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Sir James Thornhill
(1675 - 1734)

1675

VA : Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini born
VA : Sir James Thornhill born
LT : Thomas Traherne: Christian Ethicks
PH : Alliance between France and Poland
PH : War between Sweden and Denmark
PH : Charles II of England receives 500,000 crowns from Louis XIV and is able to prorogue Eng. Parliament for 15 months
PH : King Charles II of Spain attains majority
LT : Poems of Basho (pseudonym of Matsuo Munefusa) help popularise Jap. haiku poetry
RP : Jacques Savary: Le Parfait Négociant
RP : Philipp Jacob Spener: Pia desideria
RP : Spinoza finishes his Ethics
RP : Thomas Traherne: Christian Ethics (posth.)
ST : Greenwich Observatory established
ST : Leibniz invents differential and integral calculus
ST : Isaac Newton: Opticks
ST : Finite velocity of light established by Olaus Romer
VA : Johannes Vermeer dies

1676

LT : John Dryden: Aurengzebe
PH : Czar Alexis of Russia dies; succeeded by his son Feodor III
PH : Ahmed Kiuprili dies; succeeded as grand Vizier of Turkey by his brother-in-law Kara Mustafa
RP : "Declaration of the People of Virginia" by Nathaniel Bacon gains support for rebellion against authorities
RP : Pope Clement X dies; Benedetto Odescalchi becomes Pope Innocent XI
RP : Benjamin Thompson; New England's Crisis
RP : Roger Williams: George Fox Digg'd Out of His Burrowes, anti-Quaker tract
ST : Thomas Sydenham: Obervationes medicae
DL : Influenza epidemic in England
RP : Legal protection of Sabbath observance in England

1677

RP : William Cave: History of Martyrdoms
ED : Johann Jacob Hofmann: Lexicon Universale, on science and arts
RP : John Houghton: England's Great Happiness, or A Dialogue between Content and Complaint
RP : Increase Mather: The Troubles That Have Happened in New England
DL : Ice cream becomes popular as dessert in Paris

1678

LT : Henry Vaughan: Thalia Rediviva
LT : John Dryden: All for Love and Limberham
LT : Anne Bradstreet: Several Poems Compiled with Great Variety of Wit and Learning (posth.)
PH : Peace of Nijmegen between France and the Dutch and France and Spain
PH : "Popish Plot" in England revealed; trials of many leading Roman Catholics
PH : Roman Catholics in England excluded from both Houses of Parliament
PH : Hungarian rebellion against Hapsburgs under Emeric Tökölyi
PH : Outbreak of war between Russia and Sweden
RP : John Bunyan: The Pilgrim's Progress, part I
RP : Ralph Cudworth: The True Intellectual System of the Universe
M : Thomas Britton, Eng. patron of music, introduces weekly concerts in Clerkenwell, London
M : First Ger. opera house opens in Hamburg
ST : Ital. mathematician Giovanni Ceva states the geometrical theorem on the nature of concurrency
ST : Christian Huygens records his discovery of the polarisation of light
ST : Robert de La Salle explores the Great Lakes
ST : Thomas Thatcher: A Brief Rule in Small Pocks or Measles, first medical treatise published in America
DL : First chrysanthemums arrive in Holland from Japan
DL : Import of all Fr. goods to England prohibited
PH : End of third Anglo-Dutch war
M : Antonio Vivaldi born 4 March
LT : Andrew Marvell dies 18 August

1679

M : Alessandro Scarlatti : Opera, Gli equivoci nel sembiante
PH : Peace of Nijmegen between Louis XIV and Leopold I
PH : Habeas Corpus Amendment Act in England
PH : Peace of St. Germain-en-Laye between Sweden and Brandenburg
PH : Peace Treaty of Lund between Denmark and Sweden
RP : Gilbert Burnet: History of the Reformation of the Church of England, vol I
RP : Sir William Petty: A Treatise on Taxes and Contributions
RP : Abraham a Sancta Clara: Merk's Wien!, sermons against corruption of morals in Vienna
ST : Elias Ashmole founds Ashmolean Museum at Oxford
ST : Edmund Halley: Catalogus stellarum australium
ST : Fr. Jesuit Louis Hannepin discovers Niagara Falls
DL : Edict against duelling in France
DL : First German coffeehouses in Hamburg
VA : Jean-François de Troy born 27 January

1680

PH : Absolutism in Sweden under King Charles XI
PH : Maximilian II Emanuel becomes Elector of Bavaria
PH : Tsunayoshi becomes Shogun of Japan
LT : Comédie Français formed by merging Théâtre Guénéguad Paris, with Théâtre de'Hôtel de Bourgogne
RP : Robert Filmer: Patriarche, or The Natural Power of Kings
ED : César-Pierre Richelet: Dictionnaire François
RP : Sir William Temple: An Essay on Government
M : First ballets arrive in Germany from France
M : Stradivari makes his earliest known cello
ST : First Brandenburgian expedition to W. Africa
DL : Dodo, flightless bird of the Raphidae family, extinct
DL : Penny post established in London
PH : Start of fourth Anglo-Dutch war
VA : Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini dies

1681

LT : John Dryden: Spanish Friar
M : Marc-Antoine Charpentier : Divertissement, Les Plaisirs de Versailles ('The Pleasures of Versailles')
PH : Defensive alliances between Brandenburg and France and between Brandenburg and Sweden
PH : European Congress meets at Frankfurt
ED : Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet: Discours sur l'histoire universelle
ED : Jean Mabillon: De re diplomatica, study of historical documents as foundation of historical criticism
RP : James Dalrymple of Stair: Institutions of the Law of Scotland
M : Female professional dancers appear for first time at the Paris Opéra
ED : Academy of Sciences, Moscow, founded
ST : Canal du Midi, joining Bay of Biscay to the Mediterranean, finished
DL : Founding of the Chelsea Hospital, London, for wounded and discharged soldiers
DL : First checks in England
M : Johann Mattheson born 28 September
VA : Gerard Ter Borch dies

