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1711| 1689–1724 | UK [horse-racing] | The Byerley Turk, the Darley Arabian, and the Godolphin Arab, the horses from which all modern thoroughbreds are descended in the male line, are imported to England from the Middle East and north Africa. | | 1711 | England [literary criticism] | The English poet Alexander Pope publishes Essay on Criticism, an essay on literary criticism written in verse. | | 1711 | Europe [plagues and epidemics] | Bubonic plague kills half a million people in Europe. | | 17 April 1711 | Austria, Habsburg Monarchy, Holy Roman Empire [political events] | When the Holy Roman Emperor Joseph I of Austria, dies, aged 33, he is ultimately succeeded by his brother, Charles III of Spain, as Emperor Charles VI, who thus becomes heir to all the Spanish Habsburg and Austrian Habsburg possessions, but Charles does not leave Spain until September. | | 7 May 1711 | Scotland [births and deaths] | David Hume, Scottish philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist, born in Edinburgh, Scotland (–1776). | | 12 August 1711 | Russia, Ottoman Empire, Sweden [Ottoman–Russian Wars (1686–1739)] | The Russian Tsar Peter I the Great, surrounded by a much larger Ottoman army on the River Prut in Moldavia, makes peace with the Ottoman Empire. The Black Sea fortress of Azov and fortress and harbour of Taganrog are to be returned to Ottoman control. Russia is to withdraw from the Black Sea and to demolish its forts on the lower River Dnieper. Russian troops are also to evacuate Poland, and King Charles XII, a guest of Sultan Ahmed III following his defeat at the battle of Poltava, is granted free passage home to Sweden. |
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Addison, Joseph
Bonner, John
Bonno, Giuseppe
Bononcini
Boscawen, Edward
Charles VI
Guadagnini, Giovanni Battista
Harley, Robert
Hesselius, Gustavus
Hutchinson, Thomas
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malt tax
Marais, Roland
Merope
Ottoman–Russian Wars (1686–1739)
Scarlatti, Domenico
Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury
Simson, Robert
St Paul's Cathedral
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| Upon the 9th day of May, 1711, one James Welch came down to my cabin, and said, "he had orders from the captain to set me ashore. Its discontinuance may have been due to weariness on Steele's part or, since it was Whig in tone, to a desire to be done with partisan writing; at any rate, two months later, in March, 1711, of Marlborough's victory at Blenheim, secured the favor of the ministers of the day, and throughout almost all the rest of his life he held important political places, some even, thanks to Swift, during the period of Tory dominance. |