to the Austrians. Under a flag of truce, the Turks are permitted to depart but have to leave behind their artillery as they give up their claim to Hungary. Austro-Hungarian rule lasts until World War One, and in 1919, the city of Timișoara becomes part of the Kingdom of Romania. November 1 – Two new laws go into effect in the Highlands of Scotland to prevent a threat to Britain's ruling House of Hanover by the Jacobites who supported the restoration of the House of Stuart. The Disarming Act requires government authorization to carry swords and firearms, and the amendments to the Treason Act 1714 permit trials for treason to take place in any court in England, regardless of where the crime was committed. December 4 – Fifty people are killed, and 150 houses burned, when a fire breaks out in Wapping, London. The blaze comes two days after a fire at the Spring Gardens at St. James's, London, which destroyed the French Chapel there and which was put out by several rescuers, including the future King George II. December 12 – Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend, is demoted from his office as Secretary of State for the Northern Department in the British government, and replaced by James Stanhope, 1st Earl Stanhope. Date unknown English pirate Edward Teach (Blackbeard) is given command of a sloop in the Bahamas. Tsar Peter the Great of Russia studies with the physician Herman Boerhaave, at Leiden University. The Kangxi Dictionary is published, laying the foundation of most references to Han characters studied today. Births January 1 – Joshua Loring, colonial American captain in British service (d. 1781) January 4 – Aaron Burr, Sr., President of Princeton University (d. 1757) January 11 – Edmund Sheffield, 2nd Duke of Buckingham and Normanby, English nobleman (d. 1735) January 12 – Antonio de Ulloa, Spanish general and scientist (d. 1795) January 15 Philip Livingston, American politician (d. 1778) Pierre-Marie-Jérôme Trésaguet, French scientist (d. 1796) January 20 King Charles III of Spain (d. 1788) Jean-Jacques Barthélemy, French writer and numismatist (d. 1795) Franz Wilhelm Rabaliatti, German architect (d. 1782) January 26 – George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville, British Army general (d. 1785) January 30 – Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz, Swedish architect and civil servant (d. 1796) February 2 – David Graeme, British Army general (d. 1797) February 4 – José Solís Folch de Cardona, Spanish colonial governor (d. 1770) February