1682

LT : John Dryden: Absalom and Achitophel, The Medal and Religio Laici
PH : Czar Feodor III of Russia dies; his sister Sophia becomes Regent for her infant brothers, Ivan and Peter
PH : Emeric Tökölyi proclaimed King of Hungary by Turks
ST : Pierre Bayle: Thoughts on the Comet of 1680, against superstitions on comets
RP : John Bunyan: The Holy War
ED : François Eudes de Mézeray: De l'origine des Français
RP : 58,000 Fr. Huguenots forced to conversion
ED : Sir George MacKenzie founds Advocates' Library, Edinburgh, later to becomes Scot. national library
RP : Sir William Petty: Essay Concerning Multiplications of Mankind
ED : Acta eruditorum, first learned periodical appears (in Latin) in Leipzig
DL : Versailles becomes royal residence
DL : Weaving mill with 100 looms established in Amsterdam
VA : Giovanni Batista Piazetta born 13 February

1683

M : Henry Purcell : Ode for St. Cecelia's Day (2 composed in this year, 2 more later)
M : Marc-Antoine Charpentier : Dramatic oratorio, La Descente d'Orphée aux enfers ('The Descent of Orpheus into the Underworld')
PH : Pol.-Aust. alliance against Turks
PH : Rye House Plot to assassinate Charles II discovered
PH : Turks begins siege of Vienna
PH : Spain declares war on France
PH : Alfonso VI, King of Portugal, dies; succeeded by his brother Peter II
PH : Dutch traders admitted to Canton
PH : League of The Hague: the Emperor Leopold I and Charles II of Spain join Dutch-Swed. alliance against France
PH : Manchus conquer Formosa
PH : Peace treaty between William Penn and N. American Indians
RP : Mathew Hale: A Discourse Touching Provision for the Poor
ED : William Penn: A General Description of Pennsylvania
ED : Sir William Petty: The Growth of the City of London
ST : Eng. navigator William Dampier begins voyage around the world
ST : Newton explains mathematical theory on tides under gravitational attraction of sun, moon, and earth
DL : First coffeehouses in Vienna
DL : Wild boars become extinct in Great Britain

1684

PH : The Emperor, Poland and Venice conclude Holy League of Linz against Turks
PH : Bermudas become crown colony
PH : The "Great Elector" offers Fr. Huguenots refuge in Brandenburg
LT : Nouvelles de la République des Lettres, literary review, published
LT : Takemoto Gidayu begins puppet theatre "Joruri" in Tokyo
RP : 93 Jewish families expelled from Bordeaux
RP : Increase Mather: Remarkable Providences
ST : Giovanni Cassini: Les Éléments de l'astronomie vérifiés
ST : Ger. explorer Engelbert Kämpfer travels to Persian Gulf, Java, and Japan
DL : First attempts in London to light the streets
PH : Siamese embassy arrives at court of Louis XIV at Versailles
PH : End of fourth Anglo-Dutch war
VA : Jean-Antoine Watteau born 10 October

1685

M : Henry Purcell : Rejoice in the Lord Alway
PH : Charles II of England dies; succeeded by his brother James II
PH : Charles, the Elector Palatinates, dies; electorate claimed by Louis XIV for his sister-in-law Liselotte
DL : All Chin. ports opened to foreign trade
ED : César de Rochefort: Dictionnaire général et curieux
RP : Louis XIV revokes Edict of Nantes, exiles thousands of Fr. Protestants
ST : David Abercromby: De pulsis variatione
DL : Fr. Huguenots begin silk manufacture in Great Britain
M : George Frideric Handel born 23 February
VA : Jean-Marc Nattier born 17 March
M : Johann Sebastian Bach born 21 March

1686

PH : Russia declares war on Turkey
PH : Roman Catholics readmitted to Eng. army
LT : First Swed. theatre opens in Stockholm
RP : Ger. pietist and educator begins at Leipzig his Collegum Philobiblicum for the study of the Bible
ST : Halley draws first meteorological map
ED : Jean Le Clerc: Bibliothèque universelle et historique, 25 vols
ST : Francis Willughby: Historia piscium (posth.)
DL : Maison St. Cyr founded as convent school for daughters of poor gentlefolk
VA : Jean-Baptiste Oudry born 17 March

1687

VA : Giovanni Battista Pittoni born
LT : John Dryden: The Hind and the Panther
M : Marc-Antoine Charpentier : Divertissement, Idle sur le retour de la santé du roi ('Idyll on the King's Return to Health')
PH : James II issues Declaration of Indulgence for liberty of conscience
PH : Papal nuncio received by James II
PH : Hungarian diet of Pressburg recognises the crown as hereditary possession of the male line of Hapsburgs
PH : Sultan Mohammed IV of Turkey deposed; succeeded by Suleiman III
ED : Fénelon: Traité de l'éducation des filles
RP : Samuel von Pufendorf: The Relation of Religious Liberty to Civilian Life
RP : John Wallis: Institutio logicae
ST : Isaac Newton: Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica
ST : Sir Hans Sloane begins his botanical collection on a visit to Jamaica
ED : University of Bologna founded
M : Jean-Baptiste Lully dies 22 March

1688

VA : François Le Moyne born
M : Henry Purcell : Song 'Evening Hymn'
PH : Frederick William, the "Great Elector" dies; succeeded by his son Frederick III
PH : Transylvania becomes province under King of Hungary
PH : Seven Eng. lords invite William of Orange to England (the "Glorious Revolution")
PH : War between France and the Empire
RP : Jacques- Bénigne Boussuet: Histoires des variations des églises protestantes
DL : Joseph de la Vega: Confusion de confusiones, description of transactions on Amsterdam Exchange
DL : London underwriters begin meeting regularly at Lloyd's Coffee House
ST : Plate glass being cast for first time
DL : Smyrna destroyed by earthquake
LT : Alexander Pope born 21 May

