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The first known Aramaic inscription was the Carpentras Stela, found in southern France in 1704; it was considered to be Phoenician text at the time.
Lorenzo Fago was born in Naples Italy.
A British, German and Dutch army led by the 1st Duke of Marlborough defeated the French and Bavarians in the Second Battle of Hchstdt.
The Mayor of Amsterdam and a Dutch mathematician, Johan van Waveren Hudde, died at the age of 76.
John Quelch was hanged for piracy in Boston at the age of 38.
The English classical scholar, Benjamin Heath, was born in the UK.
