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Events

  • May 01: Daniel Defoe and John Arbuthnot openly support the Act of Union in 1707, which creates the legal basis for the unification of the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland. The law is briefly adopted successively by the English Parliament and the Scottish Parliament and come into force on 1 May 1707. Thus, the Kingdom of Great Britain will be created and the above two parliaments replaced by the British Parliament.
  • 09 September: Richard Steele married Mary Scurlock. Because of their correspondence of over 400 letters one of the most famous literary couples.
  • The publisher Edmund Curll announces that it will publish Matthew Prior's Poems on Several Occasions, even if the copyright were not released.
  • The German mathematician, astronomer, cartographer and geographer historical Johann Matthias Hase acquires the treatise "Specimen algebrae ad artem fortificatoriam applicatae " the philosophical master's degree.
  • Nicholas Jerome Gundling is Full Professor of "History and eloquence " of the newly founded only in 1694 Friedrich University Hall.
  • In Havana, Cuba, the first printing press was established.
  • The English satirist, writer and publican Ned Ward published the last copies of his work Hudibras Redivivus, in which he, the ruling class in England, the Whigs, attack.
  • In Tyburn an English thief hanged in public. This event is twelve years later as the basis for the popular song Sam Hall.
  • The Italian set designer, architect, stage designer and decorative painter Francesco Galli da Bibbiena goes to Nancy in 1707 to the court of the Duke of Lorraine, to build a large theater for him in the capital of the Duchy.
  • The mainly acting in the Netherlands French bookseller, writer, translator, printer and publisher Jean Frederic Bernard returned to his teaching and training, and his first professional successes in Geneva to Amsterdam, where he became one of the major European publishers in the following decades french-language works is.
  • The recommendation " Tant qu'on laisse faire la nature" ( "You 'll make nature " ) is found in 1707 in a memorandum of Pierre Le Pesant de Boisguilbert.
  • The shipwrecked Alexander Selkirk, the model for Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe sighted for the first time a ship off the coast of Isla Más a Tierra. The enemy Spaniards discover Selkirk and follow him into the jungle island, where they lose his trail.
  • 02 December: The French military and poet Jacques -Louis de Valon, Marquis de Mimeure is taken on the initiative of François Louis de Bourbon, prince de Conti, Marquise de Montespan and not especially by Nicolas Boileau - Despréaux as a member of the Académie française.

New releases

Prose

  • Anonymus - La guerre d' Espagne, de Baviere, et de Flandre, ou Memoires du Marquis d ***
  • Anonymus - Memoirs of the Court of England ( translation ) - The History of the Earl of Warwick; Sirnam'd the King - maker ( transl. )

Drama

Poetry

  • Samuel Cobb, Poems on Several Occasions
  • Benjamin Colman, " A Poem on Elijah's translation, occasioned by the death of Rev. Samuel Willard "
  • François Petis de la Croix - Contes Turcs
  • Erdmann Neumeister - to get very latest way to a pure and gallant poetry, edited by Christian Friedrich Hunold
  • John Pomfret - Quae Rara, Chara: A poem on Panthea 's confinement
  • Charles Sedley - The Poetical Works
  • Isaac Watts - Hymns and Spiritual Songs ( with rapid new edition )
  • John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester - The Miscellaneous Works of the Right Honourable the late Earl of Rochester And Roscommon. With The Memoirs of the Life and Character of the late Earl of Rochester, in a Letter to the Dutchess of Mazarine. By Mons. St. Evremont, London: Printed & sold by B. Bragge; second edition in the same year, London: Printed for Edmund Curll ( third edition, 1709)

