Editing 1717

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[[File:1720 Huchtenburg Eroberungs Belgrads 1717 anagoria.JPG|thumb|right|300px|[[August 17]]: The [[Siege of Belgrade (1717)|Siege of Belgrade]] ends as Austrian troops capture the city from the Ottoman Empire. (1720 painting by 
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== Events ==
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=== January–March ===
* [[January 1]] &ndash; Count [[Carl Gyllenborg]], the [[Sweden|Swedish]] ambassador to the [[Kingdom of Great Britain]], is arrested in [[London]] over a plot to assist the [[Pretender]] to the British throne, [[James Francis Edward Stuart]].<ref name="Cassell's Chronology295296">{{cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|url=https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/295|url-access=registration|location=London|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|pages=[https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/295 295–296]}}</ref>
* [[January 4]] (December 24, [[1716]] [[Old Style]]) &ndash; The kingdoms of [[Kingdom of Great Britain|Great Britain]], [[Kingdom of France|France]] and the [[Dutch Republic]] sign the [[Triple Alliance (1717)|Triple Alliance]],<ref name="Cassell's Chronology295296" /> in an attempt to maintain the [[Treaty of Utrecht]] ([[1713]]), Britain having signed a preliminary alliance with France on November 28 (November 17) 1716.
* [[February 1]] &ndash; The [[Silent Sejm]], in the [[Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth]], marks the beginning of the [[Russian Empire]]'s increasing influence and control over the Commonwealth.  
* [[February 6]] &ndash; Following the treaty between France and Britain, the Pretender James Stuart leaves France, and seeks refuge with [[Pope Clement XI]].<ref>Walter Prichard, ''The Negotiations of the Old Pretender Looking Forward to His Succession to the English Throne, 1713-1720'' (Indiana University, 1915) p. 107, quoting James Breck Perkins, ''France Under the Regency, with a Review of the Administration of Louis XIV'' (Houghton Mifflin, 1892) p. 390</ref><ref name="Cassell's Chronology295296" />
* [[February 26]]&ndash;[[March 6]] &ndash; What becomes the northeastern United States is paralyzed by a [[The Great Snow of 1717|series of blizzards]] that bury the region.
* [[March 2]] &ndash; Dancer [[John Weaver (dancer)|John Weaver]] performs in the first [[ballet]] in Britain, shown at the [[Theatre Royal, Drury Lane]], ''[[The Loves of Mars and Venus]]''.
* [[March 31]] &ndash; [[Benjamin Hoadly]], [[Bishop of Bangor]], brings the [[Bangorian Controversy]] within the [[Church of England]] into the open by delivering a sermon to, and supposedly at the request of, King [[George I of Great Britain]], on ''The Nature of the Kingdom of Christ'' with the text "My kingdom is not of this world" ([[Book of John|John]] 18:36), concluding there is no [[Bible|Biblical]] justification for church government.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Church of England and the Bangorian controversy, 1716–1721|first=Andrew|last=Starkie|year=2007|location=Woodbridge|publisher=Boydell Press|isbn=978-1-84383-288-1}}</ref>

=== April–June ===
* [[April 26]] &ndash; The ''[[Whydah Gally]]'', flagship of English pirate [[Samuel Bellamy|"Black Sam" Bellamy]], is wrecked in a storm off [[Wellfleet, Massachusetts]]. The ''Whydah'' sinks with a reputed {{frac|4|1|2}} tons of treasure on board, and all but two of her crew are lost, including Bellamy.
* [[May 27]] &ndash; [[Spain]] creates the [[Viceroyalty of New Granada]] in [[South America]] from the northern section of the [[Viceroyalty of Peru]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.banrep.gov.co/blaavirtual/revistas/credencial/abril2000/124archipielago.htm|title=El archipiélago de Los Monjes y las relaciones diplomáticas con Venezuela: Historia de una cesión territorial cuyas consecuencias siguen vigentes |work=banrep.gov.co}}</ref> The viceroyalty, with a capital at [[Bogotá]], later declares independence and splits up into what become the nations of [[Colombia]], [[Ecuador]] and [[Venezuela]].
* [[June 24]] &ndash; The [[Premier Grand Lodge of England]], the ''Modern'' and first [[Freemasonry|Free-Masonic]] Grand Lodge (which merges with the [[Ancient Grand Lodge of England]] in [[1813]] to form the [[United Grand Lodge of England]]), is founded in [[London]].

