Charles de Saint-Évremond, French-English soldier, author, and critic (b. 1610)
Charles de Marguetel de Saint-Denis, seigneur de Saint-Évremond (1 April 1613 – 29 September 1703) was a French soldier, hedonist, essayist and literary critic. After 1661, he lived in exile, mainly in England, as a consequence of his attack on French policy at the time of the Peace of the Pyrenees (1659). He is buried in Poets' Corner, Westminster. He wrote for his friends and did not intend his work to be published, although a few of his pieces were leaked in his lifetime. The first full collection of his works was published in London in 1705, after his death.
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Forty-seven Ronin
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Peter the Great
Tsar Peter the Great founds the city of Saint Petersburg. - 27Nov
Great Storm of 1703
The first Eddystone Lighthouse is destroyed in the Great Storm of 1703.