1712
Calendar year
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1712 (MDCCXII ) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar , the 1712th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini 2nd millennium , the 12th year of the 18th century , and the 3rd year of the 1710s decade. As of the start of 1712, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
Calendar year
In the Swedish calendar it began as a leap year starting on Monday and remained so until Thursday, February 29 . By adding a second leap day (Friday, February 30 ) Sweden reverted to the Julian calendar and the rest of the year (from Saturday, March 1 ) was in sync with the Julian calendar. Sweden finally made the switch from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar in 1753 . This year had 367 days.
Events
January 8 – Total eclipse of the sun visible from 60°36′S 49°12′E / 60.6°S 49.2°E / -60.6; 49.2 January 12 – The premiere of the opera Idoménée André Campra takes place at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal in Paris.January 16 – A military engineering school is established in Moscow which is to become the A.F. Mozhaysky Military-Space Academy .January 26 – The Old Pummerin , a 18,161 kg bell newly installed in the Stephansdom , St. Stephen's Cathedral , in Vienna , is rung for the first time to mark the entry of Charles VI to Vienna from Frankfurt after his coronation as Emperor . It takes a quarter-hour for 16 men pulling on the bell rope to swing the heavy bell back-and-forth enough for the clapper to strike; the resulting forces endanger the tower so the architect orders that in future the bell be rung only by pulling its clapper .February 10 – Huilliche uprising of 1712 : Huilliche people in Chile's Chiloé Archipelago rise up against Spanish encomenderos Early March – Start of the Cassard expedition , a sea voyage by French Navy captain Jacques Cassard during which he ransacks Santiago in the Cape Verde Islands and pillages Montserrat , Antigua , Surinam , Berbice , Essequibo , St. Eustatius and Curaçao , returning to France with loot worth over nine million francs.
March 3 – Scottish Episcopalians Act 1711 comes into effect, leading to incorporation of the Scottish Episcopal Church .March 11 (February 30 Swedish Style , February 29 on the Julian calendar) – Sweden temporarily adopts the rare February 30 , as a day to adjust the Swedish Calendar back to the Julian calendar .March 15 – HMS Dragon , a 38-gun fourth rate frigate of the British Royal Navy , is wrecked on Les Casquets rocks to the west of Alderney .[ 1] March 30 – Anne, Queen of Great Britain administers the Royal touch (a ritual with the intent to cure illness) for the last time; 300 scrofulous people are touched, the last of whom is Samuel Johnson .
April 6 –7 – New York Slave Revolt of 1712 : An insurrection in New York City results in nine whites being killed, and 21 slaves and other blacks being convicted and executed.April 11 – Great Northern War : the Battle of Fladstrand takes place at sea near Fladstrand , Jylland , between Swedish and Danish forces.May 15 – Curuguaty in Paraguay is founded by Juan Gregorio de Bazán y Pedraza on the banks of the Curuguaty River.May 19 – Peter the Great moves the capital of Russia from Moscow to Saint Petersburg .[ 2] May 22 – Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor is crowned King of Hungary .June 5 – Reus in Catalonia , Spain is given the title of imperial city by Elisabeth Christine , wife of Archduke Charles .June 10 – Kurtkulağı Caravanserai in Adana Province, Turkey, is restored and 50 soldiers are appointed to guard it.June 11 – Chatham , Barnstable County , Massachusetts is incorporated as a town.June 17 – The newly built St Ann's Church, Manchester , England, is consecrated by the Bishop of Chester .
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Births
Ludwig van Beethoven (1712–1773) born 5 January Frederick the Great born 24 January Tokugawa Ieshige born 28 January Nasir Jung born 26 February Louis-Joseph de Montcalm born 28 February Empress Xiaoxianchun born 28 March Devasahayam Pillai born 23 April Thomas Cotes (Royal Navy officer) born 4 June Benjamin Ingham born 11 June George Grenville born 14 October John Thomas (bishop of Rochester) born 14 October Joanna Elisabeth of Holstein-Gottorp born 24 October Francesco Algarotti born 11 December Peter Boehler born 31 December
January 1 – Sir Richard Acton, 5th Baronet , English baronet (d. 1791 )January 2 – Marie-Angélique Memmie Le Blanc , French feral child (d. 1775 )January 5
Ludwig van Beethoven , Flemish-born German professional singer and music director, grandfather of the well known composer of the same name (d. 1773 )Hongzhou , Manchu prince of the Qing dynasty (d. 1770 )January 17 – John Stanley , English composer and organist (d. 1786 )January 24
