Jump to content
Main menu
Main menu
move to sidebar
hide
Navigation
Main page
Recent changes
Random page
Help about MediaWiki
Special pages
Niidae Wiki
Search
Search
Appearance
Create account
Log in
Personal tools
Create account
Log in
Pages for logged out editors
learn more
Contributions
Talk
Editing
1712
(section)
Page
Discussion
English
Read
Edit
View history
Tools
Tools
move to sidebar
hide
Actions
Read
Edit
View history
General
What links here
Related changes
Page information
Appearance
move to sidebar
hide
Warning:
You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you
log in
or
create an account
, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.
Anti-spam check. Do
not
fill this in!
== Births == [[File:Lodewijck van Beethoven - Die Gartenlaube (1879) b 613.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Ludwig van Beethoven (1712–1773)]] born [[5 January]]]] [[File:Friedrich der Große (1781 or 1786) - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Frederick the Great]] born [[24 January]]]] [[File:Tokugawa Ieshige.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Tokugawa Ieshige]] born [[28 January]]]] [[File:Nasir Jung, Nizam of Hyderabad.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Nasir Jung]] born [[26 February]]]] [[File:Louis-Joseph de Montcalm cph.3g09407.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Louis-Joseph de Montcalm]] born [[28 February]]]] [[File:《孝贤纯皇后朝服像》.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Empress Xiaoxianchun]] born [[28 March]]]] [[File:Devasahayam Pillai 2a.JPG|thumb|right|110px|[[Devasahayam Pillai]] born [[23 April]]]] [[File:Thomas Cotes (1712-1767).jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Thomas Cotes (Royal Navy officer)]] born [[4 June]]]] [[File:Benjamin Ingham.JPG|thumb|right|110px|[[Benjamin Ingham]] born [[11 June]]]] [[File:George Grenville (1712–1770) by William Hoare (1707-1792) Cropped.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[George Grenville]] born [[14 October]]]] [[File:John Thomas, Bishop of Rochester, by Joshua Reynolds.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[John Thomas (bishop of Rochester)]] born [[14 October]]]] [[File:Johanna Elisabeth Holstein-Gottorp by Antoine Pesne.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Joanna Elisabeth of Holstein-Gottorp]] born [[24 October]]]] [[File:Francesco Algarotti (Liotard).jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Francesco Algarotti]] born [[11 December]]]] [[File:PeterBoehler.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Peter Boehler]] born [[31 December]]]] === January–March === * [[January 1]] – [[Sir Richard Acton, 5th Baronet]], English baronet (d. [[1791]]) * [[January 2]] – [[Marie-Angélique Memmie Le Blanc]], French feral child (d. [[1775]]) * [[January 5]] ** [[Ludwig van Beethoven (1712–1773)|Ludwig van Beethoven]], Flemish-born German professional singer and music director, grandfather of the well known composer of the same name (d. [[1773]]) ** [[Hongzhou (prince)|Hongzhou]], Manchu prince of the Qing dynasty (d. [[1770]]) * [[January 17]] – [[John Stanley (composer)|John Stanley]], English composer and organist (d. [[1786]]) * [[January 24]] ** [[Frederick the Great]], King of Prussia (1740–1786) (d. [[1786]]) ** [[Charles Moore, 1st Earl of Charleville]], Irish peer (d. [[1764]]) ** [[Georg Friedrich Schmidt]], German engraver and designer (d. [[1775]]) * [[January 26]] – [[James Habersham]], merchant and statesman in the British North American colony of Georgia (d. [[1775]]) * [[January 28]] – [[Tokugawa Ieshige]], ninth ''shōgun'' of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan (d. [[1761]]) * [[January 29]] – [[Ralph Bigland]], English officer of arms (d. [[1784]]) * [[February 