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Events
March 11
– Chelsea hospital for soldiers is founded in England
May 6
-
Louis XIV of France
moves his court to
Versailles
.
First black
slaves
arrive in Germany
Halley's comet
makes an appearance, and is observed by
Edmond Halley
himself
In
Russia
, half-brothers Ivan V and Peter I named
tsar
- Peter's half-sister Sofia becomes regent
Births
February 13
- Giovanni Battista Piazzetta , painter (died
1754
)
June 27
-
Charles XII of Sweden
, king of
Sweden
1697-1718 (died
1718
) (June 17 in Swedish calendar)
Deaths
October 19
- Sir
Thomas Browne
English author, physician and philosopher
November 23
-
Claude Lorrain
French landscape painter
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