=== July&ndash;September ===
* [[July 17]] &ndash; ''[[Water Music]]'' by [[George Frederick Handel]] is first performed, on a [[Thames]] barge in [[London]].
* [[August 17]] &ndash; The month-long [[Siege of Belgrade (1717)|Siege of Belgrade]] ends, with [[Prince Eugene of Savoy]]'s [[Austria]]n troops capturing the city from the [[Ottoman Empire]].
* [[August 22]] &ndash; Spanish troops arrive on the island of [[Sardinia]], at this time a part of the [[Holy Roman Empire]], beginning [[Spanish conquest of Sardinia|the conquest of the island]], completed by October 30.
* [[September 5]] &ndash; King [[George I of Great Britain]] issues the "[[Proclamation for Suppressing of Pirates in the West Indies]]", an offer of [[amnesty]] to [[Golden Age of Piracy|pirates]], declaring that any pirates who surrender themselves to the government of Britain or one of its overseas territories, on or before September 5, 1718, "shall have Our Gracious Pardon of and for his or their Piracy or Piracies" committed before January 5, 1718.  The amnesty is later extended to July 1, 1719.<ref>''British Royal Proclamations Relating to America, 1603-1783'', ed. by Clarence S. Brigham (Burt Franklin, 1968) pp. 176-177</ref>
* [[September 21]] &ndash; The first known Druid revival ceremony is held by [[John Toland]] at [[Primrose Hill]], in [[London]], at the [[Autumn equinox (Northern Hemisphere)|Autumnal Equinox]], to found the Mother Grove, what will later become the [[Ancient Order of Druids]].
* [[September 29]] &ndash; [[1717 Guatemala earthquake|Guatemala earthquake]]: A 7.4 magnitude [[earthquake]] strikes [[Antigua Guatemala]], destroying much of the city, and making authorities consider moving the capital of [[Guatemala]] to a different location.

=== October&ndash;December ===
* [[October 9]] &ndash; King [[Philip V of Spain]] orders the closure of all universities in [[Catalonia]], including the historic [[University of Lleida|Estudi General de Lleida]].<ref>[http://www.udl.cat/ca/en/udl/history/ "A University founded over 700 years ago"], University of Lleida website</ref>
* [[October 16]] &ndash; [[Antonio Vivaldi]]'s opera ''[[Tieteberga]]'' is performed for the first time, premiering at the [[Teatro San Moisè]] in [[Venice]]
* [[October 18]] &ndash; Trial begins in [[Boston]] for six [[Golden Age of Piracy|pirates]] who had survived the April 26 wreck of [[Samuel Bellamy]]'s ships ''[[Whydah Gally|Whydah]]'' and the ''Mary Anne''.  Five of them (John Brown, Hendrick Quintor, Thomas Baker, Peter Cornelius Hoof and John Shuan) are convicted on October 22 of piracy and robbery and hanged on November 15.<ref>''Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period: Illustrative Documents'', ed. by John Franklin Jameson (Macmillan, 1923) p.303</ref>
* [[October 30]] &ndash; The [[Spanish conquest of Sardinia]], at this time part of the [[Holy Roman Empire]], is finished two months after Spanish forces had landed on the island on August 22, as the last Sardinian outpost, [[Castelsardo]], surrenders.<ref>Alonso Aguilera, ''La Conquista y el dominio español de Cerdeña 1717-1720'' (Universidad de Valladolid, 1977)</ref>
* [[November 28]] &ndash; Pirates led by [[Edward Teach]], more popularly referred to as "[[Blackbeard]]", and [[Benjamin Hornigold]] capture the French slave transport ''Concorde'' near island of [[Saint Vincent (Antilles)|Saint Vincent]] the West Indies.<ref>[https://www.qaronline.org/history/ships-journey "The Ship's Journey"], Queen Anne's Revenge Project" www.qaronline.org</ref> Blackbeard renames the vessel ''[[Queen Anne's Revenge]]'', adds to its armaments, and makes it his flagship.<ref>Mark U. Wilde-Ramsing and Linda F. Carnes-McNaughton, ''Blackbeard's Sunken Prize: The 300-Year Voyage of Queen Anne's Revenge'' (University of North Carolina Press, 2018) p. 25</ref>  Hornigold soon accepts a British amnesty for all pirates, and Blackbeard teams up with [[Stede Bonnet]] and begins plundering ships approaching North American ports.
