Using these new tactics and the support of authors, the Company petitioned Parliament again in both 1707 and 1709 to introduce a bill providing for copyright.

In 1709 there were about 15, 000 personnel enrolled in the common fleet ; of these 10, 000 were Norwegian.

Tsuramoto Tashiro compiled these commentaries from his conversations with Tsunetomo from 1709 to 1716 ; however, it was not published until many years afterwards.

He was ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to the States-General from 1709 to 1711, taking part during these years in the negotiations which preceded the conclusion of the Treaty of Utrecht.

The first known game in which the teams use county names is in 1709 but there can be little doubt that these sort of fixtures were being arranged long before that.

A humorous account of these proceedings is given in The Tatler, No. 99, 26 November 1709, in which Rich, depicted under the name of Divito, is said to " have wounded all adversaries with so much skill that men feared even to be in the right against him ".

Louis XIV handed him a sword of honour in 1694, and made him a nobleman in 1709, with the motto Dedit haec insignia virtus (" Bravery awarded these honours ").

The combination of these two insights was to lead to Darby's development of the coke-fuelled blast furnace in 1709.

In 1709, the Allies attempted three invasions of France, but two were so minor as to be merely diversionary.

Historically Scotland and England had separate coinage ; the last Scottish coins were struck in 1709 shortly after union with England.

After 15 September 1709 no further silver coins were ever struck in Scotland.

Frederik IV and August II were forced out of the alliance in 1700 and 1706 respectively, but re-joined it in 1709.

562 ); Eustathius ( Commentaries § 1709 ) states that they were two, Aglaopheme and Thelxiepeia.

The remaining nuns were forcibly removed in 1709 and dispersed among various other French convents and the buildings were razed in 1709.

There were numerous rebellions against slavery and serfdom, most often in conjunction with Cossack uprisings, such as the uprisings of Ivan Bolotnikov ( 1606 – 1607 ), Stenka Razin ( 1667 – 1671 ), Kondraty Bulavin ( 1707 – 1709 ), and Yemelyan Pugachev ( 1773 – 1775 ), often involving hundreds of thousands and sometimes millions.

Other expeditions were sent out in 1708, 1709 and 1711 with considerable bloodshed but little success.

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:

From the late 17th to early 18th centuries, several new towns were incorporated in western Connecticut and added to Fairfield County, namely Danbury ( 1687 ), Ridgefield ( 1709 ), Newtown ( 1711 ), and New Fairfield ( 1740 ).

) The Dutch residents who attended this church names appear in the early records and grave stones dating from 1709 ( early records were written in the Dutch language.

Other artists who were commissioned to record the appearance of the gardens were England's first landscape painter George Lambert ( 1700 – 1765 ), the French painter Jacques Rigaud ( 1681 – 1754 ) and the cartographer John Rocque ( 1709 – 1762 ) who produced an engraved survey of Chiswick in 1736 showing the Villa and many of its garden buildings.

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.

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.

In its heyday, between 1709 and 1859 Swineford had an active brass and copper industry around the Swineford Lock which were served by the river which also provided water power for the cloth industry, as did the River Boyd, a tributary which flows into the Avon near Bitton.

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.

Ferry services from Rock House on the Wirral – that is, Rock Ferry – were first recorded in 1709.

After the death of Henry III Jules de Bourbon, prince de Condé in 1709, the family were in regular attendance at court.

Charles XII, assisted by the Royal Navy and the Dutch Navy, first landed in Humlebaek north of Copenhagen and forced Denmark-Norway to leave the alliance in August 1700 ( until 1709 ).

In 1709, the regiment assisted in the protracted Siege of Tournai, which capitulated in September.

Handel's 1709 opera, Agrippina with a libretto by Vincenzo Grimani.

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

In Ireland the oath was imposed of state office holders, teachers and lawyers, and on clergy of the established church in from 1703, the following year it was on all Irish voters and from 1709 it can be demanded from any adult male by a magistrate.

In 1709 he became professor of botany and medicine, and in that capacity he did good service, not only to his own university, but also to botanical science, by his improvements and additions to the botanic garden of Leiden, and by the publication of numerous works descriptive of new species of plants.

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

In 1709 Defoe authored a rather lengthy book entitled, The History Of The Union Of Great Britain ; an Edinburgh publication printed by the Heirs of Anderson.

The British Parliament first guaranteed diplomatic immunity to foreign ambassadors in 1709, after Count Andrey Matveyev, a Russian resident in London, had been subjected to verbal and physical abuse by British bailiffs.

In 1709 it was besieged, taken by storm on February 2, 1710 by Russian troops with support of Prussian artillery.

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

He replaced mandatory military service among the middle class with an annual tax, established primary schools, and resettled East Prussia ( which had been devastated by the plague in 1709 ).

( Fort Albany was again unsuccessfully attacked in 1709 by a small French and Indian force.

This was followed by Abraham Darby, who made great strides using coke to fuel his blast furnaces at Coalbrookdale in 1709.

Introduced fauna by humans include rats and goats, which castaway Alexander Selkirk survived on during his four year stay from 1705 to 1709 ; his travails provided the inspiration for Daniel Defoe's novel Robinson Crusoe.

* 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.

The current Afghan military originates in 1709 when the Hotaki dynasty was established in Kandahar followed by the Durrani Empire.

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.

The French clergy managed to temporarily escape capitation assessment by promising to pay a total sum of 4 million livres per annum in 1695, and then obtained permanent exemption in 1709 with a lump sum payment of 24 million livres.

Using a cloaked ship, the Romulans broke the treaty of 2160 by attacking several Federation outposts, circa stardate 1709. 21, in the year 2266 (" Balance of Terror ").

Defoe's A Review, published on 3 December 1709 and demanding " a Law in the present Parliament ... for the Encouragement of Learning, Arts, and Industry, by securing the Property of Books to the Authors or Editors of them ", was followed by How's Some Thoughts on the Present State of Printing and Bookselling, which hoped that Parliament " might think fit to secure Property in Books by a Law ".