* 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

* 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 )

* 1709 – Abraham a Sancta Clara, Austrian preacher ( b. 1644 )

* 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.

* December 5 – Hermann Anton Gelinek, organist and violinist ( born 1709 )

* Francis Anton od Harrach 1709 – 1727

* 1709 – Georg Steller, German naturalist ( d. 1746 )

* 1709 – Georg Gebel ( the younger ), German musician and composer ( d. 1753 )

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

" German Immigration to Pennsylvania, 1709 to 1820 ," Journal of Interdisciplinary History Vol.

* Johann Friedrich Schweitzer, also known as John Frederick Helvetius ( 1625 – 1709 ), a Dutch physician and alchemical writer of German extraction

Becoming German: The 1709 Palatine Migration to New York.

Johann Georg Gmelin ( 8 August 1709 – 20 May 1755 ) was a German naturalist, botanist and geographer.

* German chemist Andreas Sigismund Marggraf ( 1709 – 1782 ) is credited with describing zinc as a separate metal.

* November 14-Georg Steller, German naturalist ( born 1709 )

* Johann Georg Gmelin ( 1709 – 1755 ), a German naturalist ; explorer of Siberia, author of Flora Siberica

In the early eighteenth century, the publication of Dezallier d ' Argenville, La théorie et la pratique du jardinage ( 1709 ) was translated into English and German, and was the central document for the later formal gardens of Continental Europe.

* Jean Mabillon: De re diplomatica ( 1709 )-Digital Reproduction ( website in German )

Subsequent editions of Nieuwe Vestingbouw appeared in Dutch ( 1702, and frequently afterwards ), English ( London, 1705 ), French ( Wesel, 1705 ), and German ( Düsseldorf, 1709 ).

By 1709 SPCK was spreading further afield: a printing press and trained printer were sent out to Tranquebar in East India to assist in the production of the first translation of the Bible into Tamil done by the German Lutheran missionaries Bartholomaeus Ziegenbalg and Heinrich Pluetschau from the Danish-Halle Mission.

Andreas Sigismund Marggraf ( 3 March 1709 – 7 August 1782 ) was a German chemist from Berlin, then capital of the Margraviate of Brandenburg, and a pioneer of analytical chemistry.

The German Army Group North buried 1709 men in Estonia in 24 July – 10 August 1944.

It was founded at the beginning of the 18th century by Giovanni Maria Farina ( German: Johann Maria Farina ), an Italian perfume maker who started his business in 1709.