2]] – [[Lydia Taft]], American suffragist (d. [[1778]]) * [[February 12]] – [[Felton Hervey]], aristocratic English politician (d. [[1773]]) * [[February 19]] – [[Arthur Devis]], English painter (d. [[1787]]) * [[February 20]] – [[Sir Cordell Firebrace, 3rd Baronet]], English landowner and politician (d. [[1759]]) * [[February 22]] – [[Péter Bod]], Hungarian theologian and historian (d. [[1768]]) * [[February 26]] – [[Nasir Jung]], Nizam of Hyderabad State (d. [[1750]]) * [[February 28]] – [[Louis-Joseph de Montcalm]], French general (d. [[1759]]) * [[March 4]] – [[Joachim Friedrich Henckel]], Prussian surgeon at Charité hospital in Berlin (d. [[1779]]) * [[March 8]] – [[John Fothergill (physician)|John Fothergill]], British botanist (d. [[1780]]) * [[March 12]] ** [[Sir Hew Dalrymple, 2nd Baronet]], Scottish politician and MP for Haddington Burghs on two occasions (d. [[1790]]) ** [[Ioan II Mavrocordat]], prince of Moldva (d. [[1747]]) * [[March 14]] – [[Charles-Antoine Jombert]], French bookseller and publisher (d. [[1784]]) * [[March 15]] – [[Lambert Krahe]], German history painter and art collector (d. [[1790]]) * [[March 19]] ** [[Joseph Frye]], American general (d. [[1794]]) ** [[Henry Gervais]], Anglican priest in Ireland (d. [[1790]]) * [[March 22]] – [[Edward Moore (dramatist)|Edward Moore]], English dramatist (d. [[1757]])<ref>{{cite book |title=Restoration and 18th-Century Drama |date=November 1980 |publisher=Macmillan International Higher Education |isbn=978-1-349-16422-6 |page=109 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OD9dDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA109 |language=en }}{{Dead link|date=September 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> * [[March 27]] ** [[Claude Bourgelat]], French veterinary surgeon (d. [[1779]]) ** [[Jane Mecom]], American correspondent, youngest sister of Benjamin Franklin and one of his closest confidants (d. [[1794]]) * [[March 28]] – [[Empress Xiaoxianchun]], empress consort of Qing dynasty China (d. [[1748]]) * [[March 31]] – [[Anders Johan von Höpken]], Swedish politician (d. [[1789]]) === April–June === * [[April 8]] – [[Pierre Pouchot]], French military engineer officer (d. [[1769]]) * [[April 23]] – [[Devasahayam Pillai]], beatified Indian Catholic (d. [[1752]]) * [[April 28]] – [[James Hewitt, 1st Viscount Lifford]], Lord Chancellor of Ireland (d. [[1789]]) * [[May 2]] – [[Thomas Bond (American physician)|Thomas Bond]], American physician and surgeon (d. [[1784]]) * [[May 5]] – [[Janusz Aleksander Sanguszko]], magnate in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (d. [[1775]]) * [[May 9]] – [[William Pitcairn]], Scottish physician and botanist (d. [[1791]]) * [[May 12]] – [[Charles William Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach]] (d. [[1757]]) * [[May 13]] – [[Count Johann Hartwig Ernst von Bernstorff]], German-Danish statesman (d. [[1772]]) * [[May 17]] – [[Jean-Baptiste Greppo]], French canon and archaeologist (d. [[1767]]) * [[May 18]] – [[Increase Moseley]], American politician (d. [[1795]]) * [[May 27]] – [[Sir Thomas Cave, 5th Baronet]] of England (d. [[1778]]) * [[May 28]] – [[Jacques Claude Marie Vincent de Gournay]], French economist (d. [[1759]]) * [[May 29]] – [[Thomas Dimsdale]], English physician, banker (d. [[1800]]) * [[June 4]] – [[Thomas Cotes (Royal Navy officer)|Thomas Cotes]], British Royal Navy officer, Commander-in-Chief of the Jamaica Station (d. [[1767]]) * [[June 7]] – [[Infante Philip of Spain (1712–1719)|Infante Philip of Spain]], Spanish infante (d. [[1719]]) * [[June 11]] – [[Benjamin Ingham]], American missionary (d. [[1772]]) * [[June 14]] ** [[Samuel Blair (pastor)|Samuel Blair]], Ulster-born American pastor (d. [[1751]]) ** [[Sayat-Nova]], Armenian musician and poet (d. [[1795]]) * [[June 15]] – [[Andrew Gordon (Benedictine)|Andrew Gordon]], Scottish Benedictine monk (d. [[1751]]) * [[June 21]] – [[Luc Urbain de Bouëxic, comte de Guichen]], French admiral (d. [[1790]]) * [[June 22]] – [[Michael Heltzen]], Norwegian mining engineer (d. [[1770]]) * [[June 25]] – [[Exupere Joseph Bertin]], French anatomist (d. [[1781]]) * [[June 26]] – [[Johann Andreas Silbermann]], German organ-builder (d. [[1783]]) * [[June 28]] – [[Jean-Jacques Rousseau]], Genevan philosopher (d. [[1778]]) === July–September === * [[July 4]] – [[George Hadow]], British historian (d. [[1780]]) * [[July 9]] – [[Charles-Étienne Pesselier]], French playwright and librettist (d. [[1763]]) * [[July 12]] ** [[Sir Francis Bernard, 1st Baronet]], British Colonial governor of New Jersey and Massachusetts Bay (d. [[1779]]) ** [[Thomas Estcourt Cresswell]], English politician (d. [[1788]]) * [[July 18]] – [[Karl Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen]], German noble (d. [[1743]]) * [[July 19]] – [[Carl Fredrik Mennander]], Swedish bishop (d. [[1786]]) * [[July 21]] – [[Johann Karl Philipp von Cobenzl]], Habsburg politician (d. [[1770]]) * [[July 24]] – [[Richard Handcock (priest)|Richard Handcock]], Irish priest (d. [[1791]]) * [[July 25]] – [[Vincenzo Miotti]], Italian physicist and astronomer (d. [[1787]]) * [[July 26]] ** [[George Montagu, 1st Duke of Montagu]], English peer (d. [[1790]]) ** [[William Pery, 1st Baron Glentworth]], Anglican bishop (d. [[1794]]) * [[July 31]] – [[Johann Samuel König]], German mathematician (d. [[1757]]) * [[August 2]] – [[Prince George of Kartli]], Georgian prince (d. [[1786]]) * [[August 12]] ** [[Jonas Hanway]], English traveller and philanthropist (d. [[1786]]) ** [[Karl Jakob Weber]], Italian archaeologist (d. [[1764]]) * [[August 15]] – [[César Gabriel de Choiseul]], French officer (d. [[1785]]) * [[August 24]] – [[Michel-Barthélémy Ollivier]], French painter and engraver (d. [[1784]]) * [[August 26]] – [[Tadeusz Franciszek Ogiński]], Polish noble (d. [[1783]]) * [[August 27]] – [[William Graham, 2nd Duke of Montrose]], member of the peerage of Scotland, son of James Graham (d. [[1790]]) * [[August 30]] – [[George Montgomerie]], British Member of Parliament (d. [[1766]]) * [[September 4]] – [[Jan Verbruggen]], Dutch master gun-founder in the Netherlands and later at the Royal Arsenal in Woolwich (d. [[1781]]) * [[September 11]] – [[Giovanni Targioni Tozzetti]], Italian naturalist (d. [[1783]]) * [[September 15]] – [[Pierre Simon Fournier]], French punch-cutter (d. [[1768]]) * [[September 22]] – [[François-Joseph-Gaston de Partz de Pressy]], French cleric (d. [[1789]]) * [[September 25]] – [[James Veitch, Lord Elliock]], Scottish politician (d. [[1793]]) * [[September 26]] ** [[Alexander Hamilton (Maryland doctor)|Alexander Hamilton]], Scottish-born doctor and writer in colonial Maryland (d. [[1756]]) ** [[Dominique de La Rochefoucauld]], French Catholic cardinal (d. [[1800]]) === October–December === * [[October 1]] – [[William Shippen Sr.]], American physician, anatomist and public figure (d. [[1801]]) * [[October 5]] – [[Francesco Guardi]], Italian painter (d. [[1793]]) * [[October 8]] – [[Alison Cockburn]], Scottish poet (d. [[1794]]) * [[October 14]] ** [[George Grenville]], Prime Minister of Great Britain (1763–1765) (d. [[1770]])<ref>{{cite web |title=History of George Grenville - GOV.UK |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/history/past-prime-ministers/george-grenville |website=www.gov.uk |access-date=19 June 2023 |language=en}}</ref> ** [[John Thomas (bishop of Rochester)|John Thomas]], English churchman (Dean of Westminster, Bishop of Rochester) (d. [[1793]]) * [[October 15]] – [[Leslie Corry]], Irish politician (d. [[1741]]) * [[October 