...Date... AGE Event
1694/--/-- -1 - The Academie Francaise introduces the first French national dictionary.
1694/--/-- -1 - The Bank of England is founded.
1694/06/17 0 *** Bristow, Nicholas - Born to Bristow, John and Nicholls, Michal (Bristow) Middlesex County Virginia
1694/12/28 0 - William III rules as sole King.
1696/--/-- 1 *** Bristow, James [Brother] - Born to Bristow, John and Nicholls, Michal (Bristow)
1696/--/-- 1 - Russia annexes the Kamchatka Peninsula.
1696/--/-- 1 - Russian tsar Peter the Great captures Azov from the Turks.
1696/--/-- 1 - The Chinese under K'ang-hsi defeat the Dzungar Mongol chieftain Galdan.
1696/--/-- 1 - William III campaigns in Holland against the French.
1697/--/-- 2 - Augustus II elector of Saxony becomes king of Poland.
1697/--/-- 2 - French poet Charles Perrault publishes the Tales From Mother Goose.
1697/--/-- 2 - Russian tsar Peter the Great sets out to study the European way of life.
1697/--/-- 2 - Sir John Vanbrugh's play The Relapse is produced in London.
1697/--/-- 2 - The Habsburg army under Eugene of Savoy defeats the Turks at Zenta.
1697/--/-- 2 - The Treaty of Ryswick ends the War of the Grand Alliance.
1698/--/-- 3 - Calcutta is founded by the British East India Company.
1698/--/-- 3 - Russian tsar Peter the Great imposes a tax on beards.
1698/--/-- 3 - Thomas Savery invents a water pump -- the first practical application of steam power.
1699/--/-- 4 - Austria, Russia, Poland and Venice sign the Peace of Karlowitz treaty with Turkey.
1699/--/-- 4 - Francis Moore's Vox stellarum, known as Old Moore's Almanac, is published.
1699/--/-- 4 - Japanese master ceramicist Ogata Kenzan opens his kiln at Narutaki.
1699/--/-- 4 - Peter the Great changes the Russian New Year from September 1 to January 1.
1699/--/-- 4 - William Dampier explores the northwest coast of Australia.
1700/--/-- 5 - Charles II of Spain dies, ending the Spanish Habsburg line.
1700/--/-- 5 - Johann Denner invents the clarinet about this time.
1700/--/-- 5 - Kabuki Theater develops in Japan about this time.
1700/--/-- 5 - Peter the Great's Russian army is defeated by the Swedes at the Battle of Narva.
1700/--/-- 5 - Philip V, grandson of Louis XIV, becomes the first Bourbon king of Spain.
1700/--/-- 5 - The Great Northern War begins; Denmark, Poland and Russia attack Sweden.
1700/--/-- 5 - The Swedes under Charles XII defeat the Danes.
1700/--/-- 5 - The rococo style is introduced into French architecture about this time.
1700/--/-- 5 - William Congreve's comedy The Way of the World is produced in London.
1701/--/-- 6 - Captain Kidd is hanged for piracy.
1701/--/-- 6 - Frederick I Elector of Saxony proclaims himself the first king of Prussia.
1701/--/-- 6 - French artist Hyacinthe Rigaud paints a portrait of Louis XIV.
1701/--/-- 6 - The Act of Settlement in Britain establishes the Hanoverian succession to the throne.
1701/--/-- 6 - The War of the Spanish Succession begins.
1701/--/-- 6 - Yale University is founded in New Haven, Connecticut.
1702/--/-- 7 - Anne succeeds William III as queen of England.
1702/--/-- 7 - England declares war on France and Spain.
1702/--/-- 7 - French fur traders found Vincennes, the first permanent European settlement in Indiana.
1702/--/-- 7 - Queen Anne's War begins in America; the British attack Saint Augustine in Florida.
1702/--/-- 7 - The Camisards (French Huguenots) rebel in southern France.
