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This article is about the year 1700. For the music video show, see
1700 (TV series) .
Calendar year
Europe at the beginning of the 18th century
November 16 :
Philip, Duke of Anjou is proclaimed King of Spain by
Louis XIV
1700 (
MDCC ) was an
exceptional common year starting on Friday of the
Gregorian calendar and a
leap year starting on Monday of the
Julian calendar , the 1700th year of the
Common Era (CE) and
Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 700th year of the
2nd millennium , the 100th and last year of the
17th century , and the 1st year of the
1700s decade. As of the start of 1700, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
Calendar year
As of
March 1 (
O.S.
February 19 ), where the Julian calendar acknowledged a leap day and the Gregorian calendar did not, the Julian calendar fell one day further behind, bringing the difference to 11 days until
February 28 (
O.S.
February 17 ), 1800.
In Sweden, the year started in the Julian calendar and remained so until February 28. Then, by skipping the leap day, the
Swedish calendar was introduced, letting February 28 be followed by March 1, giving the entire year the same pattern as a
common year starting on Monday . This calendar, being ten days behind the Gregorian and one day ahead of the Julian, lasts until
1712 .
Events
January–March
January 1 –
Protestant nations in
Western Europe , except
England , start using the
Gregorian calendar .
Catholic nations have been using the Gregorian calendar since its introduction in
1582 by
Pope Gregory XIII .
January 1 (Julian) (January 11, Gregorian) – The
Tsardom of Russia begins numbering its calendar from the birth of Christ (
Anno Domini ), instead of since the Creation (
Anno Mundi ).
January 26 – At approximately 9 p.m., the
Cascadia earthquake occurs in the
Pacific Northwest , with an estimated
moment magnitude of 8.7–9.2. This
megathrust earthquake ruptures about 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) of the
Cascadia Subduction Zone and causes a
tsunami , that strikes the coast of Japan approximately 10 hours later.
February 3 – The 'Lesser Great Fire' destroys a substantial part of central
Edinburgh , Scotland.
[1]
February 12 – The
Great Northern War begins with a joint invasion of
Swedish territory in
Germany and
Latvia , by
Denmark and
Poland /
Saxony . Sweden has control of the
Baltic Sea and holds territory that includes Finland,
Estonia , Latvia and parts of northern Germany. To challenge its power, an alliance is formed between Tsar
Peter I of Russia , King
Frederick IV of Denmark and
Augustus II the Strong , King of Poland and Elector of Saxony. Sweden's ruler is the militaristic
Charles XII , known as the "Swedish Meteor".
February 27 – The island of
New Britain is discovered by
William Dampier , in the western Pacific.
[2]
March 1 (Gregorian) – Protestant
Germany and
Denmark–Norway adopt the
Gregorian calendar .
March 1 (Swedish),
March 11 (Gregorian),
February 29 (Julian) – The
Swedish calendar is adopted.
March (early) –
William Congreve 's comedy
The Way of the World is first performed in London.
[3]
[4]
[5]
March 3 –
Shivaji II accedes to the throne of the
Maratha Empire as the 4th Chhatrapati after his father
Rajaram I 's death.
March 24 – The
Treaty of London is signed between
France ,
England and the
Dutch Republic .
[6]
April–June
April 15 – The coronation of King
Frederick IV of Denmark takes place at
Frederiksborg Castle in
Copenhagen .
April 18 – Hungarian freedom activist
Ferenc Rákóczi is arrested by Austrian authorities and charged with sedition. Imprisoned near
Vienna and facing a death sentence, he escapes and later leads the overthrow of the Habsburg control of Hungary.
April 21 – In
India , the siege of the fortress of
Sajjangad (located in the
Maharashtra state) is begun by an army led by Fateullahakhan. The fortress falls on June 6.
April – Fire destroys many buildings in
Gondar , the capital of
Ethiopia , including two in the palace complex.
May 5
May – In
Rhode Island (American colony),
Walter Clarke , three-term former
Governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations , is elected deputy governor for the second time, serving under his brother-in-law
Samuel Cranston .
