The result was that Arbuthnot used his leverage as friend and physician to Prince George, whose money was paying for the publication, to force Flamsteed to allow it out, albeit with serious errors, in 1712.

John Bull originated in the creation of Dr John Arbuthnot in 1712, and was popularised first by British print makers.

Arbuthnot created Bull in his pamphlet Law is a Bottomless Pit ( 1712 ).

The group was founded in 1712 and lasted until the death of the founders, starting in 1732 and ending in 1745, with Pope and Swift being the culturally most prominent authors.

His opposition to the doctrine of non-resistance brought him into conflict with the Tory ministry of 1712 and with Swift, but he never entered into personal controversy.

The Bandbox Plot of November 4, 1712 was an attempt on the life of Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford, the then British Lord Treasurer, which was foiled by the perspicacity of Jonathan Swift ( author of “ Gulliver ’ s Travels ”), who happened to be visiting the Earl of Oxford.

The town included a much larger area than the present city, with various outlying parts becoming independent towns over the years: Newton ( originally Cambridge Village, then Newtown ) in 1688, Lexington ( Cambridge Farms ) in 1712, and both West Cambridge ( originally Menotomy ) and Brighton ( Little Cambridge ) in 1807.

** Thomas Pelham, 1st Baron Pelham ( 1653 – 1712 ) and his sons, both Prime Ministers of Great Britain

In 1712 a dispute about the ownership of the Gawsworth estate culminated in a duel, in which both the combatants were killed.

Two French writers of eminence borrowed the title of Lucian ’ s most famous collection ; both Fontenelle ( 1683 ) and Fénelon ( 1712 ) prepared Dialogues des morts (" Dialogues of the Dead ").

For example, in 1712 the witch trial of Jane Wenham had the public's interest, and one partner wrote a pamphlet exonerating her, while another condemned her, and both pamphlets were sold at all three shops.

Through the defeat of the Catholic hegemony over Switzerland and the end of the lengthy religious disputes that had riven the Confederacy, the 11 August 1712 Peace of Aarau () established confessional parity, allowing both religions to coexist in legal equality — a concept relatively common to the Holy Roman Empire since the Peace of Westphalia in 1648.

In October 1712 he was created a Knight of the Garter, making him the only Non-Royal to be a knight of both Thistle and Garter.

The poet John Milton popularised both Hobson and the phrase, twice commemorating him in epitaphs, and in issue 509 of Addison and Richard Steele The Spectator from 1712.

Upon the death of their father on 27 February 1712, he and his brother Azim-ush-Shan both declared themselves emperor and conducted a struggle for the succession.

* the Croatian-Hungarian Compromise of 1868 on the relations between the Kingdom of Dalmatia, Croatia and Slavonia and the Kingdom of Hungary, grounded on the legal traditions of both states and the Pragmatic Sanction of 1712 ;

The division between the northern and southern governments became complete in 1712, but both colonies remained in the hands of the same group of proprietors.

The division of the colony into North and South was complete by 1712, although the same proprietors continued to control both colonies.

The division between the northern and southern governments became complete in 1712, but both colonies remained in the hands of the same group of proprietors.

The public was eager to embrace both colourful criminals ( e. g. Jack Sheppard and the entirely upper-class gang called the " Mohocks " in 1712 ) and valiant crime-fighters.

In 1712, two years before the death of Queen Anne, at a time when both parties were making secret overtures to the Old Pretender, Centlivre took an explicit pro-Hanoverian position in public.

The Korean claim is partly based on what is perceived ( on the Korean side ) to be an ambiguity in the 1712 boundary agreement between the Qing Dynasty ( which ruled China at the time ) and the Joseon Dynasty ( which ruled Korea at the time ); this actually did not become an issue again until about 150 years after the agreement was approved by both parties, when Manchuria and Gando was opened to Han Chinese migration by the Qing.

On 17 June 1712, the church was consecrated by the Bishop of Chester and was dedicated to Saint Anne, the Virgin Mary's mother, which was a compliment both to the founder and to the reigning monarch, Queen Anne.

