* 1712 – The New York Slave Revolt of 1712 begins near Broadway.

* 1712 – Joshua Barnes, English scholar ( b. 1654 )

* 1682 – Louis, Dauphin of France, Duke of Burgundy ( d. 1712 )

Frederick the Great ( 1712 – 1786 ) was one of Europe's enlightened monarch s.

An Irish translation of the revised prayer book of 1662 was effected by John Richardson ( 1664 – 1747 ) and published in 1712.

* 1685 – Marie-Adélaïde of Savoy, mother of Louis XV of France ( d. 1712 )

* 1712 – Francesco Algarotti, Italian philosopher ( d. 1764 )

* 1712 – February 29 is followed by February 30 in Sweden, in a move to abolish the Swedish calendar for a return to the Old style.

Count Francesco Algarotti ( 11 December 1712 – 3 May 1764 ) was an Italian polymath, philosopher, poet, essayist, anglophile, art critic and art collector.

* 1643 – Johann Kasimir Kolbe von Wartenberg, first Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Prussia ( d. 1712 )

* 1712 – Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, French military commander ( d. 1759 )

Louis XIV ultimately had to relinquish the Electorate of the Palatinate. Frederick II of Prussia | Frederick II, the Great, of Prussia ( 1712 – 1786 ) Afterwards Hungary was reconquered from the Turks ; Austria, under the Habsburgs, developed into a great power.

# 1700 – 1712 Sir Stephen Evans

# 1712 – 1743 Sir Bibye Lake, Sr.

* 1723: Charles William ( 1712 – 1757 )

* 1780 – Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine ( b. 1712 )

* 1625 – Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Italian scientist and astronomer ( d. 1712 )

* 1712 – John Stanley, English composer ( d. 1786 )

* 1712 – King Frederick II of Prussia ( d. 1786 )

* 1654 – Joshua Barnes, English scholar ( d. 1712 )

The French king's great-grandson Louis ( 1710 – 74 ) was, from 1712, the first heir-general of Albert VII.

* 1700 – Sweden introduces its own Swedish calendar, in an attempt to gradually merge into the Gregorian calendar, reverts to the Julian calendar on this date in 1712, and introduces the Gregorian Calendar on this date in 1753.

* 1638 – Richard Simon, French critic ( d. 1712 )

* 1712 – Count Johann Hartwig Ernst von Bernstorff, Danish statesman ( d. 1772 )

* 1712: George I William

* George Frideric Handel ( 1685 – 1759 ) served as Kapellmeister from 1710 to 1712 for George, Elector of Hanover.

* George Grenville ( 1712 – 1770 )

George Grenville ( 14 October 1712 – 13 November 1770 ) was a British Whig statesman who rose to the position of Prime Minister of Great Britain.

George Grenville was born at Wotton House on 15 October 1712.

* Mr. George Grenville ( 1712 – 1741 )

* Johnson, Allen S. A prologue to revolution: the political career of George Grenville ( 1712 – 1770 ).

The result was that Arbuthnot used his leverage as friend and physician to Prince George, whose money was paying for the publication, to force Flamsteed to allow it out, albeit with serious errors, in 1712.

In 1699 legislation was passed to permit the Aire & Calder Navigation which was opened 1703, and the Trent Navigation which was built by George Hayne and opened in 1712.

It was quite popular and was set to music by Reinhard Keiser ( 1712 ), Georg Philipp Telemann ( 1716 ), George Frideric Handel ( 1716 ), Johann Mattheson ( 1718 ), Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel ( 1725 ) and Johann Friedrich Fasch ( 1723 ), among others.

George Anson entered the navy in February 1712, and by rapid steps became lieutenant in 1716, commander in 1722, and post-captain in 1724.

Queen Anne touched the infant ( later Doctor ) Samuel Johnson in 1712, but King George I put an end to the practice as being " too Catholic ".

Rather than considering it as an adjunct to the main body of the building, he constructed it within its west wall, so that it rises above the roof, immediately behind the portico, an arrangement previously used by John James at St George, Hanover Square ( 1712 – 24 ), though James ’ steeple was much less ambitious.

* George Brudenell, later Montagu, 1st Duke of Montagu, 4th Earl of Cardigan ( 1712 – 1790 ) ( created Duke of Montagu in 1766 )

* George Brudenell, later Montagu, 1st Duke of Montagu ( 1712 – 1790 )

* George Montagu, 1st Duke of Montagu ( 1712 – 1790 ), son-in-law of the late 2nd Duke

From 1720 to 1732 he was in London, where for a time his popularity rivaled George Frideric Handel's, who had arrived in London in 1712.

* George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne ( 1666 – 1735 ) created baron in 1712,

* George Montagu, 1st Duke of Montagu, 1st Baron Montagu of Boughton ( 1712 – 1790 )

* 1712 George Frideric Handel settles in London.

In 1712 George Parker of Boringdon Hall, about 2 miles north of Saltram, purchased the manor and in doing so created the dynasty which would reign over Saltram until its days as a private estate were over.

* George Grenville ( 1712 – 1770 ), British politician who served as Prime Minister between 1763 and 1765

A tenant farmer, George Handes ( or Hannes ), found the villa in 1712 when his plough revealed the remains of a Roman pavement dating from the 3rd or 4th century AD.