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1672
| 1672 • Münster and Cologne begin their invasion of the Dutch Republic; hence 1672 becomes known as het rampjaar ("the disaster year") in the Netherlands. |
1702
Oct 30
Age: 30y
marriageElizabeth Johnson Virginia, USA ⇓ 2 Sources ⇓ |
| 1702 • John Churchill is created duke of Marlborough. |
1707
Sep
Age: 35y
birth of childJohn Bourne Jr. Fredericksburg, Virginia, USA ⇓ 3 Sources ⇓ |
| 1707 • Death of Aurangzeb precipitates disintegration of Mughal Empire in India. |
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Age: 36y
1708
Age: 36y
birth of childChristian Bourne |
| 1708 • Italian philosopher Giambattista Vico delivers his inaugural lecture to the University of Naples, published as his first book, On the Study Methods of Our Time, in 1709. |
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Age: 41y
1713
Age: 41y
birth of childSarah Bourne |
| 1713 • Tuscarora War: The Carolina militia under Colonel James Moore leaves Fort Reading to continue the campaign against the Tuscarora. |
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Age: 43y
1715
Age: 43y
birth of childRobert Bourne |
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Age: 44y
1716
Age: 44y
birth of childAndrew Bourne |
| 1716 • George Seton, 5th Earl of Winton, under sentence of death for his part in the Jacobite rising of 1715, escapes from the Tower of London and flees into exile on the continent. |
1717
Age: 45y
birth of childFrancis Bourne |
| 1717 • Most recent rupture of New Zealand's Alpine Fault with an earthquake estimated to have had a magnitude between 7.8 and 8.1. |
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Age: 47y
1719
Age: 47y
| 1719 • In Louisiana (New France), Bienville's brother Serigny arrives on a French man-of-war, bringing news that war was declared between France and Spain (from December 1718). |
1721
Jun 29
Age: 49y
| 1721 • Peter I is proclaimed the first Emperor of All the Russias. This replaces the 176 year long Tsardom of Russia with the Russian Empire. It collapses in 1917. |