Major Events
- Feb 13 Battle at Fraustadt: Swedish army beats Russia and Saxon forces, one of Swedish's Greatest victories in the Great Northern War
- Mar 8 Vienna's Wiener Stadtbank established
- Apr 29 Emperor Jozef I becomes monarch of Cologne and Bavaria
- May 23 Battle of Ramillies during War of the Spanish Succession.: John Churchill (1st Duke of Marlborough) defeats French; 17,000 killed
- Sep 24 Treaty of Altranstädt: Charles XII of Sweden & August II of Saksen; Augustus renounces his claims to the Polish throne and his alliance with Russia
Benjamin Franklin
Johann Pachelbel
Antonio Vivaldi
Johann Sebastian Bach
Anne Stuart
Louis XIV
Peter the Great