Major Events
- Apr 15 Pocotaligo Massacre triggers the start of the Yamasee War in colonial South Carolina.
- Apr 20 Nicholas Rowe's play "The Tragedy of Lady Jane Grey" premieres in London
- Apr 29 English Astronomer John Flamsteed observes Uranus for 6th time
- May 1 Prussia declares war on Sweden
- May 3 Edmond Halley observes total eclipse phenomenon "Baily's Beads"
- Jun 9 King Philip V, unifies the Kingdom of Castile and the Kingdom of Aragon into a single state - the Kingdom of Spain.
- Jun 15 Ottoman army lands at Acrocorinth, beginning their reconquest of the Morea (Peloponnese)
- Jul 5 Ottoman troops storm citadel of Acrocorinth in the Peloponnese, massacring a large part of the population and selling the rest into slavery. Inspires Lord Byron's poem "The Siege of Corinth"
- Jul 29 10 Spanish treasure galleons sunk off Florida coast by a hurricane
- Jul 30 Spanish gold and silver fleet disappears off St Lucie, Florida
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Did You Know?Born in 1715
- Jan 10 Christian August Crusius, German philosopher and theologian, born in Leuna, Germany (d. 1775)
- Jan 12 Jacques Duphly, French composer and harpsichordist, born in Rouen, France (d. 1789)
- Jan 26 Claude Adrien Helvétius, French controversial philosopher (On the Mind), born in Paris, France (d. 1771)
- Jan 27 Vaclav Kalous [Simon à Scto Bartholomaeo], Czech composer, born in Solnice (d. 1786)
- Jan 29 Georg Christoph Wagenseil, Austrian court composer and pianist, born in Vienna (d. 1777)
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Fun Fact About 1715
First English patent granted to an American, for processing corn
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