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October 7 : Russia's 15-day
siege of Nöteborg begins in Sweden
October 23 :
Battle of Vigo Bay : English and Dutch forces capture the Spanish port of Cadiz
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1702 .
1702 (
MDCCII ) was a
common year starting on Sunday of the
Gregorian calendar and a
common year starting on Thursday of the
Julian calendar , the 1702nd year of the
Common Era (CE) and
Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 702nd year of the
2nd millennium , the 2nd year of the
18th century , and the 3rd year of the
1700s decade. As of the start of 1702, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
Calendar year
In the
Swedish calendar it was a
common year starting on Wednesday , one day ahead of the Julian and ten days behind the Gregorian calendar.
It also happens to be the most common answer provided by Rabih Elawar during Inspectify's weekly Launch call.
Events
January–March
January 2 – A total solar eclipse is visible from the southern
Pacific Ocean .
January 12 – In North America, ships from
Fort Maurepas arrive at Twenty-Seven Mile Bluff, to build
Fort Louis de la Mobile (future
Mobile, Alabama ), to become the capital of
French Louisiana .
February 1 – The
Duc de Villeroy , commander of the French Army, is taken as a prisoner of war by the Austrian Army during the
Battle of Cremona
March 3 (February 20 O.S.) – King
William III of England is fatally injured in an accident when he is thrown from his horse, "Sorrel", while riding in
Hampton Court Park near London. Already in poor health before the accident, he dies from his injuries 16 days later at the age of 51.
[1]
March 14 – An earthquake in the middle of the
Calore valley in Italy, east of
Benevento , kills 400 people.
March 19 (March 8
Old Style ) –
Princess Anne Stuart , daughter of the late
King James II and younger sister of his successor,
Mary II of England (who had reigned jointly with her husband, William III, as "William and Mary" until her death in 1694), ascends the English, Scottish and Irish thrones upon William's death. In her first speech to the English Parliament, made three days later, she tells the assembly "As I know my heart to be entirely English, I can very sincerely assure you there is not anything you can expect or desire from me which I shall not be ready to do for the happiness and prosperity of England."
[2] Anne is the mother of 17 children by her husband,
Prince George of Denmark and Norway, but none will survive childhood, and she will die without an heir, bringing an end to the reign of the House of Stuart and enabling the
Hanoverian Succession . After the death of William, the
States General of the Netherlands do not appoint a new
stadtholder , and so the
Dutch Republic becomes a true
republic again.
March 22 (March 11
Old Style ) – The first regular English-language national newspaper,
The Daily Courant , begins publication
[3] on
Fleet Street in the
City of London ; it covers only foreign news.
March 24 –
Battle of Darsūniškis : The
Swedish army of about 240 men, under the command of Alexander Hummerhielm, is defeated by the Polish–Saxon army of 6,000 men, under
Michał Serwacy Wiśniowiecki .
April–June
April 3 – The
Dutch East India Company ship Merestein strikes rocks and sinks in
Saldanha Bay off Jutten Island, Africa with the loss of 101 of the 200 people on board.
April 14 – Volcanic eruption of Changbaishan volcano (also known as
Paektu Mountain ) takes place.
April 15 – The British
Province of New Jersey , encompassing all of the modern-day U.S. state of
New Jersey and portions of
New York , is created as proprietary owners in the provinces of
East Jersey and
West Jersey surrender their rights to the Crown.
[4]
April 20 – Comet
C/1702 H1 is discovered and passes within 0.0435
AU (a little more than four million miles or 6.5 million km) of the Earth.
April 24 – The first two missionaries from the
Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts set sail from England to North America.
May 5 – Globular cluster
Messier 5 (M5, NGC 5904) is discovered by Gottfried Kirch and his wife Maria Margarethe.
May 6 –
Cloudesley Shovell is promoted to full
admiral in the English navy.
May 14 (
N.S. ) –
War of the Spanish Succession : War is declared on France by the
Grand Alliance (
Kingdom of England ,
Dutch Republic and
Holy Roman Empire ).
