Editing 1722

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[[File:Ahu-Akivi-1.JPG|thumb|300px|[[April 5]]: [[Jacob Roggeveen]] and crew become the first Europeans to land on [[Easter Island]].]]
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== Events ==
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=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 27]] &ndash; [[Daniel Defoe]]'s novel ''[[Moll Flanders]]'' is published anonymously in London.
* [[February 10]] &ndash; The [[Battle of Cape Lopez]] begins off of the coast of [[West Africa]] (and present-day [[Gabon]]), as the Royal Navy brings an end to the piracy of [[ Bartholomew Roberts]], nicknamed "Black Bart".  Captained by [[Chaloner Ogle]] of the [[Royal Navy]], [[HMS Swallow (1703)|HMS ''Swallow'']] fires its cannons as Roberts sails his ship ''Royal Fortune'' toward the oncoming ''Swallow'' in order to gain time by forcing ''Swallow'' to turn around.  Standing on the deck, Roberts and two of his crew are killed by the second wave of cannon fire.  The remaining 272 pirate crew are captured.
* [[February 16]] &ndash; [[Peter the Great]], [[Emperor of All Russia]], announces that his heir to the throne will be his 4-year old grandson, [[Peter II of Russia|Prince Pyotr Alekseivich]].  
* [[February 21]] &ndash; [[Muhammad Shah|Nasir-ud-Din Muḥammad Shah]], the Grand Mogul of north India's [[Mughal empire]], names [[Nizam-ul-Mulk, Asaf Jah I|Nizam-ul-Mulk]] as his Grand Vizier. Three years later, the Nizam will rebel against the Grand Mogul and create his own independent nation as the [[Nizam of Hyderabad]], reigning as Asaf Jah.
* [[March 8]] &ndash; [[Battle of Gulnabad]] in [[Persia]]: The [[Pashtun people]] of [[Afghanistan]], led by [[Mahmud Hotak]], decisively defeat forces of the Persian [[Safavid dynasty]], precipitating its fall.

=== April&ndash;June ===
* [[April 2]] &ndash; The first [[Silence Dogood]] letter, written by [[Benjamin Franklin]], is printed.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-01-02-0008|title=Silence Dogood, No. 1, 2 April 1722|website=founders.archives.gov}}</ref>
* [[April 5]] ([[Easter Sunday]]) &ndash; Dutch admiral [[Jacob Roggeveen]] lands on what is now [[Easter Island]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Chauvet - Easter Island |url=http://www.chauvet-translation.com/easterisland.htm |access-date=18 October 2012 |publisher=Chauvet-translation.com}}</ref>
* [[May 5]] &ndash; [[Pennsylvania]] colony enacts a statute, requiring all persons importing any person previously convicted of sodomy, to pay £5 for each such incoming person.
* [[May 9]] &ndash; The [[1722 British general election]] (began March 19) closes with Prime Minister [[Robert Walpole]]'s Whig Party increasing its majority in the [[House of Commons of Great Britain]], capturing 48 additional seats from the Tory Party and having a 389 to 169 advantage.
* [[June 15]] &ndash; Pirate [[Edward Low]] and his men sail the stolen ship ''Rebecca'' into Port Roseway near modern [[Shelburne, Nova Scotia]], where 13 fishing boats from Massachusetts are anchored. Over the next few days, the pirates board the boats and lay siege to them.  On June 19, Low confiscates the schooner ''Mary'' from its owner, Joseph Dolliber, outfits it with cannons and renames it the ''Fancy''.  Eight of the fishermen are taken hostage as the stolen vessel departs, including [[Philip Ashton]].<ref>George Francis Dow and John Henry Edmonds, ''The Pirates of the New England Coast, 1630-1730'' (Marine Research Society, 1923) pp218-219</ref>

=== July&ndash;September ===
[[File:Lansereships.jpg|thumb|right|[[July 26]]: Start of the [[Russo-Persian War (1722–1723)|Russo-Persian War]].]]
