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Data for 1711

In the year 1711, King Louis XIV becomes the longest-reigning monarch in the world (surpassed by Queen Elizabeth in 2020) (Jun 18), the Tuscarora War begins when Tuscarora natives raid settlements in the Province of Carolina (Sep 22), Wall Street in New York City becomes the city’s first official slave market for the sale and rental of enslaved Africans and Indians (Dec 13), John Shore invents the tuning fork - and all these fine people were born:

1711-xxxx Beata Juhontytär Bredarholm** mother of Christina Andersdotter Torp - Edsevö, Bredarholm, Pedersöre, Sweden-Finland (1787/c. 75)

1711-xxxx Hannah Pritchard* actress - England (1768/c.57)

1711-0112 Gaetano Latilla* Italian opera composer - Bari, Holy Roman Empire (1788/77)
1711-0128 Johan Hörner* Danish portrait painter - Roslagen, Sweden (1763/52)

1711-0202 Wenzel Anton* Prince of Kaunitz-Rietberg/ diplomat/statesman - Vienna, Austria, Holy Roman Empire (1794/83)

1711-0305 Carl Gustaf Pilo* artist/painter - Runtuna, Sweden (1793/81)

1711-0413 John Mitchell* physicist/ botanist/geographer - Lancaster County, Virginia, British America (1768/56)
1711-0426 Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont* author/wrote the best known version of Beauty and the Beast - Rouen, France (1780/69)

1711-0507 David Hume* philosopher - Edinburgh, Scotland (1776/65)

1711-0619 Jacob Bremer* merchant /shipowner/industrialist active in Finland - Västerås, Sweden (1785/74)

1711-0726 Lorenz Christoph Mizler* physician/ printer/composer - Heidenheim, Middle Franconia (1778/66)

1711-0819 Gabriel de Solages*  soldier/industrialist - Vailhauze, France (1799/87)

1711-0902 Noël Hallé* painter/ draftsman/printmaker - Paris, France (1781/69)
1711-0905 John Ashton* merchant & cheesemonger in Liverpool/owner of the Dungeon salt works - England (1759/c. 48)
1711-0906 Henry Muhlenberg* founder of the U.S. Lutheran Church - Germany (1787/86)

1711-1029 Laura Bassi* Italian physicist/academic/the first woman to have a doctorate in science - Bologna, Papal States (1778/66)

1711-1111 Stepan Krasheninnikov* naturalist/ geographer/explorer of Siberia - Moscow, Tsardom of Russia (1755/43)
1711-1119 Mikhail Lomonosov* polymath/ scientist/writer - Mishaninskaya, Tsardom of Russia (1765/53)

1711-1223 Jacob Fortling* sculptor/ architect/industrialist - Bayreuthin, Holy Roman Empire(1761/49)

Updated 29.3.2023-2
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