A modern seed drill in action

In the year 1701, the electorate of Brandenburg-Prussia becomes the Kingdom of Prussia, still part of the Holy Roman Empire, and with Berlin as its capital (Jan 18), captain William Kidd is hanged in London (May 23), a French emporium named Fort Ponchartrain (future Detroit) is founded (Ju 24), English agriculturalist Jethro Tull invents a drill for planting seeds in rows - and all these fine people were born:

1701-0114 Thomas Edwards* silversmith - Boston, Massachusetts Bay, British America (1755/54)
1701-0128 Charles Marie de La Condamine* mathematician/ geographer/explorer - Paris, France (1774/73)

1701-0201 Johan Agrell* composer - Löth, Memming, Sweden (1765/63)
1701-0207 Christian Ludwig Gersten* German scientist - Gießen, Hessen, Holy Roman Empire (1762/61)

1701-0302 Lewis Morris* hydrographer/ antiquary/lexicographer - Llanfihangel Tre’r Beirdd, Wales (1765/64)
1701-0318 Niclas Sahlgren* merchant/one of the founders of the Swedish East India Company/philanthropist (Sahlgrenska Hospital) - Gothenburg, Sweden (1776/74)

1701-0409 Giambattista Nolli* Italian architect/surveyor - Castiglione d’Intelvi, Lombardy (1756/55)
1701-0428 Françoise Basseporte* painter - Paris, France (1780/79)

1701-0514 William Emerson* mathematician/writer - Hurworth, England (1782/81)
1701-0529 Georg Friedrich Strass* Alsatian jeweler/inventor of imitation gemstones - Wolfisheim bei Strasbourg (1773/72)

1701-0604 Nicolai Eigtved* (b Niels Madsen) architect - Egtved, Denmark (1754/53)

1701-0707 Lady Mary Tufton* Countess of Harold /philanthropist - England (1785/83)

1701-0820 Domenico Luigi Valeri* Italian painter/architect - Jesi, Papal States (1746+/c.45)

1701-0922 Anna Magdalena Bach* (b Wilcke) singer/the second wife of Johann Sebastian Bach - Zeitz, Saxony, Holy Roman Empire (1760/58)
1701-0928 Stephen Hansen* businessman/ industrialist/General War Commissioner - Skodsbøl, Oddum, Denmark (1770/68)

1701-10xx Simo Tuomaanpoika Pänkälä** father of Maria Simontytär Hunnakko - Alavus, Sweden-Finland (1761/59)

1701-1019 Herman Spöring Sr.* physician active in Finland/amateur naturalist - Stockholm, Sweden (1747/45)
1701-1020 Jean-Baptiste de La Noue* actor/playwright - Meaux, France (1760/59)

1701-1127 Anders Celsius* astronomer/ physicist/mathematician/proposed in 1742 the Celsius temperature scale which bears his name - Uppsala, Sweden (1744/42)

1701-1216 Olof Arenius* portrait painter - Bro, Uppland, Sweden (1766/64)

Updated 13.4.2023-1
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