Non-fiction

  • Michael Alberti - Epist. Gratul de mysterio neturae in medicina
  • Anthony Ashley -Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury - Letter Concerning Enthusiasm
  • Jean de Beaugué - Histoire de la guerre d' Ecosse ( translation by Patrick Abercromby )
  • Pierre Le Pesant de Boisguilbert - Le Factum de la France
  • Augustin Calmet - La Sainte Bible en latin et en françois, avec un commentaire littéral et critique ( Bible Commentary in 23 volumes published to 1716 )
  • Anthony Collins - Essay Concerning the Use of Reason
  • Thomas D' Urfey - Stories, Moral and Comical
  • Laurence Echard - The History of England vol. 1
  • Francis Hauksbee - Extraordinary electricity of glass producible by a smart attrition
  • Jacques -Martin Hotteterre - Principes de la flute traversière, ou flute d' Allemagne, de la flute à bec ou flute douce et du haut bois, divisez par traictez
  • Nicolas Lemery - Traité de l' anti- Moine
  • Nicolas Malebranche - Traité de l' amour de Dieu
  • Jacob von Melle - Notitia maiorum
  • Maximilien Misson - Le sacre Théâtre des Cévennes and avertissements prophétiques d' Elie Marion
  • Isaac Newton - Arithmetica Universalis
  • D. Papin - Nouvelle d' manière elever l' eau par la force du feu
  • Johann Friedrich Schannat - The History of the Counts of Mansfeld
  • Wouter Schouten - Reistogt naar de Oost- door India (. Travel to East India Revised edition by Andries van Damme )
  • Thomas Smith - Vitæ quorundam Eruditissimorum et Illustrium Virorum
  • Jonathan Swift - A Critical Essay upon the Faculties of the Mind
  • Matthew Tindal - A Defence of the Rights of the Christian Church
  • Catherine Trotter - A Discourse Concerning a Guide in Controversies
  • Andreas Werckmeister - Musicalische Paradoxal - Discourse ( posthumously )

Born

  • January 02: Johann Adam Lehmus, German hymn writer († 1788)
  • JANUARY 13: John Boyle, 5th Earl of Cork, English author († 1762)
  • FEBRUARY 14: Claude- Prosper de Jolyot Crébillon, French novelist and son of the tragedy poet Prosper Jolyot Crébillon († 1777)
  • FEBRUARY 25: Carlo Goldoni, Italian playwright and librettist († 1793)
  • MARCH 18: Józef Baka, Polish poet, theologian and missionary († 1780)
  • August 22: Henry Fielding, English novelist, satirist, playwright, journalist, lawyer and literary critic († 1754)
  • August 14: Johann August Ernesti, German Protestant theologian, philologist, teacher and rector of the St. Thomas School at Leipzig ( † 1781)
  • September 07: Georges- Louis Leclerc de Buffon, French naturalist († 1788)
  • OCTOBER 31: Johann Philipp Cassel, German historian, theologian, scholar, teacher, translator and author of numerous writings († 1783)
  • December 18: Charles Wesley, English cleric, hymn writer and founder of Methodism († 1788)
  • DECEMBER 29: Magdalena Sibylla Rieger, German poet († 1786)

Died

  • January 20: Humphrey Hody, English theologian (* 1659)
  • January 30: Philibert de Gramont, French officer, court, and nobleman at the court of Louis XIV and memoirist (* 1621)
  • MARCH 25: Carl Desiderius de Royer, Lorraine -French- German Catholic priest, spiritual writer and poet in the bishoprics of Metz and Worms (c. 1650)
  • April 01: Takarai Kikaku, Japanese haikai poet (* 1661)
  • APRIL 29: George Farquhar, Irish playwright (* 1677)
  • May 03: Michiel de Swaen, Dutch- French author (* 1654)
  • June 23: John Mill, English theologian (c. 1645)
  • 24 June: Kaspar von Stieler, German poet, dramatist, writer, scholar and linguist (* 1632)
  • August 17: Petter Dass, Norwegian poet and hymn writer (c. 1646)
  • September 15: George Stepney, English poet and diplomat (* 1663 )
  • September 23: John Tutchin, English literary critic and journalist
  • SEPTEMBER 24: Vincenzo da Filicaja, Italian poet (* 1642)
  • 05 October: Daniel Speer, German writer and composer of the Baroque ( † 1636)
  • November 17: Wilhelm Ernst Tentzel, German polymath, historian and numismatist (* 1659)
  • December 27 - Jean Mabillon, French Benedictine monk, scholar and founder of the historical auxiliary sciences (* 1632)
  • Without a specific date - Alexandre Exquemelin, pirate author (c. 1645)
  • Without exact date: Ehmedê XANI, Kurdish writer, scholar and poet (* 1651)
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