Charles XII of Sweden (reign 1697-1718)
In the year 1708, Charles XII of Sweden invades Russia by crossing the frozen Vistula river (Jan 1), Menorca is captured by British forces (Aug 18), Peter the Great of Russia defeats the forces of the Swedish Empire in Lesnaya (in today’s Belarus) (Oct 9), fearful of a Swedish attack, the Russians blow up the city of Tartu, the Great Northern War (1700-1721) goes on - and all these fine people were born:
1708-xxxx Felix Doran* Irish slave trader operating out of the Port of Liverpool - Ireland (1776/c. 68)
1708-0115 Giovanni Salvemini* Italian mathematician/astronomer - Castiglione del Valdarno (1791/83)
1708-0123 Luigi Crespi* Italian painter - Bologna, Holy Roman Empire (1779/71)
1708-0126 William Hayes (B) organist/singer/ composer - Gloucester, England (1777/69)
1708-0225 Felix Benda* organist/composer - Skalsko, Bohemia (1768/c60)
1708-0229 Peter Jefferson* surveyor/cartographer/ father of Thomas Jefferson - Henrico Countie, Virginia Colony, British America (1757/49)
1708-0305 Susanna Boylston* prominent early-American socialite/mother of John Adams/grandmother of John Quincy Adams - Brookline, Province of Massachusetts Bay, British America (1797/89)
1708-0406 Johann Georg Reutter* composer - Vienna, Archduchy of Austria, Holy Roman Empire (1772/63)
1708-0505 Johann Adolf Scheibe* German-Danish composer/critic/theorist of music - Leipzig, Holy Roman Empire (1776/67)
1708-0617 Annibale degli Abati Olivieri* archaeologist/numismatist /librarian - Pesaro, Italy (1789/81)
1708-0708 Claude-Henri de Fusée de Voisenon* playwright/writer -Château de Voisenon near Melun, France (1775/67)
1708-0710 Johannes Enschedé* printer/collector - Haarlem (1780/72)
1708-0806 Chrysostomus Hailland* librarian at the St. Gallen monastery - Füssen, Bavaria (1753/45)
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1708-0829 Olof von Dalin* nobleman/poet/historian - Vinberg, Sweden (1763/54)
1708-0902 André le Breton* publisher - Paris, France (1779/71)
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1708-1011 Martti Juhonpoika Pauhu** father of Jaakko Martinpoika Pauhu - Lapua, Sweden-Finland (1785/76)
1708-1016 Albrecht von Haller* anatomist/bibliographer/poet - Bern, Swiss Confederacy (1777/69)
1708-1115 William Pitt* 1st Earl of Chatham/statesman/PM - Westminster, Middlesex, England (1778/69)
1708-1206 Christopher Dufrost de La Jemeraye* Canadian cartographer/ explorer - Canada (1736/27)
1708-1208 Francis I* Holy Roman Emperor - Ducal Palace of Nancy, Lorraine, Holy Roman Empire (1765/56)
1708-1218 John Collier* caricaturist/ satirical poet - Urmston, Lancashire, England (1786/77)
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