' Pope, in his " Letter to Caryll ", brought the word into English as ' picturesque ' in 1712.

* Treatise Concerning the Sanctification of the Lord's-Day ( 1712 or 1713 )

* Peter Anthony Motteux, editor-The History of the Renown'd Don-Quixote de la Mancha, fiction, translated by several hands, Volume 1 ( Volumes 2-4 published in 1712 in the third edition )

In early Islamic states of the western Sudan, including Ghana ( 750 – 1076 ), Mali ( 1235 – 1645 ), Segou ( 1712 – 1861 ), and Songhai ( 1275 – 1591 ), about a third of the population were enslaved.

* Terpsichore is also found in the third version ( HWV 8c ) of Handel's opera Il pastor fido ( 1712 ).

His father Harman ( 1712 – 1801 ) represented the third generation in America, while his mother, Magdalena Douw Gansevoort ( 1718 – 1796 ) was connected with the Van Rensselaer family

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 ).

Prince Azim-ush-Shan ( December 15, 1664-March 18, 1712 ) was the third son of Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah I, by his second wife, Maharajkumari Amrita Bai Sahiba.

He was the second son of John Wallace ( 1712 – 1805 ) of Cessnock and Kelly in Ayrshire, by his third wife, Janet, third daughter of Robert Colquhoun of the island of St. Christopher.

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.

These included leading figures of the European ' Enlightenment ' including the philosophers Voltaire, 1694 – 1778 ) and Jean-Jacques Rousseau ( 1712 – 1778 ); the future US Presidents John Adams ( 1735 – 1826 ) and Thomas Jefferson ( 1743 – 1826 ); Benjamin Franklin ( 1706 – 1790 ); the German landscape artist Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau ; the Italian statesman Giuseppe Garibaldi ( 1807 – 1882 ); Russian Tsars Nicholas I ( 1796 – 1855 ) and Alexander I ( 1777 – 1825 ); the king of Persia ; Queen Victoria ( 1819 – 1901 ) and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg ( 1819 – 61 ); Sir Walter Scott ( 1771 – 1832 ); Prince Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau ( 1740 – 1817 ); Prime Ministers William Ewart Gladstone ( 1809 – 1898 ) and Sir Robert Walpole ( 1676 – 1745 ); Queen Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach ( 1683 – 1737 ); John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute ( 1713 – 92 ) his architect William Burges ( 1827 – 1881 ) and the present Prince of Wales and Princess Margaret.

* Charles Moore, 1st Earl of Charleville ( 1712 – 1764 ), Irish peer

" Letters of Bolingbroke to the Earl of Orrery, 1712 – 13 ," Camden Miscellany, Vol.

* Richard Savage, 4th Earl Rivers 1712

* James Hamilton, 8th Earl of Abercorn ( 1712 – 1789 ), eldest son of the 7th Earl, died unmarried

* Charles Finch, 4th Earl of Winchilsea, 2nd Baron FitzHerbert of Eastwell ( 1672 – 1712 )

Sir Sidney Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphin, KG, PC ( 15 June 1645 – 15 September 1712 ) was a leading English politician of the late 17th and early 18th centuries.

* The Earl of Cholmondeley 1708 – 1712

Wood was also Colonel of the Earl of Plymouth's Regiment of Horse until his death in 1712. Daniel Bacheler in the funeral procession of Sir Philip Sidney in 1587.

* Sidney Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphin ( c. 1640 – 1712 ), leading British politician, MP for Helston in Cornwall 1665 – Feb 1679, Sept 1679 – 1685

Lord Hertford holds the subsidiary titles of Earl of Yarmouth ( Peerage of Great Britain, 1793 ), Earl of Hertford ( Peerage of Great Britain, 1750 ), Viscount Beauchamp ( Peerage of Great Britain, 1750 ), Baron Conway, of Ragley in the County of Warwick ( Peerage of England, 1703 ), and Baron Conway of Killultagh, of Killultagh in the County of Antrim ( Peerage of Ireland, 1712 ).

