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Events
- July 21 - Treaty of Passarowitz signed
- November 22 - Off the coast of Virginia, English pirate Edward Teach (best known as "Blackbeard") is killed in battle when a British boarding party cornered and then shot and stabbed him more than 25 times.
- November 30 - After the death of Charles XII, Ulrika Eleonora becomes Queen of Sweden
- The Funj warrior aristocracy deposes the reigning mek and places one of their own ranks on the throne of Sennar. (History of Sudan (Coming of Islam to the Turkiyah))
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Ongoing events
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Births
- April 24 - Nathaniel Hone, Irish-born painter (d. 1784)
- April 30 - John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich (d. 1792)
- May 16 - Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian mathematician (d. 1799)
- September 18 - Nikita Ivanovich Panin, Russian statesman (d. 1783)
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Deaths
- January 6 - Giovanni Vincenzo Gravina, Italian writer and jurist (b. 1664)
- January 6 - Richard Hoare, English goldsmith and banker (b. 1648)
- January 17 - Captain Benjamin Church, Plymouth Colony settler
- February 1 - Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury, English politician (b. 1660)
- February 18 - Pierre Antoine Motteux, French-born English dramatist (b. 1663)
- May 7 - Mary of Modena, queen of James II of England (b. 1658)
- May 30 - Arnold Joost van Keppel, 1st Earl of Albemarle, Dutch favorite of William III of England (b. 1670)
- July 28 - Etienne Baluze, French scholar (b. 1630)
- July 30 - William Penn, American settler, founder of Pennsylvania (b. 1644)
- November 22 - Blackbeard, English pirate
- November 30 - King Charles XII of Sweden (b. 1682)
- December 6 - Nicholas Rowe, English poet and dramatist (b. 1674)
- December 9 - Vincenzo Coronelli, Italian cartographer and encylopedist (b. 1650)
- Roderick O Flaherty, Irish chieftan and historian (b. 1629)