1689

M : Henry Purcell : Musik's Handmaid for harpsichord (including a version of 'Lilliburlero')
M : Henry Purcell : Opera, Dido and Aeneas
PH : Parliament confirms abdication of James II
PH : Declaration of Rights in England, William and Mary proclaimed King and Queen for life (also in Scotland)
PH : Louis XIV declares war on Great Britain
PH : Peter the Great becomes Czar of Russia
PH : Ger. diet declares war on France
RP : Pope Innocent XI dies; Pietro Ottoboni becomes Pope Alexander VIII
ED : John, Lord Somers: A Brief History of the Succession to the Crown of England
RP : William Sherlock: A Practical Discourse Concerning Death
DL : William III establishes Devonport Naval Dockyards
DL : First modern trade fair held in Leiden, Holland

1690

LT : John Dryden: Don Sebastian and Amphitryon
M : François Couperin : Pièces d'orgue consistantes en deux messes, l'une à l'usage ordinaire des paroisses, l'autre propre pour les couvents de religieux et religieuses
M : Marc-Antoine Charpentier : Setting of the Te Deum
PH : Joseph I elected King of the Romans
PH : Act of Grace passed in England
PH : Spain joins Great Alliance against France
RP : John Locke: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
RP : Sir William Petty: Political Arithmetics
DL : Calcutta founded by Eng. colonial administrator Job Charnock
ST : Huyghens publishes his theory of the undulation of light
ST : Fr. engineer Denis Papin devises pump with piston, raised by steam
ED : Academia dell' arcadia founded in Rome
DL : Calico printing introduced to Great Britain from France
VA : Nicolas Lancret born 22 January

1691

LT : John Dryden: King Arthur
M : Johann Pachelbel : Six Suites for two violins
M : Henry Purcell : Incidental music to King Arthur, play by John Dryden
PH : Hapsburgs recognised as rulers of Transylvania
DL : New East India Company formed in London
PH : Sultan Suleiman III of Turkey dies; succeeded by Ahmad II
PH : Treaty of Limerick ends Irish rebellion
RP : Pope Alexander VIII dies; Antonio Pignatelli becomes Pope Innocent XII
RP : Christian Faith Society for West Indies founded in London
RP : Claude Fleury: Histoire ecclésiastique begun (20 vols, completed in 1720)
RP : Kaspar Stieler: Teutsche Sprachschatz
RP : Henry Wharton: Anglia sacra
ED : Anthony à Wood: Athenae Oxonienses
ST : Leibniz: Protagaea, on geology
DL : First directory of addresses published in Paris
VA : Aelbert Cuyp dies

1692

LT : John Dryden: Cleomenes
M : Henry Purcell : Songs 'Music for a While' and 'Nymphs and Shepherds'
M : Henry Purcell : Masque or 'semi opera', The Fairy Queen
VA : Antoine Coypel : Democritus
PH : Massacre of Clan Macdonald at Glencoe
PH : Duke Ernst August of Hanover becomes 9th Elector of the Holy Roman Empire
LT : Nahum Tate made poet laureate
RP : Edict of Toleration for Christians in China
ED : William and Mary College founded in Virginia
ED : Johann Konrad Amman: Der redende Stumme, manual of language for deaf-mutes
DL : The Bank, later becomes banking house of Coutts and Co., opened in Strand, London
DL : Earthquake in Jamaica
DL : Queen Mary II founds Greenwich Hospital for wounded sailors and pensioners

1693

LT : John Dryden: A Discourse concerning the Original and Progress of Satire
M : Johann Pachelbel : Chorale Preludes for organ
M : Marc-Antoine Charpentier : Opera, Médée
PH : Louis XIV begins his peace policy, reconciliation with the Vatican
DL : National Debt begins in England
RP : Edmund Halley: The Degrees of Mortality of Mankind
RP : Secret society, Knights of the Apocalypse, founded in Italy to defend the church against the antichrist
ED : Leibniz: Codex Juris gentium diplomaticus
ED : John Locke: Thoughts Concerning Education, on learning foreign languages
RP : Cotton Mather: Wonders of the Invisible World
RP : William Penn: An Essay on the Present and Future Peace of Europe
DL : Kingston, Jamaica, founded

1694

VA : Corrado Giaquinto born
VA : Charles-Antoine Coypel born
LT : John Dryden: Love Triumphant
M : Alessandro Scarlatti : Opera, Il Pirro e Demetrio
M : Henry Purcell : Ode 'Come Ye Sons of Art' (including aria, 'Sound the Trumpet')
M : Tomaso Albinoni : Opera, Zenobia
M : Tomaso Albinoni : 12 Trio Sonatas
DL : Founding of the Bank of England
PH : Triennial Bill providing for new Parliamentary election every third year
PH : Augustus the Strong, Elector of Saxony
PH : Hussain becomes Shah of Persia
ED : Dictionnaire de l'Académie française, first edition, 2 vols.
ST : Rudolf Camerarius: De sexu plantarum epistola
ED : University of Halle founded
DL : Salt tax doubled in England

1695

M : Johann Pachelbel : Magnificat Fugues for organ
M : Henry Purcell : Semi opera, The Indian Queen
M : Henry Purcell : 'The Golden Sonata' for 2 violins, viola de gamba, and keyboard
M : Henry Purcell : Queen Mary's Funeral Music
PH : Ahmad II, Sultan of Turkey, dies; succeeded by Mustafa II
DL : End of government press censorship in England
RP : John Locke: The Reasonableness of Christianity
ST : Pendant barometer invented
ED : University of Berlin founded
ST : Magnesium sulfate isolated (epsom salts)
ST : John Woodward: Essay Toward a Natural History of the Earth and Terrestrial Bodies
DL : Royal Bank of Scotland founded
DL : Window tax in England
LT : Henry Vaughan dies 23 April
M : Henry Purcell dies 21 November
VA : Jean-Baptiste Joseph Pater born 29 December