January 26 – James Habersham , merchant and statesman in the British North American colony of Georgia (d. 1775 )January 28 – Tokugawa Ieshige , ninth shōgun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan (d. 1761 )January 29 – Ralph Bigland , English officer of arms (d. 1784 )February 2 – Lydia Taft , American suffragist (d. 1778 )February 12 – Felton Hervey , aristocratic English politician (d. 1773 )February 19 – Arthur Devis , English painter (d. 1787 )February 20 – Sir Cordell Firebrace, 3rd Baronet , English landowner and politician (d. 1759 )February 22 – Péter Bod , Hungarian theologian and historian (d. 1768 )February 26 – Nasir Jung , Nizam of Hyderabad State (d. 1750 )February 28 – Louis-Joseph de Montcalm , French general (d. 1759 )March 4 – Joachim Friedrich Henckel , Prussian surgeon at Charité hospital in Berlin (d. 1779 )March 8 – John Fothergill , British botanist (d. 1780 )March 12
March 14 – Charles-Antoine Jombert , French bookseller and publisher (d. 1784 )March 15 – Lambert Krahe , German history painter and art collector (d. 1790 )March 19
March 22 – Edward Moore , English dramatist (d. 1757 )[ 7] March 27
Claude Bourgelat , French veterinary surgeon (d. 1779 )Jane Mecom , American correspondent, youngest sister of Benjamin Franklin and one of his closest confidants (d. 1794 )March 28 – Empress Xiaoxianchun , empress consort of Qing dynasty China (d. 1748 )March 31 – Anders Johan von Höpken , Swedish politician (d. 1789 )
April 8 – Pierre Pouchot , French military engineer officer (d. 1769 )April 23 – Devasahayam Pillai , beatified Indian Catholic (d. 1752 )April 28 – James Hewitt, 1st Viscount Lifford , Lord Chancellor of Ireland (d. 1789 )May 2 – Thomas Bond , American physician and surgeon (d. 1784 )May 5 – Janusz Aleksander Sanguszko , magnate in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (d. 1775 )May 9 – William Pitcairn , Scottish physician and botanist (d. 1791 )May 12 – Charles William Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (d. 1757 )May 13 – Count Johann Hartwig Ernst von Bernstorff , German-Danish statesman (d. 1772 )May 17 – Jean-Baptiste Greppo , French canon and archaeologist (d. 1767 )May 18 – Increase Moseley , American politician (d. 1795 )May 27 – Sir Thomas Cave, 5th Baronet of England (d. 1778 )May 28 – Jacques Claude Marie Vincent de Gournay , French economist (d. 1759 )May 29 – Thomas Dimsdale , English physician, banker (d. 1800 )June 4 – Thomas Cotes , British Royal Navy officer, Commander-in-Chief of the Jamaica Station (d. 1767 )June 7 – Infante Philip of Spain , Spanish infante (d. 1719 )June 11 – Benjamin Ingham , American missionary (d. 1772 )June 14
June 15 – Andrew Gordon , Scottish Benedictine monk (d. 1751 )June 21 – Luc Urbain de Bouëxic, comte de Guichen , French admiral (d. 1790 )June 22 – Michael Heltzen , Norwegian mining engineer (d. 1770 )June 25 – Exupere Joseph Bertin , French anatomist (d. 1781 )June 26 – Johann Andreas Silbermann , German organ-builder (d. 1783 )June 28 – Jean-Jacques Rousseau , Genevan philosopher (d. 1778 )
July 4 – George Hadow , British historian (d. 1780 )July 9 – Charles-Étienne Pesselier , French playwright and librettist (d. 1763 )July 12
July 18 – Karl Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen , German noble (d. 1743 )July 19 – Carl Fredrik Mennander , Swedish bishop (d. 1786 )July 21 – Johann Karl Philipp von Cobenzl , Habsburg politician (d. 1770 )July 24 – Richard Handcock , Irish priest (d. 1791 )July 25 – Vincenzo Miotti , Italian physicist and astronomer (d. 1787 )July 26
July 31 – Johann Samuel König , German mathematician (d. 1757 )August 2 – Prince George of Kartli , Georgian prince (d. 1786 )August 12
August 15 – César Gabriel de Choiseul , French officer (d. 1785 )August 24 – Michel-Barthélémy Ollivier , French painter and engraver (d. 1784 )August 26 – Tadeusz Franciszek Ogiński , Polish noble (d. 1783 )August 27 – William Graham, 2nd Duke of Montrose , member of the peerage of Scotland, son of James Graham (d. 1790 )August 30 – George Montgomerie , British Member of Parliament (d. 1766 )September 4 – Jan Verbruggen , Dutch master gun-founder in the Netherlands and later at the Royal Arsenal in Woolwich (d. 1781 )September 11 – Giovanni Targioni Tozzetti , Italian naturalist (d. 1783 )September 15 – Pierre Simon Fournier , French punch-cutter (d. 1768 )September 22 – François-Joseph-Gaston de Partz de Pressy , French cleric (d. 1789 )September 25 – James Veitch, Lord Elliock , Scottish politician (d. 1793 )September 26
October 1 – William Shippen Sr. , American physician, anatomist and public figure (d. 1801 )October 5 – Francesco Guardi , Italian painter (d. 1793 )October 8 – Alison Cockburn , Scottish poet (d. 1794 )October 14
October 15 – Leslie Corry , Irish politician (d. 1741 )October 17
October 18 – Jeremias van Riemsdijk , Dutch colonial governor (d. 1777 )October 19