June 8 (May 28 O.S.) – The legislature for the
Province of Massachusetts Bay (the modern-day Commonwealth of
Massachusetts in the United States) passes into law "An Act against Jesuits & Popish Priests" making a finding that Roman Catholic clerics have attempted to incite American Indians into a rebellion against the Crown, and declaring "That all and every Jesuit, Seminary Priest, Missionary, or other Spiritual or Ecclesiastical Person made or ordained by any Authority, Power or Jurisdiction derived, challenged or pretended from the Pope or See of Rome, now residing within this Province or any part thereof, shall depart from and out of the same, at or before the tenth day of September next, in this present year, One Thousand and Seven Hundred."
[7] The
Province of New York enacts similar legislation later in the year.
July–September
July 11 – The
Prussian Academy of Sciences is founded, with
Gottfried Leibniz as president.
[8]
July 24 –
Charles XII of Sweden counter-attacks his enemies by invading
Zealand (Denmark), assisted by an Anglo-Dutch naval squadron under Sir
George Rooke , rapidly compelling the Danes to submit to peace.
[9]
July 30 – Eleven-year-old
Prince William, Duke of Gloucester , dies of "a malignant fever" at
Windsor Castle , leaving the Protestant
succession to the British throne in doubt.
August 18 (
August 7
O.S. ) – The
Peace of Travendal is concluded between the
Swedish Empire ,
Denmark–Norway and
Holstein-Gottorp in
Traventhal . On the same day,
Augustus II ,
King of Poland , and
Peter the Great ,
Tsar of Russia , enter the war against Sweden.
September 6 –
Edmond Halley returns to England after a voyage of almost one year on
HMS Paramour , from which he has observed the
Antarctic Convergence ,
[10] and publishes his findings on terrestrial magnetism in General Chart of the Variation of the Compass .
September 12 –
Antioh Cantemir is deposed as the
voivode of Moldavia and replaced by his predecessor
Constantine Ducas .
September 27 –
Pope Innocent XII dies at the age of 85 after a tenure of more than nine years.
Fabrizio Spada , the
Cardinal Secretary of State , assumes administration of the Roman Catholic Church in order to oversee the election of a new Pope.
September – A Russian army invades
Swedish Estonia , and besieges the town of
Narva .
[11]
October–December
October 3 – The
Battle of Jouami' al-Ulama takes place in
Algeria with a surprise attack and ambush on the army of Murad III
Bey of Tunis by two Algerian defenders, Hadj Mustapha,
Dey of Algiers and Ahmed ben Ferhat,
Beylik of Constantine .
October 16 –
Adrian, Patriarch of All Russia , dies after more than 10 years as head of the Russian Orthodox Church. He is replaced by the hand-picked choice of Tsar
Peter the Great with the appointment of Simeon Ivanovich Yavorsky as Patriarch
Stefan .
November 1 –
Charles II , the last Spanish king of the
House of Habsburg , dies at the
Royal Alcazar of Madrid aged 38, leaving no children; his last will makes
Philip of Anjou his heir.
November 15 –
Louis XIV of France accepts the Spanish crown on behalf of his grandson
Philip of Anjou of the
House of Bourbon , who becomes Philip V of Spain (reigning for 44 years – with a short break – to
1746 ), thus triggering the
War of the Spanish Succession (
1701 –
1714 ).
[12]
November 18 –
Lithuanian Civil War :
Battle of Valkininkai – The anti-
Sapieha coalition is victorious.
November 23 – Cardinal Giovanni Francesco Albani, having been ordained as a Roman Catholic priest only two months earlier, is elected by the
Papal conclave to succeed
Pope Innocent XII , and becomes the 243rd
pope , taking the name of
Clement XI .
November 30 :
Battle of Narva
Date unknown
Births
Daniel Bernoulli born
8 February
Gerard van Swieten born
7 May
Mary Delany born
14 May
Countess Caroline of Erbach-Fürstenau born
29 September
Philip Morant born
6 October
Nathaniel Bliss born
28 November
Jeremias Friedrich Reuß born
8 December
January–March
January 8 –
Augustyn Mirys , Polish painter (d.
1790 )
January 14 –
Picander (Christian Friedrich Henrici), German poet and librettist (d.
1764 )
January 23 –
John Christian, Count Palatine of Sulzbach from 1732 to 1733 (d.
