• British general (and playwright!) John Burgoyne.
• Massachusetts brewer and Revolutionary War political leader Samuel Adams.
• Italian composer Pietro Nardini.
• Scottish heroine Flora MacDonald.
• Czech composer Jiri Antonin Benda.
• English poet Mary Leapor.
• English poet Christopher Smart.
• French astronomer Abbé Jean Chappe d'Auteroche.

• German composer Johann Kuhnau.
• French painter and engraver Claude Gillot.
• French mathematician Pierre Varignon.
• French painter Antoine Coypel.
• German composer Jan Adams Reinken.
• British diplomat Charles Montagu, First Lord of Manchester.

• Sir Robert Walpole becomes First Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer.  He is King George I's "Prime" minister, having the most power of the various ministers. Although this will not be an official title until 1905, Walpole is usually regarded the first British prime minister.
• On Easter Sunday, Jacob Roggeveen, a Dutch explorer, sights an isolated island in the eastern South Pacific.
• A few hardy Boston settlers found Manchester, New Hampshire.
• New Orleans replaces Biloxi as the capital of Louisiana. A hurricane destroys most of New Orleans.
• Saadat Khan carves Oudh (now Uttar Pradesh) out of the Mughal Empire.
• Afghan ruler Mahmud Shah, Ottoman sultan Ahmed III and Tsar Peter I all send armies to grab up Persian territory. Mahmud defeats the persians at the Battle of Gulnabad, imprisoning Shah Hussain after starving out Isfahan in a siege.
• Daniel Defoe publishes:
• Journal of the Plague Year
• Moll Flanders
• Captain Jack
• Roxanda

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How they Were Made - 18th Century