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What Happened in September 1709

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Historical Events

  • Sep 3 1st major group of Swiss German colonists reaches North and South Carolina
  • Sep 11 Battle at Malplaquet during War of the Spanish Succession: English, Austrian and Dutch Great Alliance defeat France

Events in 1709

Famous Birthdays

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

Sep 18 English scholar and lexicographer (A Dictionary of the English Language), born in Lichfield Staffordshire

Samuel Johnson
Born in 1709

Famous Deaths

  • Sep 4 Jean-François Regnard, French comedic poet, dramatist and traveller (captured by pirates to be a slave in Algeria), dies at 54
  • Sep 11 Oxenstiern, Dutch general, dies in the Battle of Malplaquet
  • Sep 11 Spaar, Dutch General, dies in the Battle of Malplaquet

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