1715 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1715?
- April 15, 1715 – Pocotaligo Massacre triggers the start of the Yamasee War in colonial South Carolina.
- July 24, 1715 – A Spanish treasure fleet of 10 ships under Admiral Ubilla leaves Havana, Cuba for Spain. Seven days later, 9 of them sink in a storm off the coast of Florida. A few centuries later, treasure is salvaged from these wrecks.
- September 1, 1715 – King Louis XIV of France dies after a reign of 72 years – the longest of any major European monarch.
Who Were Born In The Year 1715?
- January 10, 1715 – Christian August Crusius, German philosopher and theologian (d. 1775)
- January 12, 1715 – Jacques Duphly, French composer (d. 1789)
- January 29, 1715 – Georg Christoph Wagenseil, Austrian composer (d. 1777)
- February 26, 1715 – Claude Adrien Helvétius, French philosopher (d. 1771)
- March 7, 1715 – Ewald Christian von Kleist, German poet (d. 1759)
- April 3, 1715 – William Watson, English physician and scientist (d. 1787)
- April 13, 1715 – John Hanson, President of the United States in Congress Assembled (d. 1783)
- April 28, 1715 – Franz Sparry, composer (d. 1767)
- June 25, 1715 – Joseph-François Foulon, French politician (d. 1789)
- July 4, 1715 – Christian Fürchtegott Gellert, German poet (d. 1769)
- August 6, 1715 – Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues, French writer (d. 1747)
- September 15, 1715 – Jean Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval, French artillery specialist (d. 1789)
- September 22, 1715 – Jean-Étienne Guettard, French physician and scientist (d. 1786)
- September 30, 1715 – Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, French philosopher (d. 1780)
- October 8, 1715 – Michel Benoist, French Jesuit missionary (d. 1774)
- October 23, 1715 – Tsar Peter II of Russia (d. 1730)
- November 5, 1715 – John Brown, English writer (d. 1766)
- November 8, 1715 – Elisabeth Christine von Braunschweig-Bevern, wife of Frederick II of Prussia (d. 1797)
- December 27, 1715 – Philippe de Noailles, duc de Mouchy, French soldier (d. 1794)
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