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* 1709 – Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland, English mistress of Charles II of England ( b. 1640 )
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* 1709 – Bartolomeu de Gusmão demonstrates the lifting power of hot air in an audience before the King of Portugal in Lisbon, Portugal
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.
* 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.
* 1709 – Franz Xaver Richter, Austro-Moravian singer, violinist, composer, conductor and music theoretician ( d. 1789 )
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.
* 1709 – Alexander Selkirk is rescued after being shipwrecked on a desert island, inspiring the book Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe.
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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* Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland ( 1640 – 1709 ): first official mistress at the court of King Charles II of England
By Barbara née Villiers ( 1641 – 1709 ), wife of Roger Palmer, 1st Earl of Castlemaine ; created Duchess of Cleveland in her own right
Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland, Countess of Castlemaine, also known as Lady Castlemaine ( – 9 October 1709 ) was an English courtesan and perhaps the most notorious of the many mistresses of King Charles II of England, by whom she had five children, all of which were acknowledged and subsequently ennobled.
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* Charles Palmer, later FitzRoy ( 1662 – 1730 ), styled Lord Limerick and later Earl of Southampton, created Duke of Southampton ( 1675 ), later 2nd Duke of Cleveland ( 1709 )
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The flat top is decorated by a trophy bearing the marble bust of Louis XIV looted by John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough | Marlborough from Tournai in 1709, weighing 30 tons.
Edward Hyde, the only child of Henry, Viscount Cornbury ( 1638 – 1709 ), eldest son of the 1st Earl of Clarendon, and the former Theodosia Capell ( 1640 – 1662 ), daughter of Arthur Capell, 1st Baron Capell of Hadham and sister of the 1st Earl of Essex, he was the nephew of Lady Anne Hyde, Duchess of York, wife of the future King James II.
He married Elizabeth Colyear, the daughter of Lieutenant-General Walter Colyear ( brother of the 1st Earl of Portmore ), in January 1709.
Sir Thomas Prendergast, 1st Baronet, who was killed in action at the Battle of Malplaquet in 1709, and Penelope Cadogan, sister of William Cadogan, 1st Earl Cadogan.
In 1694, however, it was revived in favour of another Henry Herbert ( 1654 – 1709 ), son of Sir Henry Herbert ( 1595 – 1673 ), brother of the 1st Lord Herbert of Cherbury.
** John Murray, Marquess of Tullibardine ( 1684 – 1709 ) ( eldest son of the 1st Duke ; died unmarried )
* Elizabeth ( June 1690 – August 1774 ), married Lord Edward Drummond, son of James Drummond, 4th Earl of Perth and Jacobite 1st Duke of Perth, in November 1709, no children
* William Courtenay, 7th Earl of Devon, 1st Viscount Courtenay ( 11 February 1709 / 1710 – 16 May 1762 ) ( created Viscount Courtenay 1762 )
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