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
[1]
of the
Julian calendar.
The Gregorian calendar was 10-day faster until , but 11-day faster since , than the Julian calendar.
Events of 1700
January - June
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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.
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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.
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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.
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April - Fire destroys many buildings in
Gondar, the capital of
Ethiopia, including two in the palace complex.
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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''.
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May - In
Rhode Island (American colony),
Walter Clarke, former governor
1679-
1686, becomes governor again for 14 more years.
July - December
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November 20 -
Great Northern War:
Battle of Narva - King
Charles XII of Sweden defeats the army of
Czar Peter the Great at
Narva.
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November 23 -
Pope Clement XI succeeds
Pope Innocent XII as the 243rd
pope.
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December 28 -
Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester appointed
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
Undated
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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.
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Lions became extinct in
Libya around this date.
Births
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January 29 -
Konstancja Czartoryska, Polish noblewoman (died
1759)
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February 2 -
Johann Christoph Gottsched, German writer (died
1766)
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February 9 -
Daniel Bernoulli, Dutch mathematician (died
1782)
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March 13 -
Michel Blavet, French flutist (died
1768)
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May 7 -
Gerard van Swieten, Dutch-born physician (died
1772)
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May 12 -
Luigi Vanvitelli, Italian architect (died
1773)
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May 19 -
José de Escandón, Spanish colonial governor (died
1770)
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May 26 -
Nicolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf, German religious and social reformer (died
1760)
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August 13 -
Heinrich, count von Brühl, German statesman (died
1763)
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August 17 -
Clemens August of Bavaria (died
1761)
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September 11 -
James Thomson, Scottish poet (died
1748)
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September 30 -
Stanislaw Konarski, Polish writer (died
1773)
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October 10 -
Lambert-Sigisbert Adam, French sculptor (died
1759)
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November 19 -
Jean-Antoine Nollet, French abbot and physicist (died
1770)
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November 28 -
Nathaniel Bliss, English astronomer (died
1764)
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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
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January 7 -
Raffaello Fabretti, Italian antiquary (born
1618)
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January 21 -
Henry Somerset, 1st Duke of Beaufort (born
1629)
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February 12 -
Aleksei Shein, Russian commander and statesman (born
1662)
★ May -
Louis Jolliet, Canadian explorer (born
1645)
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May 12 -
John Dryden, English writer (born
1631)
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May 15 -
John Hale, American witch hunter (born
1636)
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May 23 -
Jens Juel, Danish diplomat (born
1631)
★ July -
John Lowther, 1st Viscount Lonsdale, English politician (born
1655)
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July 29 -
William, Duke of Gloucester (born
1689)
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September 15 -
André Le Nôtre, French landscape gardener (born
1613)
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September 27 -
Pope Innocent XII (born
1615)
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October 16 -
Patriarch Adrian, Russian Orthodox Church leader (born
1627)
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November 1 -
Charles II of Spain (born
1661)
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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
1.
"Calendar in year 1700 (Russia)" (full Julian calendar), webpage:
Julian-1700
(Russia used the Julian calendar until 1919).
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