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Calendar year
April 25 : Spanish and French Bourbons win the
Battle of Almansa in Spain.
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1707 .
1707 (
MDCCVII ) was a
common year starting on Saturday of the
Gregorian calendar and a
common year starting on Wednesday of the
Julian calendar , the 1707th year of the
Common Era (CE) and
Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 707th year of the
2nd millennium , the 7th year of the
18th century , and the 8th year of the
1700s decade. As of the start of 1707, 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 Tuesday , one day ahead of the Julian and ten days behind the Gregorian calendar.
Events
December 16 : The
last recorded eruption of Mount Fuji begins.
January–March
April–June
April 25 (April 14
Old Style ) –
War of the Spanish Succession –
Battle of Almansa : The
Bourbon army of
Spain and
France (with Irish mercenaries) under the French-born Englishman
James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick , soundly defeats the allied forces of
Portugal ,
England , and the
Dutch Republic led by the French-born
Huguenot (in English service)
Henri de Massue, Earl of Galway . Following this,
Philip V of Spain promulgates the first
Nueva Planta decrees , bringing the Kingdoms of
Valencia and
Aragon under the laws of the
Crown of Castile .
[2]
May 1 – The
Kingdom of England and the
Kingdom of Scotland are united as the
Kingdom of Great Britain .
May 8 – The
siege of Játiva within the Spanish
kingdom of Valencia begins as 9,000 Castilian and French troops, at the direction of
King Philip V attack Játiva, defended by troops of the
Kingdom of Aragon . Játiva (now
Xàtiva ) falls on June 6.
May 12 (May 1
Old Style ) – The new sovereign state of Great Britain comes into being, as a result of the
Acts of Union , which combine the Kingdoms of
Scotland and
England into a single united
Kingdom of Great Britain ,
[3] and merge the Parliaments of
England and
Scotland , to form the
Parliament of Great Britain .
[4]
May 23 – The
volcanic eruption in the
Santorini caldera begins.
June 4 – On the island now occupied by
Sri Lanka ,
Narendra Sinha becomes the monarch of most of the area as the new
Kandyan king, succeeding to the throne upon the death of his father, King
Vimaladharmasuriya II . Narendra Sinha reigns for almost 32 years until his death on May 13, 1739.
June 6 – The soldiers and officers defending the Aragonese city of Játiva are massacred after a larger force of Castilian troops breaks through the walls at the end of a
30-day siege . The rest of the town's residents are deported, and most of the dwellings are burned, with the area being renamed "San Felipe".
[5]
June 8 – Less than three months after proclaiming himself to be the new
Emperor of India ,
Muhammad Azam Shah and his three sons are killed in a battle by his troops led by his half-brother
Muhammad Mu'azzam
June 13 – On
Francis II Rákóczi 's recommendation, and with Count Miklos Bercsényi's support, a meeting of the Hungarian independence activists, held at the village of
Ónod declares the deposing of the
House of Habsburg (and
Joseph I, King of Hungary from the Hungarian throne.
June 19 – The coronation of Muhammad Mu'azzam as the new Emperor of India,
Bahadur Shah I , takes place in
Delhi
June 28 –
Yeshe Gyatso is installed as the new
Dalai Lama by his father,
Lha-bzang Khan , who has recently deposed the
6th Dalai Lama . Though the justification is that the 21-year-old Yeshe was the true reincarnation of the
5th Dalai Lama , Yeshe receives no recognition from Buddhists in Tibet or Mongolia and the
7th Dalai Lama is installed in 1710.
July– September
July 29 –
August 21 –
War of the Spanish Succession –
Battle of Toulon : The Allies are obliged to withdraw, but the French fleet is effectively put out of action.
August 27 –
Charles XII of Sweden launches his campaign to conquer Russia, marching to the east from
Altranstädt with 60,000 coalition troops.
[6] Another 16,000 soldiers are waiting on the outskirts of
Riga , guarding the
Swedish supply lines.
September 14 –
Vincenzo Durazzo is elected to a 2-year term as the new
Doge of the
Republic of Genoa (including the island of
Corsica ), succeeding the outgoing Doge,
Domenico Maria De Mari .