* [[December 9]] (November 29, O.S.) &ndash; King [[George I of Great Britain]] banishes his son and daughter-in-law, [[George II of Great Britain|George, Prince of Wales]] and [[Caroline of Ansbach]], from the royal household after the Prince threatens the King's personal assistant, [[Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle|the Duke of Newcastle]], the royal Lord Chamberlain. The altercation takes place at the baptismal ceremony for the Prince's newborn son, [[Prince George William of Great Britain|George William]].
* [[December 24]]&ndash;[[December 25|25]] &ndash; [[Christmas flood 1717|Christmas flood]]: A disastrous flood hits the [[North Sea]] coast, between the [[Netherlands]] and [[Denmark]]; thousands die or lose their houses.

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* The [[1717 Omani invasion of Bahrain]] removes the control of Persia over the Arabian kingdom of Bahrain.
* François-Marie Arouet is sentenced to imprisonment in the [[Bastille]] for eleven months, because of a satirical verse against the ''Régent'' of France and his infamous daughter [[Marie Louise Élisabeth d'Orléans]], who is hiding an illegitimate pregnancy and soon to give birth;<ref>{{cite book|first=Jean-Michel|last=Raynaud|title=Voltaire soi-disant|publisher=Presses Universitaires de Lille|year=1983|volume=1|isbn=2859392157|page=289}}</ref> Arouet will emerge with the pseudonym [[Voltaire]] and the completed text of his first play, ''[[Oedipus (Voltaire)|Œdipe]]''.
* The [[Tatar invasions]] in [[Transylvania]] devastate many towns, including [[Cavnic]], [[Sighet]] and [[Dej]].
* [[Lady Mary Wortley Montagu]], wife of the British ambassador to [[Istanbul]], has her son [[Inoculation|inoculated]].
* The [[Casa de Contratación]] (''House of Trade'') is set up in [[Cádiz]].
* Maharaja [[Pamheiba]] of [[Manipur]] is converted to [[Hinduism]] by [[Shantidas Goswami]], and decrees it to be the official religion of his state.
* Most recent rupture of [[New Zealand]]'s [[Alpine Fault]], with an earthquake estimated to have had a magnitude between 7.8 and 8.1.
* The [[Charleville musket]] enters service in [[Kingdom of France|France]].
* [[Thomas Fairchild (gardener)|Thomas Fairchild]], a [[nurseryman]] at [[Hoxton]] in the [[East End of London]], becomes the first person to produce a successful scientific plant [[Hybrid (biology)|hybrid]], ''Dianthus Caryophyllus barbatus'', known as ''Fairchild's Mule''.<ref>{{cite web|author=((The Gentle Author))|title=Thomas Fairchild, Gardener of Hoxton|url=http://spitalfieldslife.com/2011/07/02/thomas-fairchild-gardener-of-hoxton/|work=Spitalfields Life|date=2011-07-02|access-date=2015-11-16}}
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*[[Murshid Quli Khan]] declares himself the first [[Nawab]] of the [[Bengal Subah]]. The [[Nawabs of Bengal]] will [[De facto|effectively]] function as near-sovereign rulers of Bengal while being [[De jure|nominally]] loyal to the [[Mughal Empire]].<ref>{{cite book|title=নবাবি আমলে মুর্শিদাবাদ (Nababi Amole Murshidabad)|last=Chowdhury|first=Sushil|year=2004|publisher=Ānanda |isbn=9788177564358|language=bn}}</ref></onlyinclude>

== Births ==
* [[January 2]] &ndash; [[Edward Seymour, 9th Duke of Somerset]], English nobleman, son of Edward Seymour, 8th Duke of Somerset and Mary Webb (d. [[1792]])
* [[January 5]] &ndash; [[William Barrington, 2nd Viscount Barrington]], English statesman (d. [[1793]])
* [[January 18]] &ndash; [[Jean-François-Marie de Surville]], French trader and navigator (d. [[1770]])
* [[January 21]] &ndash; [[Antonio María de Bucareli y Ursúa]], Spanish military officer (d. [[1779]])
* [[January 23]] &ndash; [[Benjamin Beddome]], English Baptist minister and hymnist (d. [[1795]])
