He stayed for some years circa 1712 in Venice, where he painted many works for the patron Zaccaria Sagredo.

* Jean-Jacques Rousseau ( 1712 – 1778 ) Swiss political philosopher ; influenced many Enlightenment figures but did not himself believe in primacy of reason and is closer to Romanticism.

Colbert has the honour of having founded the Academy of Sciences ( now part of the Institut de France ), the Paris Observatory, which he employed Claude Perrault to build and brought Giovanni Domenico Cassini ( 1625 – 1712 ) from Italy to superintend, the Academies of Inscriptions and Medals, of Architecture and of Music, the French Academy at Rome, and Academies at Arles, Soissons, Nîmes and many other towns.

He was, however, able to borrow money against future expectations of ecclesiastical preferment as a result of his close friendship with William Wake, then bishop of Lincoln .” Between the summer of 1711 and the Spring of 1712, Wotton appears to have experienced a Mid-life crisis, and he scandalized the neighbourhood on many occasions by being found drunk in public, or else was known to have spent prolonged periods in local brothels.

The first chapel was opened in 1712, one of many to be built for the various Baptist groups during the 18th and 19th centuries.

" His translation was greeted with immense enthusiasm and had soon been translated into many other European languages: English ( a " Grub Street " version appeared in 1706 ); German ( 1712 ); Italian ( 1722 ); Dutch ( 1732 ); and Russian ( 1763 ).

In Germany he published the book Amoenitatum exoticarum ( Lemgo 1712 ) which showed among many other Japanese plants an illustration of a camellia and introduced 23 varieties.

From Englishman Thomas Newcomen's atmospheric engine, of 1712, through major developments by Scottish inventor and mechanical engineer James Watt, the steam engine began to be used in many industrial settings, not just in mining, where the first engines had been used to pump water from deep workings.

* April 6 – The New York Slave Revolt of 1712, one of the first of many such rebellions ( see the article ).

It would never go out of print, and the Augustan age saw many free translations in varying styles, by journalists ( Ned Ward, 1700 and Peter Motteux, 1712 ) as well as novelists ( Tobias Smollett, 1755 ).

Charleston's French Quarter is home to many fine historic buildings, among them, the Pink House Tavern, built around 1712, and the Old Slave Mart, built by Z. B.

The 1712 edition, retitled Le Nouveau cuisinier royal et bourgeois, was increased to two volumes, and was written in a more elaborate style with extensive explanations of technique.

Section of a letter from Francois Xavier d ' Entrecolles about Chinese porcelain manufacturing techniques, 1712, re-published by Jean-Baptiste Du Halde in 1735.

Narrative of the Chinese Embassy to the Khan of the Tourgouth Tartars, in the years 1712, 13, 14, and 15 is a record of the travel to Kalmykia, written by Tulišen, a Manchu official of the Qing Dynasty.

The English title Narrative of the Chinese Embassy to the Khan of the Tourgouth Tartars, in the years 1712, 13, 14, and 15, by the Chinese Ambassador, and published by the Emperor's Authority, at Peking.

Yunreng ( 6 June 1674-27 January 1725 ), born Yinreng, was a Manchu prince of the Qing Dynasty and heir apparent to the Chinese imperial throne for two terms between 1675 and 1712.

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By the middle and late 1800s, Koreans formed a majority of the population living in Gando, and when the Qing opened up Manchuria to Han Chinese migration in the 1870s and Gando in 1881, a large number of Koreans were already living there and this raised a boundary dispute issue that had been negotiated in 1712 but, due to an ambiguity in the characters used, was subject to some speculation which was deftly used by the Koreans living in Gando to claim that they were still on Korean soil.

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.

His observations on the Chinese garden were cited by the essayist Joseph Addison in an essay in 1712, who used them to attack the English gardeners who, instead of imitating nature, tried to make their gardens in the French style, as far from nature as possible.

Section of a letter from Francois Xavier d ' Entrecolles about Chinese porcelain manufactuting techniques, 1712, re-published by Jean-Baptiste du Halde in 1735.

The Chinese manufacturing secrets for porcelain manufacturing were revealed by the Jesuit Father Francois Xavier d ' Entrecolles in 1712, and openly published in 1735.

