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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 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.

Contents 1 Events of 1700 1.1 January - June 1.2 July - December 1.3 Undated 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Notes

[edit] Events of 1700

[edit] January - June

• January 1 (Julian) - Russia numbers its years from Christ instead of Creation.
• 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) - Swedish calendar is adopted.
• April - Fire destroys many buildings in Gondar, the capital of Ethiopia, including two 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 - In Rhode Island (American colony), Walter Clarke, former governor 1679-1686, becomes governor again for 14 more years.

[edit] July - December

• November 20 - Great Northern War: Battle of Narva - King Charles XII of Sweden defeats the army of Czar Peter the Great at Narva.
• 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

• Vietnamese gains control of the 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 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.

[edit] Births

1700 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1700 MDCC
Ab urbe condita	2453
Armenian calendar	1149 ԹՎ ՌՃԽԹ
Bahá'í calendar	-144 – -143
Berber calendar	2650
Buddhist calendar	2244
Burmese calendar	1062
Chinese calendar	4336/4396-11-12 (己卯年十一月十二日) — to — 4337/4397-11-22 (庚辰年十一月廿二日)
Coptic calendar	1416 – 1417
Ethiopian calendar	1692 – 1693
Hebrew calendar	5460 – 5461
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1755 – 1756
- Shaka Samvat	1622 – 1623
- Kali Yuga	4801 – 4802
Holocene calendar	11700
Iranian calendar	1078 – 1079
Islamic calendar	1111 – 1112
Japanese calendar	Genroku 13 (元禄13年)
- Imperial Year	Kōki 2360 (皇紀2360年)
Julian calendar	1745
Korean calendar	4033
Thai solar calendar	2243
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• January 29 - Konstancja Czartoryska, Polish noblewoman (died 1759)
• February 2 - Johann Christoph Gottsched, German writer (died 1766)
• February 9 - Daniel Bernoulli, Dutch mathematician (died 1782)
• March 13 - Michel Blavet, French flutist (died 1768)
• May 7 - Gerard van Swieten, Dutch-born physician (died 1772)
• May 12 - Luigi Vanvitelli, Italian architect (died 1773)
• May 19 - José de Escandón, Spanish colonial governor (died 1770)
• May 26 - Nicolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf, German religious and social reformer (died 1760)
• August 13 - Heinrich, count von Brühl, German statesman (died 1763)
• August 17 - Clemens August of Bavaria (died 1761)
• September 11 - James Thomson, Scottish poet (died 1748)
• September 30 - Stanislaw Konarski, Polish writer (died 1773)
• October 10 - Lambert-Sigisbert Adam, French sculptor (died 1759)
• November 19 - Jean-Antoine Nollet, French abbot and physicist (died 1770)
• November 28 - Nathaniel Bliss, English astronomer (died 1764)
• December 25 - Leopold II of Anhalt-Dessau, Prussian general (died 1751)
• date unknown
  • Francesca Cuzzoni, Italian opera singer (died 1770)
  • Karl Friedrich, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp (died 1739)
  • Franciszek Salezy Potocki, Polish nobleman (died 1772)
  • Ivan Ranger, Austrian painter (died 1753)

See also Category: 1700 births.

[edit] Deaths

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

See also Category: 1700 deaths.

[edit] Notes

1. ^ "Calendar in year 1700 (Russia)" (full Julian calendar), Russia used the Julian calendar until 1918.

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