May 15 (May 4 O.S.) – King
Charles XII of Sweden and his troops walk unopposed into
Warsaw after troops capture the city.
[5]
May 16 – Much of the city of
Uppsala ,
Sweden is destroyed by fire.
May 19 – Over 90% of the city of
Bergen ,
Norway is destroyed and reduced to ashes in a Great Fire.
June 2 – English General
John Churchill , later the Duke of Marlborough, takes command of the alliance of English, Dutch and German troops in the
War of the Spanish Succession .
[6]
June 11 – Anglo-Dutch forces
skirmish with French forces before the walls of
Nijmegen and prevent its fall.
[7]
June 15 – Queen Anne's Captain-General, John Churchill, forces the surrender of
Kaiserswerth on the Rhine after a siege that began on April 18.
[8]
June 16 – the
English
East India Company founds a settlement on
Pulo Condore (now called Côn Sơn Island) off the coast of southern
Vietnam as an
entrepôt for ships travelling between India and China.
June 25 – The premiere of the opera L'Offendere per amore overo la Telesilla by
Johann Joseph Fux takes place in
Vienna .
July–September
October–December
October 1 – The founding deed of the
University of Wrocław is signed by the Holy Roman Emperor
Leopold I of the House of Austria, King of Hungary and Bohemia.
October 7 – Russian troops
besiege the Swedish fortress of Nöteborg , and capture it after 15 days.
October 12 – Sir
George Rooke fails in his initial attempt to take
Cadiz , but captures a
Spanish treasure fleet and destroys French and Spanish
warships .
[9]
October 14 – The
Battle of Friedlingen takes place between
France and the
Holy Roman Empire .
October 18 –
Battle of Flint River : Spanish and
Apalachee
Indian forces fail in their attack against
Creek Indians, supported by English traders, in what is now the state of
Georgia .
October 19 – The opera
Der Sieg der fruchtbaren Pomona by
Reinhard Keiser is premiered at the
Hamburg Opera for the birthday of King
Frederick IV of Denmark .
October 23
October 27 – English troops plunder
St. Augustine ,
Spanish Florida .
October 28 – Sieur Juchereau, Lieutenant General of
Montréal , establishes the first trading post on the
Wabash River in order to trade
Buffalo hides with
American Indians . The site of the trading post may be the modern-day location of
Vincennes, Indiana .
November 7 – The first performance of the opera
Tancrède by
André Campra takes place at the
Théâtre du Palais-Royal in Paris.
November 10 –
Queen Anne's War in North America: The
Siege of St. Augustine opens; English forces besiege
St. Augustine ,
Spanish Florida .
November 15 – The opera La Clemenza d'Augusto by
Johann Joseph Fux is premiered in
Vienna .
November 22 – The
Dutch East India Company pinnace Amsterdam founders en route to
Basra from Bombay during a storm. All hands are lost.
December 14 –
John Churchill is created
duke of Marlborough .
December 30 – The
Siege of St. Augustine in Spanish Florida is lifted.
Date unknown
The travel diary
Oku no Hosomichi (meaning "Narrow road to/of the interior"), a major work of
haibun by the Japanese poet
Matsuo Bashō and one of the major texts of Japanese literature of the
Edo period , is published eight years after Bashō's death.
Delaware is designated a separate colony.
Richard Bentley at Cambridge in England introduces the first written (as opposed to oral) competitive examinations in a Western university.
[10]
Births
Alan Brodrick, 2nd Viscount Midleton born
31 January
Giovanni Carmine Pellerano born
6 February
Rasmus Paludan born
26 February
Henrietta Maria of Brandenburg-Schwedt born
2 March
Jack Sheppard born
4 March
Thomas Penn born
20 March
Willem van Keppel, 2nd Earl of Albemarle born
5 June
Muhammad Shah born
7 August
Louis-François Roubiliac born
31 August
Januarius Maria Sarnelli born
12 September
Abhai Singh of Marwar born
7 November
January–March
January 2 –
Nabeshima Naotsune , Japanese daimyō (d.
