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 • Premiere performance of the St. John Passion (BWV 245) of Johann Sebastian Bach at St. Nicholas Church, Leipzig. |
1812
May 9
Age: 109y
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birth of childJames Van Deusen Kinderhook, Columbia, New York, USA ⇓ 4 Sources ⇓ |
| 1812 • New York State charters City Bank of New York, which later became Citibank. |
1764
Apr 21
Age: 61y
| 1764 • Stanisław August Poniatowski is elected as the King of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. |