Olaylar Doğumlar 24 Şubat – Jacques de Vaucanson, Fransız mucit (d. 1782) 10 Mart – Georg Steller, Alman doğa bilimci (d. 1746) 14 Nisan – Charles Collé, Fransız oyun yazarı (d. 1783) 7 Ağustos – Jean-Jacques Lefranc, Fransız şair (d. 1784) 8 Ağustos – Tokugawa Ietsugu, (d. 1716) Eylül – John Cleland, İngiliz romancı (d. 1789) 18 Eylül – Samuel Johnson, İngiliz yazar (ö. 1784) tarihi bilinmeyen Madrup Yusuf Efendi, Osmanlı kadısı ve müderris Thomas Alcock, İngiliz rahip (d. 1798) Ölümler 16 Ocak – Emperor Higashiyama of Japan (b. 1675) 20 Ocak – François de la Chaise, French confessor of Louis XIV of France (b. 1624) 24 Ocak – George Rooke, English admiral (b. 1650) February 8 – Giuseppe Torelli, Italian composer (b. 1658) February 9 – François Louis, Prince of Conti, French general (b. 1664) 9 Mart – Ralph Montagu, 1st Duke of Montagu, English diplomat 21 Nisan – Gorgin Khan, Persian Governor of Kandahar (b. 1651) 29 Haziran – Antoine Thomas, Belgian Jesuit astronomer in China (b. 1644) 30 Haziran – Edward Lhuyd, Welsh scientist (b. 1660) July 17 – Robert Bolling, English settler in Virginia (b. 1646) September 14 – Luis Manuel Fernández de Portocarrero, Spanish cardinal and archbishop of Toledo (b. 1635) 2 Ekim – Ivan Mazepa, Hetman of Ukraine (b. 1639) 9 Ekim – Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland, English mistress of Charles II of England (b. 1640) December 1 – Abraham a Sancta Clara, Austrian preacher (b. 1644) December 8 – Thomas Corneille, French dramatist (b. 1625)