1702/--/-- 7 - The French under the duc de Villars defeat the Grand Alliance at Friedlingen.
1702/--/-- 7 - The first daily newspaper The Daily Courant is published in London.
1702/--/-- 7 - The royal colony of New Jersey is founded in America.
1702/04/03 7 - Anne crowned Queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland at Westminster Abbey by Tho
1703/--/-- 8 - Archduke Charles of Austria claims the Spanish throne for the Habsburgs.
1703/--/-- 8 - Buckingham Palace is rebuilt for the Duke of Buckingham in London.
1703/--/-- 8 - Peter the Great lays the foundations of St. Petersburg (Leningrad).
1704/--/-- 9 - Augustus II is deposed; Stanislaw I is crowned king of Poland.
1704/--/-- 9 - Issac Newton publishes his theory of color and light in Opticks.
1704/--/-- 9 - John Campbell founds the Boston News-Letter, the first successful American newspaper.
1704/--/-- 9 - The Duke of Marlborough and Eugene of Savoy defeat the French at Blenheim.
1704/--/-- 9 - The English capture Gibraltar from Spain.
1704/--/-- 9 - The Indians and the French massacre British settlers in Deerfield, Mass.
1704/12/07 10 *** Stark, Margaret (Bristow) & Bristow, William [Brother] - Married
1705/--/-- 10 - Edmund Halley predicts that the comet of 1682 will return in 1758.
1705/--/-- 10 - Nicolas Hawksmoor designs Blenheim Palace for the Duke of Marlborough.
1705/--/-- 10 - The English Navy occupies Barcelona.
1706/--/-- 11 - Eugene of Savoy defeats the French at Turin and drives them from Italy.
1706/--/-- 11 - George Farquhar's comedy The Recruiting Officer is produced.
1706/--/-- 11 - The Duke of Marlborough conquers the Spanish Netherlands.
1706/09/20 12 *** Bristow, Robert [Great Grandfather] - Died London, Middlesex, England
1707/--/-- 12 *** Bristow, Robert [Grandfather] - Died
1707/--/-- 12 - Emperor Aurangzeb dies; the Mogul empire begins to decline in India.
1707/--/-- 12 - Great Britain is formed by the Act of Union between England and Scotland.
1707/--/-- 12 - John V succeeds Peter II as king of Portugal.
1707/--/-- 12 - Mount Fuji erupts in Japan; an earthquake kills 200,000 in Tokyo.
1707/--/-- 12 - The British attack the French colony of Acadia (Nova Scotia).
1707/--/-- 12 - The Duke of Berwick routs the allied forces at Almanza in Spain.
1707/03/-- 12 - Act of Union combines England and Scotland as Kingdom of Great Britain.
1707/10/23 13 *** Owen, John & Bristow, Michal (Owen) [Sister] - Married
1708/--/-- 13 - French forces under Vendome are defeated by Marlborough at Oudenarde.
1708/--/-- 13 - Sikh leader Guru Gobind Singh is assassinated; the Moguls persecute the Sikhs.
1708/--/-- 13 - The British capture the island of Minorca from Spain.
1709/--/-- 14 - Abraham Darby builds a blast furnace using coke for casting iron.
1709/--/-- 14 - Charles XII of Sweden flees to the Ottoman Empire.
1709/--/-- 14 - Italian musician Bartolommeo Cristofori invents the piano.
1709/--/-- 14 - Peter the Great defeats the Swedes at the Battle of Poltava.
1709/--/-- 14 - Steele and Addison's periodical The Tatler is published in London.
1709/--/-- 14 - The Duke of Marlborough defeats the French at the Battle of Malplaquet.
1709/--/-- 14 - The first Copyright Act becomes law in Britain.
1709/06/04 14 *** Bristow, Edward [Nephew] - Born to Bristow, William and Stark, Margaret (Bristow)
1710/--/-- 15 - Augustus II regains the Polish throne.
