Explore 53 historical events from 1700–1709.
Thomas Brown was an English translator and satirist, largely forgotten today save for a four-line gibe that he may have written concerning John Fell.
Tom Brown, English author and translator (born 1662)
John Campbell was an early American newspaper publisher and editor and Postmaster of Boston. He founded the first regularly published newspaper in British America, The Boston News-…
John Campbell released the first issue of The Boston News-Letter, the first continuously published newspaper in British
Daniel Defoe was an English writer, journalist, merchant and spy. He is famous for his novels Robinson Crusoe (1719), Moll Flanders (1722) and Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress (1724)…
Daniel Defoe is imprisoned on charges of seditious libel
Peter I was the Tsar of all Russia from 1682 and the first Emperor of Russia from 1721 until his death in 1725. He reigned jointly with his half-brother Ivan V until 1696. Peter, a…
Tsar Peter the Great founds the city of Saint Petersburg
Lancelot Addison was an English writer and Church of England clergyman. He was born at Crosby Ravensworth in Westmorland. He was educated at the Queen's College, Oxford.
Lancelot Addison, English clergyman and educator (born 1632)
Charles Perrault was a French author and member of the Académie Française. He laid the foundations for a new literary genre, the fairy tale, with his works derived from earlier fol…
Charles Perrault, French author and academic (born 1628)
Samuel Pepys was an English writer and Tory politician. He served as an official in the Navy Board and Member of Parliament, but is now most renowned for the diary he kept for almo…
Samuel Pepys, English politician (born 1633)
Daniel Defoe was an English writer, journalist, merchant and spy. He is famous for his novels Robinson Crusoe (1719), Moll Flanders (1722) and Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress (1724)…
English writer Daniel Defoe was imprisoned for seditious libel after publishing a pamphlet that was perceived to satiris
The assault on Nijmegen occurred during the War of the Spanish Succession, on 10 and 11 June 1702 involving French troops under the Duke of Boufflers against the small garrison and…
Anglo-Dutch forces skirmish with French forces before the walls of Nijmegen and prevent its fall
Friedrich Christoph Oetinger was a German Lutheran pastor, theologian, and theosopher.
Friedrich Christoph Oetinger, German theologian and theosopher (died 1782)
Louis George, Margrave of Baden-Baden was a German nobleman and the Margrave of Baden-Baden from 1707 until his death in 1761. From 1707 to 1727, his mother Sibylle of Saxe-Lauenbu…
Louis George, Margrave of Baden-Baden (died 1761)
Margaret Fell or Margaret Fox was a founder and leading member of the Religious Society of Friends. Known popularly as the "mother of Quakerism," she is considered one of the Valia…
Margaret Fell, English religious leader, founded the Religious Society of Friends (born 1614)
Jean Bart was a Franco-Flemish naval commander and privateer.
Jean Bart, French admiral (born 1651)
Zeb-un-Nissa was a Mughal princess and the eldest child of Emperor Aurangzeb and his chief consort, Dilras Banu Begum. She was also a poet, who wrote under the pseudonym of Makhfi.
Zeb-un-Nissa, Mughal princess and poet (born 1638)
Dominique Bouhours was a French Jesuit priest, essayist, grammarian, and neo-classical critic. He was born and died in Paris.
Dominique Bouhours, French priest and critic (born 1628)
Carl Heinrich Graun was a German composer and tenor. Along with Johann Adolph Hasse, he is considered to be the most important German composer of Italian opera of his time.
Carl Heinrich Graun, German tenor and composer (died 1759)
William Emerson was an English mathematician. He was born in Hurworth, near Darlington, where his father, Dudley Emerson, also a mathematician, taught a school.
William Emerson, English mathematician and academic (died 1782)
François Rebel was a French composer of the Baroque era. Born in Paris, the son of the leading composer Jean-Féry Rebel, he was a child prodigy who became a violinist in the orches…
François Rebel, French violinist and composer (died 1775)
William Kidd, also known as Captain William Kidd or simply Captain Kidd, was a Scottish privateer. Conflicting accounts exist regarding his early life, but he was likely born in Du…
William Kidd, Scottish pirate (born 1645)
Madeleine de Scudéry, often known simply as Mademoiselle de Scudéry, was a French writer.
Madeleine de Scudéry, French author (born 1607)
Charles Emmanuel III was Duke of Savoy, King of Sardinia and ruler of the Savoyard states from his father's abdication on 3 September 1730 until his death in 1773. He was the pater…
Charles Emmanuel III, King of Sardinia (died 1773)
The Academy of the Distrustful, or Distrustful Academy, is an academy of letters founded on 3 June 1700 in Barcelona as a Baroque literary and musical academy with the aim of promo…
Foundation of the Academy of the Distrustful in the library room of the Palau Dalmases in Barcelona
Gerard van Swieten was a Dutch physician who from 1745 was the personal physician of the Holy Roman Empress Maria Theresa and transformed the Austrian health service and medical un…
Gerard van Swieten, Dutch-Austrian physician (died 1772)
Luigi Vanvitelli, was an Italian architect and painter. The most prominent 18th-century architect of Italy, he practised a sober classicising academic Late Baroque style that made …
Luigi Vanvitelli, Italian architect and engineer, designed the Palace of Caserta and Royal Palace of Milan (died 1773)