The Tuscarora War ends as the Tuscarora and their allies sign a peace treaty with the Province of Carolina (Feb 11), a total solar eclipse is seen across southern England, Sweden and Finland (the last total eclipse visible in London for almost 900 years (May 3), the first wet dock yard in the world opens in Liverpool (Aug 31), Swedish troops occupy Norway (Dec 24) – and all these fine people were born:
1715-xxxx Tuomas Tuomaanpoika Turtia** father of Antti Tuomaanpoika Turtia - possibly Viipuri, Sweden-Finland (after 1778) aby
1715-0109 Robert-François Damiens* domestic servant/publicly executed for assassination attempt of King Louis XV - La Thieuloye, Kingdom of France (1757/42)
1715-0112 Jacques Duphly* harpsichordist/ composer - Rouen, Kingdom of France (1789/74)
1715-0125 Thomas Walker* physician/ planter/explorer - Walkerton, Virginia, British America (1794/79)
1715-0126 Claude Adrien Helvétius* philosopher/ freemason - Paris, Kingdom of France (1771/56)
1715-0129 Georg Christoph Wagenseil* composer - Vienna, Austria (1777/62)
1715-0212 William Whitehead* (B) poet/playwright – Cambridge, England (1785/70)
1715-0222 Charles-Nicolas Cochin* engraver/ designer/writer - Paris, France (1790/75)
1715-0314 Johan Martin Preisler* engraver/active in Denmark - Nuremberg, Germany (1794/79)
1715-0413 John Martin Mack* Moravian bishop/missionary in America - Württemberg, Germany (1784/69)
1715-0422 Jaakko Niemi* Finnish settler/farmer - Sweden-Finland (1785/70)
1715-0504 Richard Graves* cleric/poet/novelist – Mickleton, Gloucestershire, England (1804/89)
1715-0511 Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach* organist/6th child of JSB – Weimar (1739/24)
1715-0612 Charles-Rene Dejordy de Villebon* French-Canadian explorer - Saint-Sulpice, QC (1761/46)
1715-0704 Christian Fürchtegott Gellert* poet/author - Hainichen, Electoral Saxony, Holy Roman Empire (1769/54)
1715-0805 Charlotte Sophie of Aldenburg* German sovereign - (1800/84)
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1715-0825 Luis González Velázquez* painter – Madrid, Spain (1763/47)
1715-0905 Ignác Raab* Czech Jesuit brother/painter - Nechanice near Nový Bydžov (1787/72)
1715-0915 Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval* artillery officer/engineer who revolutionised the French cannon - Amiens, Kingdom of France (1789/73)
1715-0922 Jean-Étienne Guettard* naturalist/mineralogist - Étampes, France (1786/70)
1715-0923 Johan Wilhelm Meinander* Finnish farmer/entrepreneur/ pioneer in export of wood - Sweden (1784/68)
1715-1023 Peter II of Russia* Emperor of Russia – Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire (1730/14)
1715-1105 John Brown* priest/ playwright/essayist - England (1766/50)
1715-1105 Johann Georg Wille* French copper engraver - Gießen, Hesse (1808/92)
1715-1106 Heneage Finch* nobleman/politician/MP - Aylesford, England (1777/61)
1715-1112 Kajetan Ignacy Sołtyk* Polish Catholic priest/bishop of Kiev - Chwałowice (1788/72)
1715-1113 Dorothea Erxleben* (b Leporin) first female medical doctor in Germany - Quedlinburg, Kingdom of Prussia (1762/46)
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1715-1130 Johann Philipp Bethmann* German merchant/banker - Nassau, Rhineland (1793/78)
1715-1130 Johan Jacob Bruun* Danish painter - Slagelse, Denmark-Norway (1789/73)
1715-1204 Abraham Drake* officer/ politician - Hampton, New Hampshire, British America (1781/65)
1715-1211 Johann Valentin Tischbein* German painter - Haina, Hesse (1768/52)
1715-1212 Gennaro Manna* composer - Naples, Kingdom of Naples (1779/64)
1715-1218 Johan Heinrich Becker* German physician/chemist/active in Norway - Aurich, East Frisia (1761/45)
1715-1221 Tommaso Gherardini* painter - Florence (1797/83)
1715-1227 Philippe de Noailles* soldier/ Marshal of France - Paris, Kingdom of France (1794/78)
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