In the year 1707, the new sovereign state of Great Britain comes into being as Scotland and England become one (May 12), the last recorded eruption of Mount Fuji begins in Japan (Dec 16), Charles XII of Sweden launches his campaign to conquer Russia, marching to the east from Leipzig with 60,000 men (Dec), Shaw’s Bridge in Belfast in constructed - and all these fine people were born:
1707-0102 Johann Adam Lehmus* German poet of numerous spiritual songs - Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Bavaria, Holy Roman Empire (1788/81)
1707-0131 Frederick, Prince of Wales* heir apparent to the British throne/ estranged son of King George II/father of King George III - Hanover, Holy Roman Empire (1751/44)
1707-0215 Anders Henrik Ramsay* military commander/statesman - Somero, Sweden-Finland (1782/75)
1707-0225 Carlo Goldoni* playwright/librettist - Venice, Republic of Venice (1793/85)
1707-0301 Juho Sipinpoika Kuhna** father of Matti Juhonpoika Ala-Kuhna - Jalasjärvi, Sweden-Finland (1788/81)
1707-0307 Stephen Hopkins* politician/ governor - Providence, Colony of Rhode Island (1785/78)
1707-0314 Johan Ihre* philologist/ historical linguist - Lund, Sweden (1780/73)
1707-0331 Johan Deutsch* bishop/ convicted of infringing bookselling rights after having sold Catechism material for his parishioners - Laitila, Sweden-Finland (1774/67)
1707-0415 Leonhard Euler* mathematician/astronomer/engineer - Basel, Old Swiss Confederacy (1783/76)
1707-0422 Henry Fielding* novelist (Tom Jones)/dramatist - Sharpham, Somerset, England (1754/47)
1707-0502 Jean-Baptiste Barrière* cellist/composer - Bordeaux, France (1747/40)
1707-0523 Carl von Línné* botanist/ zoologist - Råshult, Sweden (1778/70)
1707-0615 Johannes Grubenmann* member of the Grubenmann family who were famous as carpenters and civil engineers - Switzerland (1771/63)
1707-0708 Jacques-Philippe Le Bas* engraver - Paris, France (1783/75)
1707-0805 Pierre Adamoli* bibliophile/collector - Lyon, France (1769/61)
1707-0825 Louis I of Spain* King of Spain for 7 months/death from smallpox - Buen Retiro Castle, Madrid, Castile (1724/17)
1707-0830 Johannes Browallius* Finnish theologian/physicist/botanist - Västerås, Swedish Empire (1755/47)
1707-0902 Gian Benedetto Mittarelli* monk/monastic historian - Venice, Republic of Venice (1777/69)
1707-0907 Georges-Louis Leclerc* a.k.a. Comte de Buffon/ naturalist/ cosmologist/encyclopédiste - Montbard, Burgundy, France (1788/80)
1707-1001 Juho Sipinpoika Lusa** father of Juho Juhonpoika Jaakko-Kokko - Mieto, Lusa, Kurikka, Sweden-Finland (1754/46)
1707-1004 Francesco Fontebasso* painter - Venice, Republic of Venice (1769/61)
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1707-1020 Thomas Church* priest/controversialist - Marlborough, Wiltshire, England (1756/48)
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1707-1107 Dieterich Bernhard Ludewig* German organist/a pupil of Johann Sebastian Bach/tutor of JSB’s children - Thonhausen, Sachsen-Altenburg (1740/32)
1707-1128 Giammaria Mazzucchelli* writer/ bibliographer/historian - Brescia (1765/57)
1707-1222 Johann Amman* Swiss-Russian botanist - Schaffhausen, Switzerland (1741/33)
1707-1224 Carl Heinrich von Heineken* royal librarian/historian - Lübeck, Holy Roman Empire (1791/83)
Updated 15.4.2023-2
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