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| align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1711 1712 1713 - 1714 - 1715 1716 1717
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| align="center" colspan=2 | ''' 1690s 1700s - 1710s - 1720s 1730s 1740s
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| align="center" | - 18th Century ''' - 19th Century
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, by Maurice Baquoi, 1724-27.]]
Events
Ongoing events
Births
- January 1 - Kristijonas Donelaitis , Lithuanian poet (d. 1780 )
- January 6 - Percivall Pott , English surgeon (d. 1788 )
- January 26 - Jean-Baptiste Pigalle , French sculptor (d. 1785 )
- February 2 - Gottfried August Homilius , German composer (d. 1785 )
- February 22 - Louis-Georges De Bréquigny , French historian (d. 1795 )
- February 25 - René Nicolas Charles Augustin De Maupeou , Chancellor of France (d. 1792 )
- February 25 - Hyde Parker , British admiral (d. 1782 )
- February 26 - James Hervey , English clergyman and writer (d. 1758 )
- March 8 - Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach , German composer (d. 1788 )
- March 27 - Francesco Antonio Zaccaria , Italian theologian and historian (d. 1795 )
- April 14 - Adam Gib , Scottish religious leader (d. 1788 )
- June 6 - King Joseph I Of Portugal (d. 1777 )
- June 17 - Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten , German philosopher (d. 1762 )
- June 17 - César-François Cassini De Thury , French astronomer (d. 1784 )
- July 2 - Christoph Willibald Gluck , German composer (d. 1787 )
- July 16 - Marc René, Marquis De Montalembert , French military engineer and writer (d. 1800 )
- August 1 - Richard Wilson , Welsh painter (d. 1782 )
- August 14 - Claude Joseph Vernet , French painter (d. 1789 )
- August 28 - Anthony Ulrich II, Duke Of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1774 )
- September 10 - Niccolò Jommelli , Italian composer (d. 1774 )
- September 19 - Charles Humphreys , American delegate to the Continental Congress (d. 1786 )
- October 13 - Pieter Burmann The Younger , Dutch philologist (d. 1778 )
- October 16 - Giovanni Arduino , Italian geologist (d. 1795 )
- November 13 - William Shenstone , English poet (d. 1763 )
- November 25 - Yoriyuki Arima , Japanese mathematician (d. 1783 )
- December 16 - George Whitefield , English-born Methodist leader (d. 1770 )
- December 19 - John Winthrop , American astronomer (d. 1779 )
- December 21 - John Bradstreet , Canadian-born soldier (d. 1774 )
Deaths
- February 2 - John Sharp , English Archbishop of Yorkshire (b. 1643 )
- February 24 - Edmund Andros , English governor in North America (b. 1637 )
- May 15 - Roger Elliott , British general and Governor of Gibraltar
- June 8 - Electress Sophia Of Hanover , heir to the throne of Great Britain (b. 1630 )
- June 22 - Matthew Henry , English non-conformist minister (b. 1662 )
- August 1 - Queen Anne Of Great Britain (b. 1665 )
- August 25 - Constantin Brâncoveanu , Prince of Wallachia (b. 1654 )
- August 26 - Edward Fowler , English Bishop of Gloucester (b. 1632 )
- October 5 - Kaibara Ekiken , Japanese philosopher (b. 1630 )
- October 10 - Pierre Le Pesant, Sieur De Boisguilbert , French economist (b. 1646 )
- November 5 - Bernardino Ramazzini , Italian physician (b. 1633 )
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