The same is true of a massive history of the Union which Defoe published in 1709 and which some historians still treat as a valuable contemporary source for their own works.

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

It is likely that Defoe took inspiration for Crusoe from a Scottish sailor named Alexander Selkirk, who was rescued in 1709 after four years on the otherwise uninhabited Juan Fernández Islands ; Defoe usually made use of current events for his plots.

The later Neapolitan operas ( L ' amor volubile e tiranno 1709 ; La principessa fedele 1710 ; Tigrane, 1714, & c .) are showy and effective rather than profoundly emotional ; the instrumentation marks a great advance on previous work, since the main duty of accompanying the voice is thrown upon the string quartet, the harpsichord being reserved exclusively for the noisy instrumental ritornelli.

The poem is only attributed to Gould on slim evidence, as there are figures of speech and metaphors in it that closely resemble those employed by Gould in The Play-House, but it was not collected into his later Works ( 1709 ) and is unusually directed at a single public figure ( where Gould's previous habit had been to attack a sin and provide numerous examples of it rather than to devote a whole poem to the viciousness of a single person ).

However, as Charles XII left Sweden for his lengthy campaigns on the continent in 1700, works on the palace first progressed slowly and following the devastating Battle of Poltava in 1709 came to a new halt.

* Italian philosopher Giambattista Vico delivers his inaugural lecture to the University of Naples, published as his first book, On the Study Methods of Our Time, in 1709.

In the book A New Voyage to Carolina ( 1709 ), the explorer John Lawson wrote the following, stating the ruins of lost colony were still visible:

On 21 May 1709, after speaking to Newton, Bentley announced this arrangement to Cotes: " Sir Isaac Newton ," he said, " will be glad to see you in June, and then put into your hands one part of his book corrected for the press.

The principle of ionic wind propulsion with corona-generated charged particles has been known as from the earliest days of the discovery of electricity, with references dating back to 1709 in a book titled Physico-Mechanical Experiments on Various Subjects by Francis Hauksbee.

Cover of John Lawson's 1709 book

In 1709 Lawson returned to London to oversee the publication of his book, A New Voyage to Carolina.

In 1709 the status of the collection was confirmed when Queen Anne's Copyright Act gave the Keeper of the Library the right to claim a copy of every book published in the British Isles.

Since periodicals were inexpensive to produce, quick to read, and a viable way of influencing public opinion, their numbers increased dramatically after the success of The Athenian Mercury ( flourished in the 1690s but published in book form in 1709 ).

An account of his orphanage, entitled Segensvolle Fußstapfen, ( 1709 ), which subsequently passed through several editions, has also been partially translated, under the title The Footsteps of Divine Providence: or, The bountiful Hand of Heaven defraying the Expenses of Faith.

His eldest son Henry Dodwell the younger ( d. 1784 ) was the author of a pamphlet entitled Christianity not founded on Argument, to which a reply was published by his brother William Dodwell ( 1709 – 1785 ), who was concurrently engaged in a controversy with Conyers Middleton on the subject of miracles.

His famous sermons on the church in danger from the neglect of the Whig ministry to keep guard over its interests were preached, the one at Derby on 15 August 1709, the other at St Paul's Cathedral on 5 November 1709, entitled The Perils of False Brethren, in Church, and State.

In May 1709, he returned to the subject, and printed another letter, entitled, an Essay on the Freedom of Wit and Humour.

It was impugned as bad in point of law by Sir Robert Atkyns ( 1621 – 1709 ) in a tract entitled ' An Enquiry into the Power of dispensing with Penal Statutes.

On August 13, 1709 he signed his play entitled José, salvador de Egipto, and is presumed to have died in the following year.

Berenice ( HWV 38 ) is an opera in three acts by George Frideric Handel to an Italian libretto, written in Italy in 1709 and originally entitled Berenice, regina d ' Egitto ( Berenice, Queen of Egypt ), by Antonio Salvi.