1733 )
January 28 –
John Penn ("the American") , American-born merchant (d.
1746 )
January 29 –
Konstancja Czartoryska , Polish noblewoman and politician (d.
1759 )
February 2 –
Johann Christoph Gottsched , German philosopher (d.
1766 )
February 8 –
Daniel Bernoulli , Dutch-born Swiss mathematician (d.
1782 )
February 16 –
Pedro Messía de la Cerda, 2nd Marquis of Vega de Armijo , Spanish naval officer and colonial official (d.
1783 )
February 18 –
Nicolaus Schuback , German lawyer (d.
1783 )
February 21 –
Henri Hemsch , French harpsichord maker of German origin (d.
1769 )
February 28 –
Samsam ud Daula Shah Nawaz Khan , Mughal courtier (d.
1758 )
March 1 –
Pierre-Joseph Bourcet , French tactician (d.
1780 )
March 3
March 4 –
Louis Auguste, Prince of Dombes , grandson of Louis XIV of France and of his maîtresse-en-titre Françoise-Athénaïs (d.
1755 )
March 8 –
William Morgan (of Tredegar, elder) , Welsh politician (d.
1731 )
March 13
March 15 –
Leonor Tomásia de Távora, 3rd Marquise of Távora , Portuguese noblewoman (d.
1759 )
March 23 –
Pieter Woortman , Dutch colonial administrator (d.
1780 )
March 29 –
Charles Cornwallis, 1st Earl Cornwallis (d.
1762 )
March 30 –
Thomas Pichon , French colonial agent (d.
1781 )
April–June
April 4 –
Christophe Moyreau , French Baroque composer (d.
1774 )
April 30
May 2 –
Countess Charlotte of Hanau-Lichtenberg (d.
1726 )
May 6 –
Giuseppe Peroni , Italian painter (d.
1776 )
May 7 –
Gerard van Swieten , Dutch-born physician (d.
1772 )
May 12 –
Luigi Vanvitelli , Italian architect (d.
1773 )
May 14 –
Mary Delany , English artist (d.
1788 )
May 19 –
José de Escandón , Spanish colonial governor (d.
1770 )
May 22 –
Michel-François Dandré-Bardon , French history painter and etcher (d.
1785 )
May 26 –
Nicolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf , German religious and social reformer (d.
1760 )
May 27 –
Robert Shirley , British Tory politician (d.
1738 )
May 30 – Prosper Anton Josef von Sinzendorf, Austrian nobleman and courtier (d.
1756 )
May 31 –
Stephen Bayard , 39th Mayor of New York City from 1744 to 1747 (d.
1757 )
June 3 –
Karen Huitfeldt , Danish courtier (d.
1778 )
June 8 –
Georg Wilhelm von Driesen , lieutenant general in Frederick the Great's Prussian army and a county commission of Osterrode (Ostróda) (d.
1758 )
June 10 –
Ewald Georg von Kleist , German jurist (d.
1748 )
June 16 –
Margaret Coke, Countess of Leicester , British peer (d.
1775 )
June 19 –
Charles, Count of Charolais , French noble (d.
1760 )
June 20 –
Peter Faneuil , wealthy American colonial merchant (d.
1743 )
June 25 –
William Boys , Royal Navy officer who became Commander-in-Chief (d.
1774 )
June 26
July–September
July 11 –
Charles Townshend, 3rd Viscount Townshend (d.
1764 )
July 12 –
Claude-Antoine de Bermen de La Martinière , Quebec-born son of Claude de Bermen de la Martinière (d.
1761 )
July 20 –
Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau , French physician (d.
1782 )
July 29 –
Peter Joseph Kofler , mayor of Vienna (d.
1764 )
August 13 –
Heinrich, count von Brühl , German statesman (d.
1763 )
August 17 –
Clemens August of Bavaria , Archbishop-Elector of Cologne (d.
1761 )
August 18
August 23 –
Hans Caspar von Krockow , Prussian major general and commander of the Cuirassier Regiment No (d.
1759 )
August 27
August 30 –
Christian August von Eyben , German lawyer and dean of the Bishopric of Lübeck (d.
1785 )
September 6 –
Claude-Nicolas Le Cat , French surgeon (d.
