for blasphemy. By order of the Nizam, Hyderabad is made the permanent capital of the Indian princely state of the same name. It is now the capital of the Indian states of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh December 14 – The Viceroyalty of Zhili (now the Hebei province) is recreated in the Chinese Empire by the Emperor Yongzheng for the first time in 55 years, with Li Weijun as the first Viceory. Zhili exists as a viceroyalty until the fall of the Qing dynasty in 1912. December 24 – Francesco Valesio resumes writing his Diario di Roma, 13 years after he ceased his recording of daily life in Rome. Date unknown China expels foreign missionaries. Blenheim Palace construction is completed in England. It is presented as a gift from the nation to the Duke of Marlborough, for his involvement in the Battle of Blenheim in 1704. The Austrian Netherlands agree to the Pragmatic Sanction. Shah Mahmud Hotaki of Afghanistan goes insane. Longman, the oldest surviving publishing house in England, is founded. The Kaitokudō academy merchant school, as predecessor for part of Ōsaka University was founded in Ōsaka, Japan. Births January 12 – Frances Brooke, English writer (d. 1789) February 16 – Christopher Gadsden, American statesman (d. 1805) February 28 – George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend, British field marshal (d. 1807) February 29 – Eva Marie Veigel, Austrian-born English ballet dancer, known as La Violette (d. 1822) March 1 – Manuel do Cenáculo, Portuguese prelate and antiquarian (d. 1814) March 6 – Henry Laurens, political leader during the American Revolutionary War, father of John Laurens (d. 1792) March 27 – Jane Colden, American botanist (d. 1766) April 12 – Lyman Hall, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1790) April 22 – Immanuel Kant, German philosopher (d. 1804) May 7 – Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser, Alsatian-born Austrian general (d. 1797) May 19 – Augustus Hervey, 3rd Earl of Bristol, British admiral, politician (d. 1779) June 8 – John Smeaton, English civil engineer (d. 1792) June 15 – Countess Palatine Maria Franziska of Sulzbach, German aristocrat (d. 1794) July 2 – Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, German poet (d. 1803) July 10 – Eva Ekeblad, Swedish scientist (d. 1786) August 23 – Abraham Yates, American Continental Congressman (d. 1796) August 25 – George Stubbs, English painter (d. 1806) August 27 – John Joachim Zubly, Swiss-born Continental Congressman (d. 1781) September 3 – Guy Carleton,