1696

VA : Louis Tocqué born
DL : New coinage in England carried out by John Locke and Isaac Newton
PH : Eng. Habeas Corpus Act suspended
ED : Nicolas Antonio: Bibliotheca Hispana vetus, Span. bibliography
ED : William Nicolson: The English Historical Library, 3 vols.
VA : Kunstakademie, Berlin, founded
ED : John Bellers: Proposals for Raising a College of Industry, on the education of children
DL : Board of Trade and Plantations founded in England
DL : First Eng. property insurance company founded
VA : Giambattista Tiepolo born 5 March

1697

M : Alessandro Scarlatti : Opera, and La caduta dei Decemviri
PH : Peter the Great, calling himself Peter Michailoff, sets out on a year-and-a-half journey to Prussia, Holland, England and Vienna to study European ways of life
PH : Charles XI, King of Sweden, dies; succeeded by Charles XII
PH : Augustus, Elector of Saxony, converted to Roman Catholicism, elected King of Poland in succession to Jan III
PH : In Treaty of Ryswick: France recognises William III as King of England
PH : China conquers western Mongolia
ED : Pierre Bayle: Dictionnaire historique et critique, 2 vols
ED : William Wotton: Reflections on Ancient and Modern Learning
DL : Last remains of Maya civilisation destroyed by Spanish in Yucatan
RP : Daniel Defoe: An Essay Upon Projects, recommending income tax
DL : Sedan chair a popular means of transportation
DL : Court of Versailles becomes model for European courts
DL : Whitehall Palace, London, burns down
VA : Giovanni Antonio Canal born 18 October
VA : William Hogarth born 10 November

1698

PH : Rebellion of Czar Peter's praetorian guard in Moscow; leaders executed
PH : Elector Ernest August of Hanover dies; his eldest son George Louis, future King George I of England, becomes electoral prince
DL : Leopold of Anhalt-Dessau introduces goose-stepping and iron ramrods in Prussian army
RP : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (SPCK) founded
ED : Bibliotheca Casanatense founded in Rome
RP : Algernon Sidney: Discourses Concerning Government (posth.)
DL : The General Society (New East India Trading Company) founded in London
DL : Paper manufacturing begins in N. America
DL : Tax on beards in Russia
DL : Mrs. White's Chocolate House opens in London, soon to become headquarters of Tory Party

1699

LT : John Dryden: Fables
M : Johann Pachelbel : Hexachordum Apollinis six arias with variations for organ or harpsichord
VA : Alexandre Francois Desportes : Self-Portrait as a Huntsman
PH : Peace of Karlowitz signed by Austria, Russia, Poland and Venice with Turkey
PH : Denmark and Russia sign mutual defence pact
PH : Treaty of Preobrazhenskoe signed by Denmark, Russia, Poland, and Saxony for partition of Swed. empire
PH : Christian V, King of Denmark, dies; succeeded by Frederick IV
RP : Richard Bentley: Dissertation Upon the Epistles of Phalaris
RP : Gilbert Burnet: Exposition of the Thirty-Nine Articles
ST : William Dampier explores northwest coast of Australia
ST : Pierre Lemoyne founds first European settlement in Louisianna, at Fort Maurepas
DL : Billingsgate, London, becomes a market
DL : Peter the Great decrees that New Year in Russia will begin on January 1 instead of September 1
VA : Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin born 2 November

1700

PH : The Great Northern War
PH : King Charles II of Spain dies, setting the stage for the War of the Spanish Succession
M : Alessandro Scarlatti : Opera, Lesbina e Adolfo
LT : Development of the Kabuki Theatre in Japan
RP : Pope Innocent XII dies; Gian Francesco Albani becomes Pope Clement XI
DL : Unmarried women taxed in Berlin
ED : Berlin Academy of Science founded
M : Joseph Saveur measures and explains vibrations of musical tones
LT : John Dryden dies 30 April

1701

PH : Act of Settlement in Britain. This settlement establishes the Hanoverian Monarchy
PH : War of Spanish Succession
PH : Prince Elector Frederick III of Brandenburg crowns himself Frederick I "King of Prussia"
ED : University of Venice founded
ED : Yale College founded
M : Music publisher Henry Playford establishes a series of weekly concerts at Oxford
RP : Father Francisco Ximénes translates sacred national book of the Quiché Indians of Guatemala, Popul Vah
RP : Benjamin Whichcote: Several Discourses; Moral and Religious Aphorisms
ED : Jeremy Collier: The Great historical, Geographical, Genealogical, and Political Dictionary 2 vols.
PH : James II of England dies; Louis XIV recognises James Edward as King James III

1702

VA : Pietro Longhi born
M : Marc-Antoine Charpentier : Motet, Judicium Salomonis ('Solomon's Judgement')
M : Marc-Antoine Charpentier : Mass, Assumpta est Maria ('The Assumption of Mary')
VA : Antoine Coypel : Venus Imploring Jupiter in Favour of Aeneas
DL : Serfdom abolished in Denmark
DL : The Daily Courant, first daily newspaper issued in London
ED : Jesuit college founded in Breslau
DL : Asiento Guinea Company founded for slave trade between Africa and America
VA : Japanese painter Ogata Korin unites the two imperial schools of Japanese painting - Kano and Yamato
RP : Armenian Priest Mekhitar of Sebaste founds in Constantinople Order of the Mekhitarists, Roman Catholic Armenian monks
RP : Cotton Mather: Magnalia Christi Americana, ecclesiastical history of New England
RP : Daniel Defoe: The Shortest Way with Dissenters
LT : Edward Busshe: The Art of English Poetry
PH : Rebellion of Protestant peasants, "Camisards", in Cévennes
LT : Earliest form of English pantomime given at Drury Lane, London
PH : William III dies, succeeded by Queen Anne    GO !
VA : Francesco Zuccarelli born 15 August

