1739 - January 1
Bouvet Island is discovered by French explorer Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier
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1739 - January 1
Bouvet Island is discovered by French explorer Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier
1738
Franz Ketterer invents the cuckoo clock.
1737
May 28 - The planet Venus passed in front of Mercury. The event is witnessed during the evening hours by the amateur astronomer John Bevis at the Royal Greenwich Observatory. As of 2006, it is still the only such planet/planet occultation that has been directly observed.
October 16 An earthquake with a Richter scale magnitude of 9.3 explodes off the Kamchatka peninsula in Russia, causing a major tsunami in the Pacific ocean.
Carolus Linnaeus's Genera plantorum explains his method of systematic botany and classifies 18,000 species of plants.
Euler proves that the number e, known as the base for the natural logarithms, and its square are both irrational; that is, they cannot be represented by finite or repeating decimals.
1736 - May 10
English literary critic George Steevens is born
1735
July 11 - July 11 - Mathematical calculations suggest it was on this day that Pluto moved closer to the Sun than Neptune for the last time before 1979.
1734
Siege of Danzig.
French capture Treves
1733 - July 30
First Freemasons lodge opened in the United States of America
1732
Cobalt is discovered and isolated by Georg Brandt
1731 - February
English poet Charles Churchill is born
1730 - Anna Ivanova (Anna I of Russia) became czarina.
Vin, did you mean 1730?
If yes then:
1729
The worst Indian massacre to take place on Mississippi soil occurs when Natchez Indians kill 138 Frenchmen, 35 French women, and 56 children at Fort Rosalie
1728 - January 9
English poet Thomas Warton is born
1727 Last execution for witchcraft in Scotland.
1726
Jonathan Swift publishes Gulliver's Travels
1725 - Giacomo Casanova was born
1724 - April 22
German philosopher Immanuel Kant is born
1723
Treaty of St. Petersbourg
1722 - April 11
English poet Christopher Smart is born
1721
Nistadt Peace Treaty marks end of the Great Northern War.
Grinling Gibbons dies
Watteau dies
Calico Jack Rackham "Calico Jack" died.
Giovanni Battista Piranesi was born.
1719
In 1719 miners in the Falun copper mine of Sweden found a dead body in a tunnel that had been closed for a long time due to a cave-in. The body was so well preserved that the victim was first believed to to have died recently, but when they brought the body to the surface they soon learned the true story: They had found Fet-Mats Israelsson who had disappeared 42 years previously. His former fiancée, Margaret Olsdotter, now an elderly woman recognized him, and burst into tears. At the time of his disapperance people had assumed that Mr Israelsson had left Falun to avoid the marriage with her.
In the open air the body dried up and turned hard as a rock. People gave it the nickname "The petrified miner". Fet-Mats Israelsson was put on display at Stora Kopparberget.
When the naturalist Carolus Linnaeus visited, he noticed that Fet-Mats was not petrified but just covered with vitriol. He stated that as soon as the vitriol would evaporate, the body would begin to decay.
That proved to be correct. Fet-Mats Israelsson was finally put to rest December 21, 1749.
Sad tale, isn't it?
1718
Blackbeard gave up life as a pirate only to be killed "in action" barley 6 months later.
1717
Edmond Halley invents the diving bell.
1716
Februari 25 - Swedish king Karl XII:s attacks Norway for the first time. Kristiania is taken.
April 8 - Wismar, Swedens last site in current Germany capitulates.
September 6 - Karl XII sets up his HQ in Lund, to avoid being to far from his opponents on the continent (He needn't have worried).
September - Csar Peter arrives in Copenhagen. A russo-danish landing in the south of Sweden is planned.
1715 - May 3
Total solar eclipse across southern England, Sweden, and Finland
August 1, 1714 - George I crowned King of Great Britain. The world's first mixed-gender school is founded in Croyden.
1713, treaty of Utrecht was signed in March and April
1712
* Treaty of Aargau signed between Catholic and Protestants. Introduced Protestant faith in Switzerland.
* Thomas Newcomen builds the first piston-operated steam engine at Tipton, Staffordshire, UK.
* After many years of settlement, the "Town on Queen Anne's Creek" is established as a courthouse for Chowan County, North Carolina. The town is renamed Edenton in 1720 and incorporated in 1722.
* Great Northern War (1700-1721)
* War of the Spanish Succession (1702-1713)
* Tuscarora War (1711 - 1715)
1711 - May 7
Scottish philosopher David Hume is born
1710: the world's first copyright legislation is passed in Britain. Estonia is annexed by Russia.
1709: British sailor Alexander Selkirk is rescued after being marooned on a desert island for 5 years, his story inspires "Robinson Crusoe."
1708 - Queen Anne kills the Scottish Millitia bill, the last time to date a British monarch has vetoed legislation. J.S. Bach is appointed court-organist at Weimar. Jules Mansart, one of the architechts of the Palace of Versailles, dies.
1707
January 16 - The Treaty (or Act) of Union of the two Kingdoms of Scotland and England is ratified by the Scottish Parliament
May 1 - The Acts of Union becomes law, uniting the Parliaments of the Kingdom of England and Kingdom of Scotland to form the Parliament of a united Kingdom of Great Britain.
1706:
Ben Franklin is born.
1705 --- people used horses to get from here to there
1704--February 28 Elias Neau, a Frenchman, opens a school for blacks in New York City
February 28 Indians attack Deerfield, Massachusetts, kill 40, kidnap 100
February 29 French and Indians attack Deerfield, Massachusetts, kill 50, abduct 100
April 17 1st successful U.S. newspaper; published in Boston by John Campbell
April 24 "Boston News-Letter," 1st successful newspaper in U.S., forms
May 1 Boston Newsletter publishes 1st newspaper ad
May 20 Elias Neau forms school for slaves in New York
July 12 Stanislaw Leszcynski becomes king of part of Poland
1703
February 4 - In Japan, the 47 samurai (47 Ronin) commit seppuku.
May 27 - Founding of St Petersburg in Russia.
July 29-31 - Daniel Defoe is placed in a pillory then imprisoned 4 months for the crime of seditious libel, after publishing a politically satirical pamphlet (his release is granted mid-November).
November 24 to December 2 - the Great Storm of 1703, an Atlantic hurricane, ravaged southern England and the English Channel, killing nearly 8000, mostly at sea. It reached 120-mph (193-km/h) winds, while barometric readings as low as 973 millibars were recorded and is the most severe storm ever recorded in the British Isles.
1702:
The first English-language begins publication.
William III of Orange alias William III of England alias William II of Scotland alias King Billy bites the dust.
1701
May 23 - After being convicted of murdering William Moore and for piracy, Captain William Kidd is hanged in London.
July 24 - Detroit, Michigan is founded.
1700
Woo! New century!
Russia, Germany, Denmark, Norway and Sweden all adopt new calendars (Julian, Georgian, Georgian, Georgain and Swedish, respectively). The first pianoforte is documented in a Medici family inventory. Pope Innocent XII dies.