Genealogy Thrutchley/Anderson/Fitzgerel/Cox/Staley » Anna Rathbone (1703-????)

Birthday August 9, 1703

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  Van 1702 tot 1747 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Tweede Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
• In the year 1703: Source: Wikipedia
  • February 4 » In Edo (now Tokyo), all but one of the Forty-seven Ronin commit seppuku (ritual suicide) as recompense for avenging their master's death.
  • May 21 » Daniel Defoe is imprisoned on charges of seditious libel.
  • May 27 » Tsar Peter the Great founds the city of Saint Petersburg.
  • July 26 » During the Bavarian Rummel the rural population of Tyrol drove the Bavarian Prince-Elector Maximilian II Emanuel out of North Tyrol with a victory at the Pontlatzer Bridge and thus prevented the Bavarian Army, which was allied with France, from marching as planned on Vienna during the War of the Spanish Succession.
  • December 7 » The Great Storm of 1703, the greatest windstorm ever recorded in the southern part of Great Britain, makes landfall. Winds gust up to 120mph, and 9,000 people die.
  • December 27 » Portugal and England sign the Methuen Treaty which gives preference to Portuguese imported wines into England.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1653 » John Oldham, English poet and translator († 1683)
• 1674 » František Maxmilián Kaňka, Czech architect, designed the Veltrusy Mansion († 1766)
• 1696 » Joseph Wenzel I, Prince of Liechtenstein († 1772)
• 1722 » Prince Augustus William of Prussia († 1758)
• 1726 » Francesco Cetti, Italian priest, zoologist, and mathematician († 1778)
• 1748 » Bernhard Schott, German music publisher († 1809)