* [[January 28]] &ndash; [[Mustafa III]], [[Ottoman Sultan]] (d. [[1773]])
* [[January 29]] &ndash; [[Jeffrey Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst]], British soldier and conqueror of Quebec (d. [[1797]])
* [[February 2]] &ndash; [[Ernst Gideon Freiherr von Laudon]], Austrian field marshal (d. [[1790]])
* [[February 3]] &ndash; [[Nicholas Cooke]], first Governor of Rhode Island (d. [[1782]])
* c. [[February 11]] &ndash; [[William Williams Pantycelyn]], Welsh hymn-writer, a key leader of the 18th century Methodist revival (d. [[1791]])
* [[February 17]] &ndash; [[Adam Friedrich Oeser]], German etcher (d. [[1799]])
* [[February 19]] &ndash; [[David Garrick]], English actor (d. [[1779]])
* [[February 27]] &ndash; [[Johann David Michaelis]], German biblical scholar and teacher (d. [[1791]])
* [[April 6]] &ndash; [[Luis de Unzaga]], American-Spanish governor (d. [[1793]])
* [[April]] &ndash; [[Pieter Barbiers (painter)|Pieter Barbiers]], Dutch artist (d. [[1780]])
* [[April 9]] &ndash; [[Georg Matthias Monn]], Austrian composer (d. [[1750]])
* [[April 10]] &ndash; [[Isaac de Pinto]], Dutch Jew of Portuguese origin, investor and scholar (d. [[1787]])
* [[May 8]] &ndash; [[Charles Guillaume Le Normant d'Étiolles]], French official, husband of Madame de Pompadour (d. [[1799]])
[[File:Kaiserin Maria Theresia (HRR).jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Maria Theresa of Austria]]]]
* [[May 13]] &ndash; [[Maria Theresa of Austria]], Archduchess of Austria and Queen of Hungary and Bohemia, consort of the Holy Roman Emperor (d. [[1780]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Maria Theresa {{!}} Biography, Facts, Accomplishments, & Children {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Maria-Theresa |website=www.britannica.com |access-date=4 May 2022 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[June 5]] &ndash; [[Emanuel Mendes da Costa]], English botanist (d. [[1791]])
* [[June 8]] &ndash; [[John Collins (Continental Congress)|John Collins]], Continental Congressman, third Governor of Rhode Island (d. [[1795]])
* [[June 19]] &ndash; [[Johann Stamitz]], Czech-born composer (d. [[1757]])
* [[June 20]] &ndash; [[Jacques Saly]], French sculptor (d. [[1776]])
* [[June 27]] &ndash; [[Louis Guillaume Lemonnier]], French botanist (d. [[1799]])
* [[June 28]] &ndash; [[Matthew Stewart (mathematician)|Matthew Stewart]], Scottish mathematician (d. [[1785]])
* [[July 5]] &ndash; [[Peter III of Portugal]], consort of Queen [[Maria I of Portugal]] (d. [[1786]])
* [[August]] &ndash; [[Sophie de Lafont]], Russian educator (d. [[1797]])
* [[August 13]] &ndash; [[Louis François, Prince of Conti]], French nobleman, military leader (d. [[1776]])
* [[August 15]]
** [[Louis Carrogis Carmontelle]], French dramatist (d. [[1806]])
** [[John Metcalf (civil engineer)|John Metcalf]], "Blind Jack of Knaresborough", English roadbuilder (d. [[1810]])
* [[September 4]] &ndash; [[Job Orton]], English dissenting minister (d. [[1783]])
* [[September 7]]
** [[Agui]], Chinese nobleman, general for the Ch'ing dynasty (d. [[1797]])
** [[Martin Dobrizhoffer]], Austrian Jesuit missionary (d. [[1791]])
* [[September 22]] &ndash; [[Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin]], Swedish astronomer (d. [[1783]])
* [[September 24]] &ndash; [[Horace Walpole]], English art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and politician (d. [[1797]])
* [[September 28]] &ndash; [[William Nassau de Zuylestein, 4th Earl of Rochford]], British diplomat and statesman (d. [[1781]])
* [[October]] &ndash; [[James Paine (architect)|James Paine]], English architect (d. [[1789]])
* [[October 5]] &ndash; [[Marie-Anne de Mailly-Nesle duchess de Châteauroux]], French mistress of King [[Louis XV of France]] (d. [[1744]])
