Year
1709 (
MDCCIX) was a
common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the
Gregorian calendar (or a
common year starting on Saturday of the 11-day slower
Julian calendar). 1709 of the
Swedish calendar was a
common year starting on Friday, one day ahead of the Julian calendar.
Events of 1709
January - June
July - December
Undated
Ongoing events
Births
- February 24 - Jacques de Vaucanson, French inventor (d. 1782)
- March 10 - Georg Steller, German naturalist (d. 1746)
- April 14 - Charles Collé, French dramatist (d. 1783)
- August 7 - Jean-Jacques Lefranc, marquis de Pompignan, French poet (d. 1784)
- August 8 - Tokugawa Ietsugu, 7th Tokugawa Shogunate of Japan (d. 1716)
- September - John Cleland, English novelist (d. 1789)
- September 18 - Samuel Johnson, English writer and lexicographer (d. 1784)
- November 2 - Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange, regent of Friesland (d. 1759)
- December 18 - Elizabeth of Russia, reigning Empress of Russia (d. 1762)
- December 25 - Hermfred Ehm, Bosnian computer biologist.
- date unknown - Thomas Alcock, English clergyman (d. 1798)
- See also .
Deaths
- January 16 - Emperor Higashiyama of Japan (b. 1675)
- January 20 - François de la Chaise, French confessor of Louis XIV of France (b. 1624)
- January 24 - George Rooke, English admiral (b. 1650)
- February 8 - Giuseppe Torelli, Italian composer (b. 1658)
- February 9 - François Louis, Prince of Conti, French general (b. 1664)
- March 9 - Ralph Montagu, 1st Duke of Montagu, English diplomat
- June 29 - Antoine Thomas, Belgian Jesuit Astronomer in China
- June 30 - Edward Lhuyd, Welsh scientist (b. 1660)
- July 17 - Robert Bolling, English settler in Virginia (b. 1646)
- September 14 - Luis Manuel Fernández de Portocarrero, Spanish cardinal and archbishop of Toledo (b. 1635)
- October 9 - Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland, English mistress of Charles II of England (b. 1640)
- December 1 - Abraham a Sancta Clara, Austrian preacher (b. 1644)
- December 8 - Thomas Corneille, French dramatist (b. 1625)
- Gorgin Khan, Persian Governor of Kandahar (b. 1651)
- See also .
Upper Paleolithic - 10th millennium BC | 9th millennium BC | 8th millennium BC
- 7th millennium BC | 6th millennium BC | 5th millennium BC
..... Click the link for more information. The 8th century is the period from 701 to 800 in accordance with the Julian calendar in the Christian Era.
Overview
During this century the Middle East, the coast of North Africa and the Iberian Peninsula comes rapidly under Islamic Arab domination.
..... Click the link for more information. As a means of recording the passage of time the 9th century was the century that lasted from 801 to 900.
Western European
"Dark Ages" applied later to this period
..... Click the link for more information. As a means of recording the passage of time, the 10th century was that century which lasted from 901 to 1000.
Overview
The tenth century is usually regarded as a low point in European history. In China it was also a period of political upheaval.
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During the twentieth century, it became popular to look at that century's decades as historical entities in themselves.
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Centuries: 8th century -
9th century - 10th century
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850s - 860s 870s 880s
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- 850–859: Christian "Martyr Movement" in Muslim Córdoba, Spain.
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- Rurik establishes the state of Novgorod (later Kievan Rus')
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- The Danes invade England (870) and conquer East Anglia.
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- 885 — Vikings lay siege to Paris
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- 899 — Death of Alfred the Great
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10th century - 11st century
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910s - 920s 930s 940s
910 911 912 913 914
915 916 917 918 919
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- Construction begins on the first church at the monastery of Cluny.
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Twenty-first century
- 2100 - 2099 - 2098 - 2097 - 2096 - 2095 - 2094 - 2093 - 2092 - 2091
- 2090 - 2089 - 2088 - 2087 - 2086 - 2085 - 2084 - 2083 - 2082 - 2081
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850s 860s 870s - 880s - 890s 900s 910s
882 883 884 - 885 - 886 887 888
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9th century - 10th century
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-1700- 1701 1702 1703 1704 . 1705 . 1706 . 1707 . 1708 . 1709 . 1710
In science: 1697 1698 1699 -1700- 1701 1702 1703
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-1709- 1710 . 1711 . 1712 1713 . 1714 . 1715 . 1716 . 1717 . 1718 .
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See also: 1708 in Canada, other events of 1709, 1710 in Canada and the list of 'years in Canada'.
Events
- In New France, slavery becomes legal.
Births
Deaths
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1709 | 1710 | 1711 Events from the year
1709 in the Kingdom of Great Britain.
Events
- 2 February - Alexander Selkirk is rescued from shipwreck on a desert island, inspiring the book
..... Click the link for more information. Ashanti Confederacy - Osei Kofi Tutu I, Asantehene (1701-1717)
Dahomey - Agadja, King of Dahomey (1708-1732) Ethiopia - Tewoflos, Emperor of Ethiopia, (1708-1711) Kongo - João II, Manikongo of Kongo (1693-1717) Nkore
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Portugal
- Angola -
- Lourenço de Almada, Governor of Angola (1705-1709)
- António de Saldanha de Albuquerque, Governor of Angola (1709-1713)
- Macau
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