* [[July 25]] &ndash; [[Father Rale's War]] (1722–1725) begins along the [[Maine]] and [[Massachusetts]] border.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Wicken |first=William Craig |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0MEQyYggQE8C&pg=PP1 |title=Mi'kmaq treaties on trial : history, land and Donald Marshall Junior |publisher=University of Toronto Press |year=2001 |isbn=978-1-4426-7021-1 |location=Toronto |pages=71 |language=en |oclc=806068866}}</ref>
* [[July 26]] (July 15 O.S.) &ndash; The [[Russo-Persian War (1722–1723)]] begins with [[Peter the Great]]'s Persian campaign.
* [[August 24]] &ndash; [[Francis Atterbury]], Anglican [[Bishop of Rochester]] and [[Dean of Westminster]], is arrested in his deanery and confined in the [[Tower of London]] for treason, accused of leading the [[Jacobitism|Jacobite]] "[[Atterbury Plot]]" in support of the [[pretender]] [[James Francis Edward Stuart]]<ref>{{cite ODNB|first=D. W.|last=Hayton|title=Atterbury, Francis (1663–1732)|year=2004|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/871|access-date=2012-11-22|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/871}}</ref> with the aim of overthrowing the [[House of Hanover]] and King [[George I of Great Britain]] and restoring the [[House of Stuart]] by installing  Prince James as "King James III".  
* [[September 6]] &ndash; Wälättä Giyorgis, a 16-year-old who nursed Ethiopia's Emperor [[Bakaffa]] back to health after he fell ill, marries the Emperor and begins her rise to power as the Empress [[Mentewab]]. Upon Bakaffa's death in 1730, Mentewab becomes the regent for her son by Bakaffa, [[Iyasu II]].
* [[September 23]] &ndash; [[New Orleans|La Nouvelle-Orléans]] (New Orleans), recently established by France as the capital of the [[French Louisiana|Louisiana Territory]] is hit by what is later called the "Great Hurricane of 1722", starting with  {{convert|7|ft}} high waves, followed by winds in excess of {{convert|100|mph}}. By September 24, "Almost every public building in New Orleans, from the hospital to the cathedral" is "either unroofed or totally ruined."<ref>David Longshore, ''Encyclopedia of Hurricanes, Typhoons, and Cyclones'' (Facts on File, 2008) p293</ref>

=== October&ndash;December ===
* [[October 23]] &ndash; The six-month-long [[Siege of Isfahan]] ends, when the [[Safavid dynasty|Safavid]] capital [[Isfahan]] capitulates to the Afghan rebels. Safavid [[Sultan Husayn]] abdicates, and acknowledges [[Mahmud Hotak]] as the new Shah of [[Persia]].
* [[November 15]] (November 4 O.S.) &ndash; Russia's Emperor [[Peter the Great]] issues an order establishing the [[Caspian Flotilla]] during its war against Persia to gain complete control of the landlocked [[Caspian Sea]].
* [[November 20]] &ndash; The [[Dutch East India Company]] cargo ship ''[[Schoonenberg (ship)|Schoonenberg]]'' runs aground in [[South Africa]]'s [[Struisbaai|Struis Bay]] and is looted by most of its 110 crew, beginning a legend and questions of whether the wreck was part of a conspiracy or simply an accident. Almost 300 years later, the event is reconstructed in detail by investigators.
* [[December 20]] &ndash; After the longest reign by a Chinese Emperor in history (61 years), the [[Kangxi Emperor]] dies, and is succeeded by his son Yinzhen as [[Yongzheng Emperor]].

=== Date unknown ===
* [[Edenton, North Carolina|Edenton]] is incorporated as the county seat of [[Chowan County, North Carolina]]. The governor and assembly of [[Province of North Carolina|North Carolina]] move to Edenton, making it the de facto capital of North Carolina until [[1746]], when the government is moved to [[New Bern, North Carolina|New Bern]]. 
* [[Peter the Great]] of Russia creates the ''[[Table of Ranks]]''.
* A small group of Bohemian Brethren (the "Hidden Seed") from northern [[Moravia]] are allowed to settle in a new village, [[Herrnhut]], on the [[Berthelsdorf]] estate of the [[Pietism|pietist]] Count [[Nicolaus Zinzendorf]] in Upper Lusatia ([[Saxony]]), forming the ''Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine'', seed of the [[Moravian Church]]'s renewal.