* George Brudenell, later Montagu, 1st Duke of Montagu, 4th Earl of Cardigan ( 1712 – 1790 ) ( created Duke of Montagu in 1766 )

: also " Marquess Monck and Fitzhemmon ", " Earl of Bath ", " Viscount Bevil " ( Jacobite, 1722 ), Baron Lansdowne ( Great Britain, 1712 ) and " Baron Lansdown of Bideford " ( Jacobite, 1722 )

* Thomas Coventry, 3rd Earl of Coventry ( 1702 – 1712 )

* John Lyon, 4th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne ( 1663 – 1712 )

Sixty years before being created an Earl, in 1712, he had been elevated to the Peerage of Great Britain as Baron Bathurst, of Battlesden in the County of Bedford.

* Sir Thomas Osborne, 2nd Baronet ( 1632 – 1712 ) ( created Viscount Osborne in 1673, Earl of Danby in 1673, Marquess of Carmarthen in 1689 and Duke of Leeds in 1694 )

1660 – 18 August 1712 ) was the second son of Thomas, 3rd Earl ; and after the death about 1680 of his elder brother Thomas, styled Viscount Colchester, he was designated by that title until he succeeded to the peerage.

* Richard Savage, 4th Earl Rivers (– 1712 )

He was created Marquess of Kent, Earl of Harold and Viscount Goderich in 1706, Duke of Kent in 1710 for relinquishing his Lord Chamberlain position, and made a Knight of the Garter in 1712.

An unpretentious mansion was built nearby by Archibald Douglas, 1st Earl of Forfar ( 1653 – 1712 ), and was known as New Bothwell Castle, but suffered mining subsidence and was demolished in 1926.

There was a tradition of even smaller books, whose use seems to have been often amuletic, and a manuscript of John alone, with a page size of 72 x 56 mm, was found in a reliquary at Chartres Cathedral in 1712.

In 1712 he wrote two essays, which are still in manuscript, one on substance and accident, and the other called Clavis Philosophica.

* 1712 – The New York Slave Revolt of 1712 begins near Broadway.

* 1712 – Joshua Barnes, English scholar ( b. 1654 )

* 1682 – Louis, Dauphin of France, Duke of Burgundy ( d. 1712 )

The Alabama, Coosa, and Tallapoosa rivers were central to the homeland of the Creek Indians before their removal by United States forces to the Indian Territory in the 1830s. In 1712 the Alabama River was descovered.

In the year 1712, the Mughal Emperor Jahandar Shah, a grandson of Aurangzeb sent gifts to the Ottoman Sultan Ahmad III and refereed to himself as the Ottoman Sultan's devoted admirer.

His wife joined him at Toruń in December, but in April 1712 a peremptory ukase ordered him off to the army in Pomerania, and in the autumn of the same year he was forced to accompany his father on a tour of inspection through Finland.

Rogers ' A cruising voyage round the world: first to the South-Sea, thence to the East-Indies, and homewards by the Cape of Good Hope was published in 1712 and included an account of Selkirk's ordeal.

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

While the peace after the 1656 war did not change the status quo, the fourth Peace of Aarau in 1712 brought about a reorganization of power relations.

Frederick the Great ( 1712 – 1786 ) was one of Europe's enlightened monarch s.

An Irish translation of the revised prayer book of 1662 was effected by John Richardson ( 1664 – 1747 ) and published in 1712.

Seki's discovery was posthumously published in 1712 in his work Katsuyo Sampo ; Bernoulli's, also posthumously, in his Ars Conjectandi of 1713.

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.

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

* 1685 – Marie-Adélaïde of Savoy, mother of Louis XV of France ( d. 1712 )

* 1712 – Francesco Algarotti, Italian philosopher ( d. 1764 )

Improving on the design of the 1712 Newcomen steam engine, the Watt steam engine, developed sporadically from 1763 to 1775, was a great step in the development of the steam engine.

Handed over to Polish King Augustus II in 1712.

* 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.

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.

Count Francesco Algarotti ( 11 December 1712 – 3 May 1764 ) was an Italian polymath, philosopher, poet, essayist, anglophile, art critic and art collector.

* How to become a renowned writer: Francesco Algarotti ( 1712 -- 1764 ) and the uses of networking in eighteenth-century Europe by Smeall, Cheryl Lynn, Ph. D., McGill University ( Canada ), 2011, 449 pages ; AAT NR77555

* 1643 – Johann Kasimir Kolbe von Wartenberg, first Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Prussia ( d. 1712 )