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1675 - Birth of Johann Melchior Conradi composer.

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1676 - Kings Charles II and Louis XIV sign secret treaty.

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1688 - Reverend James Renwick hanged in Scotland for being a Presbyterian.

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1691 - Thomas Neale granted British patent for American postal service.

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1696 - Birth of Baron Ernst Gottlieb composer.

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1697 - Birth of Louis-Maurice de La Pierre composer.

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1699 - Birth of Hans Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff German architect (Sanssouci).

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1714 - Parliament of Paris accepts Pope Clemens XI's "Unigenitus" degree.

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1715 - Antoine Galland French interpreter, dies at age 68.

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1723 - Birth of Tobias Mayer "method of lunars" for longitude determination.

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