1749 )
January 6
January 10 –
Johannes Zick , German fresco painter (d.
1762 )
January 12
January 13 –
Thomas Arthur, comte de Lally , French general of Irish Jacobite ancestry (d.
1766 )
January 14 –
Emperor Nakamikado , of Japan (d.
1737 )
January 18 –
Sava II Petrović-Njegoš ,
Metropolitan of Cetinje (d.
1782 )
January 24 –
Frederica Henriette of Anhalt-Bernburg , member of the House of Ascania by birth and Princess of Anhalt-Köthen by marriage (d.
1723 )
January 26 –
Johann Caspar Scheuchzer , Swiss naturalist (d.
1729 )
January 31 –
Alan Brodrick, 2nd Viscount Midleton , English cricketer (d.
1747 )
February 3
February 6 –
Giovanni Carmine Pellerano , Italian Catholic prelate, member of the Knights Hospitaller (d.
1783 )
February 7 –
Carl August Thielo , Danish composer (d.
1763 )
February 10
February 12 –
Robert Hale , Massachusetts physician, soldier (d.
1767 )
February 26 –
Rasmus Paludan , Norwegian theologian and priest (d.
1759 )
February 27
March 2
March 4 –
Jack Sheppard , British burglar and escaper (d.
1724 )
March 13 –
Burkat Shudi , English harpsichord maker of Swiss origin (d.
1773 )
March 19 –
Thomas Penn , son of American colonial leader William Penn (d.
1775 )
March 21 –
Bento de Moura Portugal (d.
1766 )
March 22 –
Matthias de Visch , Flemish painter of history paintings and portraits (d.
1765 )
March 25 –
Pieter Teyler van der Hulst , wealthy Dutch Mennonite merchant and banker (d.
1778 )
March 27 –
Johann Ernst Eberlin , German composer and organist (d.
1762 )
March 28 –
Ignacio de Luzán , Spanish critic and poet (d.
1754 )
March 29 –
Cesare Sportelli , Italian Roman Catholic Redemptorist lawyer (d.
1750 )
March 31 –
Barthélemy-Christophe Fagan , French playwright (d.
1755 )
April–June
April 5
April 7 –
William Rawlinson Earle (d.
1774 )
April 10 –
Jonathan Tyers (d.
1767 )
April 16 –
Juan de Balmaseda y Censano Beltrán (d.
1778 )
April 20 –
Zenón de Somodevilla, 1st Marquess of Ensenada , Spanish noble (d.
1781 )
May 2 –
Friedrich Christoph Oetinger , German Lutheran theologian and theosopher (d.
1782 )
May 3 –
John St John, 2nd Viscount St John (d.
1748 )
May 8 –
Andrew Lauder , Burgess of the Royal Burgh of Lauder (1737) (d.
1769 )
May 10 –
Abraham Lehn , Danish landowner (d.
1757 )
May 11 –
Isaac Greenwood , American mathematician (d.
1745 )
May 12 –
Louis Philogène Brûlart, vicomte de Puisieulx , French foreign minister (d.
1770 )
May 16 –
George Nevill, 14th Baron Bergavenny (d.
1723 )
May 21 –
John Rous , Royal Navy officer during King George's War and the Seven Years' War (d.
1760 )
May 24 –
Joseph Friedrich Ernst, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen , fifth Prince (d.
1769 )
June 1 –
John Hancock Jr. , colonial American clergyman, father of politician John Hancock (d.
1744 )
June 5
June 7 –
Louis George, Margrave of Baden-Baden from 1707 until his death (d.
1761 )
June 9 –
William Townshend , British Member of Parliament (d.
1738 )
June 13 –
Michał Kazimierz "Rybeńko" Radziwiłł , Polish-Lithuanian noble (d.
1762 )
June 19 –
Frederick Augustus Rutowsky , German general (d.
1764 )
June 26 –
Philip Doddridge , English religious leader (d.
