Abandoned by the Dutch, the island became a French colony when, in September 1715, Guillaume Dufresne d ' Arsel landed and took possession of this port of call on the route to India.

The Maunder Minimum ( also known as the prolonged sunspot minimum ) is the name used for the period roughly spanning 1645 to 1715 when sunspots became exceedingly rare, as noted by solar observers of the time.

The Jacobite Uprising of 1715 discredited much of the Tory party as traitorous Jacobites, and Whig control of the levers of power ( e. g., through the Septennial Act ) ensured that the Whigs became the dominant party of government.

His older brother died in 1715 and Charles Emmanuel then became heir apparent.

After his death in 1715 Savery's patent and Act of Parliament became vested in a company, The Proprietors of the Invention for Raising Water by Fire.

After her grandmother's death in 1715 she became the center of the court, and this was most likely one of the most happy periods of her life.

Later in 1715 it became part of the southern states of the Netherlands.

The regiment was founded in 1715 as Colonel Philip Honeywood's Regiment of Dragoons and was known by the name of its Colonel until 1751 when it became the 11th Regiment of Dragoons.

In 1715 he supported the Jacobite rebellion of 1715 which sought to overthrow the new king George I. Escaping to France he became foreign minister for the Pretender.

When the Duc D ' Orléans became regent ( 1715 ) Dubois, who had for some years acted as his secretary, was made councillor of state, and the chief power passed gradually into his hands.

During 1715 he became involved in a riot that ended with two men being killed, and Newcastle fleeing along rooftops.

Charles Townshend's eldest son by his second wife was George Townshend ( 1715 – 1769 ), who after serving for many years in the navy, became an admiral in 1765.

In 1715 he was called to the bar, where his progress was, says Lord Campbell, more rapid than that of any other debutant in the annals of our profession, his advancement being greatly furthered by the patronage of Macclesfield, who became lord chancellor in 1718, when Yorke transferred his practice from the king's bench to the court of chancery, though he continued to go on the western circuit.

Her husband became Member of Parliament for Westminster in 1715, and shortly afterwards was made a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury.

After the Dutch abandoned Mauritius, the island became a French colony in September 1715 when Guillaume Dufresne d ' Arsel landed and took possession of it, naming the island Isle de France.

* Charles Butler, 1st Earl of Arran became the de jure 3rd Duke of Ormonde, following his elder brother's attainder for treason in 1715 and his death in 1745.

He became professor of Arabic in the Collège de France in 1715.

Tallard was made a duke in 1712 and became a Peer of France in 1715.

As mentioned above, his grandson, the third Baronet, became representative of the family after his cousin ’ s attainder in 1715.

On Lord Halifax's death in 1715 the viscountcy and earldom became extinct.

However, his earldom became extinct on his death in 1715, while the barony of Dacre fell into abeyance between his two daughters the Hon.

* Cecil Twisleton, de jure 10th Baroness Saye and Sele ( d. 1723 ) ( became sole heir in 1715 )

In 1715 Hearne was elected Architypographus and Esquire Bedell in civil law in the university, but objection having been made to his holding this office together with that of second librarian, he resigned it in the same year.

The Farquharsons were Jacobite sympathisers, and James Farquharson of Balmoral was involved in both the 1715 and 1745 rebellions, and was wounded at the Battle of Falkirk in 1746.

Work on this church, at the top of the town, began in 1418 in a Gothic style, and continued non-stop until 1625, though the finishing touches were not completed until 1715, in the Renaissance period.

Part of Mar's army joined up with risings in northern England and southern Scotland, and the Jacobites fought their way into England before being defeated at the Battle of Preston, surrendering on 14 November 1715.

Three of Harrison's early wooden clocks have survived ; the first ( 1713 ) is at the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers ' Collection in Guildhall ; the second ( 1715 ), is in the Science Museum and the third ( 1717 ) is at Nostell Priory in Yorkshire, the face bearing the inscription " John Harrison Barrow ".

Though a congregation of bishops assembled at Paris in December 1761 recommended no action, Louis XV of France ( 1715 – 74 ) promulgated a royal order permitting the Society to remain in the kingdom, with the proviso that certain essentially liberalising changes in their institution satisfy the Parlement with a French Jesuit vicar-general who should be independent of the general in Rome.

His rule will last until his death at age 77 in 1715, a total of 72 years, which will be the longest reign of any European monarch in recorded history.

He was Maestro Di Cappella at St. Peter's from 1715 to 1719.

* Domenico Scarlatti ( 1685-1757 ) was maestro di cappella at St. Peter's Cathedral in Rome from 1715 to 1719.

The first ' castle ' in the park of the Hermitage was built at this time by Margrave George William ( 1715 – 1719 ).

The exposure of the scheme crushed the hopes of the Jacobites whose previous attempts at rebellion ( most notably the risings of 1715 and 1719 ) had also failed.

From at least 1715 it was clear that Okhotsk was a poor site.

After attending the gymnasium at Schweidnitz, he was sent in 1715 by his father, a country doctor, to study medicine at Wittenberg ; but he was idle and dissipated, had no taste for the profession chosen for him, and came to a complete rupture with his family.

Queen Anne died 1 August 1714 and at the election of directors in 1715 the Prince of Wales ( future King George II ) was elected as Governor of the Company.

Louis XIV died at Versailles on 1 September 1715, and was succeeded by his five-year-old great-grandson, Louis XV.

Thomas Savery ( c. 1650 – 1715 ) was an English inventor, born at Shilstone, a manor house near Modbury, Devon, England.

For example, Admiral Sir Charles Wager, a son and grandson of Kentish mariners, held the office of West Looe MP early ( 1713 – 1715 ) and at the end ( 1741 – 1743 ) of his political career.

Shaver Lake is on the southeast end of the lake of the same name, northeast of New Auberry, at an elevation of 5627 feet ( 1715 m ).

About 1715 the village of Bottle Hill was established at the crossing of Ridgedale Avenue and Kings Road.

The first settlement in Brunswick dates to 1711 to 1715 at Haynersville.

Already a successful opera composer, in 1715 Porpora was appointed at the Conservatory of S. Onofrio, where his pupils included such well-known castrati as Giuseppe Appiani, Felice Salimbeni, and Gaetano Majorano ( known as Caffarelli ), as well as distinguished female singers such as Regina Mingotti and Vittoria Tesi ; Farinelli may well have studied with him privately.

She received two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, one for motion pictures at 1615 Vine Street and a second for television at 1715 Vine Street.