17]] ** [[Landgravine Eleonore of Hesse-Rotenburg]], countess (d. [[1759]]) ** [[Age Wijnalda]], Dutch Mennonite minister (d. [[1792]]) * [[October 18]] – [[Jeremias van Riemsdijk]], Dutch colonial governor (d. [[1777]]) * [[October 19]] ** [[Pedro, Prince of Brazil]], second child of John V of Portugal and Maria Ana of Austria (d. [[1714]]) ** [[Zenobia Revertera]], Italian noble and courtier (d. [[1779]]) * [[October 20]] – [[Gregor Zallwein]], Bavarian-born expert on canon law (d. [[1766]]) * [[October 21]] – [[James Steuart (economist)|James Steuart]], Scottish economist (d. [[1780]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Sir James Steuart Denham, 4th Baronet {{!}} Scottish economist {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sir-James-Steuart-Denham-4th-Baronet |website=www.britannica.com |access-date=31 May 2022 |language=en}}</ref> * [[October 22]] – [[James Hamilton, 8th Earl of Abercorn]], member of the peerage of Scotland and landowner in Ireland (d. [[1789]]) * [[October 24]] ** [[Joanna Elisabeth of Holstein-Gottorp]], German duchess (d. [[1760]]) ** [[Jonathan Nichols Jr.]], Rhode Island colonial deputy governor (d. [[1756]]) * [[October 29]] – [[Paolo Gamba]], Italian painter (d. [[1782]]) * [[October 30]] ** [[Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich]], German painter and art administrator (d. [[1774]]) ** [[Giovanni Pietro Francesco Agius de Soldanis]], Maltese linguist, historian and cleric (d. [[1770]]) * [[October 31]] – [[Prince Moritz of Anhalt-Dessau]], German prince of the House of Ascania (d. [[1760]]) * [[November 4]] ** [[Charles de Fitz-James]], Marshal of France (d. [[1787]]) ** [[Charles Louis de Marbeuf]], French general (d. [[1786]]) * [[November 7]] – [[Antoine Choquet de Lindu]], French architect (d. [[1790]]) * [[November 11]] – [[Hugolín Gavlovič]], Slovak Franciscan priest, author of religious, moral and educational writings (d. [[1787]]) * [[November 20]] – [[Guillaume Voiriot]], French portrait painter (d. [[1799]]) * [[November 24]] ** [[Ali II ibn Hussein]], fourth leader of the Husainid Dynasty, ruler of Tunisia (d. [[1782]]) ** [[Charles-Michel de l'Épée]], French priest and educator of the deaf (d. [[1789]]) * [[November 27]] – [[Fernando de Sousa e Silva]], fourth Patriarch of Lisbon (d. [[1786]]) * [[December 1]] – [[George Boscawen (British Army general)|George Boscawen]], British Army general and politician (d. [[1775]]) * [[December 3]] ** [[Joseph Relph]], English poet (d. [[1743]]) ** [[William Sawyer (cricketer)|William Sawyer]], English professional cricketer (d. [[1761]]) * [[December 9]] – [[Alexander Murray of Elibank]], Scottish Jacobite intriguer, fourth son of Alexander Murray (d. [[1778]]) * [[December 11]] – [[Francesco Algarotti]], Venetian philosopher (d. [[1764]]) * [[December 12]] ** [[Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine]], Lorraine-born Austrian general and soldier (d. [[1780]]) ** [[François-Antoine Devaux]], Lorraine-born poet and man of letters (d. [[1796]]) ** [[John Turner (Massachusetts politician)|John Turner]], Massachusetts politician and delegate from Pembroke (d. [[1794]]) * [[December 25]] – [[Pietro Chiari]], Italian playwright (d. [[1785]]) * [[December 31]] ** [[Peter Boehler]], German-English Moravian bishop and missionary (d. [[1775]]) ** [[Charles, Prince of Nassau-Usingen]] (1718–1775) and Nassau-Saarbrücken (1728–1735) (d. [[1775]])
Summary:
Please note that all contributions to Niidae Wiki may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here.
You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see
Encyclopedia:Copyrights
for details).
Do not submit copyrighted work without permission!
Cancel
Editing help
(opens in new window)
Search
Search
Editing
1712
(section)
Add topic
