. [[1654]])
* [[June 24]] &ndash; [[Simon van der Stel]], last Commander and first Governor of the Cape Colony (b. [[1639]])
* July &ndash; [[Baltacı Mehmet Pasha]], Ottoman (Turkish) grand vizier (b. [[1662]])
* [[July 1]] &ndash; [[William King (poet)|William King]], English poet (b. [[1663]])
* [[July 4]] &ndash; [[Johann Kasimir Kolbe von Wartenberg]], Prussian politician (b. [[1643]])
[[File:RichardCromwell.png|thumb|right|110px|[[Richard Cromwell]]]]
* [[July 12]] &ndash; [[Richard Cromwell]], Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland (b. [[1626]])
* [[July 13]] &ndash; [[Isaac de Porthau]], Gascon black musketeer of the Maison du Roi (b. [[1617]])
* [[July 28]] &ndash; [[Theodorus Janssonius van Almeloveen]], Dutch classical scholar (b. [[1657]])
* [[July 26]] &ndash; [[Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds]], English statesman (b. [[1631]])
* [[August 3]] &ndash; [[Joshua Barnes]], English scholar (b. [[1654]])
* [[August 7]] &ndash; [[Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow]], German composer (b. [[1663]])
* [[August 11]] &ndash; [[Magdalena Sibylla of Hesse-Darmstadt]], German regent (b. [[1652]])
* [[August 18]] &ndash; [[Richard Savage, 4th Earl Rivers]], English soldier (b. c. [[1660]])
* [[August 26]] &ndash; [[Sebastian Anton Scherer]], German organist and composer (b. [[1631]])
* [[August 29]] &ndash; [[Gregory King]], English statistician (b. [[1648]])
* [[September 9]] &ndash; [[Edward Hyde (Governor of North Carolina)|Edward Hyde]], Governor of North Carolina (b. c. [[1650]])
[[File:Giovanni Cassini.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Giovanni Domenico Cassini]]]]
* [[September 14]] &ndash; [[Giovanni Domenico Cassini]], Italian-French astronomer and engineer (b. [[1625]])
* [[September 15]] &ndash; [[Sidney Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphin]], English politician (b. c.[[1645]])
* [[September 23]] &ndash; [[Thomas Halyburton]], Scottish theologian (b. [[1674]])
* [[October 4]] &ndash; [[Philip Reinhard, Count of Hanau-Münzenberg]] (b. [[1664]])
* [[October 25]] &ndash; [[Ōkubo Tadatomo]], Japanese daimyō (b. [[1632]])
* [[October 30]] &ndash; [[Daniel Erich]], German organist and composer (b. [[1649]])
* [[November 5]] &ndash; [[Charles Honoré d'Albert, duc de Luynes]], French noble (b. [[1646]])
* [[November 12]] &ndash; [[Tokugawa Ienobu]], Japanese Edo shōgun (b. [[1662]])
* [[November 15]]
** [[James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Hamilton]], Scottish peer (b. [[1658]])
** [[Charles Mohun, 4th Baron Mohun]], English politician (b. [[1675]])
* [[November 19]] &ndash; [[Wolfgang Carl Briegel]], German organist and composer (b. [[1626]])
* [[November 20]] &ndash; [[Humphrey Humphreys]], British bishop (b. [[1648]])
* [[November 26]] &ndash; [[Pietro Dandini]], Italian painter (b. [[1646]])
* [[November 30]] &ndash; [[Sir Henry Furnese, 1st Baronet]], English merchant and politician (b. [[1658]])

=== Unknown date ===

* [[William Joliffe]], English politician (b. [[1622]])

== References ==
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