Explore 187 historical events from 1700–1709.
Sir Joseph Williamson, PRS was an English civil servant, diplomat and politician who sat in the House of Commons of England variously between 1665 and 1701 and in the Irish House o…
Joseph Williamson, English politician, Secretary of State for the Northern Department (born 1633)
The Academy of the Distrustful, or Distrustful Academy, is an academy of letters founded on 3 June 1700 in Barcelona as a Baroque literary and musical academy with the aim of promo…
Foundation of the Academy of the Distrustful in the library room of the Palau Dalmases in Barcelona
Gerard van Swieten was a Dutch physician who from 1745 was the personal physician of the Holy Roman Empress Maria Theresa and transformed the Austrian health service and medical un…
Gerard van Swieten, Dutch-Austrian physician (died 1772)
Luigi Vanvitelli, was an Italian architect and painter. The most prominent 18th-century architect of Italy, he practised a sober classicising academic Late Baroque style that made …
Luigi Vanvitelli, Italian architect and engineer, designed the Palace of Caserta and Royal Palace of Milan (died 1773)
José de Escandón y Helguera, conde de Sierra was a Spanish fighter against indigenous people in New Spain and the founder and first governor of the colony of Nuevo Santander, which…
José de Escandón, 1st Count of Sierra Gorda, Spanish sergeant and politician (died 1770)
Nikolaus Ludwig, Reichsgraf von Zinzendorf und Pottendorf was a German religious and social reformer, bishop of the Moravian Church, founder of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine, Christ…
Nicolaus Zinzendorf, German bishop and saint (died 1760)
Heinrich, Count von Brühl, was a Polish-Saxon statesman at the court of Saxony and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and a member of the powerful German von Brühl family. The incu…
Heinrich von Brühl, Polish-German politician (died 1763)
Bajirao I was the 7th Peshwa of the Maratha Empire.
Baji Rao I, first Peshwa of Maratha Empire (died 1740)
Bajirao I was the 7th Peshwa of the Maratha Empire.
Bajirao I, 7th Peshwa of the Maratha Empire. (died 1740)
Princess Anna Sophie of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt was a Princess of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt.
Princess Anna Sophie of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (died 1780)
James Thomson was a Scottish poet and playwright, known for his poems The Seasons and The Castle of Indolence, and for the lyrics of "Rule, Britannia!"
James Thomson, Scottish poet and playwright (died 1748)
Stanisław Konarski, Sch.P. was a Polish pedagogue, educational reformer, political writer, poet, dramatist, Piarist priest and precursor of the Enlightenment in the Polish–Lithuani…
Stanisław Konarski, Polish monk, poet, and playwright (died 1773)
Angelo Italia was an Italian Jesuit and Baroque architect, who was born in Licata and died in Palermo. He designed a number of churches in Sicily, and later worked to reconstruct t…
Angelo Italia, Italian architect (born 1628)
John Dryden was an English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who in 1668 was appointed England's first Poet Laureate. He is seen as dominating the literary life of …
John Dryden, English poet, playwright, and critic (born 1631)
Lambert-Sigisbert Adam was a French sculptor, born in 1700 in Nancy. The eldest son of sculptor Jacob-Sigisbert Adam, he was known as Adam l’aîné to distinguish him from his two sc…
Lambert-Sigisbert Adam, French sculptor and illustrator (died 1759)
John Hale was the Puritan pastor of Beverly, Massachusetts, and took part in the Salem witch trials in 1692. He was one of the most prominent and influential ministers associated w…
John Hale, American minister (born 1636)
Prince William, Duke of Gloucester, was the son of Princess Anne and her husband, Prince George of Denmark. He was their only child to survive infancy. Styled Duke of Gloucester, h…
Prince William, Duke of Gloucester, English royal (born 1689)
André Le Nôtre, originally rendered as André Le Nostre, was a French landscape architect and the principal gardener of King Louis XIV of France. He was the landscape architect who …
André Le Nôtre, French gardener (born 1613)
Pope Innocent XII, born Antonio Pignatelli, was head of the Catholic Church and leader of the Papal States from 12 July 1691 until his death in September 1700.
Pope Innocent XII (born 1615)