Events

• January 5 - The Battle of Turckeim
• August 10 - Building of the Royal Greenwich Observatory began
• November 11 - Guru Gobind Singh becomes the Tenth Guru of the Sikhs.
• Cassini discovers Saturn's Cassini Division
• Battle of Fehrbellin

Births

• March 31 - Pope Benedict XIV
• Emperor Higashiyama of Japan

Deaths

• May 19 -- Father Jacques Marquette, French missionary and explorer
• June 12 - - Charles Emmanuel II of Savoy
• September 12 - Afonso VI of Portugal
• Thomas Rolfe