1700

Year 1700 ARIES(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 days ahead of the Julian calendar until February 28 [O.S. February 18, 1700] 1700, then 11 days ahead since March 1 [O.S. February 19, 1700] 1700.

[edit] Events of 1700

Jan. 26: Cascadia Earthquake / tsunami.

[edit] January - June

• January 1 (Julian) - Russia begins numbering its calendar from the birth of Christ (Anno Domini) instead of since the Creation (Anno Mundi).
• 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 12 - The Great Northern War begins in Central Europe.
• February 27 - The island of New Britain is discovered.
• March 1 (Gregorian) - Protestant Germany and Denmark-Norway adopt the Gregorian calendar.
• March 1 (Swedish), March 11 (Gregorian), February 29 (Julian) - The Swedish calendar is adopted.
• April - Fire destroys many buildings in Gondar, the capital of Ethiopia, including 2 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 5 - William Penn begins monthly meetings for blacks advocating emancipation.
• May - In Rhode Island (American colony), Walter Clarke, former governor 1679-1686, becomes governor again for 14 more years.

[edit] July - December

November 20: Battle of Narva.

• November 20 - Great Northern War - Battle of Narva: King Charles XII of Sweden defeats the army of Czar Peter the Great.
• November 23 - Pope Clement XI succeeds Pope Innocent XII as the 243rd pope.
• December 28 - Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester is appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.

[edit] Undated

• The Vietnamese gain control of the entire Indochina Peninsula.
• The Great Northern War begins with Russia, Denmark and Saxony/Poland making a coordinated attack on Sweden (to 1703).

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• Control of Spain passes from the Habsburgs to the Bourbons.
• Mission San Xavier del Bac is founded in New Spain near Tucson, as a Spanish Roman Catholic mission.
• A fire destroys the larger part of Edinburgh, Scotland.
• 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.
• One scholar observes that the entire military class of Japan is living "as in an inn, that is, consuming now and paying later" (approximate date).
• The value of sales of English manufactured products to the Atlantic economy - £3.9 million.

[edit] Births

• January 29 - Konstancja Czartoryska, Polish noblewoman (d. 1759)
• February 2 - Johann Christoph Gottsched, German writer (d. 1766)
• February 9 - Daniel Bernoulli, Dutch mathematician (d. 1782)
• March 13 - Michel Blavet, French flutist (d. 1768)
• May 7 - Gerard van Swieten, Dutch-born physician (d. 1772)
• May 12 - Luigi Vanvitelli, Italian architect (d. 1773)
• May 19 - José de Escandón, Spanish colonial governor (d. 1770)
• May 26 - Nicolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf, German religious and social reformer (d. 1760)
• August 13 - Heinrich, count von Brühl, German statesman (d. 1763)
• August 17 - Clemens August of Bavaria (d. 1761)
• September 11 - James Thomson, Scottish poet (d. 1748)
• September 30 - Stanislaw Konarski, Polish writer (d. 1773)
• October 10 - Lambert-Sigisbert Adam, French sculptor (d. 1759)
• November 19 - Jean-Antoine Nollet, French abbot and physicist (d. 1770)
• November 28 - Nathaniel Bliss, English astronomer (d. 1764)
• December 25 - Leopold II of Anhalt-Dessau, Prussian general (d. 1751)
• date unknown
  • Francesca Cuzzoni, Italian opera singer (d. 1770)
  • Karl Friedrich, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp (d. 1739)
  • Franciszek Salezy Potocki, Polish nobleman (d. 1772)
  • Ivan Ranger, Austrian painter (d. 1753)

See also Category: 1700 births.

[edit] Deaths

• January 7 - Raffaello Fabretti, Italian antiquary (b. 1618)
• January 21 - Henry Somerset, 1st Duke of Beaufort (b. 1629)
• January 22 - Jacob Balthasar Schutz, composer (b. 1660)
• February 12 - Aleksei Shein, Russian commander and statesman (b. 1662)
• May - Louis Jolliet, Canadian explorer (b. 1645)
• May 12 - John Dryden, English writer (b. 1631)
• May 15 - John Hale, American witch hunter (b. 1636)
• May 23 - Jens Juel, Danish diplomat (b. 1631)
• July - John Lowther, 1st Viscount Lonsdale, English politician (b. 1655)
• July 29 - William, Duke of Gloucester (b. 1689)
• September 15 - André Le Nôtre, French landscape gardener (b. 1613)
• September 27 - Pope Innocent XII (b. 1615)
• October 16 - Patriarch Adrian, Russian Orthodox Church leader (b. 1627)
• November 1 - Charles II of Spain (b. 1661)
• November 25 - Stephanus Van Cortlandt, first native born mayor of New York (b. 1643)
• date unknown
  • Caius Gabriel Cibber, Danish sculptor (b. 1630)
  • Thomas Creech, English translator (b. 1659)
  • Kamalakara, Indian astronomer and mathematician (b. 1616)
  • Henry Killigrew, English dramatist (b. 1613)
  • Louis Guittar, French pirate

See also Category: 1700 deaths.

[edit] Notes