1700
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Events
- January 1 - Russia accepts Julian calendar.
- January 1 - in around this year, Germany and Denmark-Norway adopt the Gregorian calendar, including the convention that New Year's Day is January 1st.
- 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 27 - The island of New Britain is discovered.
- November 20 - Great Northern War: Battle of Narva - King Charles XII of Sweden defeats the army of Tsar Peter the Great at Narva.
- Vietnamese gain control of entire Indochina peninsula.
- The Great Northern War begins when Russia, Denmark and Saxony/Poland make a coordinated attack on Sweden (to 1721).
- Control of Spain passes from the Habsburgs to the Bourbons.
- December 28 - Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
- March 1 - Swedish calendar adopted.
- Mission San Xavier del Bac founded in New Spain near Tucson, as a Spanish Roman Catholic mission.
Births
- February 2 - Johann Christoph Gottsched, German writer (died 1766)
- February 9 - Daniel Bernoulli, Dutch mathematician (died 1782)
- March 13 - Michel Blavet, French flute virtuoso (died 1768)
- May 7 - Gerard van Swieten, Austrian physician (died 1772)
- May 14 - Mary Delany, Englishwoman of literary and artistic tastes (died 1788)
- May 19 - José de Escandón, first governor of the colony of Nuevo Santander (died 1770)
- May 26 - Nicolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf, German religious and social reformer (died 1760)
- August 13 - Heinrich, count von Brühl, German statesman at the court of Saxony (died 1763)
- September 11 - James Thomson, Scottish poet (died 1748)
- September 30 - Stanislaw Konarski, Polish pedagogue (died 1773)
- November 28 - Nathaniel Bliss, English astronomer (died 1764)
- December 25 - Leopold II of Anhalt-Dessau, Prussian general (died 1751)
- Bajirao, Pesha of Maratha (died 1740)
- Francesca Cuzzoni, Italian opera singer (died 1770)
- Konstancja Czartoryska, Polish noblewoman (died 1759)
- Karl Friedrich, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp (died 1739)
- Israel ben Eliezer, Jewish Orthodox mystical rabbi (died 1760)
- Klemens August of Bavaria (died 1761)
- Franciszek Salezy Potocki, Polish nobleman (died 1772)
- Ivan Ranger, Austrian painter (died 1753)
- Luigi Vanvitelli, Italian engineer and architect (died 1773)
Deaths
- January 7 - Raphael 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 12 - John Dryden, English writer (born 1631)
- 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)
- November 1 - Charles II of Spain (born 1661)
- November 25 - Stephanus Van Cortlandt, first native born mayor of New York (born 1643)
- Patriarch Adrian, Russian Orthodox Church leader
- James Tuchet, 5th Earl of Castlehaven
- Caius Gabriel Cibber, Danish sculptor (born 1630)
- Thomas Creech, English translator (born 1659)
- Louis Joliet, Canadian explorer (born 1645)
- Artus Quellinues de Jonge, Dutch sculptor (born 1625)
- Jens Juel, Danish diplomat (born 1631)
- Kamalakara, Indian astronomer and mathematician (born 1616)
- Henry Killigrew, English dramatist (born 1613)
- John Lowther, 1st Viscount Lonsdale, English politician (born 1655)
- Joseph Moxon, English mathematical lexicographer (born 1627)
- John Hale, American witch hunter (born 1636)