* The [[Chiesa del Purgatorio, Venafro]], Italy, Catholic Church is built.
* The first public theatre in Denmark, [[Lille Grønnegade Theatre]], is founded in [[Copenhagen]].
* Modern [[music theory]] finds definition in [[Jean-Philippe Rameau]]'s ''[[Traité de l'harmonie réduite à ses principes naturels]]'' (Treatise on Harmony), published in Paris.
* The "[[Brown Bess]]" muzzle-loading smoothbore [[musket]] becomes the [[British Army]]'s standard infantry firearm for land combat for more than a century. 
* [[Johann Sebastian Bach]] composes ''[[The Well-Tempered Clavier]]''.</onlyinclude>

== Births ==
* [[January 1]] &ndash; [[Sir George Baker, 1st Baronet]], British physician (d. [[1809]])
* [[January 3]] &ndash; [[Fredrik Hasselqvist]], Swedish traveller and naturalist (d. [[1752]])
* [[January 12]] &ndash; [[Nicolas Luckner]], German in French service rising to become a Marshal of France (d. [[1794]])
* [[January 15]] &ndash; [[Herman Scholliner]], German historian (d. [[1795]])
* [[January 18]] &ndash; [[Antonio Rodríguez de Hita]], Spanish composer (d. [[1787]])
* [[January 26]] &ndash; [[Alexander Carlyle]], Scottish church leader (d. [[1805]])
* [[January 29]] &ndash; [[Duchess Luise of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel]], Prussian princess (d. [[1780]])
* [[February 3]] &ndash; [[Duchess Louise Frederica of Württemberg]], German noble (d. [[1791]])
* [[February 4]] &ndash; [[Antonio Greppi (1722–1799)]], Italian banker (d. [[1799]])
* [[February 5]] &ndash; [[Anders Rudolf du Rietz]], Swedish general, count and politician (d. [[1792]])
* [[February 7]] &ndash; [[Azar Bigdeli]], Iranian anthologist and poet (d. [[1781]])<ref>{{cite encyclopedia | title = BĀZGAŠT-E ADABĪ | last = Hanaway | first = William L. Jr. | url = http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/bazgast-e-adabi | encyclopedia  = Encyclopaedia Iranica, Vol. IV, Fasc. 1 | pages = 58–60 | year = 1989 }}</ref><ref>{{EI3 | last = de Bruin | first = J.T.P. | title = Ādhar, Ḥājjī Luṭf ʿAlī Beg | year = 2011 | doi = 10.1163/1573-3912_ei3_COM_24761 }}</ref>
* [[February 14]] &ndash; [[Georg Christian Füchsel]], German physician and geologist (d. [[1773]])
* [[February 19]] &ndash; [[Charles-François Tiphaigne de la Roche]], French author (d. [[1774]])
* [[February 21]] &ndash; [[Lord Robert Manners-Sutton]], British politician (d. [[1762]])
* [[February 22]]
** [[Théophile de Bordeu]], French physician (d. [[1776]])
** [[John Redman (physician)]], American physician (d. [[1808]])
[[File:BurgoyneByReynolds.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[John Burgoyne]]]]
* [[February 24]] &ndash; [[John Burgoyne]], British army officer, playwright and politician (d. [[1792]])
* [[March 3]] &ndash; [[Pietro Maria Gazzaniga]], Italian theologian (d. [[1799]])
* [[March 6]] &ndash; [[Johann Christian Brand]], Austrian painter (d. [[1795]])
* [[March 7]] &ndash; [[Louis-Jacques Goussier]], French artist (d. [[1799]])
* [[March 15]] &ndash; [[Gabriel Lenkiewicz]], Belarusian Temporary Vicar General of the Society of Jesus (d. [[1798]])
* [[March 17]] &ndash; [[William Wentworth, 2nd Earl of Strafford (1722–1791)]], England (d. [[1791]])
* [[March 18]]