1768 )
September 9 –
Princess Anna Sophie of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt , Princess of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (d.
1780 )
September 11 –
James Thomson , Scottish poet (d.
1748 )
September 15 –
Jean-Gilles du Coëtlosquet , French ecclesiastic (d.
1784 )
September 20
September 25 –
Gaetano Zompini , Italian printmaker and engraver (d.
1778 )
September 29 –
Countess Caroline of Erbach-Fürstenau and by marriage Duchess of Saxe-Hildburghausen (d.
1758 )
September 30 –
Stanisław Konarski , Polish writer (d.
1773 )
October–December
October 6 –
Philip Morant (d.
1770 )
October 7 –
Henry Moore, 4th Earl of Drogheda (d.
1727 )
October 9 –
George Hazard (d.
1738 )
October 10 –
Lambert-Sigisbert Adam , French sculptor born in Nancy (d.
1759 )
October 13 –
Phanuel Bacon , English playwright (d.
1783 )
October 20 –
Charlotte Aglaé d'Orléans (d.
1761 )
October 23 –
Samuel Dexter , minister from Dedham (d.
1755 )
October 24 –
Marten Schagen , Dutch Mennonite bookseller (d.
1770 )
October 26 –
Peter Jacob Horemans , Flemish painter of genre scenes (d.
1776 )
October 30 –
Sir Cecil Bishopp, 6th Baronet (d.
1778 )
November 7 –
Erdmuthe Dorothea of Reuss-Ebersdorf (d.
1756 )
November 17 –
Frederick William, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt , German nobleman (d.
1771 )
November 19 –
Jean-Antoine Nollet , French abbot and physicist (d.
1770 )
November 21 –
Charlotta Elisabeth van der Lith , politically active Governor's wife in Surinam (d.
1753 )
November 24 –
Johann Bernhard Bach the Younger (d.
1743 )
November 28
December 4 –
Agnes Wilhelmine von Wuthenau , German noblewoman and the first wife of Augustus Louis (d.
1725 )
December 5 –
Anthony Malone , Irish lawyer and politician (d.
1776 )
December 7 –
George Heathcote , English merchant and philanthropist and Tory politician (d.
1768 )
December 8 –
Jeremias Friedrich Reuß , German theologian (d.
1777 )
December 9 –
Michael Ranft , Protestant Lutheran pastor (d.
1774 )
December 20 –
Charles-Augustin de Ferriol d'Argental (d.
1788 )
December 25 –
Leopold II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau , Prussian general (d.
1751 )
date unknown
Deaths
Marguerite Bourgeoys died
12 January
Jan Six died
May 28
Pieter Gerritsz van Roestraten died
10 July
Pope Innocent XII died
September 27
Patriarch Adrian of Moscow died
16 October
Armand Jean le Bouthillier de Rancé died
27 October
Charles II of Spain died
1 November
January 7 –
Raffaello Fabretti , Italian antiquary (b.
1618 )
January 12 –
Marguerite Bourgeoys ,
French founder of the
Congregation of Notre Dame of Montreal , in the colony of
New France (b.
1620 )
January 21 –
Henry Somerset, 1st Duke of Beaufort , English politician (b.
1629 )
January 30 –
Clara Elisabeth von Platen , German noblewoman (b.
1648 )
February 4 –
John Bramston the Younger , English lawyer and MP (b.
1611 )
February 5 –
Louis Maracci , Italian priest (b.
1612 )
February 12 –
Aleksei Shein , Russian commander and statesman (b.
1662 )
February 25 –
James Douglas, 2nd Marquess of Douglas (b.
1646 )
March 2 –
Jankibai ,
Empress consort of the
Maratha Empire as the first wife of
Rajaram Chhatrapati (b.
1675 )
March 3
March 4 –
Lorenzo Pasinelli , Italian painter (b.
1629 )
March 8 –
William Dunlop , Covenanter (b. c.
1654 )
March 14 –
Henry Killigrew , English clergyman and playwright (b.
1613 )
March 18 –
Francesco Scannagatta , Roman Catholic prelate and Bishop of Avellino e Frigento (b.
1632 )
March 26 –
Heinrich Meibom , German physician and scholar (b.
