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- 7 January - Occasional Conformity Act repealed.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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“Most events recorded in history are more remarkable than important, like eclipses of the sun and moon, by which all are attracted, but whose effects no one takes the trouble to calculate.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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“Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.”
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