** [[Ulrika Eleonora von Düben]], Swedish lady in waiting (d. [[1758]])
** [[Heinrich XI, Prince Reuss of Greiz]], German noble (d. [[1800]])
* [[March 19]] &ndash; [[Edmund Nelson (clergyman)]], English priest (d. [[1802]])
* [[March 23]]
** [[Marguerite-Thérèse Lemoine Despins]], Canadian mother superior (d. [[1792]])
** [[Jean-Baptiste Chappe d'Auteroche]], French astronomer (d. [[1769]])
* [[April 8]] &ndash; [[Jakob Friedrich Kleinknecht]], German composer (d. [[1794]])
[[File:Christopher Smart.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Christopher Smart]]]]
* [[April 11]] &ndash; [[Christopher Smart]], English poet (d. [[1771]])
* [[April 12]] &ndash; [[Pietro Nardini]], Italian composer and violinist (d. [[1793]])
* [[April 19]] &ndash; [[Duke Clement Francis of Bavaria]], German nobleman (d. [[1770]])
* [[April 22]] ''(bapt.)'' &ndash; [[Joseph Warton]], English poet and critic (d. [[1800]])
* [[April 25]] &ndash; [[Mark Robinson (Royal Navy officer)]], Royal Navy admiral (d. [[1799]])
* [[April 26]] &ndash; [[George Coventry, 6th Earl of Coventry]], English noble and politician (d. [[1809]])
* [[April 29]] &ndash; [[Francesco Carafa di Trajetto]], Italian Catholic cardinal (d. [[1818]])
* [[May 2]] &ndash; [[Gerhard Schøning]], Norwegian historian (d. [[1780]])
* [[May 4]]
** [[David Leslie, 6th Earl of Leven]], British noble (d. [[1802]])
** [[Robert McQueen, Lord Braxfield]], Scottish advocate and judge (d. [[1799]])
* [[May 9]] &ndash; [[Morgan Edwards]], British historian and minister (d. [[1795]])
* [[May 11]] &ndash; [[Petrus Camper]], Dutch scientist (d. [[1789]])
* [[May 23]] &ndash; [[Claudius Franciscus Gagnières des Granges]], French martyr (d. [[1792]])
* [[May 25]] &ndash; [[Anton Cebej]], Slovenian artist (d. [[1774]])
* [[May 26]] &ndash; [[Washington Shirley, 5th Earl Ferrers]], British Royal Navy admiral (d. [[1778]])
* [[May 28]] &ndash; [[Hugh Pigot (Royal Navy officer, born 1722)]], British Royal Navy admiral (d. [[1792]])
* [[May 29]] &ndash; [[James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster]] (d. [[1773]])
* [[June 7]] &ndash; [[George Paulet, 12th Marquess of Winchester]], British politician (d. [[1800]])
* [[June 19]] &ndash; [[George Gordon, 3rd Earl of Aberdeen]] (d. [[1801]])
* [[June 25]] &ndash; [[St George Gore-St George]], Irish politician (d. [[1746]])
* [[June 28]] &ndash; [[Daniel Dulany the Younger]], American politician (d. [[1797]])
* [[June 30]] &ndash; [[Jiří Antonín Benda]], Bohemian composer (d. [[1795]])
* [[July 1]] &ndash; [[Vasily Dolgorukov-Krymsky]], Russian general (d. [[1782]])
* [[July 11]] &ndash; [[Prince George William of Hesse-Darmstadt]], German prince (d. [[1782]])
* [[July 14]] &ndash; [[Jean-Pierre du Teil]], French general (d. [[1794]])
* [[July 16]] &ndash; [[Joseph Wilton]], English sculptor (d. [[1803]])
* [[July 21]] &ndash; [[James Colebrooke]], British baronet (d. [[1761]])
* [[July 23]]
** [[Antoine Petit]], French physician (d. [[1794]])
** [[Anne-Catherine de Ligniville, Madame Helvétius]], French salon holder (d. [[1800]])
* [[July 25]] &ndash; [[Jakab Fellner]], Hungarian architect (d. [[1780]])
* [[August 1]] &ndash; [[Anne Marie Louise de La Tour d'Auvergne]], French princess (d. [[1739]])
* [[August 5]] &ndash; [[William Fortescue, 1st Earl of Clermont]], Irish politician (d. [[1806]])
* [[August 9]] &ndash; [[Prince Augustus William of Prussia]] (d. [[1758]])
