Whitworth Tree » Clement Fallin (Wolf Clan - Cherokee) 11 NAI (1625-1701)

Day of death April 16, 1701

• Stadhouder Prins Willem III (Huis van Oranje) was from 1672 till 1702 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
• In the year 1701: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 18 » Frederick I crowns himself King of Prussia in Königsberg.
  • March 9 » Safavid troops retreat from Basra, ending a three year occupation.
  • July 19 » Representatives of the Iroquois Confederacy sign the Nanfan Treaty, ceding a large territory north of the Ohio River to England.
  • July 24 » Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac founds the trading post at Fort Pontchartrain, which later becomes the city of Detroit.
  • August 4 » Great Peace of Montreal between New France and First Nations is signed.
  • September 16 » James Francis Edward Stuart, sometimes called the "Old Pretender", becomes the Jacobite claimant to the thrones of England and Scotland.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1756 » Jacques Cassini, French astronomer (b. 1677)