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1712| 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. | | 1712 | England [poetry] | The English poet Alexander Pope publishes his mock-epic comic poem The Rape of the Lock. An expanded version appears in 1714. | | 1712 | Africa [political events] | The Bambara kingdom of Segu, southwest of Timbuktu on the River Niger in West Africa (modern Mali), emerges as a major regional power under its king Mamari Kulibali. | | 1712 | UK [technology] | The first recorded practical steam engine to use a piston and cylinder, constructed by English inventor Thomas Newcomen, is installed at Dudley Castle, near Wolverhampton, England, where it is used for pumping out underground mineworkings. | | 24 January 1712 | Prussia [births and deaths] | Frederick II the Great, King of Prussia 1740–86, born in Potsdam, near Berlin, Prussia (–1786). | | 28 June 1712 | France, Swiss Confederation [births and deaths] | Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher whose writings provided inspiration to the leaders of the French Revolution, born in Geneva, Swiss Confederation (–1778). | | 25 July 1712 | Swiss Confederation [wars] | The Battle of Villmergen (the ‘Second Villmergen War’) between the Catholic and Protestant cantons, largely over the disproportionate Catholic supremacy in the diet of the Swiss Confederation, is won by the Protestant cantons, led by the prosperous industrial centres of Bern and Zürich. This firmly establishes their dominance. |
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