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Year 1700 ARIES(MDCC) was an exceptional common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar, but a leap year starting on Monday [1] of the Julian calendar. The Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar until February 28 [O.S. February 18, 1700] 1700, then 11 days ahead since March 1 [O.S. February 19, 1700] 1700.
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[edit] Events of 1700
[edit] January - June
- January 1 (Julian) - Russia begins numbering its calendar from the birth of Christ (Anno Domini) instead of since the Creation (Anno Mundi).
- 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 12 - The Great Northern War begins in Central Europe.
- February 27 - The island of New Britain is discovered.
- March 1 (Gregorian) - Protestant Germany and Denmark-Norway adopt the Gregorian calendar.
- March 1 (Swedish), March 11 (Gregorian), February 29 (Julian) - The Swedish calendar is adopted.
- April - Fire destroys many buildings in Gondar, the capital of Ethiopia, including 2 in the palace complex.
- May 5 - Within a few days of John Dryden's death (1 May O.S.), his last written work (The Secular Masque) is performed as part of Vanbrugh's version of The Pilgrim.
- May 5 - William Penn begins monthly meetings for blacks advocating emancipation.
- May - In Rhode Island (American colony), Walter Clarke, former governor 1679-1686, becomes governor again for 14 more years.
[edit] July - December
- November 20 - Great Northern War - Battle of Narva: King Charles XII of Sweden defeats the army of Czar Peter the Great.
- November 23 - Pope Clement XI succeeds Pope Innocent XII as the 243rd pope.
- December 28 - Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester is appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
[edit] Undated
- The Vietnamese gain control of the entire Indochina Peninsula.
- The Great Northern War begins with Russia, Denmark and Saxony/Poland making a coordinated attack on Sweden (to 1703).
- Control of Spain passes from the Habsburgs to the Bourbons.
- Mission San Xavier del Bac is founded in New Spain near Tucson, as a Spanish Roman Catholic mission.
- A fire destroys the larger part of Edinburgh, Scotland.
- An inventory made for the Medici family of Florence documents the first piano, invented by their instrument keeper Bartolommeo Cristofori.
- Lions became extinct in Libya around this date.
- One scholar observes that the entire military class of Japan is living "as in an inn, that is, consuming now and paying later" (approximate date).
- The value of sales of English manufactured products to the Atlantic economy - £3.9 million.
[edit] Births
Gregorian calendar | 1700 MDCC |
Ab urbe condita | 2453 |
Armenian calendar | 1149 ԹՎ ՌՃԽԹ |
Bahá'í calendar | -144 – -143 |
Berber calendar | 2650 |
Buddhist calendar | 2244 |
Burmese calendar | 1062 |
Byzantine calendar | 7208 – 7209 |
Chinese calendar | 己卯年十一月十二日 (4336/4396-11-12) — to —
庚辰年十一月廿二日(4337/4397-11-22) |
Coptic calendar | 1416 – 1417 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1692 – 1693 |
Hebrew calendar | 5460 – 5461 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1755 – 1756 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1622 – 1623 |
- Kali Yuga | 4801 – 4802 |
Holocene calendar | 11700 |
Iranian calendar | 1078 – 1079 |
Islamic calendar | 1111 – 1112 |
Japanese calendar | Genroku 13 (元禄13年) |
Korean calendar | 4033 |
Thai solar calendar | 2243 |
- January 29 - Konstancja Czartoryska, Polish noblewoman (d. 1759)
- February 2 - Johann Christoph Gottsched, German writer (d. 1766)
- February 9 - Daniel Bernoulli, Dutch mathematician (d. 1782)
- March 13 - Michel Blavet, French flutist (d. 1768)
- 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 (d. 1761)
- September 11 - James Thomson, Scottish poet (d. 1748)
- September 30 - Stanislaw 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 of Anhalt-Dessau, Prussian general (d. 1751)
- date unknown
- Francesca Cuzzoni, Italian opera singer (d. 1770)
- Karl Friedrich, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp (d. 1739)
- Franciszek Salezy Potocki, Polish nobleman (d. 1772)
- Ivan Ranger, Austrian painter (d. 1753)
- See also Category: 1700 births.
[edit] Deaths
- January 7 - Raffaello Fabretti, Italian antiquary (b. 1618)
- January 21 - Henry Somerset, 1st Duke of Beaufort (b. 1629)
- January 22 - Jacob Balthasar Schutz, composer (b. 1660)
- February 12 - Aleksei Shein, Russian commander and statesman (b. 1662)
- May - Louis Jolliet, Canadian explorer (b. 1645)
- May 12 - John Dryden, English writer (b. 1631)
- May 15 - John Hale, American witch hunter (b. 1636)
- May 23 - Jens Juel, Danish diplomat (b. 1631)
- July - John Lowther, 1st Viscount Lonsdale, English politician (b. 1655)
- July 29 - William, Duke of Gloucester (b. 1689)
- September 15 - André Le Nôtre, French landscape gardener (b. 1613)
- September 27 - Pope Innocent XII (b. 1615)
- October 16 - Patriarch Adrian, 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 (b. 1630)
- Thomas Creech, English translator (b. 1659)
- Kamalakara, Indian astronomer and mathematician (b. 1616)
- Henry Killigrew, English dramatist (b. 1613)
- See also Category: 1700 deaths.
[edit] Notes
- ^ "Calendar in year 1700 (Russia)" (full Julian calendar), Russia used the Julian calendar until 1918.