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Year 1709 (MDCCIX ) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar ). 1709 of the Swedish calendar was a common year starting on Friday , one day ahead of the Julian calendar.
Events of 1709
January - June
July - December
Undated
Ongoing events
Births
February 24 - Jacques de Vaucanson , French inventor (d. 1782 )
March 10 - Georg Steller , German naturalist (d. 1746 )
April 14 - Charles Collé , French dramatist (d. 1783 )
August 7 - Jean-Jacques Lefranc, marquis de Pompignan , French poet (d. 1784 )
August 8 - Tokugawa Ietsugu , 7th Tokugawa Shogunate of Japan (d. 1716 )
September - John Cleland , English novelist (d. 1789 )
September 18 - Samuel Johnson , English writer and lexicographer (d. 1784 )
November 2 - Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange , regent of Friesland (d. 1759 )
December 18 - Elizabeth of Russia , reigning Empress of Russia (d. 1762 )
date unknown - Thomas Alcock , English clergyman (d. 1798 )
See also Category: 1709 births .
Deaths
January 16 - Emperor Higashiyama of Japan (b. 1675 )
January 20 - François de la Chaise , French confessor of Louis XIV of France (b. 1624 )
January 24 - George Rooke , English admiral (b. 1650 )
February 8 - Giuseppe Torelli , Italian composer (b. 1658 )
February 9 - François Louis, Prince of Conti , French general (b. 1664 )
March 9 - Ralph Montagu, 1st Duke of Montagu , English diplomat
April 21 - Gorgin Khan , Persian Governor of Kandahar (b. 1651 )
June 29 - Antoine Thomas , Belgian Jesuit Astronomer in China (b. 1644 )
June 30 - Edward Lhuyd , Welsh scientist (b. 1660 )
July 17 - Robert Bolling , English settler in Virginia (b. 1646 )
September 14 - Luis Manuel Fernández de Portocarrero , Spanish cardinal and archbishop of Toledo (b. 1635 )
October 9 - Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland , English mistress of Charles II of England (b. 1640 )
December 1 - Abraham a Sancta Clara , Austrian preacher (b. 1644 )
December 8 - Thomas Corneille , French dramatist (b. 1625 )
See also Category: 1709 deaths .