1700s births

founder of the Zand Dynasty (1751–1779)

British writer (1709-1789)

Italian composer

Russian polar explorer and naval officer

Ghanaian-German philosopher

English medical hoaxer

second nawab of Awadh

Syrian chess master

German composer and violinist

mother of George Washington

British boxer

Patriarch of Constantinople

ruler of Kuwait

German architect (1710-1767)

Native American in the American Revolution

English chemist and physician

Royal Navy officer during the War of the Austrian Succession, Seven Years' War, later admiral

African woman enslaved in New France

Portuguese composer and organist

Italian composer

Padshah Begum of the Mughal Empire

Czech conductor and violinist

Senegalese slave

King of Imereti

Russian geodesist

Italian soprano of the 18th century

Scottish writer, editor and spy

Russian peasant, father of 87 children

Polish nobleman

Scottish philosopher and revolutionary (c. 1760–1793)

Italian castrato singer (1700-1760)

Mentewab (Ge'ez: ምንትዋብ; c. 1706 – 27 June 1773) was Empress of Ethiopia, consort of Emperor Bakaffa, mother (and regent) of Iyasu II and grandmother of Iyoas I. She was also known officially by her baptismal name of Walatta Giyorgis (Ge'ez: ወለተ ጊዮርጊስ). Mentewab was a major political figure during the reigns of her son the Emperor Iyasu and grandson Iyoas. Empress Mentewab was also known by the honorific of Berhan Mogassa (Ge'ez: ብርሃን ሞገሳ). This was to complement the honorific of her son Iyasu II, who was Berhan Seged. thumb|Stamp of Mentewab by Afewerk Tekle

Polish architect

Italian composer

Polish-Lithuanian nobleman

British naval architect

18th-century painter (1708-1787)

Indian mililtary commander

British artist (1707-1792)

Italian composer; wife of Benedetto Marcello

Italian painter (1699-1768)

Tanacharison (; c. 1700 – 4 October 1754), also called Tanaghrisson (), was a Native American leader who played a pivotal role in the beginning of the French and Indian War. He was known to European-Americans as the "Half-King", a title also used to describe several other historically important Native American leaders. His name has been spelled in a variety of ways.

Italian composer (1708-1788)

Italian violinist and composer (died 1764)

British mathematician

Danish architect 1704-1766

2nd yokozuna

French painter (1700-1733)

Swedish soldier

translator

Governor of New France

American painter (1705-1750)

Italian impresario (1702-1759)

Attakullakulla (Cherokee "Tsalagi", (ᎠᏔᎫᎧᎷ) Atagukalu and often called Little Carpenter by the English) (c. 1715 – c. 1777) was an influential Cherokee leader and the tribe's First Beloved Man, serving from 1761 to around 1775. His son was Dragging Canoe, the first leader of the Chickamauga faction of the Cherokee tribes.

Italian composer and pianist

German rabbi

King of the Ashanti people

Bavarian carpenter

Lord Chancellor of Great Britain

thumb|200px|Costume design for the character of Purea, for the pantomime Omai by Philip James de Loutherbourg, 1785 thumb|250px|Captain Samuel Wallis of HMS Dolphin being received by Purea, July 1767 Purea, Tevahine-'ai-roro-atua-i-Ahurai, also called Oborea (floruit 1769), was a queen from the Landward Teva tribe and a self-proclaimed ruler of all Tahiti. Queen Purea is known from the first famous European expeditions to Tahiti. She ruled as chieftainess of her tribe area in 1767–1768, when she was encountered by the expedition of Samuel Wallis.