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List of events
Events from the year
1700 in
England .
Incumbents
Events
27 February – The island of
New Britain is discovered by
William Dampier in the western
Pacific .
[1]
early March –
William Congreve 's comedy
The Way of the World is first performed at the
New Theatre, Lincoln's Inn Fields .
[2]
[3]
24 March –
Treaty of London signed between
France , England and the
Dutch Republic .
[4]
24 June – Responsibility for
vagrants passes from
churchwardens to
parish constables under terms of the Vagrant Removal Costs Act (1698).
[5]
30 July –
Princess Anne 's only surviving child,
Prince William, Duke of Gloucester , dies aged eleven of "a malignant fever" at
Windsor Castle , leaving the Protestant
succession to the British throne in doubt.
[2]
September – While in the Netherlands,
William III meets his cousin
Sophia at
Het Loo Palace . This is a precursor to the
Act of Settlement of the following year that opens the way to the future succession of the
House of Hanover .
6 September –
Edmond Halley returns to England after a voyage of almost one year on
HMS Paramour , from which he has observed the
Antarctic Convergence ,
[6] and publishes his findings on terrestrial magnetism in General Chart of the Variation of the Compass .
20 November – First boats reach
Leeds from the tideway by way of the
Aire and Calder Navigation .
[7]
19 December – The
4th Parliament of King William III is dissolved and new elections are ordered by the King.
25 December – First Christmas hymn authorised to be sung in the Anglican church, "
While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks ", the words by
Nahum Tate having been first published this year, in a supplement to "
Tate and Brady ".
28 December –
Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester is appointed
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland .
Approximate date –
Jeremiah Clarke writes the
Prince of Denmark's March .
Births
29 March –
Charles Cornwallis, 1st Earl Cornwallis (died 1762)
April –
John Wyatt , inventor (died 1766)
4 May (bapt.) –
Joseph Adams , chief factor of the
Hudson's Bay Company (died 1737)
14 May –
Mary Delany , Bluestocking, artist and writer (died 1788)
13 July –
John Dandridge , colonel and planter in Virginia (died 1756)
20 September –
Benedict Leonard Calvert , Governor of Maryland (died 1732)
26 September? –
Mary Hervey , née Lepell, courtier (died 1768)
13 October –
Phanuel Bacon , playwright, poet and author (died 1783)
31 October –
Joseph Blake , alias Blueskin, highwayman (executed 1724)
28 November –
Nathaniel Bliss ,
Astronomer Royal (died 1764)
Full date unknown
Deaths
16–27 January –
John Dormer , born Huddleston, Jesuit priest (born 1636)
21 January –
Henry Somerset, 1st Duke of Beaufort (born 1629)
14 March –
Henry Killigrew , dramatist (born 1613)
12 May –
John Dryden , poet (born 1631)
10 July –
John Lowther, 1st Viscount Lonsdale , politician (born 1655)
19 July (date found dead) –
Thomas Creech , translator (born 1659; suicide)
29 July –
Prince William, Duke of Gloucester (born 1689)
8 August –
Joseph Moxon , mathematician and lexicographer (born 1627)
7 September –
William Russell, 1st Duke of Bedford , peer and soldier (born 1616)
References