24th February » The London première of 'Rinaldo (opera) called Rinaldo' by George Frideric Handel, the first Italian opera written for the London stage.
22nd September » The Tuscarora War begins in present-day North Carolina.
Famous Birthdays in 1711
1st January » Baron Franz von der Trenck, Austrian soldier (d. 1749)
12th January » Gaetano Latilla, Italian composer (d. 1788)
29th January » Giuseppe Bonno, Austrian composer (d. 1788)
2nd February » Wenzel Anton, Prince of Kaunitz-Rietberg (d. 1794)
9th February » Luis Vicente de Velasco e Isla, Spanish sailor and commander (d. 1762)
27th February » Constantine Mavrocordatos, Ottoman ruler (d. 1769)
22nd April » Paul II Anton, Prince Esterházy, Austrian soldier (d. 1762)
7th May » David Hume, Scottish economist, historian, and philosopher (d. 1776)
18th May » Ruđer Bošković, Croatian physicist, astronomer, and mathematician (d. 1787)
23rd June » Giovanni Battista Guadagnini, Italian instrument maker (d. 1786)
22nd July » Georg Wilhelm Richmann, German-Russian physicist (d. 1753)
26th July » Lorenz Christoph Mizler, German physician, mathematician, and historian (d. 1778)
19th August » Edward Boscawen, English admiral and politician (d. 1761)
1st September » William IV, Prince of Orange (d. 1759)
6th September » Henry Muhlenberg, German-American pastor and missionary (d. 1787)
9th September » Thomas Hutchinson (governor) e.g Thomas Hutchinson, American historian and politician, List of colonial governors of Massachusetts or Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay (d. 1780)
11th September » William Boyce (composer) known as William Boyce, English composer (d. 1779)
18th September » Ignaz Holzbauer, Austrian composer (d. 1783)