1638 )
May 1
May 5 –
Angelo Italia , Sicilian architect (b.
1628 )
May 12 –
John Dryden , English poet and dramatist (b.
1631 )
May 15 –
John Hale , American witch hunter and pastor (b.
1636 )
May 18 –
Teofil Rutka , Polish philosopher (b.
1622 )
May 23 –
Jens Juel , Danish diplomat (b.
1631 )
May 28 –
Jan Six , important cultural figure in the Dutch Golden Age (b.
1618 )
May 31 –
Agostino Scilla , Italian painter and scientist (b.
1629 )
June 20 –
Richard Gilpin , English nonconformist minister and physician (b.
1625 )
June 29 –
Olov Svebilius , Swedish priest and professor (b.
1624 )
July 2
July 7 –
Silvestro Valier , 109th Doge of Venice (b.
1630 )
July 10
July 19 (found dead) –
Thomas Creech , English translator of classical works, headmaster of Sherborne School (b.
1659 )
July 22 –
Alderano Cybo , Italian Catholic Cardinal (b.
1613 )
July 30 –
Prince William, Duke of Gloucester , member of the English royal family (b.
1689 )
August 17 –
Thomas-Claude Renart de Fuchsamberg Amblimont , French naval officer, governor general of the French Antilles (b.
1642 )
August 22 –
Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora , Mexican academic (b.
1645 )
August 30 –
Sir Richard Cust, 1st Baronet , English politician (b.
1622 )
August 31 –
William Savile, 2nd Marquess of Halifax , English noble and politician (b.
1665 )
September 7 –
William Russell, 1st Duke of Bedford , English noble and politician (b.
1616 )
September 15 –
André Le Nôtre , French landscape gardener (b.
1613 )
September 16 –
Martyrs of Cajonos , Mexican Catholic converts (b. c.
1660 )
September 23 –
Nicolaus Adam Strungk , German composer and violinist (b.
1640 )
September 27 –
Pope Innocent XII , born Antonio Pignatelli (b.
1615 )
September 30 –
Lorenzo Trotti , Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Pavia (1672–1700) (b.
1633 )
October 1 –
Sir Samuel Grimston, 3rd Baronet , English politician (b.
1643 )
October 16 –
Patriarch Adrian of Moscow , Russian Orthodox Church leader (b.
1627 )
October 17 –
Eligio Caracciolo , Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Cosenza (1694–1700) (b.
1654 )
October 23 –
Anne Marie de Bourbon , daughter of the Prince of Condé and of a Bavarian princess (b.
1675 )
October 27 –
Armand Jean le Bouthillier de Rancé , abbot of La Trappe Abbey, founder of the Trappists (b.
1626 )
October 31 –
Sir Robert Napier, 1st Baronet, of Punknoll (b.
1642 )
November 1 –
Charles II of Spain , King of Spain; last Habsburg ruler of the Spanish Empire (b.
1661 )
November 2 –
Francis Turner , English bishop (b.
1637 )
November 4 –
Sebastián de Pastrana , Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Paraguay (1693–1700) (b.
1633 )
November 11 –
Sophie Angelika of Württemberg-Oels , by marriage Duchess of Saxe-Zeitz-Pegau-Neustadt (b.
1677 )
November 16 –
Paul Rycaut , British diplomat (b.
1629 )
November 18 –
Robert Walpole , English Whig politician, soldier and member of parliament (b.
1650 )
November 25 –
Stephanus Van Cortlandt , first native-born mayor of New York City (b.
1643 )
November 26 –
Tokugawa Mitsutomo , daimyō of Owari Domain during early Edo period Japan (b.
1625 )
December 5 –
Mata Jito , first wife of the tenth Sikh Guru (b.
1673 )
December 13 –
Inoha Seihei , bureaucrat of the
Ryukyu Kingdom (b.
1648 )
December 15 –
Juan Alfonso Valerià y Aloza , Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Lérida (1699–1700) (b.
1643 )
December 16 –
Thomas Morgan , English politician (b.
1664 )
December 18 –
Edward Harley , English politician (b.
1624 )
December 20 –
Mary Bradbury , accused witch in Salem, Massachusetts (b.
1615 )
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