1700

This article is about the year 1700. For the number, see 1700 (number). For the music video show, see 1700 (TV series).

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century – 17th century – 18th century
Decades:	1670s  1680s  1690s  – 1700s –  1710s  1720s  1730s
Years:	1697 1698 1699 – 1700 – 1701 1702 1703

1700 by topic:

Arts and Science

Architecture - Art - Literature - Music - Science

Lists of leaders

Colonial governors - State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments - Disestablishments

Works category

Works

1700 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1700 MDCC
Ab urbe condita	2453
Armenian calendar	1149 ԹՎ ՌՃԽԹ
Assyrian calendar	6450
Bengali calendar	1107
Berber calendar	2650
English Regnal year	12 Will. 3 – 13 Will. 3
Buddhist calendar	2244
Burmese calendar	1062
Byzantine calendar	7208–7209
Chinese calendar	己卯年 (Earth Rabbit) 4396 or 4336     — to — 庚辰年 (Metal Dragon) 4397 or 4337
Coptic calendar	1416–1417
Discordian calendar	2866
Ethiopian calendar	1692–1693
Hebrew calendar	5460–5461
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1756–1757
- Shaka Samvat	1622–1623
- Kali Yuga	4801–4802
Holocene calendar	11700
Igbo calendar	700–701
Iranian calendar	1078–1079
Islamic calendar	1111–1112
Japanese calendar	Genroku 13 (元禄１３年)
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 10 or 11 days
Korean calendar	4033
Minguo calendar	212 before ROC 民前212年
Thai solar calendar	2242–2243

1700 (MDCC) was an exceptional common year starting on Friday (dominical letter C) of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Monday (dominical letter GF) of the Julian calendar, the 1700th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 700th year of the 2nd millennium, the 100th and last year of the 17th century, and the 1st year of the 1700s decade. Note that the Julian day for 1700 is 10 calendar days difference, which continued to be used from 1582 until the complete conversion of the Gregorian calendar was entirely done in 1929. The Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar until February 28 [O.S. February 18, 1700] 1700, then 11 days ahead from March 1 [O.S. February 19, 1700] 1700. With the Gregorian Calendar starting in 1582, and 1600 being evenly divisible by 400, and thus being a leap year under the Gregorian system despite being a century year, this was the first skipped leap year under the Gregorian Calendar. In Sweden, the year started in the Julian calendar and remained so until February 28. Then, by skipping the leap day, the Swedish calendar was introduced, letting February 28 be followed by March 1, giving the entire year the same pattern as a common year starting on Monday. This calendar, being 10 days behind the Gregorian and 1 day ahead of the Julian, lasts until 1712.

Events

January–June

January 26: Cascadia earthquake and tsunami.

• January 1 Protestant Western Europe (except England) starts using the Gregorian calendar
• January 1 (Julian) – Tsardom of Russia begins numbering its calendar from the birth of Christ (Anno Domini) instead of since the Creation (Anno Mundi).
• January 26 – At approximately 9 p.m., the Cascadia earthquake occurred with an estimated moment magnitude of 8.7–9.2. This megathrust earthquake ruptured about 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) of the Cascadia Subduction Zone and caused a tsunami that struck the coast of Japan approximately 10 hours later.
• February 3 – The 'Lesser Great Fire' destroys a substantial part of central Edinburgh, Scotland.
• February 12 – The Great Northern War begins with a joint invasion of Swedish territory in Germany and Latvia by Denmark and Poland/Saxony. Sweden has control of the Baltic Sea and holds territory that includes Finland, Estonia, Latvia and parts of northern Germany. To challenge its power, an alliance is formed between Tsar Peter I of Russia, King Frederick IV of Denmark and Augustus II the Strong, King of Poland and Elector of Saxony. Sweden's ruler is the militaristic Charles XII, known as the "Swedish Meteor".
• February 27 – Island of New Britain discovered by William Dampier in the western Pacific.
• March 1 (Gregorian) – Protestant Germany and Denmark–Norway adopt the Gregorian calendar.
• March 1 (Swedish), March 11 (Gregorian), February 29 (Julian) – Swedish calendar adopted.
• early March – William Congreve's comedy The Way of the World is first performed in London.
• March 25 – Treaty of London signed between France, England and Holland.
• April – Fire destroys many buildings in Gondar, the capital of Ethiopia, including two in the palace complex.
• May – In Rhode Island (American colony), Walter Clarke, three term former Governor of Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, is elected deputy governor for the second time, serving under is brother-in-law Samuel Cranston.
• May 5
  • Within a few days of John Dryden's death (May 1 O.S.), his last written work (The Secular Masque) is performed as part of Vanbrugh's version of The Pilgrim.
  • William Penn begins monthly meetings for blacks advocating emancipation.

July–December

• July 11 – The Prussian Academy of Sciences is founded with Gottfried Leibniz as president.
• Summer – Charles XII of Sweden counter-attacks his enemies by invading Zealand (Denmark), assisted by an Anglo-Dutch naval squadron under Sir George Rooke, rapidly compelling the Danes to submit to peace.
• August 18 (August 7 O.S.) – Peace of Travendal concluded between the Swedish Empire, Denmark–Norway and Holstein-Gottorp in Traventhal. On the same day, Augustus II, King of Poland, and Peter the Great, Tsar of Russia, enter the war against Sweden.

