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The year 1709 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Meteorology

January – Great Frost in Western Europe.^[1]^[2]

Physics

Francis Hauksbee publishes Physico-Mechanical Experiments on Various Subjects, summarizing the results of his many experiments with electricity and other topics.

Technology

January 10 – Industrial Revolution: Abraham Darby I successfully produces cast iron using coke fuel at his Coalbrookdale blast furnace in Shropshire, England.^[3]^[4]^[5]
February 5 – Dramatist John Dennis devises the thundersheet as a new method of producing theatrical thunder for his tragedy Appius and Virginia at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London.^[6]
March 28 – Johann Friedrich Böttger reports the first production of hard-paste porcelain in Europe, at Dresden.
July 13 – Johann Maria Farina founds the first Eau de Cologne and perfume factory in Cologne, Germany.
August 8 – Hot air balloon of Bartholome de Gusmão flies in Portugal.
A collapsible umbrella is introduced in Paris.^[7]

Awards

April 9 – Sir Godfrey Copley, 2nd Baronet dies and in his will provides funding to the Royal Society for the annual Copley Medal honoring achievement in science (first awarded in 1731).

Births

February 24 – Jacques de Vaucanson, French engineer and inventor (died 1782)
March 3 – Andreas Sigismund Marggraf, German chemist (died 1782)
March 10 – Georg Steller, German naturalist (died 1746)
April 17 – Giovanni Domenico Maraldi, French-Italian astronomer (died 1788)
July 11 – Johan Gottschalk Wallerius, Swedish chemist and mineralogist (died 1785)
August 8 – Johann Georg Gmelin, German botanist (died 1755)
November 23 – Julien Offray de La Mettrie, French physician and philosopher (died 1751)

Deaths

early – Eleanor Glanville, English entomologist (born c. 1654)
June 29 – Antoine Thomas, Belgian Jesuit astronomer in China (born 1644)
June 30 – Edward Lhuyd, Welsh naturalist (born 1660)
October 17 – François Mauriceau, French obstetrician (born 1637)

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1709 (MDCCIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1709th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 709th year of the 2nd millennium, the 9th year of the 18th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1700s decade. As of the start of 1709, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

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Coalbrookdale is a village in the Ironbridge Gorge in Shropshire, England, containing a settlement of great significance in the history of iron ore smelting. It lies within the civil parish called the Gorge.

References

↑ Pain, Stephanie (7 February 2009). "1709: the year that Europe froze". New Scientist .
↑ Luterbacher, Jürg; Dietrich, Daniel; Xoplaki, Elena; Grosjean, Martin; Wanner, Heinz (2004). "European Seasonal and Annual Temperature Variability, Trends, and Extremes Since 1500". Science . 303 (5663): 1499–1503. Bibcode:2004Sci...303.1499L. doi:10.1126/science.1093877. PMID 15001774.
↑ Mott, R. A. (5 January 1957). "The earliest use of coke for ironmaking". The Gas World, coking section supplement. 145: 7–18.
↑ Raistrick, Arthur (1953). Dynasty of Ironfounders: the Darbys and Coalbrookdale. London: Longmans, Green. p. 34.
↑ Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 292. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
↑ Rees, Nigel (1987). Why Do We Say ...?. ISBN 0-7137-1944-3.
↑ "The History of Umbrellas". Oakthrift Corporation. Archived from the original on 2013-09-02. Retrieved 2011-12-22.

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[1] Pain, Stephanie (7 February 2009). "1709: the year that Europe froze". New Scientist .

[2] Luterbacher, Jürg; Dietrich, Daniel; Xoplaki, Elena; Grosjean, Martin; Wanner, Heinz (2004). "European Seasonal and Annual Temperature Variability, Trends, and Extremes Since 1500". Science . 303 (5663): 1499–1503. Bibcode:2004Sci...303.1499L. doi:10.1126/science.1093877. PMID 15001774.

[3] Mott, R. A. (5 January 1957). "The earliest use of coke for ironmaking". The Gas World, coking section supplement. 145: 7–18.

[4] Raistrick, Arthur (1953). Dynasty of Ironfounders: the Darbys and Coalbrookdale. London: Longmans, Green. p. 34.

[Cassell's_Chronology-5] Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 292. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.

[6] Rees, Nigel (1987). Why Do We Say ...?. ISBN 0-7137-1944-3.

[7] "The History of Umbrellas". Oakthrift Corporation. Archived from the original on 2013-09-02. Retrieved 2011-12-22.

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