“ All Fools Day ” ( now known as April Fools Day which falls on 1 April ) was Swift ’ s favorite of holidays and he often used this day to aim his satirically biting wit at non-believers in an attempt to “ make sin and folly bleed .” Disgruntled by Partridge ’ s sarcastic attack about the “ infallible Church ” written in his 1708 issue of Merlinus Almanac, Swift projected carefully 3 letters and one Eulogy as an elaborate plan to “ predict ” Partridge ’ s “ infallible death ” to be revealed on April 1, All Fools Day.

On the approach of the Seven Years ' War, the island of Minorca, which had been a British possession since 1708, when it was captured during the War of the Spanish Succession, was threatened by a French naval attack from Toulon, and was invaded in 1756.

The last straw in the souring relations with Tsar Peter was his refusal to commit any significant force to defend Ukraine against the Polish King Stanislaus Leszczynski, an ally of Charles XII of Sweden, who threatened to attack the Cossack Hetmanate in 1708.

Eugene enhanced his standing during the War of the Spanish Succession where his partnership with the Duke of Marlborough secured victories against the French on the fields of Blenheim ( 1704 ), Oudenarde ( 1708 ), and Malplaquet ( 1709 ); he gained further success in the war as Imperial commander in northern Italy, most notably at the Battle of Turin ( 1706 ).

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.

For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Howard Hawks has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1708 Vine Street.

King Agadja ( 1708 – 1740 ) attempted to end the slave trade by keeping the slaves on plantations producing palm oil, but the European profits on slaves and Dahomey's dependency on firearms were too great.

Fahrenheit visited him in 1708 and improved on the Rømer scale, the result being the familiar Fahrenheit temperature scale still in use today in a few countries.

However, in 1708, when the Whigs obtained a majority, Anne did not call on them to form a government, refusing to accept the idea that politicians could force themselves on her merely because their party had a majority.

Neither an increase on duty on the locally produced arrack nor a duty on all firewood helped reduce the deforestation whilst attempts to reforest the island by governor John Roberts ( 1708 – 1711 ) were not followed up by his immediate successors.

Scalloway on the west coast, which was the capital until 1708, has a population of less than 1, 000.

In the far north, the English on several occasions sent fleets to raid French settlements and destroy fishing stages on Newfoundland, but suffered the loss of St. John's in 1708 / 9 after the French made an overland march from Plaisance.

William Pitt was born at Golden Square, Westminster on 15 November 1708.

Year 1708 ( MDCCVIII ) was a leap year starting on Sunday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Thursday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar.

Translated in to English ( from Latin ) in 1686 and 1708, it tells the story of Hayy, a wild child, raised by a gazelle, without human contact, on a deserted island in the Indian Ocean.

However, as the War of the Spanish Succession went on and became less and less popular with the Tories, Marlborough and Godolphin were forced to rely more and more on the Junto Whigs, so that by 1708 they headed an administration dominated by the Junto.

Born at Halle an der Saale and baptized at Kirche St. Moritz on 7 August 1737, Struensee was the third child of six born to Pietist theologian and minister Adam Struensee ( baptized in Neuruppin on 8 September 1708 – Rendsburg, 20 June 1791 ), Pfarrer (" curate ") in Halle an der Saale in 1732, " Dr. theol.

However, the stresses of the War of the Spanish Succession ( begun in 1701 ) led most of the Tories to withdraw into opposition by 1708, so that Marlborough and Godolphin were heading an administration dominated by the Junto Whigs.

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.

The military regiment was created in 1708.

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

In 1692, as a result of the inheritance of the Palatinate by a Catholic branch of the Wittelsbach family, which threatened to upset the religious balance of the College of Electors, the number of electors was increased to nine, with a seat being granted to the Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, who became known as the Elector of Hanover ( the Reichstag officially confirmed the creation in 1708 ).

The Dukes of Brunswick-Lüneburg were elevated by the Holy Roman Emperor to the rank of Prince-Elector in 1692, and this elevation was confirmed by the Diet in 1708.

However, the actual term " palaeography " was coined ( in Latin ) by Bernard de Montfaucon, a Benedictine monk, in the title of his Palaeographia Graeca ( 1708 ), which remained a standard work in the specific field of Greek palaeography for more than a century.

Following commercial rivalries between the original English East India Company and a New East India Company created in 1698, a new Company was formed in 1708 by amalgamation, and entitled the “ United Company of Merchants of England, trading to the East Indies ”.

The first clinic with the specific intention to facilitate the practical education of medical students was the Nosocomium Academicum, founded in 1708 and located to the Oxenstierna Palace at Riddartorget beside the cathedral ( see illustration above ).

