Explore 121 historical events from 1700–1709.
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 placed in a pillory for the crime of seditious libel after publishing a politically satirical…
The Edirne Incident was a janissary revolt that began in Constantinople in 1703. The revolt was a reaction to the consequences of the Treaty of Karlowitz and Sultan Mustafa II's ab…
Edirne event: Sultan Mustafa II of the Ottoman Empire is dethroned.
Lorenzo Ricci was an Italian Jesuit, elected the eighteenth Superior General of the Society of Jesus. He was also the last before the suppression of the Jesuits in 1773.
Lorenzo Ricci, Italian religious leader, 18th Superior General of the Society of Jesus (died 1775)
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
In the Great Northern War (1700–1721) a coalition led by Russia successfully contested the supremacy of Sweden in Northern, Central and Eastern Europe. The initial leaders of the a…
Great Northern War: A numerically superior Polish-Saxon army of Augustus II the Strong, operating from an advantageous…
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)
Philip Doddridge D.D. was an English Nonconformist minister, educator, and hymnwriter.
Philip Doddridge, English hymn-writer and educator (died 1751)
Maria Clementina Sobieska was titular queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland by marriage to James Francis Edward Stuart, a Jacobite claimant to the thrones of the British Isles. A…
Maria Clementina Sobieska, Polish noble (died 1735)
Jean Denis Attiret was a French Jesuit painter and missionary to Qing China.
Jean Denis Attiret, French missionary and painter (died 1768)
Dietrich of Anhalt-Dessau, was a German prince of the House of Ascania and later regent of the principality of Anhalt-Dessau. He was also a Prussian Generalfeldmarschall.
Dietrich of Anhalt-Dessau (died 1769)
Mirza Nasir-ud-Din Muḥammad Shah was the thirteenth Mughal emperor from 1719 to 1748. He was son of Khujista Akhtar, the fourth son of Bahadur Shah I. After being chosen by the Say…
Muhammad Shah, Mughal emperor of India (died 1748)
Giacomo Francesco Zuccarelli was an Italian artist of the late Baroque or Rococo period. He is considered to be the most important landscape painter to have emerged from his adopte…
Francesco Zuccarelli, Italian painter and Royal Academician (died 1788)
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)
Anthony Grey was Earl of Kent from 1651 to his death.
Anthony Grey, 11th Earl of Kent, English politician (born 1645)
In the Great Northern War (1700–1721) a coalition led by Russia successfully contested the supremacy of Sweden in Northern, Central and Eastern Europe. The initial leaders of the a…
Great Northern War: Polish–Saxon forces were defeated by a Swedish army half their size at the Battle of Kliszów.
Antoine de la Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, born Antoine Laumet, was a French explorer, military officer, colonial administrator in New France, and founder of Detroit, Michigan.
Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac founds the trading post at Fort Pontchartrain, which later becomes the city of Detroit.