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Events
- January 28: The Russian Academy of Sciences as well as today's St. Petersburg State University, the first university in Russia, will be launched by Peter I by ukase based in Saint Petersburg.
- April 1: Jonathan Swift published the Drapier Letters.
- Johann Christoph Sauer (1695-1757) emigrated to America, where he later publishes the first Bible in German.
- The Patriot that a significant moral weekly, appears in the first group in Hamburg.
- Aurelius Augustinus " Dess healing. Augustini great church teacher, celestial observations, or secret conversation with God, and reverent hand - book even playi. u unvgl. Jewels d Göttl. Love, in 3 book to appreciate all Christglaubigen cheap high, and to acquire "
- Ludwig Babenstuber " Philosophia Thomistica Salisburgensis, immersive cursus philosophicus secundum doctrinam D. Thomae Aquinatis Doctoris Angelici "
- Georg Bernhard Bilfinger "Specimen doctrinae veterum Sinarum " [ characteristics of the teachings of the ancient Chinese ] the hitherto most comprehensive overall presentation of Chinese philosophy
- Gotthard Dietrich Eckard " Clear and thorough explanation about John Schilteri Institutiones iuris Canonici "
- Johann Andreas Fabricius "Philosophical Oratorie. This is reasonable guide to the learned and gallant eloquence "
- Wilhelm Fesenmayr " viewing and Exercitia - book, for the spiritual, God - betrothed Closter virgins when same want to consider learning or a spiritual wasteland and eight-day Versamblung concerning the spirit want to do "
- Jacob Leupold " Theatrum Machinarum Hydrotechnicarum. Show - place of the Water Construction Art "
- Jacob Leupold " Theatrum Machinarum Hydraulicarum, Or: Look - place of the water - Arts. Part 1 "
- Torquato Tasso " Jerusalem delivree "
- Christoph Thieber " harbinger of a Teutonic Lexici Etymologici "
- Samuel Werenfels " Dissertationes de logomachiis eruditorum et de meteoris orationis "
- Christian Wolff " De differentia nexus rerum et sapientis fatalis necessitatis "
- Christian Wolff " Monitum ad commentationem luculentam de differentia nexus rerum et sapientis fatalis necessitatis "
Theater
Born
- January 7: Friedrich Wilhelm Pestel, jurist († 1805)
- JANUARY 19: Dai Chen, Chinese scholar († 1777)
- FEBRUARY 16: Christian Ludwig Stieglitz, German lawyer, alderman and mineral collectors († 1772)
- MARCH 12: Benedict Bush, German Catholic theologian and educator († 1803)
- MARCH 18: Dionysius van de Wijnpersse, Dutch Reformed theologian and philosopher († 1808)
- April 22: Immanuel Kant, German philosopher († 1804)
- July 2: Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, German author and poet († 1803)
- July 18: Maria Antonia of Bavaria, patron of the arts and composer, painter and poet († 1780)
- August 25: George Stubbs, English painter and scientist († 1806)
- AUGUST 29: Giambattista Casti, Italian poet and satirist († 1803)
- September 11: Johann Bernhard Basedow, German educator and writer († 1790)
- SEPTEMBER 27: Anton Friedrich Büsching, German geographer († 1793)
- OCTOBER 17: Johann Siegfried Hufnagel, German priest and entomologist († 1795)
- November 18: John Daniël van Lennep, Dutch philologist († 1771)
- DECEMBER 13: Franz Maria Aepinus, astronomer, mathematician, physicist and natural philosopher († 1802)
- December 20: Johann Nikolaus Seip, German Lutheran theologian († 1789)
- December 24: Johann Conrad Ammann, Swiss physician, natural history and art collector († 1811)
- December 25: John Michell, English natural philosopher and geologist († 1793)