1699. Pope Innocent XII died.
1701. William Penn granted a charter of privileges to Pennsylvania and the counties, now state of Delaware, in which the liberty of conscience was fully recognized.
1703. John Wallis, an eminent English divine and mathematician, died. His works are numerous; and though his theological writings are respectable, yet it is from his mathematical labors that he derives a lasting celebrity.
1704. John Locke, the illustrious English philosopher, died.
1708. George of Denmark, husband of Anne, queen of England, died; "an illustrious instance of conjugal affection among the great."
1710. Ezekiel Spanheim died; an eminent Swiss writer on history and antiquities.
1740. Anna Iwanowna, empress of Russia, died.
1741. Balthazar Gibert, a French writer, died. He was 50 years professor of rhetoric at the college of Mazarin.
1746. Earthquake at Lima, by which that city and the port of Callao were destroyed. The sea first receded, then rushed
upon the shore, carrying everything before it. Of 23 ships in the harbor 19 were sunk, and 4 carried a considerable way up the country, and Callao became a part of the ocean.