Hungarian Hussars, despite their capitulation to Austrian officers. December 26 – Fateh Singh and Zorawar Singh, sons of Guru Gobind Singh, are murdered by Wazir Khan for refusing to convert to Islam, and become hallowed martyrs in Sikhism. December 29 – The premiere of the play Idoménée by Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon takes place in Paris. Date unknown Construction begins on Blenheim Palace, in Oxfordshire, England; it is completed in 1724. Taichung City, Taiwan is founded as the village of Dadun. With the interest paid from daimyō loans, the Konoike buy a tract of ponds and swampland, turn the land into rice paddies, and settle 480 households numbering perhaps 2,880 peasants on the land. The Shogunate confiscates the property of a merchant in Osaka "for conduct unbecoming a member of the commercial class". The government seizes 50 pairs of gold screens, 360 carpets, several mansions, 48 granaries and warehouses scattered around the country, and hundreds of thousands of gold pieces. Births January–March January 1 – Charles Chauncy, American Congregational clergyman (d. 1787) January 5 – John Stanhope, English Member of Parliament (d. 1748) January 8 – Jacques-François Blondel, French architect and teacher (d. 1774) January 14 – Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier, French governor of the Mascarene Islands (d. 1786) January 15 – Ludwig Gruno of Hesse-Homburg (d. 1745) January 21 – Isaac Hawkins Browne, English poet (d. 1760) January 24 – Farinelli, Italian castrato (d. 1782) January 28 – Reverend Joseph Fish, pastor in the British North American colonies (d. 1781) February 3 – John Robinson, politician, landowner in the British colony of Virginia (d. 1766) February 13 – Franciszka Urszula Radziwiłłowa, Polish writer and playwright (d. 1753) February 15 – Charles-André van Loo, French painter (d. 1765) February 20 – Nicolas Chédeville, French composer (d. 1782) February 21 – Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke, British Royal Navy admiral (d. 1781) February 24 – Hieronymus David Gaubius, German physician and chemist (d. 1780) February 25 – Edward Ironside, British banker, Lord Mayor of London in 1753 (d. 1753) February 27 – Peter Artedi, Swedish naturalist, known as the "father of ichthyology" (d. 1735) March 2 – William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield, Scottish judge and politician (d. 1793) March 8 – Margrethe Marie Thomasine Numsen, Danish courtier (d. 1776) March 9 – Tommaso Temanza, Italian architect and author of the Neoclassic period (d. 1789) March 12 – Noël Jourda