Explore 141 historical events from 1700–1709.
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)
The War of the Spanish Succession was a conflict between the European great powers, fought between 1701 and 1714. The death of Charles II of Spain in November 1700 without children…
War of the Spanish Succession: A combined Anglo-Dutch fleet under the command of George Rooke and allied with Archduke…
The War of the Spanish Succession was a conflict between the European great powers, fought between 1701 and 1714. The death of Charles II of Spain in November 1700 without children…
War of the Spanish Succession: The Duke of Marlborough led Allied forces to a crucial victory at the Battle of Blenheim.
The War of the Spanish Succession was a conflict between the European great powers, fought between 1701 and 1714. The death of Charles II of Spain in November 1700 without children…
War of the Spanish Succession: An Anglo-Dutch fleet engaged a French naval force at the Battle of Málaga in the…
Daniel Defoe was an English writer, journalist, merchant and spy. He is famous for his novels Robinson Crusoe (1719), Moll Flanders (1722) and Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress (1724)…
Daniel Defoe is imprisoned on charges of seditious libel
Peter I was the Tsar of all Russia from 1682 and the first Emperor of Russia from 1721 until his death in 1725. He reigned jointly with his half-brother Ivan V until 1696. Peter, a…
Tsar Peter the Great founds the city of Saint Petersburg
The Battle of Ekeren, which took place on 30 June 1703, was a battle of the War of the Spanish Succession. A Bourbon army of around 24,000 men, consisting of troops from France, Sp…
The Battle of Ekeren between a Dutch force and a French force
The Bavarian Rummel was the term used to downplay the warlike events in which Bavarian troops of Elector Maximilian II Emanuel invaded the County of Tyrol in 1703 during the War of…
During the Bavarian Rummel the rural population of Tyrol drove the Bavarian Prince-Elector Maximilian II Emanuel out…
Daniel Defoe was an English writer, journalist, merchant and spy. He is famous for his novels Robinson Crusoe (1719), Moll Flanders (1722) and Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress (1724)…
Daniel Defoe is placed in a pillory for the crime of seditious libel after publishing a politically satirical…
The Edirne Incident was a janissary revolt that began in Constantinople in 1703. The revolt was a reaction to the consequences of the Treaty of Karlowitz and Sultan Mustafa II's ab…
Edirne event: Sultan Mustafa II of the Ottoman Empire is dethroned.
Thomas Clap or Thomas Clapp was an American academic and educator, a Congregational minister, and college administrator. He was both the fifth rector and the earliest official to b…
Thomas Clap, American minister and academic (died 1767)
John Wesley was an English cleric, theologian, and evangelist who was a principal leader of a revival movement within the Church of England known as Methodism. The societies he fou…
John Wesley, English cleric and theologian (died 1791)
Lorenzo Ricci was an Italian Jesuit, elected the eighteenth Superior General of the Society of Jesus. He was also the last before the suppression of the Jesuits in 1773.
Lorenzo Ricci, Italian religious leader, 18th Superior General of the Society of Jesus (died 1775)
Lancelot Addison was an English writer and Church of England clergyman. He was born at Crosby Ravensworth in Westmorland. He was educated at the Queen's College, Oxford.
Lancelot Addison, English clergyman and educator (born 1632)
The Edirne Incident was a janissary revolt that began in Constantinople in 1703. The revolt was a reaction to the consequences of the Treaty of Karlowitz and Sultan Mustafa II's ab…
A janissary revolt forces the deposition of Ottoman sultan Mustafa II.
Charles Perrault was a French author and member of the Académie Française. He laid the foundations for a new literary genre, the fairy tale, with his works derived from earlier fol…
Charles Perrault, French author and academic (born 1628)
Samuel Pepys was an English writer and Tory politician. He served as an official in the Navy Board and Member of Parliament, but is now most renowned for the diary he kept for almo…
Samuel Pepys, English politician (born 1633)
Charles de Marguetel de Saint-Denis, seigneur de Saint-Évremond was a French soldier, hedonist, essayist and literary critic. After 1661, he lived in exile, mainly in England, as a…
Charles de Saint-Évremond, French-English soldier, author, and critic (born 1610)
Daniel Defoe was an English writer, journalist, merchant and spy. He is famous for his novels Robinson Crusoe (1719), Moll Flanders (1722) and Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress (1724)…
English writer Daniel Defoe was imprisoned for seditious libel after publishing a pamphlet that was perceived to satiris
The assault on Nijmegen occurred during the War of the Spanish Succession, on 10 and 11 June 1702 involving French troops under the Duke of Boufflers against the small garrison and…
Anglo-Dutch forces skirmish with French forces before the walls of Nijmegen and prevent its fall
Friedrich Christoph Oetinger was a German Lutheran pastor, theologian, and theosopher.
Friedrich Christoph Oetinger, German theologian and theosopher (died 1782)
In the Great Northern War (1700–1721) a coalition led by Russia successfully contested the supremacy of Sweden in Northern, Central and Eastern Europe. The initial leaders of the a…
Great Northern War: A numerically superior Polish-Saxon army of Augustus II the Strong, operating from an advantageous…
Louis George, Margrave of Baden-Baden was a German nobleman and the Margrave of Baden-Baden from 1707 until his death in 1761. From 1707 to 1727, his mother Sibylle of Saxe-Lauenbu…
Louis George, Margrave of Baden-Baden (died 1761)
Philip Doddridge D.D. was an English Nonconformist minister, educator, and hymnwriter.
Philip Doddridge, English hymn-writer and educator (died 1751)