to Estonia, Charles XII of Sweden routs the huge Russian army. December 8 – The formal coronation of Pope Clement XI takes place in Rome. December 28 – Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester, Lord President of the Council in charge of the Privy Council, is appointed to the additional job of Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, the highest Crown official in charge of administration of Ireland, . December 30 (December 19, O.S.) – The 4th Parliament of King William III is dissolved and new elections are ordered by the King. Date unknown Mission San Xavier del Bac is founded in New Spain near Tucson, as a Spanish Roman Catholic mission. The mission's location had first been scouted by the Spanish in 1692 according to most historians. An inventory made for the House of Medici of Florence is the first documentary evidence for a piano, invented by their instrument keeper Bartolomeo Cristofori. An English translation of the novel Don Quixote, "translated from the original by many hands and published by Peter Motteux", begins publication in London. While popular among readers, it will eventually come to be known as one of the worst translations of the novel, totally betraying the spirit of Miguel de Cervantes's masterpiece. The value of sales of English manufactured products to the Atlantic economy is £3.9 million. Approximate date Lions become extinct in Libya. Births January–March January 8 – Augustyn Mirys, Polish painter (d. 1790) January 14 – Picander (d. 1764) January 23 – John Christian, Count Palatine of Sulzbach from 1732 to 1733 (d. 1733) January 28 – John Penn, "the American" (d. 1746) January 29 – Konstancja Czartoryska, Polish noblewoman politician (d. 1759) February 2 – Johann Christoph Gottsched, German philosopher (d. 1766) February 8 – Daniel Bernoulli, Dutch-born Swiss mathematician (d. 1782) February 16 – Pedro Messía de la Cerda, 2nd Marquis of Vega de Armijo, Spanish naval officer and colonial official (d. 1783) February 18 – Nicolaus Schuback, lawyer from Germany (d. 1783) February 21 – Henri Hemsch, French harpsichord maker of German origin (d. 1769) February 28 – Samsam ud Daula Shah Nawaz Khan (d. 1758) March 1 – Pierre-Joseph Bourcet, French tactician (d. 1780) March 3 William Lacon Childe (d. 1757) Charles-Joseph Natoire, French painter in the Rococo manner (d. 1777) March 4 – Louis Auguste, Prince of Dombes, grandson of Louis XIV of France and of his maîtresse-en-titre Françoise-Athénaïs (d. 1755)