1715

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Year '1715' ('MDCCXV') was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).

Contents

Events of

January - June

July - December

Undated

Ongoing events

Births

Deaths

Events of

January - June

★ February 11 - Tuscarora War: The Tuscarora and their allies sign a peace treaty with the Province of Carolina and agree to move to a reservation near Lake Mattamuskeet, effectively ending the Tuscarora War. Large numbers of Tuscarora subsequently move to New York.

★ May 3 - Total solar eclipse across southern England, Sweden and Finland (last total eclipse visible in London, UK for almost 900 years).

July - December

★ July 24 - Spanish treasure fleet of ten ships under admiral Ubilla leave Havana, Cuba for Spain. Three days later nine of them sink in a storm off the coast of Florida Some centuries later treasure salvage was found from these wrecks.


★ September - First of the major Jacobite Rebellions in Scotland against the rule of King George I. John Erskine, 22nd Earl of Mar raised the standard of James Francis Edward Stuart and marched on Edinburgh. James, the son of the deposed King James VII, briefly arrived from France, but left as it became clear that there was no support for him in England; he took Mar with him, but left most of his supporters behind. (December).

★ September 1 - King Louis XIV of France dies after a reign of 72 years, leaving the throne of his exhausted and indebted country to his great-grandson Louis XV. Regent for the new, five years old monarch is Philippe d'Orléans, nephew of Louis XIV.

★ December 24 - Swedish troops occupy Norway.

Undated

★ Province of Carolina goes to war with the Yamasee Native Americans.

Ongoing events

★ Great Northern War (1700-1721)

★ Tuscarora War (1711 - 1715)

★ Golden Age of Piracy ('1715' - 1730)

Births

★ January 10 - Christian August Crusius, German philosopher and theologian (died 1775)

★ January 12 - Jacques Duphly, French composer (died 1789)

★ January 29 - Georg Christoph Wagenseil, Austrian composer (died 1777)

★ February 26 - Claude Adrien Helvétius, French philosopher (died 1771)

★ March 7 - Ewald Christian von Kleist, German poet (died 1759)

★ March 7 - Ephraim Williams, American philanthropist (died 1755)

★ April 3 - John Hanson, American delegate to the Continental Congress (died 1783)

★ April 3 - William Watson, English physician and scientist (died 1787)

★ April 28 - Franz Sparry, composer (died 1767)

★ May 4 - Richard Graves, English writer (died 1804)

★ May 22 - François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis, French cardinal and statesman (died 1794)

★ June 25 - Joseph-François Foulon, French politician (died 1789)

★ July 4 - Christian Fürchtegott Gellert, German poet (died 1769)

★ August 6 - Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues, French writer (died 1747)

★ September 15 - Jean Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval, French artillery specialist (died 1789)

★ September 22 - Jean-Étienne Guettard, French physician and scientist (died 1786)

★ September 30 - Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, French philosopher (died 1780)

★ October 4 - Victor Riqueti, Marquis de Mirabeau, French economist (died 1789)

★ October 8 - Michel Benoist, French Jesuit missionary and scientist (d. 1774)

★ October 23 - Emperor Peter II of Russia (died 1730)

★ November 5 - John Brown, English writer (died 1766)

★ November 8 - Elisabeth Christine von Braunschweig-Bevern, queen of Frederick II of Prussia (died 1797)

★ November 23 - Pierre Charles Le Monnier, French astronomer (died 1799)

★ December 27 - Philippe de Noailles, duc de Mouchy, French soldier (died 1794)

★ ''date unknown'' - Robert-François Damiens, attempted assassin of Louis XV of France (died 1757)
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Deaths

★ February 17 - Antoine Galland, French archaeologist (born 1646)

★ February 21 - Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore, Governor of the Province of Maryland (born 1637)

★ March 17 - Gilbert Burnet, Scottish Bishop of Salisbury (born 1643)

★ May 19 - Charles Montagu, English Chancellor of the Exchequer (born 1661)

★ July 5 - Charles Ancillon, French Huguenot pastor (born 1659)

★ July 30 - Nahum Tate, Irish poet (born 1652)

★ September 1 - François Girardon, French sculptor (born 1628)

★ September 1 - King Louis XIV of France (born 1638)

★ October 13 - Nicolas Malebranche, French philosopher (born 1638)

★ October 14 - Thomas Tenison, Archbishop of Canterbury (born 1636)

★ October 15 - Humphry Ditton, English mathematician (born 1675)

★ December 15 - George Hickes, English minister and scholar (born 1642)

★ December 28 - William Carstares, Scottish clergyman (born 1649)
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