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.

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 ).

Early editors of Shakespeare's works, beginning with Nicholas Rowe ( 1709 ) and Lewis Theobald ( 1733 ), combined material from the two earliest sources of Hamlet available at the time, Q2 and F1.

This was followed by Abraham Darby, who made great strides using coke to fuel his blast furnaces at Coalbrookdale 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.

* 1707-1709 — Loya jirga was gathered by Mir Wais Hotak at Kandahar in 1707, but according to Ghulam Mohammad Ghobar it was gathered in Manja in 1709.

* Manuscript scans at Waseda University Library: 1709, 1858, unknown

King Charles XII of Sweden fled to the Ottoman Empire following his defeat against the Russians at the Battle of Poltava in 1709.

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.

This led to the Grand Alliance Pyrrhic victory at the Battle of Malplaquet ( 1709 ) and a Two Crowns victory at the Battle of Villaviciosa ( 1710 ).

* Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland ( 1640 – 1709 ): first official mistress at the court of King Charles II of England

The Russians won decisively at the Battle of Poltava in June 1709, capturing much of the exhausted Swedish army.

Elizabeth, the second-oldest surviving daughter of Peter I of Russia and Catherine I of Russia, was born at Kolomenskoye, near Moscow, on 18 December 1709 ( O. S .).

The word “ club ,” in the sense of an association to promote good-fellowship and social intercourse, became common in England at the time of Tatler and The Spectator ( 1709 – 1712 ).

German-Swiss pathologist Edwin Klebs is sometimes noted for using the word " pseudohermaphroditism " in his taxonomy of intersexuality in 1876, although the word is clearly not his invention as is sometimes reported ; the history of the word " pseudohermaphrodite ," and the corresponding desire to separate " true " hermaphrodites from " false ," " spurious ," or " pseudo " hermaphrodites, dates back to at least 1709, when Dutch anatomist Frederik Ruysch used it in a publication describing a subject with testes and a mostly female phenotype.

It is known that Gusmão was working on this principle at the public exhibition he gave before the Court on August 8, 1709, in the hall of the Casa da Índia in Lisbon, when he propelled a ball to the roof by combustion.

In April 1705 the Swedes returned, and appeared at the monastery again in September 1709.

His shop at Obenmarspforten opened in 1709 and is today the world's oldest fragrance factory.

A group of Yorkshire gentlemen sent Kent for a period of study in Rome, he set sail on 22 July 1709 from Deal, Kent, arriving at Livorno on 15 October.

However, Allied demands at the peace talks in The Hague in April 1709 ( principally concerning Article 37 that bound Louis XIV to hand over Spain within two months or face the renewal of the war ), were rejected by the French in June.

He gained a series of military triumphs including victories at the 1704 Blenheim, the 1706, Ramillies, the 1708 Oudenarde and the 1709 Malplaquet battles.

But Stanisław depended so entirely on the success of Charles ' arms that after the Battle of Poltava ( 1709 ) Stanisław's authority vanished as a dream at the first touch of reality.

During the War of the Spanish Succession, the Duke of Marlborough in 1709 intended to capture Ypres, at the time a major French fortress, but changed his mind due to the long time and effort it had taken him to capture Tournai and apprehension of disease spreading in his army in the poorly drained land around Ypres ( see Battle of Malplaquet ).

In 1709, the General Court received a request to take action on this proposal.

In 1709, Pakubuwana I made another agreement with the VOC in which Mataram would pay annual tribute of wood, indigo and coffee ( planted since 1696 by VOC ’ s request ) in addition to rice.

* 1709 – Samuel Johnson, English author and lexicographer ( d. 1784 )

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.

John Cleland ( baptised 24 September 1709 – 23 January 1789 ) was an English novelist most famous and infamous as the author of Fanny Hill: or, the Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure.

