The only works he published were Reflections on Learning, showing the Insufficiency thereof in its several particulars, in order to evince the usefulness and necessity of Revelation ( London, 1709 — 1710 ) and the preface to Bishop Fisher's Funeral Sermon for Margaret, Countess of Richmond and Derby ( 1708 )— both without his name.

* Theophilus Weeks — ( 1708 – 1772 ), soldier in the French and Indian War

By 1708, the date of the first Brethren baptisms, Mack had rejected this position in favor of forming a separate church with visible rules and ordinances — including threefold baptism by immersion, a Love Feast ( that combined communion with feetwashing and an evening meal ), anointing, and use of the " ban " against wayward members.

* ‘ Remarks on Mr. Charles Leslie's First Dialogue ,’ & c., 1708 ( anon.

Between 1708 and 1992 the city was known as Guriev.

Between 1708 and 1832 it was one of the Buteshire and Caithness alternating constituencies: one constituency elected a Member of Parliament ( MP ) to one parliament then the other elected an MP to the next.

Between 1708 and 1719, Kursk was a part of the newly created Kiev Governorate.

Between 1708 and 1710 Coysevox produced three further sculptures for Marly, a Pan ( now in the Louvre ), flanked by a Flora and a Dryad ( in the Tuileries Gardens ).

The classical statements among 17th century continental theologians include Johannes Cocceius ( c. 1603-1669 ) in The Doctrine of the Covenant and Testament of God ( Summa doctrinae de foedere et testamento dei, 1648 ), Francis Turretin ( 1623 – 1687 ) in his Institutes of Elenctic Theology, and Hermann Witsius ( 1636 – 1708 ) in The Economy of the Covenants Between God and Man.

Between 1706 and 1708, Woodes and Sarah Rogers had a son and two daughters.

Between 1704 and 1708 he worked at the Conservatorio Sant ´ Onofrio, but from 1705 to 1740 he was based at the Conservatorio della Pietà d ` Turchini, where his pupils included Leonardo Leo, Francesco Feo, Giuseppe de Majo, Niccolo Jommelli, Nicola Sala, Michele de Falco, Carmine Giordani as well as his own son Lorenzo Fago.

Prince George's County was named after Prince George of Denmark ( 1653 – 1708 ), husband of Queen Anne of Great Britain and brother of King Christian V of Denmark and Norway.

The Church of the Brethren is a Christian denomination with origins in the Schwarzenau Brethren ( ' Schwarzenau New Baptists ') that was organized in 1708 by Alexander Mack in Schwarzenau, Germany.

In this country retirement he began his extensive work entitled Origines Ecclesiasticae, or Antiquities of the Christian Church, the first volume of which appeared in 1708 and the tenth and last in 1722.

The story of Sophonisba also served as subject for works by John Marston ( 1606 ), David Murray ( 1610 ), Nathaniel Lee ( 1676 ), Daniel Caspar von Lohenstein ( 1680 ), Henry Purcell ( 1685 ), Antonio Caldara ( 1708 ), Leonardo Leo ( 1718 ), Luca Antonio Predieri ( 1722 ), James Thomson ( 1729 ), Niccolò Jommelli ( 1746 ), Baldassare Galuppi ( 1747, 1764 ), Tommaso Traetta ( 1762 ), Antonio Boroni ( 1764 ), Christopher Gluck ( 1765 ), Maria Teresa Agnesi ( 1765 ), Mattia Vento ( 1766 ), François Joseph Lagrange-Chancel, revised by Voltaire ( 1770 ), Christian Gottlob Neefe ( 1776 ), António Leal Moreira ( 1783 ), Joseph Joaquín Mazuelo ( 1784 ), Vittorio Alfieri ( 1789 ), Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi ( 1802 ), Marcos Portugal ( 1803 ), Ferdinando Paer ( 1805 ), Vincenzo Federici ( 1805 ), Luigi Petrali ( 1844 ), Emanuel Geibel ( 1869 ), Jeronim de Rada ( 1892 ), Giuseppe Brunati ( 1904 ), Dimitrie Cuclin ( 1945 ), Vasco Graça Moura ( 1993 ), and others.

It wasn't until 1708 when a German potter in Meissen discovered the Chinese process, that European potteries came into being.

* 1708 – Georg Reutter II, Austrian composer ( d. 1772 )

* 1623 – Fran &# 231 ; ois de Laval, French bishop ( d. 1708 )

* 1646 – Jules Hardouin Mansart, French architect ( d. 1708 )

* 1328 – The House of Gonzaga seizes power in the Duchy of Mantua, and will rule until 1708.

In 1708 Peter sent Alexei to Smolensk to collect provender and recruits, and after that to Moscow to fortify it against Charles XII of Sweden.

* 1653 – Prince George of Denmark, prince consort of Anne of England ( d. 1708 )

After visiting Venice and Urbino in 1707, Scarlatti took up his duties in Naples again in 1708, and remained there until 1717.

This became the dominant form in the Restoration, when composers such as Henry Purcell ( 1659 – 1695 ) and John Blow ( 1649 – 1708 ) wrote elaborate examples for the Chapel Royal with orchestral accompaniment.

Matthew Henry ( 1708 ) believed Abaddon to be the antichrist, while Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary ( 1871 ) and Henry H. Halley ( 1922 ) identified the angel as Satan.

According to William Derham, during the severe winters of 1703 and 1708 the ice cover permeated as far as the Danish straits, parts of the Gulf of Bothnia and Gulf of Finland, in addition to coastal fringes in more southerly locations such as the Gulf of Riga.

The expression " Common Era " can be found as early as 1708 in English, and traced back to Latin usage among European Christians to 1615, as vulgaris aerae, and to 1635 in English as Vulgar Era.

When Harley was ousted from the ministry in 1708 Defoe continued writing it to support Godolphin, then again to support Harley and the Tories in the Tory ministry of 1710 to 1714.

* 1708 – Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor ( d. 1765 )

* 1666 – Guru Gobind Singh, Sikh guru ( d. 1708 )

In 1708, Guru Gobind Singh vested spiritual authority in the Guru Granth Sahib ( the Sikh scriptures ) as the eternal Guru and hence Sikh Dharma acknowledges the end of human Guruship.

Under King Agaja ( ruled 1708 – 1732 ), the kingdom conquered Allada, where the ruling family originated.

This caused Denmark, in 1708, to take the islands and trading monopoly back to central government.

* 1650 – Anne-Jules, French general ( d. 1708 )

* 1708 – Egidio Duni, Italian composer ( d. 1775 )

The military regiment was created in 1708.

The military rule over the island which began from 1708 dissolved in 1859 and Puerto de Cabras ( now Puerto del Rosario ) became entirely the new capital.

The church was built in 1708 in Baroque style and contains some curious paintings by local artists.

The first child of Augustine Washington ( 1694 – 1743 ) and his second wife, Mary Ball Washington ( 1708 – 1789 ), George Washington was born on their Pope's Creek Estate near present-day Colonial Beach in Westmoreland County, Virginia.

Around 1707 – 1708 he entered the service of Duke Johann Wilhelm of Saxe-Eisenach, becoming Konzertmeister on 24 December 1708 and Secretary and Kapellmeister in August 1709.

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