1710/--/-- 15 - Charles XII persuades the Turks to attack Russia.
1710/--/-- 15 - French forces under Vendome defeat the allies at Villaviciosa in Spain.
1710/--/-- 15 - George Berkeley publishes a Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge.
1710/--/-- 15 - The British seize Acadia (Nova Scotia) from the French.
1710/--/-- 15 - The Meissen porcelain factory is founded near Dresden in Germany.
1711/--/-- 16 - Joseph I dies; Charles VI is crowned Holy Roman Emperor.
1711/--/-- 16 - Publication of The Tatler ceases; Steele and Addison introduce The Spectator.
1711/--/-- 16 - The French found the first permanent settlement in Alabama at Mobile.
1711/--/-- 16 - The Tuscarora War begins in North Carolina when Indians massacre 130 colonists.
1711/--/-- 16 - The building of the baroque Zwinger complex begins in Dresden, Germany.
1711/01/08 16 *** Goodloe, Mary (Carter, Bristow) & Bristow, John [Father] - Married 2nd wife
1712/--/-- 17 *** Bristow, Anne (Seale) [Sister] - Born to Bristow, John and Nicholls, Michal (Bristow)
1712/--/-- 17 - Carolina is divided into north and south colonies.
1712/--/-- 17 - English poet Alexander Pope publishes The Rape of the Lock.
1712/--/-- 17 - The New England whaling industry expands rapidly with the hunting of sperm whales.
1713/--/-- 18 - Emperor Charles VI issues the Pragmatic Sanction, allowing for a female heir.
1713/--/-- 18 - France cedes Acadia (Nova Scotia) and Newfoundland to Britain.
1713/--/-- 18 - Frederick William I succeeds Frederick I as king of Prussia.
1713/--/-- 18 - Sicily is ceded to the House of Savoy; Victor Amadeus II is crowned as king.
1713/--/-- 18 - Spain cedes Gibraltar and Minorca to Britain.
1713/--/-- 18 - The Asiento Treaty establishes British rights to the African slave trade.
1713/--/-- 18 - The Peace of Utrecht ends the War of Spanish Succession.
1713/02/02 18 *** Bristow, William [Nephew] - Born to Bristow, William and Stark, Margaret (Bristow)
1713/08/10 19 *** Bristow, Jedediah [Brother] - Born to Bristow, John and Goodloe, Mary (Carter, Bristow)
1714/--/-- 19 - German composer George Frideric Handel makes London his permanent home.
1714/--/-- 19 - Grinling Gibbons is appointed as master carver in wood to George I.
1714/--/-- 19 - Queen Anne of England dies; she is succeeded by George I, Elector of Hanover.
1714/10/20 20 - George I crowned King of Great Britain at Westminster Abbey by Thomas Tenison, A
1715/--/-- 20 - A Jacobite uprising supports James Edward as the Old Pretender to the British throne.
1715/--/-- 20 - French King Louis XIV dies; he is succeeded by his five-year-old great-grandson Louis XV.
1715/--/-- 20 - French author Alain Rene Lesage publishes the Adventures of Gil Blas.
1715/--/-- 20 - Japan's leading playwright Chikamatsu Monzaemon writes The Battles of Coxinga.
1715/--/-- 20 - Phillipe II Duc d'Orleans becomes regent of France.
1715/--/-- 20 - The Yamasee Indians rebel against British settlers in South Carolina.
1715/08/15 21 *** Bristow, Mary (Ammons) [Sister] - Born to Bristow, John and Goodloe, Mary (Carter, Bristow)
1716/--/-- 21 *** Bristow, Chichester [Brother] - Born to Bristow, John and Goodloe, Mary (Carter, Bristow)
1716/--/-- 21 - Emperor Charles VI declares war on the Ottoman Empire.