* [[October 13]] &ndash; [[John Armstrong, Sr.|John Armstrong]], American civil engineer, major general in the Revolutionary War (d. [[1795]])
* [[October 30]] &ndash; [[Jonathan Hornblower (1717)|Jonathan Hornblower]], English pioneer of steam power (d. [[1780]])
* [[November 13]] &ndash; [[Prince George William of Great Britain]], member of the British Royal Family (d. [[1718]])
* [[November 16]] &ndash; [[Jean le Rond d'Alembert]], French mathematician and encyclopædist (d. [[1783]])
* [[November 17]] &ndash; [[Caroline Townshend, 1st Baroness Greenwich]], English peeress (d. [[1794]])
* [[November 23]] &ndash; [[Antoine Guenée]], French priest and Christian apologist (d. [[1803]])
* [[November 25]] &ndash; [[Alexander Sumarokov]], Russian poet and playwright (d. [[1777]])
[[File:Johann Joachim Winckelmann (Raphael Mengs after 1755).jpg|thumb|110px|right|[[Johann Joachim Winckelmann]]]]
* [[December 9]] &ndash; [[Johann Joachim Winckelmann]], German classical scholar and archaeologist (d. [[1768]])
* [[December 16]] &ndash; [[Elizabeth Carter]], English writer (d. [[1806]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Elizabeth-Carter|title=Elizabeth Carter - British Author|access-date=3 January 2017}}</ref>
* [[December 25]] &ndash; [[George Augustus Eliott, 1st Baron Heathfield]], British army officer (d. [[1790]])
* [[December 27]] &ndash; [[Pope Pius VI]], born Count Giovanni Angelo Braschi, Italian pontiff (d. [[1799]])
* [[December 28]] &ndash; [[Johann Heinrich Gottlob Justi]], leading German Kameralist in the 18th century (d. [[1771]])
* [[December 29]] &ndash; [[Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes]], French statesman and diplomat (d. [[1785]])
* ''date unknown''
** [[Giambattista Almici]], Italian jurist (d. [[1793]])
** [[Claude Humbert Piarron de Chamousset]], French philanthropist (d. [[1773]])
** [[Gottlieb Sigmund Gruner]], Swiss cartographer and geologist (d. [[1778]])
** [[Elimelech of Lizhensk]], Polish Orthodox Jewish rabbi, one of the great founding [[rebbe]]s of [[Hasidic Judaism]] (d. [[1787]])
** [[Henry Middleton]], South Carolina plantation owner, second President of the Continental Congress (d. [[1784]])
**[[Lewis Nicola]], Irish-born officer in the American army during the [[American Revolutionary War]] (d. [[1807]])
** [[Anne Steele]] ("Theodosia"), English Baptist hymn-writer (d. [[1778]])
** [[Molla Panah Vagif]], Azerbaijani poet (d. [[1797]])

== Deaths ==
* [[January 6]] &ndash; [[Lambert Bos]], Dutch scholar and critic (b. [[1670]])
* [[January 7]] &ndash; [[Empress Xiaohuizhang]], second consort of the Qing dynasty Shunzhi Emperor of China (b. [[1641]])
* [[January 13]] &ndash; [[Maria Sibylla Merian]], German-born Swiss naturalist and scientific illustrator, who studied plants and insects and made detailed paintings of them (b. [[1647]])
* [[January 30]] &ndash; [[John Hartstonge]], Irish bishop (b. [[1654]])
[[File:Bildnis der Maria Sibylla Merian, 1679.jpg|thumb|130x130px|[[Maria Sibylla Merian]]]]
* [[February 18]] &ndash; [[Giovanni Maria Morandi]], Italian painter (b. [[1622]])
* [[February 21]] &ndash; [[Jan Dobrogost Krasiński]], Polish nobleman ([[szlachcic]]) (b. [[1639]])
* [[February 23]] &ndash; [[Magnus Stenbock]], Swedish military officer (b. [[1664]])
* [[March 3]] &ndash; [[Pierre Allix]], French Protestant clergyman (b. [[1641]])
* [[March 5]] &ndash; [[François de Callières]], French diplomat, member of the ''Académie française'' (b. [[1645]])
* [[March 8]] &ndash; [[Abraham Darby I]], English ironmaster, first of that name of three generations of a Quaker family that was key to the development of the Industrial Revolution (b. [[1678]])
* [[March 19]] &ndash; [[John Campbell, 1st Earl of Breadalbane and Holland]], Scottish royalist (b. [[1636]])