September 18 –
October 4 –
War of the Spanish Succession : The
siege of the fortress of
Ciudad Rodrigo , led by troops under the command of
Alexandre Maître , begins and lasts for 16 days. On the final day, General Maitre begins the attack that takes the fortress within 45 minutes.
September 30 –
War of the Spanish Succession : the conquest by Austrian troops, of the Italian peninsula city state of
Gaeta , is accomplished after a three-month siege led by General
Wirich Philipp von Daun .
October– December
October 22 –
Scilly naval disaster : Four British
Royal Navy ships run aground in the
Isles of Scilly , because of faulty
navigation . Admiral Sir
Cloudesley Shovell and at least 1,450 sailors all drown.
October 23 – The Parliament of the
Kingdom of Great Britain first meets in London.
October 28 – The
Hōei earthquake (the most powerful in Japan until
2011 ) strikes, with an estimated
local magnitude of 8.6 and kills at least 5,000 people.
November 30 –
War of the Spanish Succession : The
Siege of Pensacola ends, with the Spanish successfully defending their fort.
December 16 – The
last recorded eruption of Mount Fuji begins in Japan.
December 24 – The first British Governor of
Gibraltar , directly appointed by
Queen Anne ,
Roger Elliott , takes up his residence in the Convent of the Franciscan Friars.
December 28 –
Charles XII of Sweden and his coalition of troops begin crossing the first line of defense of the
Russian Empire , the
Vistula River , in their attempt to conquer Russia.
[6]
Date unknown
The
English Parliament establishes the first
turnpike trusts , which place a length of
road under the control of trustees, drawn from local landowners and traders. The turnpike trusts borrow capital for road maintenance against the security of tolls, and this arrangement becomes the common method of road maintenance for the next 150 years.
Battle of Yuraktau – The event that led to the strengthening of the
Bashkir rebellion of 1704–1711
Births
Louis, Duke of Brittany (1707–1712) born
8 January
Giuseppe Bonito born
11 January
Pierre Adamoli born
5 August
Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon born
24 August
Johannes Browallius born
30 August
Pietro Rotari born
30 September
Charles Wesley born
18 December
January–March
January 2 –
Johann Adam Lehmus , German poet of numerous spiritual songs (d.
1788 )
January 8 –
Louis, Duke of Brittany , second son of Louis of France (d.
1712 )
January 11 –
Giuseppe Bonito , Neapolitan painter of the Rococo period (d.
1789 )
January 13 –
John Boyle, 5th Earl of Cork , Irish writer (d.
1762 )
January 17 –
Prospero Colonna di Sciarra , Italian cardinal of the family of the dukes of Carbognano (d.
1765 )
January 22 –
Carl Höckh , German violinist and composer (d.
1773 )
January 26 –
Abbé François Blanchet , French littérateur (d.
1784 )
February 1 –
Frederick, Prince of Wales (d.
1751 )
February 13
February 25 –
Carlo Goldoni , Italian playwright (d.
1793 )
February 26 –
Mariano Arciero , Italian Roman Catholic priest (d.
1788 )
February 27 –
Joseph Johann Kauffmann , Austrian painter known for his portraits, church decorations and castle depictions (d.
1782 )
February 28 –
Johann Christian Senckenberg , German physician (d.
1772 )
March 1
March 2
March 3 –
Johan Ihre , Swedish philologist and historical linguist (d.
1780 )
March 7 –
Stephen Hopkins , governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (d.
1785 )
March 8
March 20 –
Hugh Boscawen, 2nd Viscount Falmouth (d.
1782 )
March 23
April–June
April 4 –
Hans Karl von Winterfeldt , Prussian general (d.
1757 )
April 6 –
Abraham de Haen , Dutch draughtsman, engraver, painter and poet (d.
1748 )
April 10
April 13 –
Sir Henry Cavendish, 1st Baronet , British politician who held several appointments in the Kingdom of Ireland (d.
1776 )
April 15
April 20 –
Robert Foulis , Scottish printer and publisher (d.
1776 )
April 22 –
Henry Fielding , English novelist and dramatist known for his earthy humour and satire (d.
