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1715| 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. | | 1715 | [maths] | The English mathematician Brook Taylor publishes Methodus incrementorum directa et inversa/Direct and Indirect Methods of Incrementation, an important contribution to Scottish mathematician Colin Maclaurin's ‘fluxions’ and to Isaac Newton's calculus. | | 7 April - 14 April 1715 | Prussia, Saxony, Poland, Hanover, Denmark-Norway, Sweden, Germany, Holy Roman Empire [Great Northern War (1700–21)] | Prussia, Saxony, Poland, Hanover, and Denmark form an alliance against Sweden and war is declared. As part of this pact, Prussia and Denmark agree that Strausund and Rugen should become Danish in compensation for Bremen and Verdun going to Hanover. | | 1 September 1715 | France [political events] | Following the death of King Louis XIV of France in Versailles, France, aged 76, he is succeeded by Louis XV, his five-year-old great-grandson, under the regency of his nephew Philippe, duc d'Orléans, until 1723. Louis XIV had decreed that power was to be shared between the duc d'Orléans and the duc de Maine, his illegitimate son. Philip V of Spain, the rightful heir to the French throne, had previously (under the Treaty of Utrecht) surrendered his right of succession to accede to the Spanish throne. | | 1 September 1715 | France [births and deaths] | Louis XIV (the ‘Sun King’), king of France 1643–1715, famous for his patronage of the arts and his embodiment of the doctrine of Absolutism, dies in Versailles, France (76). | | 13 November 1715 | UK [revolution] | The Scottish Jacobite rising known as the ‘Fifteen Rebellion’, in support of James Francis Edward Stuart (the ‘Old Pretender’), is defeated at Sheriffmuir, Scotland, and the revolt subsequently collapses. |
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