known in England, or Le Grand Hiver ("The Great Winter"), as it was known inFrance, was an extraordinarily cold winter in Europe in 1708–1709, and was...
French capture St. John's, the capital of the British colony of Newfoundland. January 6 – Western Europe's Great Frost of 1709, the coldest period in...
Barrièretraktaat/Barrièreverdrag; French: traités de la Barrière) were a series of agreements signed and ratified between 1709 and 1715 that created a buffer...
September 1709 during the War of the Spanish Succession, near Taisnières-sur-Hon in modern France, then part of the Spanish Netherlands. A French army of...
Events from the year 1709in Canada. French Monarch: Louis XIV British and Irish Monarch: Anne Governor General of New France: Philippe de Rigaud Vaudreuil...
the 1960s with his study of economic inequality and mortality in Beauvais 1709–10. Famine "The European subsistence crisis of 1845–1850: a comparative perspective"...
The Raudot Ordinance of 1709 was a law in the French colony of New France that legalized slavery. On April 13, 1709, New France intendant Jacques Raudot...
harvest were exacerbated in Northern France by the need to supply the army in Flanders, while the winter was the worst since 1709. By April 1795, people...
Mably (1709–1785), French philosopher and politician Luke Mably (born 1976), British actor Mably, Loire, a commune in the Loire département inFrance This...
the Cévennes region in the wake of the revocation of the Edict of Nantes by Louis XIV. 1707: Croquant rebellions in Quercy 1709–1710: Food riots during...
Prie, (1624–1709), Marquise of Toucy, Duchess of Cardona 1682–1691: Louise de Prie, (1624–1709), Marquise of Toucy, Duchess of Cardona 1704–1709: Louise de...
overturned in the realm of ideas. In several places these Enlightenment ideas brought fundamental changes undermining religious authority, ushering in religious...
Sénégal from 1658 to 1709. The company traded slaves with the Hausa Kingdoms, Mali, and the Moors in Mauritania. As of 1778, the French were trafficking approximately...
Jacques de Vaucanson (French: [jak də vocɑ̃sɔ̃]; February 24, 1709 – November 21, 1782) was a French inventor and artist who built the first all-metal...
Malplaquet (1709) proved to be Pyrrhic victories for the allies, as they had lost too many men to continue the war. Led by Villars, French forces recovered...
Monsieur le Prince for over a century (1589–1709). The right to use the style passed to the House of Orléans in1709; however, they seldom if ever used it....
Maria Farina (Giovanni Maria Farina) in1709, it has since come to be a generic term for scented formulations in typical concentration of 2–5% and also...
article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1709. February 1 or 2 – Alexander Selkirk, the inspiration for Robinson Crusoe...
is found in southern France and published by Jean-Pierre Rigord [fr] as the first ancient Aramaic inscription ever published in full. 1709: The town...
The year 1709in science and technology involved some significant events. January – Great Frost in Western Europe. Francis Hauksbee publishes Physico-Mechanical...
colonies, France's royal administration gave in to Canadian pressures from slave-purchasing colonial officials, and issued the Raudot Ordinance of 1709, putting...
favourable to France than those being discussed in peace negotiations in1709 and 1710.[citation needed] France retained Île-Saint-Jean and Île Royale, and...
Louis XIV of France. At birth he was the heir apparent but was not given the traditional title of "Prince of Asturias" until April 1709. In 1714, when Louis...
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