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[edit] Births

  • January 22 - Nicolas Lancret, French painter (d. 1743)
  • February 1 - Francesco Maria Veracini, Italian composer (d. 1768)
  • February 3 - Richard Rawlinson, English minister and antiquarian (d. 1755)
  • March 18 - Christian Goldbach Prussian mathematician (d. 1764)
  • April 22 - John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville, English statesman (d. 1763)
  • September 12 - Peter Dens, Belgian Catholic theologian (d. 1775)
  • October 29 - Martin Folkes, English antiquarian (d. 1754)
  • November 24 - Charles Theodore Pachelbel, German composer (d. 1750)
  • November 29 - Christian Augustus of Anhalt-Zerbst, father of Catherine II of Russia (d. 1747)
  • December 1 - Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, Lord Chancellor of England (d. 1764)

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[edit] Events

  • Earliest recorded sighting of the planet Uranus, by John Flamsteed, who mistakenly catalogues it as the star 34 Tauri
  • Giovanni Domenico Cassini observes differential rotation within Jupiter's atmosphere.
  • The French invade the small town of Teignmouth in Southwest England, in their last attack on England.