King Karel XII leaves Turkish captivity to return to Sweden

Event

G˜sbert Cuper, classical/regent, dies at 72

Death

Edward "Blackbeard" Teach, English pirate, killed off Virginia coast

Death

Anton Englert, composer, dies at 77

Death

Andreas Hofer, Tirol nationalist

Birth

Paul R Cantzlaar, gov of Saba/St-Eustatius/Cura‡ao/Dutch-West Indies

Birth

Robert Clive, English occupier (India), dies at about 48

Death

Johann Caspar Simon, composer, dies at 75

Death

Conradin Kreutzer, composer

Birth

John Ekels, the Old, Amsterdam painter/cartoonist, dies at 57

Death

Fr‚d‚ric Ph‚lypeaux, French earl of Maurepas, dies

Death

John de Mol, porcelein manufacturer, dies

Death

John Barueth, vicar/pamphleter, dies

Death

Strasbourg Alsace-Lorraine, prohibits circumcision and wearing of beards

Event

Baroness van Dorth, orangist, executed

Death

Bernardus Bosch, Dutch vicar/patriot, dies at 57

Death

Benjamin Hugur, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1877

Birth

Thomas Cook, founder (Cook travel bureau)

Birth

Peregrine Williamson of Baltimore patents a steel pen

Event

Johann Gottfried Vierling, composer, dies at 63

Death

Samuel Gibbs French, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1910

Birth

George Eliot, [Mary A Evans], England, author (Silas Marner)

Birth

Nathan Kimball, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1898

Birth

Ann Bailey, pioneer, dies

Death

Pavel Lambert Masek, composer, dies at 65

Death