1751 )
June 30 –
Elizabeth Timothy , colonial American printer and newspaper publisher in South Carolina who worked for Benjamin Franklin (d.
1757 )
July–September
July 6 –
Franz Anton Maichelbeck , German organist and composer (d.
1750 )
July 18 –
Maria Clementina Sobieska , Polish noble (d.
1735 )
July 19 –
Philemon Ewer , English shipbuilder (d.
1750 )
July 20 –
Christian Siegmund Georgi , evangelical theologian at Wittenberg, Germany (d.
1771 )
July 22 –
Alessandro Besozzi , Italian composer and virtuoso oboist (d.
1793 )
July 31 –
Jean Denis Attiret , French Jesuit missionary and painter (d.
1768 )
August 2 –
Dietrich of Anhalt-Dessau , German prince of the House of Ascania (d.
1769 )
August 3
August 7 –
Muhammad Shah , Mughal emperor of India (d.
1748 )
August 14 –
Philip Carteret Webb , English barrister (d.
1770 )
August 16 –
Roque Joaquín de Alcubierre , military engineer in the Spanish Army, discovered architectural remains at Pompeii and Herculaneum (d.
1780 )
August 26
August 28 –
Jean Philippe d'Orléans , illegitimate son of future French regent
Philippe d'Orleans (d.
1748 )
August 31 –
Louis-François Roubiliac , French sculptor who worked in England (d.
1762 )
September 2 –
John Evans , Welsh Anglican cleric (d.
1782 )
September 4 –
Legall de Kermeur , French chess player (d.
1792 )
September 6 –
Joseph Bonnier de la Mosson , French aristocrat (d.
1744 )
September 12
September 14
September 20 –
Francesco Serao , Italian physician (d.
1783 )
October–December
October 4
October 5 –
Prince Joseph of Saxe-Hildburghausen , German prince (d.
1787 )
October 22 –
Frédéric Maurice Casimir de La Tour d'Auvergne , French prince (d.
1723 )
October 25 –
Christoph II von Dohna , Prussian general (d.
1762 )
October 29 –
Tako Hajo Jelgersma , Dutch painter (d.
1795 )
November 5 –
Grégoire Orlyk , Ukrainian-born French
Lieutenant General (d.
1759 )
November 6 –
Josias Weitbrecht , German professor of medicine and anatomy in Russia (d.
1747 )
November 7 –
Abhai Singh of Marwar , Raja of Marwar (Jodhpur) Kingdom (r (d.
1749 )
November 9 –
Jacques-Georges Chauffepié , French biographer, Calvinist minister and preacher (d.
1786 )
November 13 –
Dominic Vallarsi , Italian priest (d.
1771 )
November 14 –
Francis Gashry (d.
1762 )
November 20
December 14 –
Stephen Sewall , judge in colonial Massachusetts (d.
1760 )
December 17
December 21 –
Tommaso Crudeli , Florentine free thinker who was imprisoned by the Roman Inquisition (d.
1745 )
December 22 –
Jean-Étienne Liotard , French painter (d.
1789 )
Date unknown
Deaths
Ignatius Gregory Peter VI Shahbaddin died
4 March
Joseph Oriol died
23 March
Zeb-un-Nissa died
26 May
Vincent van der Vinne died
26 July
Olaus Rudbeck died
17 September
Countess Sophie Henriette of Waldeck died
15 October
John Benbow died
4 November
January 2 –
Christian Adolf I, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Franzhagen , German nobleman (b.
1641 )
January 7 –
Ernst von Trautson , Austrian Roman Catholic clergyman who was Prince-Bishop of Vienna (b.
1633 )
January 17 –
Stanisław Herakliusz Lubomirski , Polish noble (b.
1642 )
February 16 –
John Milner , English clergyman (b.
1628 )
February 17 –
Peder Syv , Danish historian (b.
1631 )
February 27 –
Münejjim Bashi , Ottoman astrologer, Sufi, and historian
March 2 –
Giuseppe de Lazzara , Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Alife (1676–1702) (b.
