1707

events

politics

• 1. January: Johann V. becomes king of Portugal
• 16. March: Act OF union: By thoseCombination of the Kingdoms of England (with the Principality of Wales 1536) and Scotland develop the Kingdom of Great Britain
• 29. March: William Hyacinth, prince von Oranien and Regent von Nassau-Siegen, becomes from the population of victories from the city andthe office hunted

• 1. September: Altranstädter convention

disasters

• 22. October: Stranding of four ships of a squadron of the Royal Navy under admiral Sir Clowdisley Shovell on the Scilly islands because of navigational errors. Over 1.600 dead ones, 26 survivors

born

• 20. January: Friedrich Ludwig, prince of Wales († 1751)
• 25. February: Carlo Goldoni, Italian dramatist († 1793)
• 28. February: Johann Christian Senckenberg, physician and natural scientist
• 1. April: Franz de Paula Penz, minister and master of building of churches († 1772)
• 4. April: Hans's Karl von Winterfeldt, Prussian general and the intimate friend Friedrich II. († 1757)
• 15. April: Leonhard Euler, Schweizer mathematician († 1783)
• 22. April: Henry falling thing, British writer († 1754)
• 23. May: Carl von Linné, Swedish Botaniker and Taxonom († 1778)
• 17. July: Johann Joseph count von Trautson, Erzbischof of the Erzdiözese Vienna and cardinal(† 1757)
• 4. August: Johann August Ernesti, German theologian and Philologe († 1781)
• 25. August: Ludwig (Spain), in the year 1724 king of Spain († 1724)
• 3. September: Johann Peter Süssmilch, GermanMinister and statistician († 1767)
• 7. September: Georges Louis Leclerc count von Buffon, French natural scientist († 1788)
• 1. November: Giuseppe Bonito, Italian painter († 1789)
• 2. November: Johann Julius Hecker, founderthe first Prussian teacher min acre († 1768)

• Johann Nikolaus Ti, German composer († 1774)
• Charles Wesley
• Johann Baptist George Neruda

died

• 4. January: Ludwig William (bathe), was the victorious imperial field gentleman into thatTurk wars (* 1655)
• 9. March: Jean II. d'Estrées, marshal and admiral of France (* 1624)
• 30. March: Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban, French general, master of building of fortresses of Ludwig XIV and marshal of France (* 1633)
• 9. May: Dietrich Buxtehude, Danish-German organist and composer of the baroque (* 1637)
• 17. May: Benjamin Raule, Dutch shipowner and kurbrandenburgischer general naval director (* 1634)
• 27. May: Françoise Athénaïs de Rochechouart de Mortemart, Marquise de Montespan, Mätresse (* 1640)
• 24. June: Kaspar Stieler, German scholar and linguist (* 1632)
• 1. December: Jeremiah Clarke, English composer (* around 1674)
• 27. December: Jean Mabillon, Begründer of the historical subsidiary sciences (* 1632)