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With no living male heirs, Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, issues the Pragmatic Sanction of **** to ensure that Habsburg lands and the Austrian throne would be inheritable by a female; his daughter and successor, Maria Theresa, was not born until 1717.

Thomas Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph.

Mexican Revolution: Francisco I. Madero issues the Plan de San Luis Potosí, denouncing Mexican President Porfirio Díaz, calling for a revolution to overthrow the government of Mexico, effectively starting the Mexican Revolution.

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