1703

PH : Treaty of Methuen signed by Britain and Portugal
DL : Peter the Great lays foundations of St. Petersburg
ST : Isaac Newton elected President of the Royal Society
PH : Archduke Charles proclaimed King of Spain in Madrid
ED : Universal, Historical, Geographical, Chronological and Classical Dictionary
VA : Corrado Giaquinto born
VA : François Boucher born 29 September

1704

DL : Earliest subscription library in Berlin
ST : Isaac Newton: Optics, defence of the theory of light
ST : John Harris : Lexicon technicum, encyclopaedia of the sciences
ED : Dictionnaire de Trévoux, of terms used in arts and sciences, published by the Jesuits at Trévoux
PH : Augustus II of Poland deposed, Stanislas Leszczynski elected King Stanislas I
M : Marc-Antoine Charpentier dies 24 February
VA : Maurice Quentin de La Tour born 5 September

1705

PH : Turkish Authority overthrown in Tunis
M : Johann Sebastian Bach : Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, for organ
ST : Royal Observatory, Berlin, founded
LT : His Majesty's Theatre opens in London
ST : Edmund Halley correctly predicts the return in 1758 of the comet seen in 1682
PH : The Emperor Leopold I dies; succeeded by his eldest son, Joseph I
VA : Charles-André van Loo born 15 February

1706

M : Tomaso Albinoni : Opera, Griselda
ST : Olous Römer's catalogue of astronomical observations
RP : Mathew Tindal: Rights of the Christian Church
PH : Peace of Altrandstadt: Augustus renouces Polish throne, recognises King Stanislas I
M : Johann Pachelbel dies 7 March

1707

PH : Act of Union, Scotland and England become one country
PH : Death of Aurangzeb leads to the disintegration of the Mughal Empire
M : Great German organ builder Gottfried Silbermann builds first organ at Frauenstein, Saxony
ED : Edward Lhuyd: Archeologica Britannica, on Celtic language
RP : Isaac Watts: Hymns and Spiritual Songs
PH : Aurangzeb, Mogul Emperor of Hindustan dies; succeeded by Bahadur Shah
PH : "Perpetual Alliance" signed between Prussia and Sweden
PH : King Peter II of Portugal dies; succeeded by John V
M : Dietrich Buxtehude dies 9 May

1708

M : Tomaso Albinoni : Opera, Vespetta e Pimpione
ED : Professorship of poetry founded at Oxford University
RP : Jeremy Collier: The Ecclesiastical History of Great Britain
ED : Bernard de Montfaucon: Paleographia Graeca
LT : First German theatre opens in Vienna
DL : British East India Company and New East India Company merged
PH : Peter the Great divides Russia into eight government districts to ease administration
VA : Pompeo Girolamo Batoni born 25 January

1709

LT : Alexander Pope: Pastorals
M : George Frideric Handel : Opera, Agrippina
DL : First Russian prisoners sent to Siberia
DL : First Copyright Act in Britain
M : Invention of the pianoforte
RP : John Strype: Annals of the Reformation
PH : Ienobe becomes Shogun in Japan
PH : 14,000 inhabitants of the Palatinate emigrate to North America
PH : Peace negotiations at The Hague

1710

RP : George Berkeley: A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
LT : The Examiner, literary periodical, issued for first time
VA : Alexandre Francois Desportes : Still Life with Dog and Game
VA : Sir James Thornhill : The Apotheosis of Romulus
RP : William King: An Historical Account of the Heathen Gods and Heroes
RP : Leibniz: Théodicée (God Created the best of all possible worlds)
RP : Cotton Mather: Essays to Do Good
DL : English South Sea Company founded
VA : Jakob Christoph Le Blon invents three-colour printing
DL : Porcelain factory at Meissen, Saxony, founded

1711

LT : Alexander Pope: An Essay on Criticism
VA : Alexandre Francois Desportes : Still Life with Dead Hare and Fruit
VA : Alexandre Francois Desportes : Still Life (Summer)
PH : War between Russia and Turkey
PH : Joseph I dies is ultimately succeeded by his brother Charles VI, father of Maria Theresa
RP : Francis Atterbury: Representation of the State of Religion
ED : Berlin Academy started
RP : Anthony Ashley Cooper: Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, and Times
ED : Thomas Maddox: The History of Antiquities of the Exchequer
RP : William Whiston: Primitive Christianity Revived
VA : London Academy of Arts established under Geoffrey Kneller
M : Clarinet for first time in an orchestra (in J.A.Hasse's opera Croesus)
M : Tuning fork invented (supposedly by John Shore)

1712

ST : The First Industrial Revolution begins when Newcomen's Steam Engine is installed at the Dudley Castle Coal Mine
LT : Alexander Pope: early version of The Rape of the Lock
PH : Peace congress opens at Utrecht
PH : Treaty of Aarau ends Swiss war
PH : War of Succession between Shah Bahadur's four sons in India
ED : Jonathan Swift: A Proposal for Correcting the English Language
ED : Académie des sciences, belles lettres et arts, Bordeaux, founded
ED : Biblioteca nacional, Madrid, founded
ST : Cotton Mather begins his Curiosa Americana
RP : Last execution for witchraft in England
DL : Slave revolts in New York
VA : Francesco Guardi born 5 October