By now Oxford and St John ( Viscount Bolingbroke since 1712 ) – absorbed entirely by their mutual enmity and political squabbling – had effectively wrecked the Tory administration.

In 1712 he collaborated with John Morphew, a Tory, to cash in on the excitement over the Henry Sacheverell controversy.

The cantata celebrates Queen Anne's birthday, and the accomplishment of the Treaty of Utrecht ( negotiated by the Tory ministry of Anne in 1712 ) to end the War of the Spanish Succession.

Educated at Eton and at Christ Church, Oxford, he entered parliament in 1710 and became Secretary at War in the Tory ministry in 1712 and Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1713.

Moscow ceased to be Russia's capital when Peter the Great moved his government to the newly-built Saint Petersburg on the Baltic coast in 1712.

In 1712, Sukjong's government worked with the Qing Dynasty in China to define the national borders between the two countries at the Yalu and Tumen Rivers.

There was a single government of the Carolinas based in Charleston until 1712, when a separate government ( under the Lords Proprietors ) was set up for North Carolina.

There is a common legend that in 1713 a cock boy named Humphrey Potter, whose duty it was to open and shut the valves of an engine he attended, made the engine self-acting by causing the beam itself to open and close the valves by suitable cords and catches ( known as the " potter cord "); however the plug tree device ( the first form of valve gear ) was very likely established practice before 1715 and is clearly depicted in the earliest known images of Newcomen engines by Henry Beighton 1717 ( believed by Hulse to depict the 1714 Griff colliery engine ) and by Thomas Barney ( 1719 ) ( depicting the 1712 Dudley Castle engine ).

On 15 November 1712, Hamilton fought a celebrated duel with Charles Mohun, Lord Mohun in the Hyde Park, London, in an episode narrated in Thackeray ’ s The History of Henry Esmond.

Charterhouse early established a reputation for excellence in hospital care and treatment, thanks in part to Henry Levett, M. D., an Oxford graduate who joined the school as physician in 1712.

In 1716 he was raised to the Peerage of Great Britain as Baron of Battersea, in the County of Surrey, and Viscount St John, with remainder to his second and third sons, as his eldest son Henry St John had already been created Baron St John, of Lydiard Tregoze in the County of Wilts, and Viscount Bolingbroke in 1712 see below ).

* William Henry Dawson, 1st Viscount Carlow ( 1712 – 1779 )

An earlier Barony of Burton was created in the Peerage of Great Britain in 1712 for Henry Paget, who one year later succeeded his father as 7th Baron Paget of Beaudesert.

* Henry Killigrew ( died 1712 ), an admiral

If this is true, the name was perhaps chosen to reflect the playwright Charles Johnson, who had an unsuccessful play with The Successful Pyrate in 1712, which glamorized the career of Henry Avery and had been something of a scandal for seeming to praise a criminal.

* Geographicae Veteris Scriptores Graeci minores ( 1698 – 1712 ) containing the works and fragments of 21 authors and the learned, though diffuse, dissertations of Henry Dodwell.

* Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke 24 October 1712 – 1714

The musical setting, previously attributed to Henry Purcell, and probably for the London revival of 1712, was very probably by John Weldon.

Had her husband Louis-Joseph not died in 1712, and had the new king of Spain Felipe V died by then, as well as his first son Luis Fernando, then Louis Joseph could have been – because of his descent from a legitimation made by Henry IV on Louis-Joseph " royal descent " ancestor, albeit being born out of wedlock from Madame d ’ Estrées – an acceptable candidate for the diplomats of the European powers involved in the Spanish Succession War.

Early in the 18th century, John Hylton ( died 1712 ), the second son of Henry Hylton, de jure 16th Baron Hylton, gutted the interior to form a three-storeyed block ( one room on each floor ).

Batheaston House was built in 1712 for Henry Walters ( 1667 – 1753 ) a wealthy clothiers who succeeded to the property of Batheaston through his grandfather, Henry Blanchard.

* Henry Hylton, de jure 16th Baron Hylton ( 1637 – 1712 )