Explore 89 historical events from 1700–1709.
Giovanni Battista or Giambattista Martini,, also known as Padre Martini, was an Italian Conventual Franciscan friar, who was a leading musician, composer, and music historian of th…
Giovanni Battista Martini, Italian pianist and composer (died 1780)
Andreas Felix von Oefele was a German historian and librarian.
Andreas Felix von Oefele, German historian and librarian (died 1780)
John Dollond was an English optician known for his successful optics business and his patenting and commercialization of achromatic doublets.
John Dollond, English optician and astronomer (died 1761)
Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville or Sieur d'Iberville was a French military officer, explorer, colonial administrator and merchant. He is noted for founding the colony of Louisiana in N…
Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville, Canadian captain and explorer (born 1661)
General John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, 1st Prince of Mindelheim, 1st Count of Nellenburg, Prince of the Holy Roman Empire was a British army officer and statesman. From a…
John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, defeats a French army under Marshal François de Neufville, duc de Villeroy at t
The Acts of Union refer to two acts of Parliament, one by the Parliament of Scotland in March 1707, followed shortly thereafter by an equivalent act of the Parliament of England. T…
The Acts of Union 1707 are agreed upon by commissioners from the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland,…
The War of the Spanish Succession was a European great power conflict fought between 1701 and 1714. The death of Charles II of Spain in November 1700 without children led to a cont…
War of the Spanish Succession: The Grand Alliance armies routed the Franco-Spanish-Bavarian army in Ramillies, present-d
Oulu is a major port city in Finland and the regional capital of North Ostrobothnia. It is located on the north-western coast of the country at the mouth of the River Oulu. The pop…
A fire in Oulu, Finland almost completely destroyed the fourth district, which covered the southern part of the city…
Leopold I was Holy Roman Emperor, King of Germany, King of Hungary, Croatia and Bohemia. The second son of Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor, by his first wife, Maria Anna of Spain…
Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor (born 1640)
Rev. Francis Blomefield, FSA, Rector of Fersfield in Norfolk, was an English antiquarian who wrote a county history of Norfolk: An Essay Towards a Topographical History of the Coun…
Francis Blomefield, English historian and author (died 1752)
The Thirteen Colonies were the British colonies on the Atlantic coast of North America which broke away from the British Crown in the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), and jo…
The first regular newspaper in British Colonial America, The Boston News-Letter, is published
Benjamin Huntsman was an English inventor and manufacturer of cast or crucible steel.
Benjamin Huntsman, English inventor and businessman (died 1776)
John Kay was an English inventor whose most important creation was the flying shuttle, which was a key contribution to the Industrial Revolution. He is often confused with his name…
John Kay, English engineer, invented the Flying shuttle (died 1780)
John Taylor, English classical scholar, was born at Shrewsbury in Shropshire, England.
John Taylor, English author and scholar (died 1766)
Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens was a French rationalist, author and critic of the Catholic Church, who was a close friend of Voltaire and spent much of his life in exile …
Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens, French philosopher and author (died 1771)
August Gottlieb Spangenberg was a German theologian, minister, and bishop of the Moravian Church. As successor to Nicolaus Zinzendorf as bishop of the Moravian Church, he helped de…
August Gottlieb Spangenberg, German bishop and theologian (died 1792)
Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber was a Czech-Austrian composer and violinist of the middle Baroque era. Biber worked in Graz and Kroměříž before he illegally left his employer, Princ…
Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, Czech-Austrian violinist and composer (born 1644)
José António Carlos de Seixas was a pre-eminent Portuguese composer of the 18th century. An accomplished virtuoso of both the organ and the harpsichord, Seixas succeeded his father…
Carlos Seixas, Portuguese harpsichord player and composer (died 1742)
Louis Bourdaloue was a French Jesuit and preacher.
Louis Bourdaloue, French preacher and author (born 1632)
Thomas Brown was an English translator and satirist, largely forgotten today save for a four-line gibe that he may have written concerning John Fell.
Tom Brown, English author and translator (born 1662)
John Quelch was an English pirate who had a lucrative but very brief career of about one year. His chief claim to historical significance is that he was the first person to be trie…
John Quelch, English pirate (born 1665)
Pierre-Charles Le Sueur was a French fur trader and explorer in North America, recognized as the first known European to explore the Minnesota River valley.
Pierre-Charles Le Sueur, French fur trader and explorer (born 1657)
Peregrine White was the first boy born on the Pilgrim ship the Mayflower in the harbour of Massachusetts, the second baby born on the Mayflower's historic voyage, and the first kno…
Peregrine White, English-American farmer and soldier (born 1620)
John Campbell was an early American newspaper publisher and editor and Postmaster of Boston. He founded the first regularly published newspaper in British America, The Boston News-…
John Campbell released the first issue of The Boston News-Letter, the first continuously published newspaper in British