History
1712
General
Population: 665 Million*
- Entertainment: Writers include Alexander Pope The Rape of the Lock, Jonathan Swift, Cotton Mather Curiosa Americana,
Music includes Arcangelo Corelli, Handel (opera) and settles in London, Vivaldi
- Technology: Thomas Newcomen invents a workable steam pump for mines
Thomas Newcome develops first practical atmospheric steam engine
- Deaths: Astronomer Giocanni Domenico Cassini, Politician Richard Cromwell, Author William King, Physicist Denis Papin
Asia
- India: War of succession between Shah Bahadur's four sons
Europe
- General: Peace congress opens at Utrecht
- France: Academie des sciences in Bordeaux founded
Gabriel Boffrand creates Hotel de Monimorency in Paris
- Great Britain: England renamed Great Britain as it comes to full power
Henry St. John made Lord Bolingbroke
Newspaper Stamp Act in England
St. Paul's near London created by Thomas Archer
John James creates St. George's in London
Last execution for witchcraft in England
Toleration Act in London
- Russia: Peter the Great marries mistress Catharina Alexajovna
- Spain: Biblioteca national in Madrid founded
- Switzerland: Religious warfare
Treaty of Aarau ends Swiss war
East
- New York: Slave revolt causes nine deaths
- Pennsylvania: Importation of slaves outlawed
South
- Louisiana: Antoine Crozat granted possession of Louisiana for 15 years