* [[August 11]] &ndash; [[Richard Brocklesby]], British doctor (d. [[1797]])
* [[August 12]] &ndash; [[Giuseppe Baldrighi]], Italian painter (d. [[1803]])
* [[August 14]] &ndash; [[Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, 7th Baronet]] (d. [[1785]])
* [[August 22]]
** [[Constantine Phipps, 1st Baron Mulgrave]] of Ireland (d. [[1775]])
** [[Josef Georg Hörl]], Austrian politician (d. [[1806]])
* [[August 24]] &ndash; [[John Gilbert Cooper]], British poet and writer (d. [[1769]])
* [[September 1]] &ndash; [[Karl Gotthelf von Hund]], German baron (d. [[1776]])
* [[September 2]] &ndash; [[Vigilius Eriksen]], Danish artist (d. [[1782]])
* [[September 5]] &ndash; [[Frederick Christian, Elector of Saxony]] (d. [[1763]])
* [[September 6]] &ndash; [[Christian IV, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken]], German noble (d. [[1775]])
* [[September 7]] &ndash; [[Ernst Anton Nicolai]], German chemist (d. [[1802]])
* [[September 13]] &ndash; [[John Home]], Scottish minister, soldier, author (d. [[1808]])
* [[September 16]] &ndash; [[Gabriel Christie (British Army officer)]], British Army general (d. [[1799]])
* [[September 21]] &ndash; [[Gisela Agnes of Anhalt-Köthen]], Princess of Anhalt-Köthen by birth and by marriage Princess of Anhalt-Dessau (d. [[1751]])
[[File:Samuel Adams by John Singleton Copley.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Samuel Adams]]]]
* [[September 27]] &ndash; [[Samuel Adams]], Boston politician, leader in the [[American Revolution]] (d. [[1803]])
* [[October 2]] &ndash; [[Leopold Widhalm]], Austrian luthier (d. [[1776]])
* [[October 3]] &ndash; [[Johann Heinrich Tischbein]], German artist (d. [[1789]])
* [[October 5]] &ndash; [[Richard Hotham]], English property developer and politician (d. [[1799]])
* [[October 10]] &ndash; [[Humphry Marshall]], American botanist (d. [[1801]])
* [[October 20]] &ndash; [[Joachim Edler von Popper]], Austrian banker (d. [[1795]])
* [[October 24]] &ndash; [[Dominic Schram]], German theologian (d. [[1797]])
* [[October 31]] &ndash; [[Princess Ulrike Friederike Wilhelmine of Hesse-Kassel]], German princess (d. [[1787]])
* [[November 4]] &ndash; [[Raphael Cohen]], German rabbi (d. [[1803]])
* [[November 5]] &ndash; [[William Byron, 5th Baron Byron]], English dueller (d. [[1798]])
* [[November 11]] &ndash; [[Nicolas Antoine Boulanger]], French philosopher (d. [[1759]])
* [[November 18]] &ndash; [[Ichijō Michika]], Japanese court noble (d. [[1769]])
* [[November 19]]
** [[Leopold Auenbrugger]], Austrian physician (d. [[1809]])
** [[Benjamin Chew]], Chief Justice of colonial Pennsylvania (d. [[1810]])
* [[November 21]] &ndash; [[Richard Bampfylde]], British politician (d. [[1776]])
* [[November 22]] &ndash; [[Marc Antoine René de Voyer]], French noble (d. [[1787]])
* [[November 25]] &ndash; [[Heinrich Johann Nepomuk von Crantz]], Luxembourgian botanist (d. [[1799]])
* [[November 30]] &ndash; [[Théodore Gardelle]], Swiss painter, enameller (d. [[1761]])
* [[December 1]]
** [[Jean-Pierre de Bougainville]], French writer (d. [[1763]])
** [[Anna Louisa Karsch]], German poet (d. [[1791]])
** [[Dunbar Douglas, 4th Earl of Selkirk]], Scottish peer (d. [[1799]])
* [[December 4]] &ndash; [[Guillaume Piguel]], French-born Apostolic Vicar of Cochin (d. [[1771]])
