1703
| 1703 • July 31 – Daniel Defoe is placed in a pillory, then imprisoned for four months for the crime of seditious libel, after publishing his politically satirical pamphlet The Shortest Way with the Dissenters (1702) (his release is granted in mid-November). |
1710
Age: 7y
| 1710 • Battle of Helsingborg: Fourteen thousand Danish invaders under Jørgen Rantzau are decisively defeated by an equally large Swedish army under Magnus Stenbock. |
1724
Nov 22
Age: 21y
marriageRobert Van Deusen Kingston, New York, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1724 • Bruno Mauricio de Zabala, Spanish Captain general of the Río de la Plata, forces the Portuguese to abandon their fortified settlement at what will become the city of Montevideo in Uruguay. |
1812
May 9
Age: 109y
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birth of childJames Van Deusen Kinderhook, Columbia, New York, USA ⇓ 4 Sources ⇓ |
1764
Apr 21
Age: 61y
| 1764 • Battle of Buxar: The British East India Company defeats the combined armies of Mir Qasim, the Nawab of Bengal, the Nawab of Awadh, and Mughal Emperor Shah Alam II. |