Today in History for Year 1711

Months in Year 1711: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 11 of 11

Feb 14th - Handel's opera Rinaldo, premieres
Feb 24th - Handel's opera "Rinaldo" premieres, London
Mar 1st - "The Spectator" begins publishing (London)
Mar 8th - Antoin de Guiscard tries English premier Haley for murder
Apr 17th - Charles VI becomes Holy Roman Emperor after the death of this brother Joseph I
May 1st - Arch duke Karel of Austria/Hungarian rebellion sign Peace of Szatmar
Aug 1st - Surrounded Czar Peter the Great flees Azov
Aug 23rd - Admiral Hovenden Walkers fleet reach St Lawrence
Sep 22nd - French troops occupy Rio de Janeiro
Oct 12th - Karel VI Habsburg crowned Roman Catholic emperor
Dec 31st - Duke of Marlborough fired as English army commander

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 29 of 29

Jan 1st - Franz Freiherr von der Trenck, Austrian soldier (d. 1749)
Jan 12th - Gaetano Latilla, composer
Jan 29th - Giuseppi Bonno, composer
Feb 2nd - Wenzel Anton von Kaunitz, Austrian diplomat (d. 1794)
Feb 5th - Joseph Umstatt, composer
Feb 27th - Constantine Mavrocordatos, Prince of Wallachia and Prince of Moldavia (d. 1769)
Mar 1st - Peregrinus Pogl, composer
Apr 2nd - Jan Punt, Dutch engraver/illustrator/actor (Gideonschool)
Apr 22nd - Eleazar Wheelock, American founder of Dartmouth College (d. 1779)
Apr 26th - David Hume, English empiricist/philosopher (Treatise of Human Nature)
May 18th - Ruggiero G Boscovich, [Rudzer J Boskovic], Italian astronomer
Jul 10th - Princess Amelia Sophia of Great Britain (d. 1783)
Jul 18th - Pierre-Joseph Le Blan, composer
Jul 22nd - Georg Wilhelm Richmann, Russian physicist (d. 1753)
Aug 5th - Johan Lulofs, Dutch physicist/philosopher/astronomer
Aug 19th - Edward Boscawen, British admiral (d. 1761)
Sep 1st - Willem IV KH Friso, Dutch prince of Orange-Nassau
Sep 6th - Henry Muhlenberg, German-born founder of the U.S. Lutheran Church (d. 1787)
Sep 9th - Thomas Hutchinson, American politician (d. 1780)
Philosopher David Hume (Apr 26th) Sep 17th - Ignaz Jakob Holzbauer, composer
Sep 25th - Qianlong Emperor of China (d. 1799)
Sep 26th - Richard Grenville-Temple, 2nd Earl Temple, English politician (d. 1779)
Oct 15th - Elisabeth Teresa of Lorraine, queen of Sardinia (d. 1741)
Oct 17th - Jupiter Hammon, 1st black American to publish poetry (Complete Works)
Oct 20th - Timothy Ruggles, American-born Tory politician (d. 1795)
Oct 31st - Laura Bassi, Italian scholar (d. 1778)
Nov 19th - Michail V Lomonosov, Russian scholar/poet
Dec 4th - Barbara of Portugal, queen of Spain (d. 1758)
Dec 25th - Jean-Joseph Cassenea de Mondonville, composer

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 20 of 20

Jan 8th - Philips van Almonde, Zealand lt admiral, dies at 66
Jan 16th - Joseph Vaz, Apostle of Ceylon (b. 1651)
Feb 10th - Lukas Fencer, Dutch poet (Meleager & Atalante), dies at 22
Feb 21st - Joan van Hoorn, gov-gen of Neth-Indies (1707-09), dies at 57
Mar 13th - Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, French poet and critic (b. 1636)
Mar 15th - Eusebio Kino, Italian Catholic missionary (b. 1645)
Mar 19th - Thomas Ken, English bishop and hymn-writer (b. 1637)
Apr 17th - Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1678) dies of smallpox
May 2nd - Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester, English statesman (b. 1641)
Jun 7th - Henry Dodwell, Irish theologian (b. 1641)
Jun 8th - Katharina Lescaille, [Netherlands Sappho], poetess, dies at 61
Jul 14th - Johan Willem Friso, Prince of Orange/(Nassau-Dietz), drowns at 23
Jul 28th - Gerard Lairesse, painter, buried
Aug 22nd - Louis François, duc de Boufflers, French marshal (b. 1644)
Aug 25th - Edward Villiers, 1st Earl of Jersey, English politician
Oct 14th - Tewoflos, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1708)
Nov 1st - Christian Demelius, composer, dies at 68
Nov 3rd - Ferdinand Tobias Richter, composer, dies at 60
Nov 3rd - John Ernest Grabe, German-born Anglican theologian (b. 1666)
Dec 17th - Arnold Moonen, vicar/literature (Defeated German Spraekkunst), dies