In the year 1702, France starts building Fort Louis de la Mobile which becomes for a while the capital of French Louisiana (Jan 12), Anne Stuart becomes Queen Anne of England, Scotland and Ireland (Mar 8.o.s.), the first regular English-language national newspaper is published (Mar 11.o.s.), Charles XII of Sweden conquers Warsaw (May), Spanish and Apalachee Indian forces attack Creek Indians - supported by English traders - in what is now Georgia, but they fail (Oct), in Queen Anne’s War in North America, English forces besiege St. Augustine, Spanish Florida (Oct 10), and plunder it (Oct 27), the Great Northern War (1700-1721) goes on - and all these fine people were born:

1702-0110 Johannes Zick* blacksmith/fresco painter - Lachen, Bavaria, Germany (1762/60)

1702-0207 Carl August Thielo* Danish organist/composer/theater entrepreneur - Sachsen, Germany (1763/61)
1702-0210 Carlo Marchionni* architect/sculptor - Rome, Italy (1786/84)

1702-0304 Jack Sheppard* notorious English thief and prison escapee - Spitalfields, London, England (1724/22)
1702-0320 Thomas Penn* Proprietor of the Colony of Pennsylvania - Bristol, England (1775/73)
1702-0327 Johann Ernst Eberlin* composer – Burgau, Bayern Germany (1762/60)

1702-0624 Elisabeth Simontytär Hällström** (b Arihn)/mother of Maria Petterintytär Hyövälti - Kuortane, Finland-Sweden (1788/85)

1702-0719 Philemon Ewer* timber merchant/master shipbuilder - England (1750/48)
1702-0723 Kristiina Wegelia** (b Malmsten) – Ilmajoki, Sweden-Finland (1729/26)

1702-0815 Francesco Zuccarelli* artist - Pitigliano, Tuscany, Italy (1788/86)

1702-0904 Legall de Kermeur* master chess player - Versailles, France (1792/c.90)

1702-1118 Katarina Juhontytär Hyövälti** (b Seppälä) mother of Matti Pertunpoika Hyövälti - Kockola, Hyöwäldi, Ilmajoki, Sweden-Finland (1739/36)

1702-1204 Petter Carlinpoika Hällström** (b Petter Carlsson) tailor/farmer/son of Carl Esbjörnsson Skotte/to Finland at age 19 – Helsingborg, Swedish Empire (1781/78)

Updated 30.3.2023-1
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