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Mon Mar 05 2001 at 1:22:16
Born in 1712:
Future
Prussian
King
Frederick II
.
French
moral philosopher
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
.
English
politician
George Grenville
.
English politician and playwright
Richard Glover
.
English author
Edward Moore
.
English
composer
John Stanley
.
Italian painter
Francesco Guardi
.
English economist
Josiah Tucker
.
English physician
John Fothergill
.
Italian
art critic
Count
Francesco Algarotti
.
German painter
Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich
.
Scottish poet
Allison Rutherford (Cockburn)
German mathematician
Johann Samuel König
.
Died in 1712:
Italian
astronomer
Giovanni Domenico Cassini
.
Tokugawa Ienobu
,
shogun
of
Japan
.
Richard Cromwell
, onetime
Lord Protector
of
England
.
German composer
Friedrich Wilhelm Zachau
(
Georg Friederic Handel
's teacher).
German
anatomist
Johann Konrad Peyer
.
Dutch painter
Jan van der Heyden
.
English actor
Edward Kynaston
.
English politician
Thomas Osborne
, first
Earl of Danby
.
French mathematician
Denis Papin
.
Mughal emperor
Bahadur Shah
. His son
Jahandar Shah
succeeds him.
Events of 1712:
Louis XIV
grants
Antoine Crozat
a charter for the economic exploitation of
Louisiana
. Crozat appoints
Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac
as the governor of a colony with a population of 400.
Important developments regarding
slavery
in North America.
Pennsylvania
bans the slave trade.
A slave riot in
New York City
leads to the deaths of 8 whites. 25 slaves are later executed, whether in reprisal or as punishment is anyone's guess.
West Indian slaveowner
William Lynch
makes a speech explaining to American slaveowners how to use terror and psychological manipulation to keep their slaves under control.
Queen Anne
divides the
Carolina
colony into
North Carolina
and
South Carolina
.
Great Northern War
:
Sweden transports an army under
Magnus Stenbock
into
Pomerania
but the Danish fleet destroys the ships that transported it. Rather than invading
Poland
, Stenbock has to retreat into
Holstein
.
Polish king
Friedrich Augustus
tries to get political reforms through the
Sejm
but fails; Poland remains a feudal-style kingdom.
Swedish king
Charles XII
is encamped in
Moldavia
, making trips to
Istanbul
to get the
Ottoman Empire
to go to war against Russia.
The War of the Spanish Succession
(aka
Queen Anne's War
) winds down:
The French under Marshal
Claude de Villars
defeat the Austrians under Prince
Eugene
at the
Battle of Denain
.
All of the parties (except
Austria
) meet in
Utrecht
to begin peace negotiations.
French privateers plunder the Dutch colony of
Guyana
.
Tuscarora
Indians raid into
North Carolina
.
Tsar
Peter The Great
:
Marries former Lithuanian peasant girl
Ekaterina Alexeievna
.
Formally moves the capital of
Russia
from
Moscow
to
St. Petersburg
.
Holy Roman Emperor
Charles VI
is crowned king of
Hungary
.
A Protestant victory at the
Battle of Villmergen
leads to the
Treaty of Aargau
giving political ascendancy to Swiss Protestants over their Catholic countrymen.
Jonathan Swift
publishes
A Proposal for Correcting, Improving, and Ascertaining the English Tongue
.
Dr
John Arbuthnot
publishes
The History of John Bull
as well as
The Art of Political Lying
.
Rob Roy
MacGregor
is about to buy some cattle for the
Duke of Montrose
, but his assistant absconds with the money. The Duke has Rob Roy declared an outlaw.
Jane Wenham
becomes the
last person tried for
witchcraft
in England. Convicted, but not executed.
Sikh
scholar
Bhai Mani Singh
publishes a biography (
Janam Sakhi
) of
guru
Gyan Ratnavli
.
The first
sperm whale
is caught by a
Nantucket
whaling ship.
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Croatian Parliament
Giovanni Domenico Cassini
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