Pummerin, a massive bell cast from 208 captured cannons, is consecrated by Bishop Franz Ferdinand Freiherr von Rummel in preparation for its installation in St. Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna (the Stephansdom). December 25 – The rebuilding of St Paul's Cathedral in London to a design by Sir Christopher Wren is declared complete by Parliament; Old St Paul's had been destroyed by the 1666 Great Fire of London. Date unknown John Shore invents the tuning fork. Luigi Ferdinando Marsili shows that coral is an animal rather than a plant as previously thought. Births January–March January 1 – Baron Franz von der Trenck, Austrian noble (d. 1749) January 3 Charles Moss, British bishop of Bath and Wells (d. 1802) Giuseppe Capece Zurlo, Italian cardinal who served as Archbishop of Naples (d. 1801) January 12 – Gaetano Latilla, Italian opera composer (d. 1788) January 15 – Sidonia Hedwig Zäunemann, German poet (d. 1740) January 22 – Johann Phillip Fabricius, German missionary (d. 1791) January 28 – Johan Hörner, Swedish-born Danish portrait painter (d. 1763) January 29 – Giuseppe Bonno, Austrian composer (d. 1788) January 30 – Abraham Roentgen, German Ébéniste (cabinetmaker) (d. 1793) February 2 – Wenzel Anton, Prince of Kaunitz-Rietberg, Austrian diplomat and chancellor (d. 1794) February 3 – Omar Ali Saifuddin I, Sultan of Brunei (d. 1795) February 4 – Józef Aleksander Jabłonowski, Polish prince (d. 1777) February 5 – Joseph Umstatt, Austrian composer of the early Classical era (d. 1762) February 6 – Charles Sackville, 2nd Duke of Dorset, English cricketer (d. 1769) February 9 Anthony Ashley Cooper, 4th Earl of Shaftesbury, England (d. 1771) Luis Vicente de Velasco, Spanish officer and commander in the Royal Spanish Navy (d. 1762) February 10 – John Plumptre, British politician (d. 1791) February 13 – Domènec Terradellas, Spanish opera composer (d. 1751) February 14 – Alexandra Kurakina, daughter of Lieutenant-General and Senator Ivan Panin (d. 1786) February 23 – Louis de Brienne de Conflans d'Armentières, French general (d. 1774) February 25 Tokugawa Gorōta, Japanese daimyō (d. 1713) John Perceval, 2nd Earl of Egmont, British politician with Irish connections (d. 1770) February 27 Gerrit de Graeff, member of the De Graeff family from the Dutch Golden Age (d. 1752) Constantine Mavrocordatos, Prince of Wallachia and Moldavia (d. 1769) March 4 – Matthäus Stach, Moravian missionary in Greenland (d. 1787) March 5 – Carl Gustaf Pilo, Swedish-born artist and painter (d. 1793) March 11 – Joseph