1713

PH : The Pragmactic Sanction by Charles VI, allowing Maria Theresa to become the Monarch of Austria
DL : Asentio Treaty signed by Britain and Spain. This treaty begins the most active period of the British slave trade
DL : King Friedrich I dies and his son Friedrich Wilhelm becomes King of Prussia
LT : Alexander Pope: Windsor Forest
M : François Couperin : Pièces de Clavecin Book I
M : Johann Sebastian Bach : Canata No.208 ('Where Sheep May Safely Graze)
PH : King Frederick I of Prussia dies; succeeded by Frederick William I
PH : Peace of Adrianople between Turkey and Russia
PH : Pragmatic Sanction issued by the Emperor Charles VI states female right of succession in Hapsburg domains
PH : An infant, Ietsugu, becomes Shogun of Japan
LT : Scriblerus Club founded in London by Swift, Pope, Congreve, and others
RP : Arthur Collier: Clavis Universalis, or A New Inquiry After Truth
RP : Fénelon: Traité de l'existence et des attributs de Dieu
RP : Abbé Saint Pierre: Projet pour la paix perpétuelle
ED : Spanish Royal Academy, Madrid, founded
M : School of Dance established at Paris Opéra
ST : Board of Longitude in England
ST : Roger Cotes revises Newton's Principia
DL : Pigtails introduced in Prussian Army
PH : 11 April - The Treaty of Utrecht ends Queen Anne's War
VA : Allan Ramsay born 13 October

1714

PH : George I of Hanover became King of England
M : Johann Sebastian Bach : The Little Organ Book
PH : Peace of Rastatt between France and the Holy Roman Empire
PH : Queen Anne of England dies; succeeded by George Louis, elector of Hanover, as King George I
PH : Peace of Baden: France keeps Strasbourg and Alsace
RP : Gottfried Arnold: Unpartheyische Kirchen-und Ketzer-Historie
ED : Worcester College, Oxford, founded
ST : D.G. Fahrenheit constructs mercury thermometer with temperature scale
RP : Witch trials abolished in Prussia
M : C.P.E. Bach born 8 March
VA : Richard Wilson born 1 August
VA : Claude-Joseph Vernet born 14 August

1715

PH : The First Jacobite uprising
VA : Jean-Baptiste Perronneau born
M : François Couperin : Concerts Royaux
M : François Couperin : Trois Leçons de ténèbres pour le Mercredi Saint for voice and basso continuo motets for voice and instruments, "dans le style de Charpentier"
VA : Jean-Antoine Watteau : Jupiter & Antiope
PH : First Parliament of George I opens
PH : Louis XIV of France dies; succeeded by his great-grandson Louis XV (age 5)
PH : Jacobite rebellion in Scotland
PH : Mir Abdullah becomes ruler in Kandahar
RP : Isaac Watts: Divine Songs for Children
VA : Early beginnings of rococo
LT : Vaudevilles, popular musical comedies, appear in Paris
ST : British mathematician Brook Taylor invents the calculus of finite differences
VA : English painter and architect William Kent "frees the English garden from formality"

1716

VA : Joseph Marie Vien born
VA : Jean-Antoine Watteau : Portrait of Pater
PH : The Emperor Charles VI declares war on Turkey
PH : Treaty of Westminster between England and the Emperor
PH : Yoshimune becomes Shogun of Japan
RP : Christian religious teaching prohibited in China
M : Couperin: L'Art de toucher le clavecin
DL : Scot. economist John Law establishes the Banque générale in France
DL : Royal Regiment of Artillary founded

1717

LT : Alexander Pope: Collected works
M : François Couperin : Pièces de Clavecin Book II
M : George Frideric Handel : Chandos Anthems
M : George Frideric Handel : Instrumental, Water Music
VA : Jean-Antoine Watteau : L'Assemblée dans un parc
VA : Jean-Marc Nattier : Portrait of Peter I
PH : Mongols occupy Lhasa
RP : Cardinal de Retz: Mémoires (posth.)
ST : Inoculation against smallpox introduced in England
DL : Mother Grand Lodge of Freemasons established in London
DL : School attendance in Prussia made compulsory
M : Johann Wenzel Anton Stamitz born 19 June

1718

VA : Jean-Antoine Watteau : Mezzetin
M : Alessandro Scarlatti : Opera, Il trionfo dell'onore ovvero Il dissoluto pentito
M : George Frideric Handel : Pastoral Opera, Acis and Galatea
VA : Jean-Antoine Watteau : Pilgrims Leaving
the Isle of Cythera
VA : Jean-Antoine Watteau : Gilles as Pierrot
VA : Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini : Apollo
PH : Peter the Great has his son and heir, Alexis, murdered
PH : Peace of Passarowitz ends war between the Empire and Turkey
PH : Quadruple Alliance signed by France, the Empire, England, and Holland
PH : England declares war on Spain
ED : Accademia dei Scienze, Lettere, ed Arti founded at Palermo
ED : Philibert-Joseph Le Roux: Dictionnaire comique, satryique, critque, burlesque, libre, et proverbial
ED : London Society of Antiquaries founded
ST : English inventor Sir Thomas Lombe patents machine which makes thrown silk
ED : Collegiate School of America transfers to new site in New Haven, and is renamed Yale University
DL : First bank notes in England

1719

PH : France declares war on Spain
PH : Liechtenstein becomes independent principalilty
PH : Peace of Stockholm between Sweden and Hanover
PH : Ireland declared inseparable from England
PH : Mohammed Shah, grandson of Bahadur Shah, becomes the Great Mogul
RP : Jesuits expelled from Russia
M : Dimitrie Cantemir writes first book on Turkish music, Tratat de musica Turcéasea
DL : The Boston Gazette founded
DL : Oriental Company founded in Vienna to trade in the East
DL : Westminster Hospital, London, founded
DL : First cricket match: "Londoners" vs. "Kentish Men"