1716/09/10 22 *** Bristow, Michal (Owen) [Sister] - Died
1716/10/10 22 *** Bristow, John [Father] - Died Middlesex County, Saluda, Virginia
1717/--/-- 22 - Eugene of Savoy captures Belgrade from the Turks.
1717/--/-- 22 - French artist Antoine Watteau paints the Pilgrimage to Cythera.
1717/--/-- 22 - John Law forms the Mississippi Company in France.
1717/--/-- 22 - Spain seizes Sardinia and Sicily.
1717/--/-- 22 - The first freemason lodge is formed in London.
1718/--/-- 23 - Charles XII of Sweden is killed during a campaign against Norway.
1718/--/-- 23 - Spain establishes the Viceroyalty of New Granada in South America.
1718/--/-- 23 - Sultan Ahmed III concludes the Treaty of Passarowitz with the Holy Roman Empire.
1718/--/-- 23 - The English pirate Blackbeard is killed by the Virginia militia.
1718/--/-- 23 - The French found New Orleans in Louisiana.
1718/--/-- 23 - The Quadruple Alliance of Austria, Britain, France and the Dutch declare war on Spain.
1718/--/-- 23 - Voltaire writes the tragedy of Oedipe while imprisoned in the Bastille.
1718/05/17 23 *** Bristow, Charles [Nephew] - Born to Bristow, William and Stark, Margaret (Bristow)
1719/--/-- 24 - English writer Daniel Defoe publishes Robinson Crusoe.
1719/--/-- 24 - James Figg becomes the first heavyweight boxing champion of England.
1719/--/-- 24 - Liechtenstein becomes an independent principality of the Holy Roman Empire.
1719/--/-- 24 - Teams from London and Kent play one of the first cricket matches.
1720/--/-- 25 - The Mississippi Scheme speculation craze collapses in France.
1720/--/-- 25 - The Quadruple Alliance defeats Spain; Spain renounces all claims to Sicily and Sardinia.
1720/--/-- 25 - The South Sea Bubble speculation craze collapses in England.
1720/--/-- 25 - Tibet becomes a protectorate of China.
1720/--/-- 25 - Victor Amadeus II surrenders Sicily to Austria in exchange for Sardinia.
1721/--/-- 26 - German composer Johann Sebastian Bach writes the Brandenburg Concertos.
1721/--/-- 26 - Italian composer Alessandro Scarlatti writes his opera Griselda.
1721/--/-- 26 - Prime minister Robert Walpole restores public confidence in Britain's finances.
1721/--/-- 26 - The French settle on the island of Mauritius.
1721/--/-- 26 - The Great Northern War ends; Sweden loses most of her overseas possessions.
1721/06/25 27 *** Bristow, John [Son] - Born to Bristow, Nicholas and Gardner, Mary (Bristow) Middlesex County Virginia
1722/--/-- 27 - Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen discovers Samoa and Easter Island.
1722/--/-- 27 - English author Daniel Defoe publishes Moll Flanders.
1722/--/-- 27 - The Afghans invade Persia (Iran) and overthrow the Safavid rulers.
1722/07/17 28 *** Bristow, Michal [Niece] - Born to Bristow, William and Stark, Margaret (Bristow)
1724/--/-- 29 - The British build Fort Dummer, the first permanent European settlement in Vermont.
1724/--/-- 29 - The Quakers make a statement opposing slavery.
1725/--/-- 30 - Danish explorer Vitus Bering begins his voyage in search of a Northeast Passage.
1725/--/-- 30 - Francisco Romero establishes the current style of Spanish bullfighting.
1725/--/-- 30 - Peter the Great dies; his wife Catherine I succeeds him as Empress of Russia.
1725/05/04 30 *** Bristow, Anne [Niece] - Born to Bristow, William and Stark, Margaret (Bristow)
1726/--/-- 31 - Alexander Pope completes his translation of Homer's Odyssey.
1726/--/-- 31 - Cardinal Andre Fleury becomes chief advisor to Louis XV.
