1719 in France

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1719
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France

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See also:Other events of 1719
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Events from the year 1719 in France

Incumbents[]

  • MonarchLouis XV
  • Regent: Philip II of Orleans

Events[]

  • 1718 to 1720 – The Pontcallec Conspiracy
  • April 4 – The French army under James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick invades the Basque provinces of Spain, with 20,000 troops crossing into Navarre[1]
  • May 23 – Mississippi Company becomes the Compagnie Perpétuelle des Indes
  • June 30 – Berwick begins the Siege of San Sebastian in northern Spain
  • August 19 – San Sebastian surrenders to Berwick. Local leaders petition for the surrounding province to be annexed to France, but is later returned to Spain at the Treaty of The Hague

Births[]

Jacques Cazotte
  • October 17 – Jacques Cazotte, writer (died 1792)[2]

Deaths[]

  • March 3 – Jacques-Louis de Valon, soldier and poet (born 1659)
  • March 10 – Jean-Baptiste Alexandre Le Blond, architect and garden designer (born 1679)
  • November 8 – Michel Rolle, mathematician (born 1652)

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Mellersh, H. E. L., ed. (1999). Chronology of World History. Vol. 9. ABC-CLIO. p. 532.
  2. ^ Blangstrup, Chr., ed. (1916). "Cazotte, Jacques". Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon (in Danish). Vol. 4 (2 ed.). Copenhagen: J.H. Schultz Forlagsboghandel. Retrieved 5 September 2015.


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