1720

VA : Nicolas Lancret : Fete in a Wood
M : George Frideric Handel : Harpsichord Suite No.5
VA : Jean-Antoine Watteau : A Halt During the Chase
VA : Jean-Antoine Watteau : Italian Comedians
PH : Treaty of Stockholm between Sweden and Prussia
PH : Ulrica, Queen of Sweden, abdicates; succeeded by her husband Frederick, Prince of Hesse-Cassel
PH : Treaty of Fredericksborg between Sweden and Denmark
DL : "South Sea Bubble", English speculation craze, bursts
PH : Pragmatic Sanction recognised by estates of Upper and Lower Austria
PH : Tibet becomes a Chinese protectorate
LT : Old Haymarket theatre opens in London
LT : First serialisation of novels in newspapers
ED : Bernard de Montfaucon: L'Antiquité expliquée
DL : Palatinate court moved from Heidelberg to Mannheim
DL : Wallpapers becomes fashionable in England
DL : First yacht club established at Cork Harbour, Ireland
VA : Bernardo Bellotto born 30 January
VA : Giovanni Battista Piranesi born 4 October

1721

PH : Treaty of Nystad signed by Russia and Sweden, ends the Great Northern War
ST : Dutch Navigator Jacob Roggeveen discovers Samoa and Easter Island
M : Alessandro Scarlatti : Opera, La Griselda
M : Johann Sebastian Bach : Brandenburg Concertos
VA : Jean-Antoine Watteau : L'Enseigne de Gersaint
VA : Jean-Baptiste Oudry : Still life with Fruit
VA : Jean-Baptiste Oudry : Dead Wolf
VA : Jean-Baptiste Oudry : Dead Roe
PH : Peter I proclaimed Emperor of All the Russians
PH : China suppresses Formosa revolt
ED : Nathaniel Bailey: An Universal Etymologycal English dictionary
RP : Michele Angelo Conti elected Pope Innocent XIII in succession to Pope Clement XI
ED : Johann Theodor Jablonski of Danzig publishes his Allgemeines Lexikon, first short encyclopaedia
DL : Swiss immigrants introduced rifles into America
VA : Jean-Antoine Watteau dies 18 July

1722

M : François Couperin : Pièces de Clavecin Book III
M : Johann Sebastian Bach : The Well-Tempered Clavier, first book
M : Tomaso Albinoni : 12 Concertos
VA : Jean-Baptiste Oudry : Allegory of Europe
PH : Mir Mahmud conquers Afghanistan and becomes Shah
DL : Austrian East India Company founded
PH : With Shih Tsung the Yung Cheng dynasty accedes in China
PH : Hernhut founded as Moravian settlement in Saxony by Count Zinzendorf
VA : James Gibbs builds St. Martin-in-the-fields, London
M : Hohann Metheson: Critica Musica, on musical criticism
M : Rameau: Traité de l'harmonie
DL : British Parliament forbids journalists to report debates
DL : Workhouse Test Act for care of poor
VA : Antoine Coypel dies 7 January

1723

VA : Gavin Hamilton born
M : Johann Sebastian Bach : Cantata No.147 (including 'Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring')
M : Johann Sebastian Bach : St. John Passion
VA : François Le Moyne : Perseus and Andromeda
VA : François Le Moyne : Hunting Picnic
VA : Jean-François de Troy : The Alarm
PH : Louis XV attains majority
PH : Treaty of Charlottenburg between England and Prussia
PH : Prussia establishes a ministry of war, finance, and domains
ED : T'u Shu Chi Ch'eng, Chinese encyclopaedia
ED : Lodovico Antonio Muratori: Rerum italicarum scriptores, collection of medieval historical material
VA : Sir Joshua Reynolds born 16 July

1724

M : George Frideric Handel : Opera, Giulio Cesare in Egitto ('Julius Caesar in Egypt')
VA : Alexandre Francois Desportes : Dog Guarding Game near a Rosebush
VA : Nicolas Lancret : The Seat of Justice in
the Parliament of Paris
VA : François Le Moyne : Hercules and Omphale
VA : François Le Moyne : Bather
VA : Jean-Baptiste Oudry : Still Life with a Monkey, Fruit and Flowers
PH : Philip V of Spain abdicates; his successor Luis I dies, Philip King again
PH : Czar Peter the Great crowns his wife, Catherine, Czarina
LT : Longman's the oldest English publishing house still extant, founded
ED : John Oldmixon: A Critical History of England
ED : Professorships of modern history and languages founded at Oxford and Cambridge
M : Three Choirs Festival founded for Gloucester, Hereford, and Worcester
ED : Daniel Defoe: A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain
DL : Gin drinking becomes popular in Great Britain
DL : Paris Bourse opens
VA : George Stubbs born 24 August

1725

PH : Peter the Great, King of Russia dies
PH : Peter the Great of Russia dies; succeeded by his wife Catherine
PH : Treaty of Vienna guarantees the Pragmatic Sanction
PH : Louis XV of France marries Maria Leszczynska of Poland
PH : Ashraf, Shah of Afghanistan, succeeds Mahmud in Persia
RP : Frances Hutcheson: An Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue
M : J.J.Fux: Gradus ad Parnassum, treatise on counterpoint
M : First public concert given in Paris
M : Prague opera house (Standetheater) founded
ST : Guillaume Delisle "Map of Europe"
ED : St. Petersburg Academy of Science founded by Catherine I
DL : George I revives Military Order of the Bath
DL : The New York Gazette issued
VA : Jean-Baptiste Greuze born 21 August
M : Alessandro Scarlatti dies 22 October

1726

M : François Couperin : Les Nations 4 grand Sonatas
VA : François Le Moyne : The Continence of Scipio
VA : Jean-François de Troy : Diana at Rest
PH : Alliances between Empire and Russia against Turkey
RP : St. John of the Cross canonised
RP : Johann Lorenz von Mosheim: Institutiones historiae ecclesiasticae
DL : First circulating library established by Allan Ramsay in Edinburgh

