is moved to New Bern. Peter the Great of Russia creates the Table of Ranks. A small group of Bohemian Brethren (the "Hidden Seed") from northern Moravia are allowed to settle in a new village, Herrnhut, on the Berthelsdorf estate of the pietist Count Nicolaus Zinzendorf in Upper Lusatia (Saxony), forming the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine, seed of the Moravian Church's renewal. The Chiesa del Purgatorio, Venafro, Italy, Catholic Church is built. The first public theatre in Denmark, Lille Grønnegade Theatre, is founded in Copenhagen. Modern music theory finds definition in Jean-Philippe Rameau's Traité de l'harmonie réduite à ses principes naturels (Treatise on Harmony), published in Paris. The "Brown Bess" muzzle-loading smoothbore musket becomes the British Army's standard infantry firearm for land combat for more than a century. Johann Sebastian Bach composes The Well-Tempered Clavier. Births January 1 – Sir George Baker, 1st Baronet, British physician (d. 1809) January 3 – Fredrik Hasselqvist, Swedish traveller and naturalist (d. 1752) January 12 – Nicolas Luckner, German in French service who rose to become a Marshal of France (d. 1794) January 15 – Herman Scholliner, German historian (d. 1795) January 18 – Antonio Rodríguez de Hita, Spanish composer (d. 1787) January 26 – Alexander Carlyle, Scottish church leader (d. 1805) January 29 – Duchess Luise of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Prussian princess (d. 1780) February 3 – Duchess Louise Frederica of Württemberg, German noble (d. 1791) February 4 – Antonio Greppi (1722–1799), Italian banker (d. 1799) February 5 – Anders Rudolf du Rietz, Swedish general, count and politician (d. 1792) February 7 – Azar Bigdeli, Iranian anthologist and poet (d. 1781) February 14 – Georg Christian Füchsel, German physician, geologist (d. 1773) February 19 – Charles-François Tiphaigne de la Roche, French author (d. 1774) February 21 – Lord Robert Manners-Sutton, British politician (d. 1762) February 22 Théophile de Bordeu, French physician (d. 1776) John Redman (physician), American physician (d. 1808) February 24 – John Burgoyne, British army officer (d. 1792) March 3 – Pietro Maria Gazzaniga, Italian theologian (d. 1799) March 6 – Johann Christian Brand, Austrian painter (d. 1795) March 7 – Louis-Jacques Goussier, French artist (d. 1799) March 15 – Gabriel Lenkiewicz, Belarusian Temporary Vicar General of the Society of Jesus (d. 1798) March 17 – William Wentworth, 2nd Earl of Strafford (1722–1791), England (d. 1791) March 18 Ulrika Eleonora von Düben, Swedish lady in waiting (d. 1758) Heinrich XI, Prince Reuss of Greiz, German