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★20 Aug 1707
The first Siege of Pensacola came to an end with the British abandoning their attempt to capture Pensacola in Spanish Florida.

★22 Oct 1707
In one of the worst maritime disasters in the history of the British Isles, at least 1,400 sailors on four Royal Navy ships were lost in stormy weather off the Isles of Scilly.

★02 Feb 1709
Scottish sailor Alexander Selkirk was rescued by English captain Woodes Rogers and the crew of the Duke after spending four years as a castaway on an uninhabited island in the Juan Fernández archipelago, providing the inspiration for Daniel Defoe's novel Robinson Crusoe.

★20 Aug 1710
War of the Spanish Succession: The Spanish-Bourbon army commanded by the Marquis de Bay was soundly defeated by a multinational army led by the Austrian commander Guido Starhemberg.

★08 Mar 1736
Nader Shah, the founder of the Afsharid dynasty, was crowned Shah of Iran.

★26 Jun 1740
War of Jenkins' Ear: A Spanish column of 300 regular troops, free black militia and Indian auxiliaries stormed Britain's strategically crucial position of Fort Mose in Spanish Florida.

★22 Feb 1744
War of the Austrian Succession: British ships began attacking the Spanish rear of a Franco-Spanish combined fleet in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast near Toulon, France.

★03 Jan 1749
The first issue of Berlingske, Denmark's oldest continually operating newspaper, was published.

★14 Sep 1752
In adopting the Gregorian calendar under the terms of the Calendar Act 1750, the British Empire skipped eleven days, with September 2 being followed directly by September 14.

★28 Dec 1767
Taksin the Great was crowned king of the newly established Thonburi Kingdom at the new capital of Thonburi in present-day Thailand.

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