opera La Clemenza d'Augusto by Johann Joseph Fux is premiered in Vienna. November 22 – The Dutch East India Company pinnace Amsterdam founders en route to Basra from Bombay during a storm. All hands are lost. December 14 – John Churchill is created duke of Marlborough. December 30 – The Siege of St. Augustine in Spanish Florida is lifted. Date unknown The travel diary Oku no Hosomichi (meaning "Narrow road to/of the interior"), a major work of haibun by the Japanese poet Matsuo Bashō and one of the major texts of Japanese literature of the Edo period, is published eight years after Bashō's death. Delaware is designated a separate colony. Richard Bentley at Cambridge in England introduces the first written (as opposed to oral) competitive examinations in a Western university. Births January–March January 2 – Nabeshima Naotsune, Japanese daimyō (d. 1749) January 6 Johann Adam von Ickstatt, German educator and director of the University of Ingolstadt (d. 1776) José de Nebra, Spanish composer (d. 1768) January 10 – Johannes Zick, German fresco painter (d. 1762) January 12 Jacques Aved, French painter and Rococo portraitist (d. 1766) Józef Andrzej Załuski, Polish Catholic priest (d. 1774) January 13 – Thomas Arthur, comte de Lally, French general of Irish Jacobite ancestry (d. 1766) January 14 – Emperor Nakamikado, of Japan (d. 1737) January 18 – Sava II Petrović-Njegoš, Metropolitan of Cetinje (d. 1782) January 24 – Frederica Henriette of Anhalt-Bernburg, member of the House of Ascania by birth and Princess of Anhalt-Köthen by marriage (d. 1723) January 26 – Johann Caspar Scheuchzer, Swiss naturalist (d. 1729) January 31 – Alan Brodrick, 2nd Viscount Midleton, English cricketer (d. 1747) February 3 Michael Adelbulner, German mathematician (d. 1779) Giovanni Battista Vaccarini, Italian architect (d. 1768) February 6 – Giovanni Carmine Pellerano, Italian Catholic prelate, member of the Knights Hospitaller (d. 1783) February 7 – Carl August Thielo, Danish composer (d. 1763) February 10 Jean-Pierre Guignon, Franco-Italian composer and violinist (d. 1774) Carlo Marchionni, Italian architect (d. 1786) February 12 – Robert Hale, Massachusetts physician, soldier (d. 1767) February 26 – Rasmus Paludan, Norwegian theologian and priest (d. 1759) February 27 Enrichetta d'Este, Duchess of Parma (d. 1777) Johann Valentin Görner, German composer (d. 1762) March 2 Henrietta Maria of Brandenburg-Schwedt, granddaughter of the "Great Elector" Frederick William (d. 1782) Charles Stourton, 15th Baron Stourton, son of Charles Stourton (1669–1739) (d. 1753) March 4 – Jack