November 30: Battle of Narva.

• Late summer – A Russian army invades Swedish Estonia and besieges the town of Narva.
• November 1 – Charles II, last Spanish king of the House of Habsburg, dies insane at the Royal Alcazar of Madrid (aged 38) leaving no children.
• November 15 – Louis XIV accepts the Spanish crown on behalf of his grandson Philip of Anjou, who becomes Philip V of Spain (to 1746), thus triggering the War of the Spanish Succession (1701–1741).
• November 18 – Battle of Olkieniki, Lithuanian Civil War: victory for the anti-Sapieha coalition.
• November 23 – Pope Clement XI succeeds Pope Innocent XII as the 243rd pope.
• November 30 (November 19 O.S.; November 20 Swedish calendar) – Battle of Narva in Estonia. Having led his army of 8,000 on a forced march from Denmark to Estonia, Charles XII of Sweden routs the huge Russian army at Narva.
• December 28 – Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester, is appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.

Date unknown

Piano

• Mission San Xavier del Bac is founded in New Spain near Tucson, as a Spanish Roman Catholic mission.
• An inventory made for the Medici family of Florence is the first documentary evidence for a piano, invented by their instrument keeper Bartolomeo Cristofori.
• An English translation of the novel Don Quixote, "translated from the original by many hands and published by Peter Motteux", begins publication in London. While popular among readers, it will eventually come to be known as one of the worst translations of the novel, totally betraying the spirit of Miguel de Cervantes's masterpiece.
• The value of sales of English manufactured products to the Atlantic economy is £3.9 million.
• approx. date – Lions become extinct in Libya.

Ongoing

• Nam tiến: southward expansion of the territory of Vietnam to cover the entire Indochina Peninsula.

Births

• January 29 – Konstancja Czartoryska, Polish noblewoman (d. 1759)
• February 2 – Johann Christoph Gottsched, German writer (d. 1766)
• February 8 – Daniel Bernoulli, Dutch-born Swiss mathematician (d. 1782)
• March 13 – Michel Blavet, French flutist (d. 1768)
• April 30 – Charles Frederick, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp, Swedish nobleman (d. 1739)
• May 7 – Gerard van Swieten, Dutch-born physician (d. 1772)
• May 12 – Luigi Vanvitelli, Italian architect (d. 1773)
• May 19 – José de Escandón, Spanish colonial governor (d. 1770)
• May 26 – Nicolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf, German religious and social reformer (d. 1760)
• August 13 – Heinrich, count von Brühl, German statesman (d. 1763)
• August 17 – Clemens August of Bavaria, Archbishop-Elector of Cologne (d. 1761)
• September 11 – James Thomson, Scottish poet (d. 1748)
• September 30 – Stanisław Konarski, Polish writer (d. 1773)
• October 10 – Lambert-Sigisbert Adam, French sculptor (d. 1759)
• November 19 – Jean-Antoine Nollet, French abbot and physicist (d. 1770)
• November 28 – Nathaniel Bliss, English astronomer (d. 1764)
• December 25 – Leopold II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Prussian general (d. 1751)
• date unknown
  • Franciszek Salezy Potocki, Polish nobleman (d. 1772)
  • Ivan Ranger, Austrian painter (d. 1753)

Deaths

• January 7 – Raffaello Fabretti, Italian antiquary (b. 1618)
• January 21 – Henry Somerset, 1st Duke of Beaufort, English politician (b. 1629)
• January 22 – Jacob Balthasar Schutz, composer (b. 1660)
• February 12 – Aleksei Shein, Russian commander and statesman (b. 1662)
• March 14 – Henry Killigrew, English dramatist (b. 1613)
• May – Louis Jolliet, Canadian explorer (b. 1645)
• May 5 – Angelo Italia, Sicilian architect (b. 1628)
• May 12 – John Dryden, English poet and dramatist who was poet laureate (1670–1688). His works included the poem Annus Mirabilis (1667) and the tragedy All For Love (1678) (b. 1631)
• May 15 – John Hale, American witch hunter (b. 1636)
• May 23 – Jens Juel, Danish diplomat (b. 1631)
• July
  • Thomas Creech, English translator, suicide (b. 1659)
  • John Lowther, 1st Viscount Lonsdale, English politician (b. 1655)
• July 30 – Prince William, Duke of Gloucester, member of the English royal family (b. 1689)
• September 15 – André Le Nôtre, French landscape gardener (b. 1613)
• September 27 – Pope Innocent XII (b. 1615)
• October 16 – Patriarch Adrian of Moscow, Russian Orthodox Church leader (b. 1627)
• November 1 – Charles II of Spain (b. 1661)
• November 25 – Stephanus Van Cortlandt, first native born mayor of New York (b. 1643)
• date unknown
  • Caius Gabriel Cibber, Danish sculptor working in England (b. 1630)
  • Kamalakara, Indian astronomer and mathematician (b. 1616)
  • Louis Guittar, French pirate, hanged