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1712 in topic:
Arts
Architecture - Literature - Music
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Canada - Mexico - Science

Lists of leaders:
Colonial governors - State leaders

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births - deaths

1712 - Events

Treaty of Aargau signed between Catholic and Protestants. Introduced Protestant faith in Switzerland.
Thomas Newcomen builds the first piston-operated steam engine at Tipton, Staffordshire, UK.
The delivering of the infamous William Lynch Speech, which helped exert submissiveness on the African American slaves in Virginia.

1712 - Ongoing events

Great Northern War (1700-1721)
War of the Spanish Succession (1702-1713)

Montenegro under the Vladikas from the Petrovic dynasty (1697-1851) Danilo Petrovic, the founder of the Petrovic dynasty Vladika Danilo Petrovic established the hereditary theocracy in the Petrovic family of the Erakovic clan. Since Vladikas, as Orthodox Bishops, were celibate, the office of Vladika passed from uncle to nephew. Danilo led Montenegrins in many battles against the Turks. He won a decisive, major battle at Carev Laz in Ljesanska Nahija, on July 14-28, 1712 . The Turkish army of between 30,000 and 40,000 men was defeated with approximately 5000 casualties. (Momir Markovic, Crnogorski rat, Podgorica, 1993, 106). This battle is a landmark in the Montenegrin history of wars for independence. In 1701, Danilo built the monastery of Saint Petar of Cetinje (Sveti Petar Cetinjski) on the site of the former court of Ivan Crnojevic. And while the Monastery has been rebuilt and enlarged, its basic structure has not changed.

Danilo was succeeded by Vladika Sava and Vladika Vasilije. Vasilije was particularly active in fighting the Turks and in trying to solicit Russian support for Montenegro. He also wrote one of the earliest historical books ("History of Montenegro") on Montenegro.

1712 - Births

January 17 - John Stanley, English composer (d. 1786)
January 24 - King Frederick the Great of Prussia (d. 1786)
January 28 - Tokugawa Ieshige, Japanese shogun (d. 1761)
February 28 - Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, French military commander (d. 1759)
March 8 - John Fothergill, English physician (d. 1780)
March 22 - Edward Moore, English writer (d. 1757)
March 27 - Claude Bourgelat, French veterinary surgeon (d. 1779)
May 13 - Johann Hartwig Ernst, Count von Bernstorff, Danish statesman (d. 1772)
June 21 - Luc Urbain de Bouexic, comte de Guichen, French admiral (d. 1790)
June 28 - Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss philosopher (d. 1778)
October 5 - Francesco Guardi, Italian artist (d. 1793)
October 12 - William Shippen, American physician and delegate to the Continental Congress (d. 1801)
October 14 - George Grenville, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1770)
October 21 - Sir James Denham Steuart, 4th Baronet, British economist (d. 1780)
November 25 - Charles-Michel de l'Épée, French philanthropist and developer of signed French (d. 1789)
December 11 - Francesco Algarotti, Italian philosopher (d. 1764)
December 12 - Prince Charles of Lorraine, Austrian military leader (d. 1780)

1712 - Deaths

February 2 - Martin Lister, English naturalist and physician
February 18 - Louis, Duke of Burgundy, heir to the throne of France (b. 1682)
March 25 - Nehemiah Grew, English naturalist (b. 1641)
April 11 - Richard Simon, French Biblical critic (b. 1638)
April 30 - Philipp van Limborch, Dutch protestant theologian (b. 1633)
June 11 - Louis Joseph, duc de Vendôme, Marshal of France (b. 1654)
July 1 - William King, English poet (b. 1663)
July 12 - Richard Cromwell, Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland (b. 1626)
July 26 - Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds, English statesman (b. 1631)
August 3 - Joshua Barnes, English scholar (b. 1654)
August 18 - Richard Savage, 4th Earl Rivers, English soldier
August 29 - Gregory King, English statistician (b. 1648)
September 12 - Jan van der Heyden, Dutch painter (b. 1637)
September 14 - Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Italian-French astronomer and engineer (b. 1625)
September 15 - Sidney Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphin, English politician
November 15 - James Douglas, 4th Duke of Hamilton, Scottish nationalist (b. 1658)
November 15 - Charles Mohun, 4th Baron Mohun, English politician (b. 1675)