* Samuel Johnson – ( 1709 – 1784 ) author

* Samuel Johnson ( 1709 – 1784 ), English author

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

He had some success as a dramatic author, writing Love in a Hurry ( performed in Dublin about 1709 ) and Pastora, or the Coy Shepherdess, an opera in 1712.

Virtually nothing is known of this author except that he composed a Persian treatise – which is still preserved today – on simple and compound remedies that was written sometime before 1709.

Much of our knowledge about Delarivier Manley is rooted in her insertion of " Delia's story " in the New Atalantis ( 1709 ), and the Adventures of Rivella she published as the biography of the author of the Atalantis with Edmund Curll in 1714.

Her career as an author effectively began with the publication of her New Atalantis in 1709, a work that spotted present British politics on the fabulous Mediterranean Island.

In 1707 – 1709, he substantially revised the legal code ( dasturlamali, aka “ Vakhtang ’ s code ”) which would operate as a basis for the Georgian feudal system up to the Russian annexation.

His long-anticipated rescue occurred on 1 February 1709 by way of the Duke, a privateering ship piloted by William Dampier.

The office of Lord High Admiral passed a number of times in and out of commission until 1709, after which the office was almost permanently in commission ( the last Lord High Admiral being the future King William IV in the early 19th century ).

Illustration of the death of Chiron and Demetrius from Act 5, Scene 2 ; from The Works of Mr. William Shakespeare, edited by Nicholas Rowe ( writer ) | Nicholas Rowe ( 1709 )

Family tradition says that Crockett's father was born on the voyage to America from Ireland, though in fact Crockett's great-grandfather, William David Crockett, was registered as having been born in New Rochelle, New York in 1709.

William Beckford ( 19 December 1709 – 21 June 1770 ) was a well-known political figure in 18th century London, who twice held the office of Lord Mayor of London ( 1762 and 1769 ).

After possibly six months as a captain in the regiment guard in 1708, on 11 February 1709 he joined the Regiment on foot in Anhalt-Zerbst ( No. 8 ) which later changed its name to the Grenadier's Regiment King Frederick William IV of Prussia.

In 1709, the English captains Woodes Rogers, Etienne Courtney, and William Dampier along with a crew of 110, looted Guayaquil and demanded ransom ; however, they suddenly departed without collecting the ransom after an epidemic of yellow fever broke out.

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 Newfoundland, Canada 1709-13 ), French soldier ; he captured Fort William at St. John's, Newfoundland in 1709

This story is false: the bridge was built of oak in 1749 by James Essex the Younger ( 1722 – 1784 ) to the design of the master carpenter William Etheridge ( 1709 – 1776 ), 22 years after Newton died.

From 1701 – 1709 it was the home of the painter William Hogarth who was just a child at that time.

* William Courtenay, 7th Earl of Devon, 1st Viscount Courtenay ( 11 February 1709 / 1710 – 16 May 1762 ) ( created Viscount Courtenay 1762 )

Dolben's two sons died abroad in his lifetime ( William, the elder, whose portrait was painted by Godfrey Kneller in 1709 and engraved by Smith in 1710, dying in 1709, aged 20 ), and Mary, one of his three daughters, died on 24 June 1710, aged 8.

* Hans William Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland ( 1649 – 1709 )

* William Bentinck, 2nd Duke of Portland ( 1709 – 1762 ), eldest son of the 1st Duke

* William Hay, 6th Earl of Kinnoull ( d. 1709 )

* William Stewart, 3rd Viscount Mountjoy ( 1709 – 1769 ), created Earl of Blessington in 1745

* The Works of William Shakespear ( London: Jacob Tonson, 1709 ), first modern edition of the plays.

He studied anatomy in London under William Cowper ( 1666 – 1709 ), and began lecturing anatomy in 1710.

Edward was the son of William ( 1698 – 1756 ) and Mary ( Scull ) ( 1709 – 1790 ) Biddle.

* William Beckford ( politician ) ( 1709 – 1770 ), English businessman, often called " Alderman Beckford ", father of William Thomas