1726/--/-- 31 - English satirist Jonathan Swift publishes Gulliver's Travels.
1726/--/-- 31 - The Spanish found Montevideo in Uruguay.
1727/--/-- 32 - Catherine I dies; Peter II succeeds her as Emperor of Russia.
1727/--/-- 32 - George II succeeds his father George I as king of Great Britain and Ireland.
1727/--/-- 32 - The Spanish lay siege to Gibraltar.
1727/10/11 33 - George II crowned King of Great Britain at Westminster Abbey by William Wake, Ar
1728/--/-- 33 - Chambers's Cyclopedia; or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences is issued.
1728/--/-- 33 - Danish navigator Vitus Bering explores Bering Strait.
1728/--/-- 33 - English poet and playwright John Gay writes The Beggar's Opera.
1728/--/-- 33 - James Gibbs' Book of Architecture influences Colonial American designs.
1728/--/-- 33 - John Harrison begins his development of an accurate chronometer.
1728/05/14 33 *** Bristow, Elizabeth [Niece] - Born to Bristow, William
1729/--/-- 34 - Corsica rebels against Genoese rule.
1729/--/-- 34 - Denmark assumes control of Greenland.
1729/--/-- 34 - English actress Kitty Clive establishes her reputation at the Drury Lane Theatre.
1729/--/-- 34 - The city of Baltimore is founded in Maryland.
1729/--/-- 34 - The city of Karachi is founded in India (now in Pakistan).
1730/--/-- 35 - Canaletto paints the Basin of San Marco, one of his many views of Venice.
1730/--/-- 35 - Construction of the Province-hall (now Independence Hall) begins in Philadelphia.
1730/--/-- 35 - Peter II dies; he is succeeded by Anna as Empress of Russia.
1731/--/-- 36 - French novelist Abbe Prevost writes Manon Lescaut.
1731/--/-- 36 - John Hadley invents the quadrant for navigating at sea.
1731/--/-- 36 - The Gentleman's Magazine, the first magazine, is published in London.
1732/--/-- 37 - Benjamin Franklin publishes Poor Richard's Almanack in Philadelphia.
1732/--/-- 37 - Covent Garden Opera House opens in London.
1732/--/-- 37 - Nadir Shah expels the Afghans from Persia (Iran) and reinstates Safavid rule.
1732/--/-- 37 - Nicola Salvi designs the Trevi Fountain in Rome.
1732/--/-- 37 - William Hogarth completes his series of engravings The Harlot's Progress.
1733/--/-- 38 - James Oglethorpe founds the colony of Georgia and the city of Savannah.
1733/--/-- 38 - John Kay invents the flying shuttle to increase the speed of weaving machines.
1733/--/-- 38 - Nadir Shah defeats the Turks and occupies Bagdhad.
1733/--/-- 38 - Stanislaw I is elected king of Poland with the support of Louis XV of France.
1733/--/-- 38 - The War of Polish Succession begins.
1734/--/-- 39 *** Bristow, Nicholas - Died Middlesex County, Virginia
1734/--/-- 39 - Stanislaw I is deposed; Augustus III is installed as king of Poland.
In 1694 Transportation was by:
Foot
Horse
Sailing ship
In 1694 Communications was by:
Word of Mouth
In 1694 Food Preparation was by:
Wood
In 1694 Entertainment was by:
Social Intercourse
Organized Sports
Travel
Professional Sports
Movies
Radio
Television
Theme parks
Computer
In 1694 Health Care was by:
Operations
Anesthetic
X-Rays
MRI
In 1694 War Making was by:
Bow & Arrow
Swords & body armor
Calvary
gun
Artillery
By 1734 War Making by:
Bow & Arrow
Swords & body armor
had been discontinued.
In 1694 Navigation was by:
Stars & Maps
Compass
from the SFHR database of Duane Bristow 03-13-2021 19:53:44