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What Happened In Year 1715?

• April 15, 1715 – Pocotaligo Massacre triggers the start of the Yamasee War in colonial South Carolina.
• July 24, 1715 – A Spanish treasure fleet of 10 ships under Admiral Ubilla leaves Havana, Cuba for Spain. Seven days later, 9 of them sink in a storm off the coast of Florida. A few centuries later, treasure is salvaged from these wrecks.
• September 1, 1715 – King Louis XIV of France dies after a reign of 72 years – the longest of any major European monarch.

Who Were Born In The Year 1715?

• January 10, 1715 – Christian August Crusius, German philosopher and theologian (d. 1775)
• January 12, 1715 – Jacques Duphly, French composer (d. 1789)
• January 29, 1715 – Georg Christoph Wagenseil, Austrian composer (d. 1777)
• February 26, 1715 – Claude Adrien Helvétius, French philosopher (d. 1771)
• March 4, 1715 – James Waldegrave, 2nd Earl Waldegrave, British statesman (d. 1763)
• March 7, 1715 – Ephraim Williams, American philanthropist (d. 1755)
• April 13, 1715 – John Hanson, President of the United States in Congress Assembled (d. 1783)
• April 28, 1715 – Franz Sparry, composer (d. 1767)
• May 4, 1715 – Richard Graves, English writer (d. 1804)
• May 22, 1715 – François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis, French cardinal and statesman (d. 1794)
• June 25, 1715 – Joseph-François Foulon, French politician (d. 1789)
• July 4, 1715 – Christian Fürchtegott Gellert, German poet (d. 1769)
• August 6, 1715 – Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues, French writer (d. 1747)
• September 15, 1715 – Jean Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval, French artillery specialist (d. 1789)
• September 22, 1715 – Jean-Étienne Guettard, French physician and scientist (d. 1786)
• October 5, 1715 – Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau, French economist (d. 1789)
• October 8, 1715 – Michel Benoist, French Jesuit missionary (d. 1774)
• October 23, 1715 – Tsar Peter II of Russia (d. 1730)
• November 23, 1715 – Pierre Charles Le Monnier, French astronomer (d. 1799)
• December 27, 1715 – Philippe de Noailles, duc de Mouchy, French soldier (d. 1794)

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