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1700
Calendar year

1700 (MDCC) was an exceptional common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Monday 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. As of the start of 1700, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

The year 1700 was the last year of the 17th century and the first year of the 18th century. As of March 1 (O.S. February 19), where the Julian calendar acknowledged a leap day and the Gregorian calendar did not, the Julian calendar fell one day further behind, bringing the difference to 11 days until February 28 (O.S. February 17), 1800.

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 ten days behind the Gregorian and one day ahead of the Julian, lasts until 1712.

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Events

January–March

April–June

  • April 15 – The coronation of King Frederick IV of Denmark takes place at Frederiksborg Castle in Copenhagen.
  • April 18 – Hungarian freedom activist Ferenc Rákóczi is arrested by Austrian authorities and charged with sedition. Imprisoned near Vienna and facing a death sentence, he escapes and later leads the overthrow of the Habsburg control of Hungary.
  • April 21 – In India, the siege of the fortress of Sajjangad (located in the Maharashtra state) is begun by an army led by Fateullahakhan. The fortress falls on June 6.
  • April – Fire destroys many buildings in Gondar, the capital of Ethiopia, including two in the palace complex.
  • May 5 – Within a few days of poet John Dryden's death in London (May 1 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, three-term former Governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, is elected deputy governor for the second time, serving under his brother-in-law Samuel Cranston.
  • June 8 (May 28 O.S.) – The legislature for the Province of Massachusetts Bay (the modern-day Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States) passes into law "An Act against Jesuits & Popish Priests" making a finding that Roman Catholic clerics have attempted to incite American Indians into a rebellion against the Crown, and declaring "That all and every Jesuit, Seminary Priest, Missionary, or other Spiritual or Ecclesiastical Person made or ordained by any Authority, Power or Jurisdiction derived, challenged or pretended from the Pope or See of Rome, now residing within this Province or any part thereof, shall depart from and out of the same, at or before the tenth day of September next, in this present year, One Thousand and Seven Hundred."7 The Province of New York enacts similar legislation later in the year.

July–September

October–December

Date unknown

World population

Main article: List of countries by population in 1700

Births

January–March

April–June

July–September

October–December

Deaths

References

  1. Colville, Ian (February 8, 2011). "The Lesser Great Fire of 1700 in Edinburgh". On this day in Scotland. Retrieved November 21, 2011. http://iainthepict.blogspot.com/2011/02/lesser-great-fire-of-1700-in-edinburgh.html

  2. Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0. 0-14-102715-0

  3. Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. p. 289. ISBN 0-304-35730-8. 0-304-35730-8

  4. Hochman, Stanley. McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama. Vol. 4. p. 542.

  5. Johnson, Samuel (1799). Lives of the Poets. Vol. 2. p. 213, n.2. Probably produced in the first week of March, 1700, as the book of the play was published March 28th, 1700. /wiki/Samuel_Johnson

  6. "The House Laws of the German Habsburgs". Retrieved November 21, 2011. http://www.heraldica.org/topics/royalty/ps1713.htm

  7. "Acts and Laws, Passed by the Great and General Court or Assembly of His Majesties Province of the Massachusetts Bay, in New England", Evans Early American Imprint Collection https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/evans/N00762.0001.001/1:1.1?rgn=div2;view=fulltext

  8. O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F. (August 2004). "Berlin Academy of Science". MacTutor History of Mathematics. Retrieved November 21, 2011. http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Societies/Berlin.html

  9. Anthony Guggenberger, A General History of the Christian Era: The Social Revolution (B. Herder, 1906) p. 16

  10. Gurney, Alan (1997). Below the Convergence: Voyages Toward Antarctica, 1699-1839. New York: Norton. ISBN 0-393-03949-8. 0-393-03949-8

  11. Lindsey Hughes, Peter the Great: A Biography (Yale University Press, 1998) p. 63

  12. Schoell, Maximilian Samson Friedrich (1832). Cours d'histoire des états européens depuis le bouleversement de l'Empire romain d'Occident jusqu'en 1789. Vol. 7. de l'imprimerie royale et chez Duncker et Humblot. p. 306. Retrieved March 19, 2023 – via Google Books. https://books.google.com/books?id=QVMTAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA306

  13. "History". Tucson: San Xavier del Bac Mission. Retrieved March 19, 2023. https://www.sanxaviermission.org/history

  14. Ormesby, John. "Translator's Preface: About this translation". Don Quixote. Archived from the original on August 23, 2010. /wiki/John_Ormsby_(translator)