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| Years: 1709 1710 1711 - 1712 - 1713 1714 1715 | |
| Decades: 1680s 1690s 1700s - 1710s - 1720s 1730s 1740s | |
| Centuries: 17th century - 18th century - 19th century | |
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Events
- 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.
- The delivering of the infamous William Lynch Speech, which helped exert submissiveness on the African American slaves in Virginia.
Ongoing events
Births
- January 24 - King Frederick the Great of Prussia (d. 1786)
- June 28 - Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss philosopher (d. 1778)
Deaths
- July 1 - William King, English poet (b. 1663)
- July 12 - Richard Cromwell, Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland (b. 1626)
- September 14 - Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Italian-French astronomer and engineer (b. 1625)af:1712
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