* [[December 12]] &ndash; [[Charles Wallop]], British politician (d. [[1771]])
* [[December 20]] &ndash; [[Joseph O'Donnell Sr.]], Irish soldier (d. [[1787]])
* [[December 24]] &ndash; [[Sampson Sammons]], American army officer (d. [[1796]])
* [[December 28]]
** [[John Pitcairn]], British Marine officer who was stationed in Boston (d. [[1775]])
** [[Eliza Lucas]], American agronomist (d. [[1793]])
* [[December 30]] &ndash; [[Charles Yorke]], Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (d. [[1770]])
* ''date unknown'' &ndash; [[Flora MacDonald]], Scottish heroine (d. [[1790]])
* ''probable'' &ndash; [[Hyder Ali]], Indian general, Sultan of Mysore (d. [[1782]])

== Deaths ==
* [[January 7]] &ndash; [[Antoine Coypel]], French painter (b. [[1661]])
* [[January 21]] &ndash; [[Charles Paulet, 2nd Duke of Bolton]], English supporter of [[William III of England]] (b. [[1661]])
* [[January 23]] &ndash; [[Henri de Boulainvilliers]], French nobleman (b. [[1658]])
* [[January 29]] &ndash; [[Carl Gustav Rehnskiöld]], Swedish military leader (b. [[1651]])
* [[February 5]] &ndash; [[Éléonore Desmier d'Olbreuse]], Duchess of Braunschweig-Lüneburg (b. [[1639]])
* [[February 10]] &ndash; [[Bartholomew Roberts]], Welsh pirate (b. [[1682]])
* [[March 11]] &ndash; [[John Toland]], Irish philosopher (b. [[1670]])
* [[March 31]] &ndash; [[Eberhard von Danckelmann]], Prime Minister of Brandenburg-Prussia (b. [[1643]])
* [[April 13]] &ndash; [[Charles Leslie (nonjuror)|Charles Leslie]], Irish Anglican theologian (b. [[1650]])
* [[April 21]] &ndash; [[Robert Beverley, Jr.]], historian of Colonial Virginia (b. [[1673]])
* [[May 20]] &ndash; [[Sébastien Vaillant]], French botanist (b. [[1669]])
* [[June 5]] &ndash; [[Johann Kuhnau]], German composer (b. [[1660]])
[[File:John Churchill Marlborough porträtterad av Adriaen van der Werff (1659-1722).jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough]]]]
* [[June 16]]
** [[John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough]], English general (b. [[1650]])
** [[Marc'Antonio Zondadari]], Italian-born 65th Grandmaster of the [[Knights Hospitaller]] (b. [[1658]])
* [[July 16]] &ndash; [[Maria Angela Caterina d'Este]], Italian princess (b. [[1656]])
* [[August 20]] &ndash; [[John Coney (silversmith)]], early American silversmith/goldsmith (b. [[1655]])
* [[September 18]] &ndash; [[André Dacier]], French classical scholar (b. [[1651]])
* [[September 20]] &ndash; [[John Lauder, Lord Fountainhall]], Scottish jurist (b. [[1646]])
* [[October 8]] &ndash; [[Gerard Callenburgh]], Dutch admiral (b. [[1642]])
* [[November 12]] &ndash; [[Adriaen van der Werff]], Dutch painter (b. [[1659]])
* [[November 20]] &ndash; [[Johann Adam Reincken]], German organist (b. [[1643]])
* [[December 5]] &ndash; [[Marie Anne de La Trémoille, princesse des Ursins]], politically active Spanish court official (b. [[1642]])
* [[December 8]] &ndash; [[Elizabeth Charlotte, Princess Palatine]], wife to Philippe I, Duke of Orléans (b. [[1652]])
[[File:Portrait of the Kangxi Emperor in Court Dress.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Kangxi Emperor]]]]
* [[December 20]] &ndash; [[Kangxi Emperor]] of China (b. [[1654]])
* [[December 23]] &ndash; [[Pierre Varignon]], French mathematician (b. [[1654]])

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