October 20 – Gregor Zallwein , Bavarian-born expert on canon law (d. 1766 )October 21 – James Steuart , Scottish economist (d. 1780 )[ 9] October 22 – James Hamilton, 8th Earl of Abercorn , member of the peerage of Scotland and landowner in Ireland (d. 1789 )October 24
October 29 – Paolo Gamba , Italian painter (d. 1782 )October 30
October 31 – Prince Moritz of Anhalt-Dessau , German prince of the House of Ascania (d. 1760 )November 4
November 7 – Antoine Choquet de Lindu , French architect (d. 1790 )November 11 – Hugolín Gavlovič , Slovak Franciscan priest, author of religious, moral and educational writings (d. 1787 )November 20 – Guillaume Voiriot , French portrait painter (d. 1799 )November 24
November 27 – Fernando de Sousa e Silva , fourth Patriarch of Lisbon (d. 1786 )December 1 – George Boscawen , British Army general and politician (d. 1775 )December 3
December 9 – Alexander Murray of Elibank , Scottish Jacobite intriguer, fourth son of Alexander Murray (d. 1778 )December 11 – Francesco Algarotti , Venetian philosopher (d. 1764 )December 12
December 25 – Pietro Chiari , Italian playwright (d. 1785 )December 31
Deaths
January 5 – Richard Jones, 1st Earl of Ranelagh , Irish politician (b. 1641 )January 10 – John Houblon , first Governor of the Bank of England (1694-1697) (b. 1632 )February 2 – Martin Lister , English naturalist, physician (b. c. 1638 )February 12 – Marie Adélaïde of Savoy , wife of Louis, Dauphin of France, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1685 )February 18 – Louis, duc de Bourgogne , heir to the throne of France (b. 1682 )February 22 – Nicolas Catinat , French military commander and Marshal of France under Louis XIV (b. 1637 )February 27 – Bahadur Shah I , Mughal Emperor of India (b. 1643 )March 2 – Lorenzo Magalotti , Italian philosopher (b. 1637 )March 18 – Azim-ush-Shan , Mughal prince (b. 1664 )March 25 – Nehemiah Grew , English naturalist (b. 1641 )Jan van der Heyden March 28 – Jan van der Heyden , Dutch painter (b. 1637 )March 30 – Johann Friedrich Mayer , German Lutheran theologian (b. 1650 )April 9 – Giuseppe Archinto , Italian cardinal, Archbishop of Milan (b. 1651 )April 11 – Richard Simon , French Biblical critic (b. 1638 )April 27 – John Crowne , English playwright (b. 1641 )April 29 – Juan Bautista Cabanilles , Spanish composer (b. 1644 )April 30 – Philipp van Limborch , Dutch Protestant theologian (b. 1633 )May 6 – Henric Piccardt , Dutch lawyer (b. 1636 )May 20 – Christian Ernst, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1655–1712) (b. 1644 )June 10 – Christian Franz Paullini , German physician (b. 1643 )June 11 – Louis Joseph, Duke of Vendôme , French military commander (b. 1654 )June 24 – Simon van der Stel , last Commander and first Governor of the Cape Colony (b. 1639 )July – Baltacı Mehmet Pasha , Ottoman (Turkish) grand vizier (b. 1662 )
July 1 – William King , English poet (b. 1663 )July 4 – Johann Kasimir Kolbe von Wartenberg , Prussian politician (b. 1643 )Richard Cromwell July 12 – Richard Cromwell , Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland (b. 1626 )July 13 – Isaac de Porthau , Gascon black musketeer of the Maison du Roi (b. 1617 )July 28 – Theodorus Janssonius van Almeloveen , Dutch classical scholar (b. 1657 )July 26 – Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds , English statesman (b. 1631 )August 3 – Joshua Barnes , English scholar (b. 1654 )August 7 – Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow , German composer (b. 1663 )August 11 – Magdalena Sibylla of Hesse-Darmstadt , German regent (b. 1652 )August 18 – Richard Savage, 4th Earl Rivers , English soldier (b. c. 1660 )August 26 – Sebastian Anton Scherer , German organist and composer (b. 1631 )August 29 – Gregory King , English statistician (b. 1648 )September 9 – Edward Hyde , Governor of North Carolina (b. c. 1650 )Giovanni Domenico Cassini September 14 – Giovanni Domenico Cassini , Italian-French astronomer and engineer (b. 1625 )September 15 – Sidney Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphin , English politician (b. c.1645 )September 23 – Thomas Halyburton , Scottish theologian (b. 1674 )October 4 – Philip Reinhard, Count of Hanau-Münzenberg (b. 1664 )October 25 – Ōkubo Tadatomo , Japanese daimyō (b. 1632 )October 30 – Daniel Erich , German organist and composer (b. 1649 )November 5 – Charles Honoré d'Albert, duc de Luynes , French noble (b. 1646 )November 12 – Tokugawa Ienobu , Japanese Edo shōgun (b. 1662 )November 15
November 19 – Wolfgang Carl Briegel , German organist and composer (b. 1626 )November 20 – Humphrey Humphreys , British bishop (b. 1648 )November 26 – Pietro Dandini , Italian painter (b. 1646 )November 30 – Sir Henry Furnese, 1st Baronet , English merchant and politician (b. 1658 )
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References
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