Major Events
- Jan 9 France declares war on Spain
- Jan 17 Avalanche destroys every building in Leukerbad, Switzerland; kills 53
- May 1 Spanish Catholic missionaries establish Mission San Antonio de Valero (now known as Alamo), the fist of several settlements in what is now San Antonio, Texas
- May 7 The city of New Orleans is founded by French explorer Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville
- May 15 James Puckle, a London lawyer, patents world's 1st machine gun
- Jun 26 Peter the Great's son, Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich of Russia dies from the effects of torture after being sentenced to death by his father for plotting against him
- Jul 21 Treaty of Passarowitz is signed between the Ottoman Empire, Austria and the Republic of Venice
- Aug 2 Austria joins Triple Alliance of Britain, France and the Dutch Republic forming the Quadruple Alliance, to fight against Spain
- Aug 11 Battle of Cape Passaro: British fleet destroys Spanish off Sicily
- Aug 25 Hundreds of French colonists arrive in Louisiana; New Orleans founded
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Did You Know?Born in 1718
- Jan 7 Israel Putnam, American Revolutionary War general (d. 1790)
- Jan 29 Paul Rabaut, French Huguenot pastor (d. 1794)
- Feb 17 Matthew Tilghman, American Continental Congressman (d. 1790)
- Mar 12 Joseph Damer, English politician (d. 1798)
- Mar 31 Marianne Victoria of Borbón, queen regent of Portugal (d. 1781)
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