He was one of the most esteemed university teachers and influential writers of his day, and in 1709 he was appointed to the privy council.

* George Moore ( SHK ) ( 1709 – 1787 ), Manx politician

* James Harris ( grammarian ) ( 1709 – 1780 ), English politician and grammarian

John Cole, 1st Baron Mountflorence ( 13 October 1709 – 30 November 1767 ) was an Irish peer and politician.

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

Stephen Crane ( 1709 – July 1, 1780 ) was an American politician from Elizabethtown ( Elizabeth, New Jersey ) who was a delegate to the Continental Congress from 1774 to 1776.

George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton PC ( 17 January 1709 – 24 August 1773 ), known as Sir George Lyttelton, Bt between 1751 and 1756, was a British politician and statesman and a patron of the arts.

* George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton ( 1709 – 1773 ), English politician

James Harris, FRS ( 24 July 1709 – 22 December 1780 ) was an English politician and grammarian.

* John Browne, 1st Earl of Altamont ( c. 1709 – 1776 ), Irish peer and politician

John Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Gower PC ( 10 August 1694 – 25 December 1754 ), known as The Baron Gower from 1709 to 1754, was a British Tory politician, one of the first Tories to enter government in the 18th century.

Gabriel Bonnot de Mably ( Grenoble, 14 March 1709 – 2 April 1785 in Paris ), sometimes known as Abbé de Mably, was a French philosopher and politician.

* Gabriel Bonnot de Mably ( 1709 – 1785 ), French philosopher and politician

Henry Hyde 2nd Earl of Clarendon PC ( 2 June 1638 Westminster – 31 October 1709 Westminster ) was an English aristocrat and politician.

* Sir Thomas Felton, 4th Baronet ( 1649 – 1709 ), English politician

* John Stephenson ( MP ) ( c. 1709 – 1794 ), British merchant and politician

Defoe's immediate inspiration for Crusoe is usually thought to be a Scottish sailor named Alexander Selkirk, who was rescued in 1709 by Woodes Rogers ' expedition after four years on the uninhabited island of Más a Tierra in the Juan Fernández Islands off the Chilean coast.

En route, the expedition rescued Selkirk, finding him on Juan Fernandez Island on 1 February 1709.

After leaving Juan Fernandez on 14 February 1709, the expedition captured and looted a number of small vessels, and launched an attack on the town of Guayaquil, today located in Ecuador.

* Juan Ramón Koenig ( 1623 – 1709 ) Peruvian scientist

The Juan Diego's cloak was housed in this church from 1709 to 1974.

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.

* 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 )

* 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.

*" Aphorismi de Cognoscendis et Curandis Morbis " ( 1709 ; “ Aphorisms on the Recognition and Treatment of Diseases ”)

* 1709 – Jacques de Vaucanson, French inventor ( d. 1782 )

* 1709 – Dom Bédos de Celles, Benedictine monk best known for being a master pipe organ builder ( d. 1779 )

* 1635 – Luis Manuel Fernández de Portocarrero, Spanish Archbishop ( d. 1709 )

In 1709, these commissioners were assisted by inspecteurs de police ( police inspectors ).

* August 25 – François de la Chaise, French churchman ( d. 1709 )

** Anne de Rohan-Chabot, short term mistress of Louis XIV of France ( d. 1709 )

* January 8 – Luis Manuel Fernández de Portocarrero, Spanish Archbishop of Toledo ( d. 1709 )

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This map from a 1773 atlas, based on the: commons: File: CEM-44-La-Chine-la-Tartarie-Chinoise-et-le-Thibet-1734-Amur-2572. jpg | earlier work by Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d ' Anville | d ' Anville, who in his turn made use of the information collected by Jesuit missions in China | Jesuits in 1709, asserts the existence of Sakhalin — but only assigns to it the northern half of the island and its northeastern coast ( with Cape Patience, discovered by Maarten Gerritsz Vries | de Vries in 1643 ).

He wrote: Manifesto summario para os que ignoram poderse navegar pelo elemento do ar ( Short Manifesto for those who are unaware that is possible to sail through the element air, 1709 ); and Varios modos de esgotar sem gente as naus que fazem agua ( Several ways of draining, without people, ships that leak water, 1710 ); some of his sermons also have been printed.

Reproduction fac-similé d ' un dessin à la plume de sa description et de la pétition adressée au Jean V. ( de Portugal ) en langue latine et en écriture contemporaine ( 1709 ) retrouvés récemment dans les archives du Vatican du célèbre aéronef de Bartholomeu Lourenco de Gusmão " l ' homme volant " portugais, né au Brésil ( 1685-1724 ) précurseur des navigateurs aériens et premier inventeur des aérostats.

First came the Traité de la connaissance de Dieu et de soi-même ( 1677 ), then the Discours sur l ' histoire universelle ( 1679, published 1682 ), and lastly the Politique tirée de l ' Ecriture Sainte ( 1679, published 1709 ).

* Politique tirée de l ' Écriture sainte ( Politics Drawn from the Very Words of Holy Scripture ) ( 1679-published 1709 )

* Prince Emmanuel Philibert Amadeus of Savoy ( Emanuele Filiberto Amedeo ) ( 1628 – 1709 ), 2nd prince de Carignan, lived in Italy, becoming governor of Ivrea in 1644, and of Asti in 1663.

Dudley again rallied the provincial militias for a planned expedition against Quebec in 1709, but the supporting expedition from England was called off.