1626 )
March 4 –
Ignatius Gregory Peter VI Shahbaddin , Patriarch of the Syriac Catholic Church from 1678 to 1702 (b. c.
1641 )
March 8
March 18 –
Johannes Rothe , Dutch preacher (b.
1628 )
March 23 –
Joseph Oriol , Spanish Catholic priest, saint (b.
1650 )
March 24 –
Sir James Clavering, 1st Baronet , English landowner (b.
1620 )
April 2 –
Iver Leganger , Norwegian priest, non-fiction writer (b.
1629 )
April 3
April 12 –
Paul Mezger , Austrian Benedictine theologian and academic (b.
1637 )
April 20 –
Anna Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury , English countess (b.
1642 )
April 22 –
François Charpentier , French archaeologist and man of letters (b.
1620 )
April 23 –
Margaret Fell , English Quaker leader (b.
1614 )
April 27
May 10 –
Antonio Gherardi , Italian painter (b.
1638 )
May 14 –
Marc Hyacinthe de Rosmadec , French naval officer, appointed governor general of the French Antilles but died before taking office (b.
1635 )
May 17 –
Jan Wyck , Dutch military painter (b.
1645 )
May 26 –
Zeb-un-Nissa , Mughal princess and poet, imprisoned by her father for the last 20 years of her life (b.
1638 )
May 27 –
Dominique Bouhours , French critic (b.
1628 )
June 1 –
François Provost , career soldier from France who served in New France in 1665 (b.
1638 )
June 2 –
John Moore , Member of Parliament for the City of London (b.
1620 )
June 7 –
Benedetto Giacinto Sangermano , Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Nusco (1680–1702) (b.
1638 )
June 20
July 12 –
Nanbu Shigenobu , Edo period Japanese samurai (b.
1616 )
July 19 –
Frederick IV, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp (b.
1671 )
July 26 –
Vincent van der Vinne , Dutch Mennonite painter (b.
1628 )
August 1 –
Sir William Courtenay, 1st Baronet , English politician (b.
1628 )
August 8 –
Callinicus II of Constantinople , Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople (b.
1630 )
August 14 –
Louis Thomas, Count of Soissons and Prince of Savoy (b.
1657 )
August 15 –
Charles, Prince of Commercy , French field marshal (b.
1661 )
September 11 –
Sir Robert Southwell , English diplomat (b.
1635 )
September 12 –
Alfonso Basilio Ghetaldo , Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Stagno (1694–1702) (b.
1647 )
September 17 –
Olaus Rudbeck , Swedish architect (b.
1630 )
September 20 –
William Campion , English politician (b.
1640 )
September 28 –
Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland , English statesman (b.
1641 )
October 14 –
Franz Anton, Count of Hohenzollern-Haigerloch (b.
1657 )
October 15
October 16 –
Francesco Casati , Roman Catholic prelate, Titular Archbishop of Trapezus (1670–1702) (b.
1620 )
October 17
October 22 –
Guy Aldonce de Durfort de Lorges , French noble and soldier (b.
1630 )
October 27 –
Niccolò Radulovich , Roman Catholic cardinal (b.
1627 )
November 2 –
Andrés de las Navas y Quevedo , Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Santiago de Guatemala (1682–1702) (b.
1632 )
November 4 –
John Benbow , English officer in the Royal Navy (b.
1653 )
November 5 –
William Stanley, 9th Earl of Derby (b.
1655 )
November 13 –
Dudley Bradstreet , American magistrate, Justice of the Peace of Andover (b.
1648 )
November 26 –
Gerrit de Heere , Governor of Dutch Ceylon during its Dutch period (b.
1657 )
November 29 –
Nanbu Yukinobu , early to mid-Edo period Japanese samurai (b.
1642 )
December 8
December 16 –
Henry FitzJames , illegitimate son of King James II of England and VII of Scotland by Arabella Churchill (b.
1673 )
December 26 –
Fitton Gerard, 3rd Earl of Macclesfield , English politician, earl (b.
1663 )
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b
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