1708
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March 11 -
Queen Anne withholds
Royal Assent from a
militia Bill, the last time a
British monarch vetoes legislation.
*
March 23 -
James Francis Edward Stuart unsuccessfully tries to land at the
Firth of Forth.
*
July 1 -
Tewoflos becomes
Emperor of Ethiopia.
*
September 28 -
Peter the Great defeats the
Swedes at the
Battle of Lesnaya.
*
Kandahar is conquered by
Mir Wais.
* In
Masuria, one third of the population there dies during the
plague.
*
J.S. Bach appointed as chamber musician and organist at the court in
Weimar, Germany.
*
Great Northern War (
1700 -
1721)
*
War of the Spanish Succession (
1702 -
1713)
*
April 23 -
Friedrich von Hagedorn, German poet (d.
1754)
*
October 16 -
Albrecht von Haller, Swiss anatomist and physiologist (d.
1777)
*
October 22 -
Frederic Louis Norden, Danish explorer (d. 1742)
*
November 15 -
William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, British politician (d. 1778)
*
December 8 -
Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor (d.
1765)
*
Pompeo Batoni, Italian painter (d.
1787)
*
Richard Dawes, British classical scholar (d.
1766)
*
John Hulse,
Divine (d.
1790)
*
March 29 -
John Partridge, English astrologer and almanack-maker (b.
1644)
*
May 6 -
François de Laval, first bishop of New France (b.
1623)
*
May 11 -
Jules Hardouin Mansart, French architect (b.
1646)
*
May 12 -
Adolf Friedrich II of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b.
1658)
*
June 30 - Emperor
Tekle Haymanot I of Ethiopia (stabbed to death)
*
September 6 -
John Morden, English merchant and philanthropist (b.
1623)
*
October 1 -
John Blow, British composer (b.
1649)
*
October 2 -
Anne-Jules, 2nd duc de Noailles, French general (b.
1650)
*
October 7 -
Guru Gobind Singh, Sikh religious leader (b.
1666)
*
October 10 -
David Gregory, Scottish astronomer (b.
1659)
*
October 11 -
Ehrenfried Walter von Tschirnhaus, German mathematician (b.
1651)
*
October 22 -
Hermann Witsius, Dutch theologian (b.
1636)
*
October 24 -
Seki Kowa, Japanese mathematician
*
October 28 -
Prince George of Denmark, consort of
Anne of England (b.
1653)
*
November 17 -
Ludolf Backhuysen, Dutch painter (b.
1631)
*
December 22 -
Hedwig Sophia, duchess of Holstein-Gottorp, Swedish writer (b.
1681)
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December 28 -
Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, French botanist (b.
1656)