* [[April 3]] &ndash; [[Jacques Ozanam]], French mathematician (b. [[1640]])
* [[April 5]] &ndash; [[Jean Jouvenet]], French painter (b. [[1647]])
* [[April 11]] &ndash; [[Abraham ben Saul Broda]], Bohemian Talmudist (b. c. 1640)
* [[April 26]]
** [[Samuel Bellamy]] (''Black Sam''), English-born pirate (b. [[1689]])
** [[Christian II, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld]] (b. [[1637]])
** [[John King (pirate)|John King]], pirate (b. c. 1706/9)
* [[May 10]] &ndash; [[John Hathorne]], American magistrate (b. [[1641]])
* [[May 17]] &ndash; [[Bon Boullogne]], French painter (b. [[1649]])
* [[May 20]] &ndash; [[John Trevor (speaker)|John Trevor]], Welsh lawyer and politician, Speaker of the House of Commons of England (b. [[1637]])
* [[June 3]] &ndash; [[Fernando de Alencastre, 1st Duke of Linares]], Spanish nobleman and military officer (b. c. [[1641]])
[[File:Mme Guyon.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Jeanne Guyon]]]]
* [[June 9]] &ndash; [[Jeanne Guyon]], French mystic (b. [[1648]])
* [[June 11]] &ndash; [[Louis de Carrières]], French priest and Bible commentator (b. [[1662]])
* [[June 15]] &ndash; [[Fabrizio Spada]], Italian Catholic cardinal (b. [[1643]])
* [[June 23]] &ndash; [[John Verney, 1st Viscount Fermanagh]], British politician (b. [[1640]])
* [[July 1]] &ndash; [[Princess Anna Sophie of Denmark]], daughter of King Frederick III of Denmark (b. [[1647]])
* [[July 17]] &ndash; [[Juan María de Salvatierra]], Milanese Jesuit missionary to the Americas (b. [[1648]])
* [[August]] &ndash; [[William Cochrane (MP)|William Cochrane]], Scottish MP in the Parliament of Great Britain
* [[August 10]] &ndash; [[Nicolaes Witsen]], Mayor of Amsterdam, Netherlands (b. [[1641]])
* [[August 16]] &ndash; [[William Blathwayt]], English civil servant and politician (b. [[1649]])
* [[August 30]] &ndash; [[William Lloyd (bishop of Worcester)|William Lloyd]], English bishop (b. [[1627]])
* [[September 17]] &ndash; [[Robert Cotton (MP, born 1644)|Robert Cotton]], English politician (born [[1644]])
* [[October]] &ndash; [[Philippe Pastour de Costebelle]], French naval officer and Governor of Newfoundland (b. [[1661]])
* [[October 22]] &ndash; [[Henry Luttrell (Jacobite commander)|Henry Luttrell]], Irish army officer, Jacobite commander (b. c. [[1655]]; shot and mortally wounded in his sedan chair in Dublin)
* [[October 26]] &ndash; [[Catherine Sedley, Countess of Dorchester]], English mistress of [[James II of England]] (b. [[1657]])
* [[November 16]] &ndash; [[Hester Davenport]], English stage actress (b. [[1642]])
* [[November 21]] &ndash; [[Jean-Baptiste Santerre]], French painter (b. [[1650]])
* [[November 26]] &ndash; [[Daniel Purcell]], English composer (b. [[1664]])
* [[December 4]] &ndash; [[William Hamilton (surgeon)|William Hamilton]], surgeon in the British East India Company
* [[December 5]] &ndash; [[Richard Onslow, 1st Baron Onslow]], English politician (b. [[1654]])
* [[December 13]] &ndash; [[Nicholas Noyes]], Massachusetts colonial minister, during the time of the Salem witch trials (b. [[1647]])
* [[December 25]] &ndash; [[Robert Shirley, 1st Earl Ferrers]], English peer and courtier (b. [[1650]])
* ''date unknown''
** [[William Diaper]], English poet of the Augustan era (b. [[1685]])
** [[William Boyd, 3rd Earl of Kilmarnock]], Scottish nobleman
** [[Niccolao Manucci]], Italian writer and traveller in India (b. [[1639]])
** [[Osei Kofi Tutu I]], founder of the Ashanti Confederacy (b. c. [[1660]]; killed in action)
** [[Wang Hui (Qing dynasty)|Wang Hui]], Chinese landscape painter (b. [[1632]])
** [[Jane Wiseman]], English actress, poet and playwright (b. c. [[1682]])

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