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Revision as of 10:01, 9 August 2002 by Sara Parks Ricker (talk | contribs) (added Georges Leclerc)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Centuries: 17th century - 18th century - 19th century
Decades: 1650s 1660s 1670s 1680s 1690s - 1700s - 1710s 1720s 1730s 1740s 1750s
Years: 1702 1703 1704 1705 1706 - 1707 - 1708 1709 1710 1711 1712
Events
- April 25 - Allied austriacist army is defeated by borbonic army at Almansa (Spain) in the War of the Spanish Succession.
- Union of the Parliaments of Scotland and England forms the United Kingdom of Great Britain
Births
- April 15 - Leonhard Euler, (Swiss mathematician)
- May 23 - Carolus Linnaeus, (Swedish scientist)
- Sept 7 - Georges-Louis Leclerc, (French philosopher and "Comte de Buffon"]])
Deaths