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Revision as of 03:02, 11 March 2004 by 63.92.156.234 (talk)(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
- March 26 - Act of Union with Scotland becomes law, making the separate Kingdoms of England and Scotland into one country, the Kingdom of Great Britain.
- April 25 - Allied army is defeated by borbonic army at Almansa (Spain) in the War of the Spanish Succession.
- May 1 - Union of the Parliaments of Scotland and England forms the Kingdom of Great Britain (See: 1707 Act of Union).
- October 23 - First Parliament of Great Britain.
Year in topic
Births
- February 1 - Frederick, Prince of Wales
- February 25 - Carlo Goldoni, playwright
- April 15 - Leonhard Euler, (Swiss mathematician)
- April 22 - Henry Fielding, author (+ 1754)
- May 23 - Carolus Linnaeus, Swedish botanist (+ 1778)
- August 25 - King Louis of Spain
- September 7 - Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, French philosopher († 1788)
Deaths
- April 6 - William Vandevelde, the younger, Dutch painter (born 1633)
- April 20 - George Farquhar, British dramatist (born 1677)
- May 27 - Marquise de Montespan, mistress of the French King Louis XIV
- June 23 - John Mill, English theologian (born c1645)
- September 15 - George Stepney, British poet and diplomatist (born 1663)
- September 24 - Vicenzo da Filicaja, Italian poet (born 1642)
- October 22 - Sir Cloudsley Shovel, British admiral (born 1650)
- Aurangzeb, Mogul emperor (born 1618)