Events
- 7 January - Occasional Conformity Act repealed.
- 15 May - James Puckle patents the Puckle Gun, an early form of machine gun.
- 2 August - Quadruple Alliance formed between Britain, France, the Holy Roman Empire and the Dutch Republic.
- 11 August - War of the Quadruple Alliance: A British fleet under Admiral Byng defeats a Spanish fleet at the Battle of Cape Passaro.
- 24 November - 'Calico Jack' Rackham becomes captain of the pirate sloop Ranger in The Bahamas.
- 17 December - War of the Quadruple Alliance: Britain, Austria and France declare war on Spain.
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Famous quotes containing the word events:
“As I look at the human story I see two stories. They run parallel and never meet. One is of people who live, as they can or must, the events that arrive; the other is of people who live, as they intend, the events they create.”
—Margaret Anderson (1886–1973)
“Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.”
—William James (1842–1910)
“If there is a case for mental events and mental states, it must be that the positing of them, like the positing of molecules, has some indirect systematic efficacy in the development of theory.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)