Writing from the city in 1712 the French Jesuit missionary Père François Xavier d ' Entrecolles records that "... the porcelain that is sent to Europe is made after new models that are often eccentric and difficult to reproduce ; for the least defect they are refused by the merchants, and so they remain in the hands of the potters, who cannot sell them to the Chinese, for they do not like such pieces ".

The detailed secrets of Chinese hard-paste porcelain technique were transmitted to Europe through the efforts of the Jesuit Father Francois Xavier d ' Entrecolles between 1712 and 1722.

Section of the letter of Francois Xavier d ' Entrecolles about Chinese porcelain manufactuting techniques, 1712, published by Jean-Baptiste du Halde in 1735.

In 1712, the French Jesuit Francois Xavier d ' Entrecolles described the Chinese process of manufacturing porcelain in his letters to Europe.

His observations on the Chinese garden were cited by the essayist Joseph Addison in an essay in 1712, who used them to attack the English gardeners who, instead of imitating nature, tried to make their gardens in the French style, as far from nature as possible.

The glass manufacturing began in 1712 – 1713.

In the two Battles of Villmergen in 1656 and 1712 the Freie Ämter became the staging ground for the warring Reformed and Catholic armies.

* 1712 – February 29 is followed by February 30 in Sweden, in a move to abolish the Swedish calendar for a return to the Old style.

Sometime between late December 1711 and early January 1712 he applied for the newly vacant Frankfurt post of city director of music and Kapellmeister at the Barfüsserkirche.

* 1712 – The Duke of Montrose issues a warrant for the arrest of Rob Roy MacGregor.

Denis Papin ( 1647 – 1712 ) was best known for his pioneering invention of the steam digester, the forerunner of the steam engine.

* George Frideric Handel ( 1685 – 1759 ) served as Kapellmeister from 1710 to 1712 for George, Elector of Hanover.

The individuals who had brought about Walpole's impeachment in 1712 were now themselves attacked for purely political reasons: Lord Oxford was impeached, and Lord Bolingbroke suffered from an act of attainder.

Between 1590 – 1712 the Dutch also possessed one of the strongest navies in the world, allowing for their varied conquests including breaking the Portuguese sphere of influence on the Indian Ocean and in the Orient.

The birth of a long-awaited heir, which ensured the survival of the dynasty for the first time since 1712, was welcomed with tremendous joy and celebration in all spheres of French society.

* 1712 – Thomas Newcomen builds a piston-and-cylinder steam-powered water pump for pumping water out of mines.

Denis Papin ( 22 August 1647-c. 1712 ) was a French physicist, mathematician and inventor, best known for his pioneering invention of the steam digester, the forerunner of the steam engine and of the pressure cooker.

According to Tavernier ( 1712 ), some 600 Jewish families were responsible for about half of the

In 1712 it was renamed Hyde Precinct, for Edward Hyde, Governor of North Carolina from 1711 to 1712.

One of the grandest private residences in Britain, most of it was built between 1699 and 1712 for the 3rd Earl of Carlisle, to a design by Sir John Vanbrugh.

By 1712, this settlement west of the Charles had grown large enough to petition the Massachusetts General Court for the creation of a separate new town.

In 1712, the meetinghouse was erected and the parish set off, named Newington for an English village, whose residents sent the bell for the meetinghouse.

Handel lived with the family at Burlington House for two years when he arrived in England in 1712 ).

Until 1712 the school does not appear to have been conducted in a building set aside for that purpose, and it was in that century that the council ordered all inhabitants owning horses to bring a draught of timber from a nearby wood to help in the construction of a schoolhouse.

Sanquhar is notable for its tiny post office ( established in 1712 ), claimed to be the oldest working post office in the world.

The Old Blacksmith's Shop, built around 1712, and Gretna Hall Blacksmith's Shop ( 1710 ) became, in popular folklore at least, the focal tourist points for the marriage trade.

The earliest examples for which reliable records exist were two engines in the Black Country, of which the more famous was that erected in 1712 at the Conygree Coalworks near Dudley, This is generally accepted as the first successful Newcomen engine, but it may have been preceded by one built a mile and a half east of Wolverhampton.