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John Campbell, Duke of Argyll, defeats the Old Pretender’s troops at the battle of Sherrifmuir, for which he is rewarded with an estate in Petersham, carved out of Richmond Park
Louis XIV dies after seventy-two years on the throne
A Jacobite uprising in Scotland on behalf of the Old Pretender ends in fiasco
Colen Campbell creates interest in the Palladian style in Britain with the publication of his Vitruvius Britannicus
The Habsburg emperor Charles VI has a son, but the child dies within the year
The earl of Burlington employs Colen Campbell to remodel his Piccadilly house in the Palladian style
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, observing the Turkish practice of inoculation against smallpox, submits her infant son to the treatment
The tsarevitch Alexis, heir to Peter the Great, dies from violence inflicted on him in prison
The Octagon, a garden pavilion designed by James Gibbs, is added to Orleans House.
Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, with its detailed realism, can be seen as the first English novel
Alexander Pope comes to live in Twickenham and leases some riverside land with several small cottages.
In the Duke of Argyll's Petersham estate James Gibbs builds the Palladian villa of Sudbrook Park, with a famous cube room
The lighter rococo style, beginning in France, becomes an extension of the baroque
The symphony begins to develop as a musical form, deriving from the overtures of operas
The postchaise, introduced in France, provides the first chance of reasonably comfortable travel by land
Like the symphony, the string quartet develops during the eighteenth century, moving from simple beginnings to great complexity
Johann Sebastian Bach compiles the Little Keyboard Book a set of pieces to teach his eldest son, Wilhelm Friedemann Bach
Shares in the South Sea Company rise rapidly and collapse within the year, in the so-called South Sea Bubble
Two political parties emerge in Sweden's parliament and become known as the Hats and the Caps
The Limes is built, at 123 Mortlake High Street
Shares in John Law's Louisiana Company rise spectacularly and then collapse, in what becomes known as the Mississippi Bubble
The Dalai Lama in Lhasa accepts Chinese imperial protection, which lasts until 1911
Pope builds a villa, in the Palladian style.
Young noblemen, particularly from Britain, visit Italy on the Grand Tour
