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1715 was a common year ... By the time the battle ends the next day, five Swedish ships and 1,626 crewmen have been captured, and another 353 killed. The Danish navy ...
Broadside image: the Pretender, Prince James, Landing at Peterhead on 22 December 1715. On 22 December, James landed in Scotland at Peterhead, [18] but by the time he arrived at Perth on 9 January 1716, the Jacobite army numbered fewer than 5,000. In contrast, Argyll's forces had acquired heavy artillery and were advancing quickly.
1702–1715: Camisard Rebellion in France. 1703: Saint Petersburg is founded by Peter the Great; it is the Russian capital until 1918. 1703–1711: The Rákóczi Uprising against the Habsburg monarchy. 1704: End of Japan's Genroku period. 1704: First Javanese War of Succession. [2] 1705: George Frideric Handel's first opera, Almira, premieres.
In 1715, pirates launched a major raid on Spanish divers trying to recover gold from the sunken treasure galleon Urca de Lima near Florida. The nucleus of the pirate force was a group of English ex-privateers, all of whom were soon to be enshrined in infamy: Henry Jennings , Charles Vane , Samuel Bellamy of Whydah Gally fame, Benjamin Hornigold ...
1715: 1 September: Louis XIV died of gangrene. His five-year-old great-grandson Louis XV succeeded him, ... It is the first time since 1681 that a monarch goes to Alsace.
Events from the year 1715 in Great Britain. Incumbents. Monarch – George I; Events. February to March – General election results in victory for the Whigs. [1]
The year 1715 in science and technology involved some significant events. Astronomy ... England, a small Cotswold village at the time. Geology
A total solar eclipse occurred on 3 May 1715. It was known as Halley's Eclipse, after Edmond Halley (1656–1742) who predicted this eclipse to within 4 minutes accuracy. . Halley observed the eclipse from London where the city of London enjoyed 3 minutes 33 seconds of tota