1754 )
April 25 –
Léopold Clément, Hereditary Prince of Lorraine , French prince (d.
1723 )
April 26 –
Johannes Burman , Dutch botanist and physician (d.
1780 )
April 28 –
Olivier de Vézin , Canadian ironmaster and chief surveyor of Louisiana (d.
1776 )
May 1 –
Herbert Windsor, 2nd Viscount Windsor (d.
1758 )
May 2 –
Jean-Baptiste Barrière , French cellist and composer (d.
1747 )
May 12 –
Francisco Salzillo , Spanish sculptor (d.
1781 )
May 14 –
António Teixeira , Portuguese composer (d.
1774 )
May 19 –
Robert Hamilton , moderator (d.
1787 )
May 23 –
Carl Linnaeus , Swedish botanist (d.
1778 )
May 31 –
Pietro De Martino , Italian mathematician and astronomer (d.
1746 )
June 4
June 15 –
Johannes Grubenmann , member of the Swiss family Grubenmann who were famous as carpenters and civil engineers (d.
1771 )
June 18 –
Pietro Correr , Italian politician and diplomat (d.
1768 )
June 20 –
Louis de Cardevac, marquis d'Havrincourt (d.
1767 )
July–September
July 7 –
Henry Cunningam , Irish Anglican priest (d.
1777 )
July 8 –
Jacques-Philippe Le Bas , French engraver (d.
1783 )
July 10 –
Sir William Lowther, 1st Baronet, of Little Preston , English landowner and curate (d.
1788 )
July 17 –
Johann Joseph von Trautson , Roman Catholic clergyman (d.
1757 )
July 23 –
Edward Bentham , Oxford based theologian who in 1763 (d.
1776 )
August 4 –
Johann August Ernesti , German Rationalist theologian and philologist (d.
1781 )
August 5 –
Pierre Adamoli , French collector (d.
1769 )
August 7 –
Carl Günther Ludovici , German philosopher, lexicographer and economist (d.
1778 )
August 20 –
Jacques Roettiers , engraver in England and France (d.
1784 )
August 24 –
Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon , English Methodist leader (d.
1791 )
August 25 – King
Louis I of Spain (d.
1724 )
August 27 –
Zanetta Farussi , Italian comedic actress (d.
1776 )
August 30 –
Johannes Browallius , Finnish and Swedish Lutheran theologian, physicist, botanist, friend of Carl Linnaeus (d.
1755 )
September –
Nathan Alcock , English physician (d.
1779 )
September 1 –
John Salusbury , Welsh nobleman (d.
1762 )
September 2 –
Gian Benedetto Mittarelli , Italian monk and monastic historian (d.
1777 )
September 3 –
Johann Peter Süssmilch , German Protestant pastor (d.
1767 )
September 5 –
John Forbes , British general (d.
1759 )
September 7 –
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon , French scientist (d.
1788 )
September 22 –
John Rattray , Edinburgh surgeon who served as surgeon to Prince Charles Edward Stuart (d.
1771 )
September 29 –
Antoine Clériadus de Choiseul-Beaupré (d.
1774 )
September 30
October–December
October 4 –
Francesco Fontebasso , Italian painter of the late-Baroque or Rococo period of Venice (d.
1769 )
October 6 –
Thomas Falkner , English Jesuit missionary (d.
1784 )
October 20 –
Thomas Church , British priest and controversialist (d.
1756 )
October 30 –
Jeanne Thérèse du Han , Lorraine nobility (d.
1748 )
November 7 –
Dieterich Bernhard Ludewig , German organist (d.
1740 )
November 9 –
Louis de Pardaillan de Gondrin , French courtier, freemason and great-grandson of Madame de Montespan (d.
1743 )
November 12
November 15 –
Prince Adarnase of Kartli , Georgian prince royal (d.
1784 )
November 23 –
Anna Karolina Orzelska , adventuress and Polish szlachcianka (noblewoman) (d.
1769 )
November 28 –
Giammaria Mazzucchelli , Italian writer, bibliographer and historian (d.
1765 )
December 2
December 4 –
Louise Françoise de Bourbon, Mademoiselle du Maine , granddaughter of Louis XIV of France and his mistress Françoise-Athénaïs (d.
