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1693
| 1693 • Dimitrie Cantemir presents his Kitâbu 'İlmi'l-Mûsiki alâ Vechi'l-Hurûfât (The Book of the Science of Music through Letters) to Sultan Ahmed II, which deals with melodic and rhythmic structure and practice of Ottoman music and contains the scores for around 350 works composed during and before his own time in an alphabetical notation system he invented. |
1693
Apr 2
Age: 4m
baptismReformed Dutch Church, Kinderhook, Columbia, New York ⇓ She had a twin brother, Jan, who was also baptised on this day. (English version: John.) 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1693 • China concentrates all its foreign trade on Canton; European ships are forbidden to land anywhere else. |
1717
Age: 24y
marriageGloude Le Maistre Columbia, New York, USA ⇓ 3 Sources ⇓ |
| 1717 • Crews on two ships commanded by Benjamin Hornigold and Edward Teach attack and capture the British-built French Guineaman Concorde in the eastern Caribbean. Hornigold soon accepts a British amnesty for all pirates, but Teach rejects it and subsequently becomes known as Blackbeard. |
1726
Age: 33y
birth of childChristyntje Le Maistre 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1726 • Muhammad bin Saud becomes head of the House of Saud. |
1792
Jan 28
Age: 99y
| 1792 • Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor, the last emperor, takes office. |