Title page from Daniel Defoe's: The History Of The Union Of Great Britain dated 1709 and printed in Edinburgh by the Heirs of Anderson

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

According to the Babad Tanah Jawi ( or the History of Java ), the monument was a fatal factor for Mas Dana, a rebel who revolted against Pakubuwono I, the king of Mataram in 1709.

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 ).

He developed anticlerical lines of argument in The Natural History of Superstition ( 1709 ), and The Independent Whig, a weekly periodical published in 1720 – 21 with Thomas Gordon.

The reign of Queen Anne ( 1702-1714 ) did not produce any two guinea coins until after the Union of England and Scotland, the coins being produced in 1709, 1711, 1713 and 1714.

In 1708, following the Union of England and Scotland in the previous year, Queen Anne signed the Treason Act 1708, which harmonised the treason laws of both former kingdoms ( effective from July 1709 ).

* was a 90-gun second-rate ship of the line launched in 1680, renamed Union in 1709, rebuilt in 1726 and broken up in 1749.

* Royal William, a 32-gun fifth rate ship of the Royal Scottish Navy, renamed in 1707 following the Act of Union, and sunk in 1709

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

* 1709 – Great Northern War: Battle of Poltava – Peter I of Russia defeats Charles XII of Sweden at Poltava thus effectively ending Sweden's role as a major power in Europe.

Accordingly, King Charles XII of Sweden was welcomed as an ally in the Ottoman Empire following his defeat by the Russians at the Battle of Poltava in 1709 ( part of the Great Northern War of 1700 – 1721.

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* 1709 – Battle of Malplaquet: Great Britain, Netherlands and Austria fight against France.

After Poltava, Peter the Great and Augustus the Strong allied again in the Treaty of Thorn ( 1709 ); Frederick IV of Denmark-Norway with Augustus the Strong in the Treaty of Dresden ( 1709 ); and Russia with Denmark – Norway in the subsequent Treaty of Copenhagen.

The Battle of Malplaquet, fought on 11 September 1709, was one of the main battles of the War of the Spanish Succession, which opposed the Bourbons of France and Spain against an alliance whose major members were the Habsburg Monarchy, Great Britain, the United Provinces and the Kingdom of Prussia.

This was strongly opposed by the people living near the original meeting house in the north, but the dispute was finally settled in 1709 when the Great and General Court divided Andover into two parishes, North and South.

* Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange ( 1709 ‑ 1759 ), daughter of George II of Great Britain

During the Great Northern War the town was burned again in 1707 by Russians and had a plague in 1709.

Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange ( 2 November 1709 – 12 January 1759 ) was the second child and eldest daughter of King George II of Great Britain and his consort, Caroline of Ansbach.

The future Empress Elizabeth Petrovna was born in the palace in 1709, and Tsar Peter the Great spent part of his youth here.

In 1701, during the Great Northern War, the Swedish army invaded Kuldīga Castle and in 1709 it became uninhabitable, but in the 19th century the castle ruins were relocated.

In 1709, a number of years after the War of the Spanish Succession had begun, the regiment deployed to Spain and in 1710 took part in the Battle of Saragossa which ended in a victory for Great Britain against Franco-Spanish forces.

Likewise, Tsar Peter the Great celebrated his 1709 victory over Sweden at the Battle of Poltava and the end of the Great Northern War in 1721.

In 1709 due to financial difficulties caused by the Great Northern War, the project was stopped.

The Regiment participated in the wars, Northern Wars ( 1657 – 1660 ), Scanian War ( 1675 – 1679 ), Great Northern War ( 1709 – 1720 ), First Schleswig War ( 1848 – 1850 ) and Second Schleswig War ( 1864 ).

In 1709 Peter the Great, while passing through Kiev, was struck by the eloquence of Prokopovich in a sermon on the Poltava, and in 1716 summoned him to St Petersburg.

The London marble-cutter Richard Neale spent sixty-four weeks at the palace with nine assistants between 1709 and 1711, carving the main stairwell and screen of the Great Staircase.

He was Keeper of the Privy Seal of Scotland from 1709 to 1713 and served as Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland from 1716 to 1733.