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Events
January
- February 26 - March 6 What is now the northeastern United States was paralyzed by a series of blizzards that buried the region.
March
May
June
August
September
November
- November - Crews on two ships commanded by Benjamin Hornigold and Edward Teach attack and capture the British built French guineyman "Concorde" in the eastern Caribbean . Hornigold soon accepts a British amnesty for all pirates, but Teach rejects it and subsequently becomes known as Blackbeard.
December
- December - Blackbeard teams up with Stede Bonnet but later takes his ship and demotes Bonnett to guest. The " Queen Anne's Revenge " and "Revenge" take several ships as prizes in the Caribbean. Blackbeard eventually adds two more ships to his party and sails north to the North American coast.
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Ongoing events
Births
- January 5 - William Wildman Shute Barrington , British statesman (d. 1793 )
- January 28 - Mustafa III , Ottoman Sultan (d. 1774 )
- January 29 - Jeffrey Amherst , British soldier and conqueror of Quebec (d. 1797 )
- February 2 - Ernst Gideon Freiherr Von Laudon , Austrian field marshal (d. 1790 )
- February 19 - David Garrick , English actor (d. 1779 )
- May 13 - Empress Maria Theresa Of Austria (d. 1780 )
- June 8 - John Collins , American politician (d. 1795 )
- June 20 - Jacques Saly , French sculptor (d. 1776 )
- June 27 - Louis Guillaume Lemonnier , French botanist (d. 1799 )
- June 30 - Johann Stamitz , Czech-born composer (d. 1757 )
- July 5 - Pedro III Of Portugal , consort of Queen Maria I Of Portugal (d. 1786 )
- August 13 - Louis François I, Prince Of Conti , French military leader (d. 1776 )
- August 15 - Blind Jack , English roadbuilder (d. 1810 )
- September 4 - Job Orton , English dissenting minister (d. 1783 )
- September 7 - Martin Dobrizhoffer , Austrian Jesuit missionary (d. 1791 )
- September 22 - Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin , Swedish astronomer (d. 1783 )
- September 24 - Horace Walpole , British writer (d. 1797 )
- October 5 - Marie-Anne De Mailly-Nesle Duchess De Châteauroux , French mistress of King Louis XV Of France (d. 1744 )
- November 9 - Johann Joachim Winckelmann , German classical scholar and archaeologist (d. 1768 )
- November 16 - Jean Le Rond D'Alembert , French mathematician and encyclopædist (d. 1783 )
- December 16 - Elizabeth Carter , English writer (d. 1806 )
- December 20 - Charles Gravier, Comte De Vergennes , French statesman and diplomat (d. 1787 )
- December 27 - Pope Pius VI (d. 1799 )
Deaths
- March 3 - Pierre Allix , French protestant clergyman (b. 1641 )
- March 19 - John Campbell, 1st Earl Of Breadalbane And Holland , Scottish royalist
- April 3 - Jacques Ozanam , French mathematician (b. 1640 )
- April 5 - Jean Jouvenet , French painter (b. 1647 )
- May 10 - John Hathorne , American magistrate (b. 1641 )
- May 20 - John Trevor , English Speaker of the House of Commons (b. 1637 )
- June 9 - Jeanne Marie Bouvier De La Motte Guyon , French mystic (b. 1648 )
- October 6 - Catherine Sedley , English mistress of James II Of England
- November 26 - Daniel Purcell , English composer (b. 1664 )
- December 5 - Richard Onslow, 1st Baron Onslow , English politician (b. 1654 )
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