In 1708, the fortress was held by insurgent Cossack Kondraty Bulavin.

In 1708, Tsaritsyn was assigned to Kazan Governorate ; in 1719, to Astrakhan Governorate ; According to the census in 1720, the city's population was 408 people.

The strategy of the Warsaw Pact was dominated by the desire of the Soviet Union to prevent, at all costs, the recurrence of another large scale invasion of its territory by hostile Western powers, akin to those carried out by the Swedish Empire in 1708, Napoleonic France in 1812, the Central Powers during the First World War and most recently by Nazi Germany in 1941.

William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham PC ( 15 November 1708 – 11 May 1778 ), called William Pitt the Elder by historians, was a British Whig statesman who led Britain during the Seven Years ' War ( known as the French and Indian War in the United States ).

During the Rococo era Portraiture was an important component of painting in all countries, but especially in Great Britain, where the leaders were William Hogarth ( 1697 – 1764 ), in a blunt realist style, and Francis Hayman ( 1708 – 1776 ), Angelica Kauffman who was Swiss, ( 1741 – 1807 ), Thomas Gainsborough and Joshua Reynolds ( 1723 – 1792 ), in more flattering styles influenced by Antony Van Dyck ( 1599 – 1641 ).

Allenstein was sacked by Swedish troops in 1655 and 1708 during the Polish-Swedish wars, and the town's population was nearly wiped out in 1710 by epidemics of bubonic plague and cholera.

After the end of the Spanish period following the European wars of the early 18th century, the brief period of Austrian rule ( 1708 – 1717 ) was succeeded by domination by the Piemontese, who then took over the Title of Kingdom of Sardinia ( 1720 – 1861 ).

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.

A succession of European wars expanded his German domains during his lifetime, and in 1708 he was ratified as prince-elector of Hanover.

In July 1739 he made his first contribution to the field of mathematics, pointing out the errors he had detected in L ' analyse démontrée ( published 1708 by Charles René Reynaud ) in a communication addressed to the Académie des Sciences.

One of the earliest recorded media hoaxes is a fake almanac published by Jonathan Swift under the pseudonym of Isaac Bickerstaff in 1708.

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.

For example, Johann Friedrich Gleditsch had published a household lexicon in 1704, and with its third edition of 1708 this had become a form of encyclopedia.

The first English translation by Simon Ockley was published in 1708, and German and Dutch translations were also published at the time.

They had three children together: Richard ( 1708 – 1782 ), an eccentric, playwright and artist whose engravings for Thomas Gray ’ s ‘ A Long Story ’ were published in 1753, and two daughters, one named Johanna.

In 1708, he published The Charitable Surgeon, a feigned book of medical advice on syphilis cures from a pretended physician of public spirit.

Falckner's published works include Grondlycke Onderricht which first appeared in New York during 1708.

The first fossil vertebrae were published twice in 1708 as tangible mementos of the Universal Deluge.

Abridgments of and extracts from the works of More were numerous ; and in 1708 a volume was published for charitable libraries, The Theological Works of the most Pious and Learned Henry More.

: " It first appears as Chalaque in the Portuguese narrative of De Soto's expedition, published originally in 1557, while we find Cheraqui in a French document of 1699, and Cherokee as an English form as early, at least, as 1708.

Jussieu was born in Lyon, the son of Christophe de Jussieu ( or Dejussieu ), an apothecary of some repute, who published a Nouveau traité de la theriaque ( 1708 ).

The first English translation by Simon Ockley was published in 1708, and German and Dutch translations were also published at the time.

The first of the three letters, Predictions for the Year 1708, published in January 1708, predicts, among other things, the death of Partridge by a “ raging fever .” The second letter, The Accomplishment of the First of Mr. Bickerstaff ’ s Predictions, published in March 1708, Swift writes not as Bickerstaff but as a “ man employed in the Revenue ” where he “ confirms ” the imaginary Bickerstaff ’ s prediction.

Playing on Partridge's own ( generally inaccurate ) yearly predictions of deaths of notable individuals, Swift, writing under the pseudonym Isaac Bickerstaff, predicted in a letter published in January 1708 that Partridge himself would die an " infallible death " on March 29 of that year.

With the exception of a Preface to the Sermons of Dr Whichcote, one of the Cambridge Platonists or latitudinarians, published in 1698, Shaftesbury appears to have printed nothing himself till 1708.

The book is the Geometry ( Геометрия / g ' eom ' etr ' ija /), published in Moscow, March 17, 1708.