1700

Year '1700' ('MDCC') was an exceptional common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar, but a leap year starting on Monday
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of the Julian calendar.
The Gregorian calendar was 10-day faster until , but 11-day faster since , than the Julian calendar.

Contents

Events of 1700

January - June

July - December

Undated

Births

Deaths

Notes

Events of 1700

January - June

★ January 1

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★ Russia accepts Julian calendar.

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★ Germany and Denmark-Norway adopt the Gregorian calendar, including the convention that New Year's Day is January 1.

★ January 26 - The Cascadia Earthquake, one of the largest earthquakes on record, ruptures the Cascadia subduction zone offshore from Vancouver Island to northern California, creating a tsunami logged in Japan and oral traditions of the American First Nations.

★ February 27 - The island of New Britain is discovered.

★ (Swedish calendar March 1) - The Swedish calendar is adopted. 1700 of this calendar is a common year starting on Monday.

★ April - Fire destroys many buildings in Gondar, the capital of Ethiopia, including two in the palace complex.

★ May 5 - Within a few days of John Dryden's death (1 May O.S.), his last written work ("The Secular Masque") is performed as part of Vanbrugh's version of ''The Pilgrim''.

★ May - In Rhode Island (American colony), Walter Clarke, former governor 1679-1686, becomes governor again for 14 more years.

July - December

★ November 20 - Great Northern War: Battle of Narva - King Charles XII of Sweden defeats the army of Czar Peter the Great at Narva.

★ November 23 - Pope Clement XI succeeds Pope Innocent XII as the 243rd pope.

★ December 28 - Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.

Undated

★ Vietnamese gain control of entire Indochina peninsula.

★ The Great Northern War begins with Russia, Denmark and Saxony/Poland making a coordinated attack on Sweden (to 1721).


★ Control of Spain passes from the Habsburgs to the Bourbons.

★ Mission San Xavier del Bac founded in New Spain near Tucson, as a Spanish Roman Catholic mission.

★ A fire destroys the larger part of Edinburgh.

★ An inventory made for the Medici family of Florence documents the first piano, invented by their instrument keeper Bartolommeo Cristofori.

★ Lions became extinct in Libya around this date.

Births

★ January 29 - Konstancja Czartoryska, Polish noblewoman (died 1759)

★ February 2 - Johann Christoph Gottsched, German writer (died 1766)

★ February 9 - Daniel Bernoulli, Dutch mathematician (died 1782)

★ March 13 - Michel Blavet, French flutist (died 1768)

★ May 7 - Gerard van Swieten, Dutch-born physician (died 1772)

★ May 12 - Luigi Vanvitelli, Italian architect (died 1773)

★ May 19 - José de Escandón, Spanish colonial governor (died 1770)

★ May 26 - Nicolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf, German religious and social reformer (died 1760)

★ August 13 - Heinrich, count von Brühl, German statesman (died 1763)

★ August 17 - Clemens August of Bavaria (died 1761)

★ September 11 - James Thomson, Scottish poet (died 1748)

★ September 30 - Stanislaw Konarski, Polish writer (died 1773)

★ October 10 - Lambert-Sigisbert Adam, French sculptor (died 1759)

★ November 19 - Jean-Antoine Nollet, French abbot and physicist (died 1770)

★ November 28 - Nathaniel Bliss, English astronomer (died 1764)

★ December 25 - Leopold II of Anhalt-Dessau, Prussian general (died 1751)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Francesca Cuzzoni, Italian opera singer (died 1770)

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★ Karl Friedrich, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp (died 1739)

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★ Franciszek Salezy Potocki, Polish nobleman (died 1772)

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★ Ivan Ranger, Austrian painter (died 1753)
: ''See also .''

Deaths

★ January 7 - Raffaello Fabretti, Italian antiquary (born 1618)

★ January 21 - Henry Somerset, 1st Duke of Beaufort (born 1629)

★ February 12 - Aleksei Shein, Russian commander and statesman (born 1662)

★ May - Louis Jolliet, Canadian explorer (born 1645)

★ May 12 - John Dryden, English writer (born 1631)

★ May 15 - John Hale, American witch hunter (born 1636)

★ May 23 - Jens Juel, Danish diplomat (born 1631)

★ July - John Lowther, 1st Viscount Lonsdale, English politician (born 1655)

★ July 29 - William, Duke of Gloucester (born 1689)

★ September 15 - André Le Nôtre, French landscape gardener (born 1613)

★ September 27 - Pope Innocent XII (born 1615)

★ October 16 - Patriarch Adrian, Russian Orthodox Church leader (born 1627)

★ November 1 - Charles II of Spain (born 1661)

★ November 25 - Stephanus Van Cortlandt, first native born mayor of New York (born 1643)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Caius Gabriel Cibber, Danish sculptor (born 1630)

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★ Thomas Creech, English translator (born 1659)

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★ Kamalakara, Indian astronomer and mathematician (born 1616)

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★ Henry Killigrew, English dramatist (born 1613)
: ''See also .''

Notes

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"Calendar in year 1700 (Russia)" (full Julian calendar), webpage:
Julian-1700
(Russia used the Julian calendar until 1919).