January 16 –
Francesco Morosini, the
Doge of Venice since 1688, dies after ruling the Republic for more than five years and a few months after an unsuccessful attempt to capture the island of
Negropont from the Ottoman Empire during the
Morean War.
January 18 –
Sir James Montgomery of Scotland, who had been arrested on January 11 for conspiracy to restore King James to the throne, escapes and flees to France.
January 28 – Pirro e Demetrio, an opera by
Alessandro Scarlatti, is given its first performance, debuting at the Teatro San Bartolomeo in Naples. The opera is adapted in 1708 in London as Pyrrhus and Demetrius and becomes the second most popular opera in 18th century London.
February 6 – The colony of Quilombo dos Palmares, created by rebel African slaves in
Brazil, is destroyed by the
bandeirantes, colonial troops under the command of
Domingos Jorge Velho. After a successful attack on its capital,
Cerca do Macaco, the last King of Dos Palmares,
Zumbi, flees after a reign of more than 13 years, but is later captured and executed.
April 2 –
Sheikh Yusuf, exiled by the administrators of the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia), arrives at the
Dutch Cape Colony on the ship De Voetboog, at what is now
Cape Town,
South Africa, along with two wives, two concubines and 12 children. Resettled by the colonial government at a farm in Zandvliet, the Sheikh introduces
Islam to
South Africa.
April 7 – The English Navy's 40-gun warship,
HMS Ruby, captures the French
privateerEntreprenant in battle. The confiscated ship is renamed HMS Ruby Prize.
April 12 – The French ship Diligente, commanded by
René Duguay-Trouin, covers the escape of a convoy of ships that he is escorting, but then is surrounded and attacked by six Royal Navy ships led by
David Mitchell. Most of the Diligente crew is lost in the battle, and Duguay-Trouin is captured.
April 13 – The largest volcanic eruption of
Mount Vesuvius since 1631 takes place, with lava flows towards both
San Giorgio a Cremano and
Torre del Greco, after explosions in the crater that began April 5. Around April 20, ash falls are experienced as far away as
Calabria.[1]
May 27 – Taking advantage of a fog, the French Army, with 24,000 troops, fights the
Battle of Torroella against an equally large Spanish Army force on the banks of the
Ter in Spain, near the city of
Girona during the
Nine Years' War. The Spaniards suffer 3,000 casualties, while the French sustain 500.
June 22 – An annular
solar eclipse is visible across North America and the Atlantic Ocean.[2]
June 29 – The
Battle of Texel is fought near the Dutch island of
Texel, one of the
West Frisian Islands. The French Navy force of 8 ships, commanded by
Jean Bart, locates and rescues three French ships that had been captured by the
Dutch Republic in late May. Bart fights a larger force commanded by
Hidde Sjoerds de Vries, who dies of his wounds after being captured.
September 5 – The
Great Fire of Warwick breaks out in England and destroys half the town. Donors raise £110,000 toward disaster relief, with Queen Anne contributing £1,000.[6]
June 29 –
Maria Josepha of Dietrichstein, German noblewoman, member of the House of Dietrichstein; by marriage Countess and later Princess Kinsky of Wchinitz und Tettau (d.
1758)
^Henri-Delmas de Grammont, Histoire d'Alger sous la domination turque (1515-1830), Paris, Ernest Leroux, 1887, 458 p. (lire en ligne [archive]), p. 265
^Guillaume Massieu, Oeuvres de Mr de Tourreil (Brunet, 1721) Vol. I, pp. ix–x.
^Ferdinand Brunot, Histoire de la langue française, des origines à 1900, vol. IV (A. Colin, 1939)
^"Fires, Great", in The Insurance Cyclopeadia: Being an Historical Treasury of Events and Circumstances Connected with the Origin and Progress of Insurance, Cornelius Walford, ed. (C. and E. Layton, 1876) p. 46
January 16 –
Francesco Morosini, the
Doge of Venice since 1688, dies after ruling the Republic for more than five years and a few months after an unsuccessful attempt to capture the island of
Negropont from the Ottoman Empire during the
Morean War.
January 18 –
Sir James Montgomery of Scotland, who had been arrested on January 11 for conspiracy to restore King James to the throne, escapes and flees to France.
January 28 – Pirro e Demetrio, an opera by
Alessandro Scarlatti, is given its first performance, debuting at the Teatro San Bartolomeo in Naples. The opera is adapted in 1708 in London as Pyrrhus and Demetrius and becomes the second most popular opera in 18th century London.
February 6 – The colony of Quilombo dos Palmares, created by rebel African slaves in
Brazil, is destroyed by the
bandeirantes, colonial troops under the command of
Domingos Jorge Velho. After a successful attack on its capital,
Cerca do Macaco, the last King of Dos Palmares,
Zumbi, flees after a reign of more than 13 years, but is later captured and executed.
April 2 –
Sheikh Yusuf, exiled by the administrators of the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia), arrives at the
Dutch Cape Colony on the ship De Voetboog, at what is now
Cape Town,
South Africa, along with two wives, two concubines and 12 children. Resettled by the colonial government at a farm in Zandvliet, the Sheikh introduces
Islam to
South Africa.
April 7 – The English Navy's 40-gun warship,
HMS Ruby, captures the French
privateerEntreprenant in battle. The confiscated ship is renamed HMS Ruby Prize.
April 12 – The French ship Diligente, commanded by
René Duguay-Trouin, covers the escape of a convoy of ships that he is escorting, but then is surrounded and attacked by six Royal Navy ships led by
David Mitchell. Most of the Diligente crew is lost in the battle, and Duguay-Trouin is captured.
April 13 – The largest volcanic eruption of
Mount Vesuvius since 1631 takes place, with lava flows towards both
San Giorgio a Cremano and
Torre del Greco, after explosions in the crater that began April 5. Around April 20, ash falls are experienced as far away as
Calabria.[1]
May 27 – Taking advantage of a fog, the French Army, with 24,000 troops, fights the
Battle of Torroella against an equally large Spanish Army force on the banks of the
Ter in Spain, near the city of
Girona during the
Nine Years' War. The Spaniards suffer 3,000 casualties, while the French sustain 500.
June 22 – An annular
solar eclipse is visible across North America and the Atlantic Ocean.[2]
June 29 – The
Battle of Texel is fought near the Dutch island of
Texel, one of the
West Frisian Islands. The French Navy force of 8 ships, commanded by
Jean Bart, locates and rescues three French ships that had been captured by the
Dutch Republic in late May. Bart fights a larger force commanded by
Hidde Sjoerds de Vries, who dies of his wounds after being captured.
September 5 – The
Great Fire of Warwick breaks out in England and destroys half the town. Donors raise £110,000 toward disaster relief, with Queen Anne contributing £1,000.[6]
June 29 –
Maria Josepha of Dietrichstein, German noblewoman, member of the House of Dietrichstein; by marriage Countess and later Princess Kinsky of Wchinitz und Tettau (d.
1758)
^Henri-Delmas de Grammont, Histoire d'Alger sous la domination turque (1515-1830), Paris, Ernest Leroux, 1887, 458 p. (lire en ligne [archive]), p. 265
^Guillaume Massieu, Oeuvres de Mr de Tourreil (Brunet, 1721) Vol. I, pp. ix–x.
^Ferdinand Brunot, Histoire de la langue française, des origines à 1900, vol. IV (A. Colin, 1939)
^"Fires, Great", in The Insurance Cyclopeadia: Being an Historical Treasury of Events and Circumstances Connected with the Origin and Progress of Insurance, Cornelius Walford, ed. (C. and E. Layton, 1876) p. 46