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| Decades: 1680s 1690s 1700s - 1710s - 1720s 1730s 1740s | |
| Centuries: 17th century - 18th century - 19th century | |
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Events
- July 21 - Treaty of Passarowitz signed
- November 22 - Off the coast of Virginia, English pirate Edward Teach (best known as "Blackbeard") is killed in battle when a British boarding party cornered and then shot and stabbed him more than 25 times.
- November 30 - After the death of Charles XII, Ulrika Eleonora becomes Queen of Sweden
Ongoing events
Births
- May 16 - Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian mathematician (d. 1799)
- September 18 - Nikita Ivanovich Panin, Russian statesman (d. 1783)
Deaths
- May 7 - Mary of Modena, queen of James II of England (b. 1658)
- July 30 - William Penn, American settler, founder of Pennsylvania (b. 1644)
- November 22 - Blackbeard, English pirate
- November 30 - Charles XII of Sweden (b. 1682)
- December 6 - Nicholas Rowe, English poet and dramatist (b. 1674)
- Roderick O Flaherty, Irish chieftan and historian (b. 1629)af:1718
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