1743 )
December 11 –
Paul von Werner , chief of the Prussian Hussar Regiment No. 6 (d.
1785 )
December 17 –
Ernest Frederick II, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen (d.
1745 )
December 18
December 22 –
Johann Amman , Swiss-Russian botanist (d.
1741 )
December 25 –
Sir Joseph Hoare, 1st Baronet , Anglo-Irish politician (d.
1801 )
date unknown
probable
William Hoare , English painter (d.
1792 )
Deaths
January 1 –
Eleanor de Moura , former Spanish viceroy of Sicily (b. c.
1642 )
January 4 –
Louis William, Margrave of Baden-Baden , Germany (b.
1655 )
January 8 –
John Dalrymple, 1st Earl of Stair , Scottish politician (b.
1648 )
January 10 –
Philibert, comte de Gramont , French writer (b.
1621 )
January 16 –
William Bowes , English politician (b.
1657 )
January 20
January 22 –
Richard Towneley , English mathematician and astronomer from Towneley near Burnley (b.
1629 )
February 22 –
Giacinto Calandrucci , Italian painter (b.
1646 )
Aurangzeb
March 3 –
Aurangzeb ,
Mughal Emperor of India (b.
1618 )
March 17 –
Elisabeth Charlotte, Countess of Holzappel (b.
1640 )
March 27 –
Jean-François Gerbillon , French Jesuit missionary active in China (b.
1654 )
March 30 –
Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban , French noble and military engineer noted for designing fortifications (b.
1633 )
April 2 –
Gérard Edelinck , Flemish engraver (b.
1640 )
April 6 –
Willem van de Velde the Younger , Dutch painter (b.
1633 )
April 24 –
Walter Charleton , English natural philosopher (b.
1619 )
April 26 –
Johann Christoph Denner , German musical instrument maker (b.
1655 )
April 28 –
Christian, Duke of Saxe-Eisenberg (b.
1653 )
April 29 –
George Farquhar , Irish dramatist (b.
1677 )
May 3 –
Michiel de Swaen , Flemish poet (b.
1654 )
May 9 –
Dieterich Buxtehude , German composer (b. c.
1637 )
May 10 –
Johann Ernst III, Duke of Saxe-Weimar (b.
1664 )
May 19 –
Jean II d'Estrées , French noble (b.
1624 )
May 21 –
Joan Geelvinck , Dutch politician (b.
1644 )
May 24 –
Henri Albert de La Grange d'Arquien , French Catholic cardinal (b.
1613 )
May 27 –
Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart de Mortemart , mistress of King
Louis XIV of France (b.
1641 )
May 31 –
Simon Patrick , English theologian and bishop (b.
1626 )
June 8 –
Muhammad Azam Shah , Mughal emperor (b.
1653 )
June 15 –
Giorgio Baglivi , Armenian doctor and writer (b.
1668 )
June 21 –
Robert Phelips , English politician (b.
1619 )
June 23 –
John Mill , English theologian (b. c.
1645 )
June 27 –
Johann Zahn , German author (b.
1641 )
August 7 –
Henry Poley , English politician (b.
1654 )
August 18 –
William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire , English soldier, statesman (b.
1640 )
August 20 –
Nicolas Gigault , French organist and composer (b.
1627 )
September 12 –
Samuel Willard , American theologian (b.
1640 )
September 15 –
George Stepney , British poet and diplomat (b.
1663 )
September 21 –
Wilhelmus Beekman , Dutch politician (b.
1623 )
September 24 –
Vincenzo da Filicaja , Italian poet (b.
1642 )
October 10 –
Johann Patkul , Livonian nobleman, politician (b.
1660 )
October 22 – Sir
Cloudesley Shovell , British admiral, drowned (b.
1650 )
November 26 –
Leonhard Dientzenhofer , German architect (b.
1660 )
November 27 –
Fitz-John Winthrop , Governor of the Connecticut Colony (b.
1637 )
December 1 –
Jeremiah Clarke , English composer and organist, suicide (b.
1674 )
December 24
December 27
date unknown
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