* 1664 – Fran &# 231 ; ois Louis, Prince of Conti, French general ( d. 1709 )

* 1709 – Bartolomeu de Gusmão demonstrates the lifting power of hot air in an audience before the King of Portugal in Lisbon, Portugal

* 1709 – Hermann Anton Gelinek, German monk and musician ( d. 1779 )

* 1624 – François de la Chaise, French priest ( d. 1709 )

He afforded refuge in Ottoman territory to Charles XII of Sweden ( 1682 – 1718 ) after the Swedish defeat at the hands of Peter I of Russia ( 1672 – 1725 ) in the Battle of Poltava of 1709.

* 1709 – Meidingnu Pamheiba is crowned King of Manipur.

* 1709 – Charles Collé, French dramatist and songwriter ( d. 1783 )

* Principality of Anhalt-Harzgerode 1635 – 1709

* Aphorismi de cognoscendis et curandis morbis ( Leiden, 1709 ), on which his pupil and assistant, Gerard van Swieten ( 1700 – 1772 ) published a commentary in 5 vols.

* Thierry Ruinart ( 1657 – 1709 )

* 1709 – Franz Xaver Richter, Austro-Moravian singer, violinist, composer, conductor and music theoretician ( d. 1789 )

* 1646 – Robert Bolling, English settler in Virginia ( d. 1709 )

* 1709 – Louise Élisabeth d ' Orléans, queen consort of Spain ( d. 1742 )

Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit ( 24 May 1686 – 16 September 1736 ) was a Dutch-German-Polish physicist, engineer, and glass blower who is best known for inventing the alcohol thermometer ( 1709 ) and the mercury thermometer ( 1714 ), and for developing a temperature scale now named after him.

* 1784 – Samuel Johnson, English writer and lexicographer ( b. 1709 )

* 1709 – Alexander Selkirk is rescued after being shipwrecked on a desert island, inspiring the book Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe.

* 1709 – Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, Japanese shogun ( b. 1646 )

* 1709 – Jacques de Vaucanson, French inventor ( d. 1782 )

* 1646 – Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, Japanese shogun ( d. 1709 )

* 1709 – François Louis, Prince of Conti, French general ( b. 1664 )

* Lady Anne Gordon ( 1675 – 1709 ), married Alexander Montgomerie, 9th Earl of Eglinton

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.

* 1709 – Peter the Great defeats Charles XII of Sweden at the Battle of Poltava.

This was followed by Abraham Darby, who made great strides using coke to fuel his blast furnaces at Coalbrookdale in 1709.

In 1709, Abraham Darby I established a coke-fired blast furnace to produce cast iron.

The successful substitution of coke for charcoal is widely attributed to Abraham Darby in 1709.

In 1709 Abraham Darby I, who had trained as an apprentice in Birmingham and worked in Bristol for the Birmingham ironmonger Sampson Lloyd, moved to Coalbrookdale in Shropshire and established the first blast furnace to successfully smelt iron with coke.

* Abraham Darby, who took over the ironworks at Coalbrookdale in 1709, was descended from Dudd's older full sister ( also the daughter of Elizabeth Tomlinson ).

It remained derelict until the arrival of Abraham Darby I in 1709.

In 1709, Abraham Darby I rebuilt Coalbrookdale Furnace, and used coke as his fuel.

Together with his stepbrother Abraham Winands, Tessin actively took part in his father's work, and when Tessin inherited his father's position, he asked to share it with Winands and the two would keep working side by side until the death of Winands in 1709.

Abraham a Sancta Clara ( July 2, 1644 – December 1, 1709 ), Austrian divine, was born at Kreenheinstetten, near Messkirch.

:* Rostov Wonderworkers: Bishop Leontius ( 1073 ); Archimandrite Abraham the wonderworker ( 1073-1077 ); Bishop Isaiah, wonderworker ( 1090 ); Prince Basil ( 1238 ); Bishop Ignatius ( 1288 ); Peter, Tsarevich of Ordynsk ( 1290 ); Bishop James ( 1391 ); Archbishop Theodore ( 1394 ); Blessed Isidore, Fool-for-Christ ( 1474 ); Blessed John of the Hair-Shirt ( the Merciful ), Fool-for-Christ ( 1580 ); Monk Irenarchus the Hermit ( 1616 ); Metropolitan Demetrius ( 1709 );

In 1709 the house was bought by Abraham Elton, a merchant from Bristol.

Under the Barrier Treaty of 1709, the Dutch gained the right to garrison Namur, although the subsequent Treaty of Utrecht of 1713 gave control of the formerly Spanish Netherlands to the Austrian House of Habsburg.

In 1784, van Swieten proposed that the Austrian Empire should have a copyright law ; such a law had already been in effect in England since 1709 ( see: History of copyright ).

After studying for the Presbyterian ministry in London, and also at Utrecht and Leiden, he took license as a preacher in 1709, but was not successful.

* 1709 – Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland, English mistress of Charles II of England ( b. 1640 )

* October 28 – Charles Somerset, 4th Duke of Beaufort ( b. 1709 )

* January 5 – Elizabeth of Russia ( b. 1709 )

** Wilhelmine of Bayreuth, daughter of Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia ( b. 1709 )

* August 24 – Thomas Alcock, English clergyman ( b. 1709 )

* December 13 – Samuel Johnson, English writer and lexicographer ( b. 1709 )

* January 12 – Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange, regent of Friesland ( b. 1709 )

* November 14 – Georg Wilhelm Steller, German naturalist ( b. 1709 )

* March 7 – Frantisek Benda, composer ( b. 1709 )

Chikamatsu also wrote plays for the kabuki theatre between 1684 and 1695, most of which were intended to be performed by a famous actor of the day, Sakata Tōjūrō ( b. 1647, d. 1709 ).

* September 12 – Franz Xaver Richter, composer ( b. 1709 )

* November 3 – Charles Collé, songwriter ( b. 1709 )

( b. 1709 )

* Lord Seymour Beauclerk ( b. 24 June 1708 – c. 1709 )

* William Boyd, 4th Earl of Kilmarnock ( b. 1709 – 1746 ) ( attainted / forfeit 1746 )

Some members of the family followed Major General Joachim Daniel von Jauch ( 1688 – 1754 ) as officers into the Saxon and Polish army, two of them, Franz Georg Jauch ( b. 1681 ) and Heinrich Georg Jauch ( b. 1709 ), serving as lieutenant colonels – colonels in relation to the other regiments ( Linienregimenter – in the Royal Guard of King Augustus II the Strong and King Augustus III of Poland.