1727

M : George Frideric Handel : Coronation anthem, Zadok the Priest
M : Johann Sebastian Bach : St. Mathew Passion
PH : Catherine, Russian Czarina, dies; Peter II becomes Czar
RP : American Philosophical Society founded in Philadelphia
RP : John Balguy: The Foundation of Moral Goodness
ST : Stephen Hales: Vegetable Staticks
ST : Coffee first planted in Brazil
DL : Miscellanies, satirical periodical issued by Pope, Swift, and Dr. Arbuthnot
DL : Quakers demand abolition of slavery
VA : Thomas Gainsborough born 14 May

1728

ST : Danish Navigator Vitus Bering explores the Bering Straits
LT : Alexander Pope: The Dunciad
VA : Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin : The Ray
PH : Treaty of Berlin between the Emperor Charles VI and Frederick William of Prussia
ED : Ephraim Chambers: Cyclopaedia, or An Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences
RP : William Law: A Serious Call to Devout and Holy Life
RP : Jonathan Swift: A Short View of the State of Ireland
ST : Dutch explorer Vitus Behring discovers Behring Strait
ST : James Bradley discovers aberration of light of fixed stars
DL : Madrid Lodge of Freemasons founded; soon suppressed by Inquisition
VA : Anton Raphael Mengs born 22 March

1729

PH : Cathrine II is born
M : Johann Sebastian Bach : Suite No.3 in D (including 'Air on the G String')
VA : Charles-André van Loo : Aeneas Carrying Anchises
VA : François Le Moyne : Pygmalion Seeing His Statue Come to Life
PH : Treaty of Seville between France, Spain, and England
RP : Thomas Sherlock: A Tryal of the Witnesses of the Resurrection of Jesus
ED : Academia de buenas letras, Barcelona, founded
DL : The Emperor Yung Cheng prohibits opium smoking in China

1730

PH : Maratha government in India
M : François Couperin : Pièces de Clavecin Book IV
VA : Jean-Baptiste Oudry : Louis XV Hunting Stag in the Forest of Saint-Germain
VA : Jean-Baptiste Joseph Pater : Young Girls Bathing
VA : Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini : Allegory of Sculpture
VA : Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini : Allegory of Painting
PH : Czar Peter of Russia dies; succeeded by Anne, daughter of Czar Ivan V
PH : Crown Prince Frederick of Prussia imprisoned by his father
PH : Sultan Ahmad XII of Turkey deposed; succeeded by Mahmoud I
PH : Frederick IV of Denmark dies; succeeded by Christian VI
PH : Ashraf, Shah of Persia, murdered
RP : Pope Benedict XIII dies; Cardinal Lorenzo Corsini becomes Pope Clement XII
RP : Mathew Tindal: Christianity as Old as the Creation
RP : John and Charles Wesley found Methodist sect at Oxford
ED : Martin Wright: Introduction to the Law of Tenures, on English land law
DL : Edinburgh Royal Infirmary founded
DL : Reduction of slavery in China under the Emperor Yung Cheng

1731

PH : The infamous Rebecca Incident near Havanna Cuba sets the stage for the War of Jenkin's Ear
LT : Alexander Pope: Moral Essays
M : Johann Sebastian Bach : Magnificat in D Major
VA : Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin : A "Lean Diet" with Cooking Utensils
PH : Treaty of Vienna between England, Holland, Spain, and the Holy Roman Emperor
PH : Russia, Prussia, and the emperor agree to oppose Stanislas I in Poland
RP : Ralph Cudworth: Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality
RP : Mass expulsion of Protestants from Salzburg
ED : Voltaire: Histoire de Charles XII
ST : Dr John Arbuthnot: An Essay Concerning the Nature of Ailments, advocates dieting
DL : 10 Downing Street, Westminster, London residence of British prime ministers, built

1732

LT : Poor Richards Almanac first appears in print
VA : Giambattista Tiepolo : The Education
of the Virgin Mary
VA : Giovanni Antonio Canal : The Basin of San Marco
RP : Conrad Beissel founds Seventh Day Baptists (Ephrata Community) in Germantown, Pa
RP : George Berkeley: The Minute Philosopher
RP : The Moravian Brethren start missionary work
ED : J.J.Moser: Foundations of International Law
M : Academie of Ancient Music founded in London
M : Covent Garden Opera House, London, opened
M : J.G. Walther: Musik-Lexikon, first of its kind
ST : Hermann Boerhaave: Elements of Chemistry
DL : Benjamin Franklin: Poor Richard's Almanack issued
M : Joseph Haydn born 1 April
VA : Jean Honoré Fragonard born 5 April

1733

VA : Giambattista Tiepolo : The Banquet of Cleopatra
PH : The War of the Polish Succession
LT : Alexander Pope: Imitations of Horace
VA : Jean-Baptiste Joseph Pater : The Fair at Bezons
VA : Jean-François de Troy : Allegory of Music
PH : War of Polish Succession begins
PH : France declares war against Emperor Charles VI
RP : Alexander Pope: Essay on Man
DL : Latin language abolished in English courts
DL : The Serpentine, Hyde Park, laid out
VA : Hubert Robert born 22 May
M : François Couperin dies 12 September

1734

VA : Giambattista Tiepolo : The Triumph of
Zephyr and Flora
LT : Alexander Pope: Essay on Man
M : Johann Sebastian Bach : Coffeehouse Canatas
M : Johann Sebastian Bach : Christmas Oratorio
PH : War breaks out between Turkey and Persia
PH : Anglo-Russian trade agreement
RP : Mme de Lambert, in her Avis d'une Mère à sa Fille, recommends university education for women
ED : University of Göttingen founded by King George I
RP : The Koran translated into English by George Sale
VA : Sir James Thornhill dies 13 May
VA : Joseph Wright of Derby born 3 September
VA : George Romney born 15 December
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