Explore 187 historical events from 1700–1709.
Rev. Francis Blomefield, FSA, Rector of Fersfield in Norfolk, was an English antiquarian who wrote a county history of Norfolk: An Essay Towards a Topographical History of the Coun…
Francis Blomefield, English historian and author (died 1752)
Johann Peter Kellner was a German organist and composer. He was the father of Johann Christoph Kellner.
Johann Peter Kellner, German organist and composer (died 1772)
Maximilian Ulysses, Reichsgraf von Browne, Baron de Camus and Mountany was an Austrian military officer, one of the highest-ranking officers serving the Habsburg Emperor during the…
Maximilian Ulysses Browne, Austrian field marshal (died 1757)
Leopold I was Holy Roman Emperor, King of Germany, King of Hungary, Croatia and Bohemia. The second son of Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor, by his first wife, Maria Anna of Spain…
Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor (born 1640)
Guillaume Amontons was a French scientific instrument inventor and physicist. He was one of the pioneers in studying the problem of friction, which is the resistance to motion when…
Guillaume Amontons, French physicist and instrument maker (born 1663)
Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland, PC was an English peer and Whig politician who served as the Secretary at War from 1746 to 1755. He also held the offices of Secretary of State for th…
Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland, English politician, Secretary of State for the Southern Department (died 1774)
Jacob Bernoulli was a Swiss mathematician. He sided with Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz during the Leibniz–Newton calculus controversy and was an early proponent of Leibnizian calculus,…
Jacob Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician and theorist (born 1654)
The Thirteen Colonies were the British colonies on the Atlantic coast of North America which broke away from the British Crown in the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), and jo…
The first regular newspaper in British Colonial America, The Boston News-Letter, is published
Benjamin Huntsman was an English inventor and manufacturer of cast or crucible steel.
Benjamin Huntsman, English inventor and businessman (died 1776)
The War of the Spanish Succession was a conflict between the European great powers, fought between 1701 and 1714. The death of Charles II of Spain in November 1700 without children…
War of the Spanish Succession: Gibraltar is captured by an English and Dutch fleet, commanded by Admiral Sir George…
The War of the Spanish Succession was a conflict between the European great powers, fought between 1701 and 1714. The death of Charles II of Spain in November 1700 without children…
War of the Spanish Succession: Battle of Blenheim: English and Imperial forces are victorious over French and Bavarian…
José António Carlos de Seixas was a pre-eminent Portuguese composer of the 18th century. An accomplished virtuoso of both the organ and the harpsichord, Seixas succeeded his father…
Carlos Seixas, Portuguese harpsichord player and composer (died 1742)
John Kay was an English inventor whose most important creation was the flying shuttle, which was a key contribution to the Industrial Revolution. He is often confused with his name…
John Kay, English engineer, invented the Flying shuttle (died 1780)
John Taylor, English classical scholar, was born at Shrewsbury in Shropshire, England.
John Taylor, English author and scholar (died 1766)
Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens was a French rationalist, author and critic of the Catholic Church, who was a close friend of Voltaire and spent much of his life in exile …
Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens, French philosopher and author (died 1771)
August Gottlieb Spangenberg was a German theologian, minister, and bishop of the Moravian Church. As successor to Nicolaus Zinzendorf as bishop of the Moravian Church, he helped de…
August Gottlieb Spangenberg, German bishop and theologian (died 1792)
Gabriel Cramer was a Genevan mathematician.
Gabriel Cramer, Swiss mathematician and physicist (died 1752)
Louis, Duke of Orléans was a member of the House of Orléans, a cadet branch of the House of Bourbon, and as such was a prince du sang. At his father's death, he became the First Pr…
Louis d'Orléans, Duke of Orléans (died 1752)
Joseph de Jussieu, was a French botanist and explorer, member of the Jussieu family. He introduced the common garden heliotrope to European gardeners.
Joseph de Jussieu, French explorer, geographer, and mathematician, (died 1779)
Johann Andreas von Segner was a Hungarian scientist of German descent. He was born in the Kingdom of Hungary, in the former Hungarian capital city of Pozsony, or Pressburg.
Johann Andreas Segner, German mathematician, physicist, and physician (died 1777)
Admiral of the Blue John Byng was a Royal Navy officer and politician who was court-martialled and executed by firing squad. After joining the navy at the age of thirteen, he parti…
John Byng, English admiral and politician, 11th Commodore Governor of Newfoundland (died 1757)
Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber was a Czech-Austrian composer and violinist of the middle Baroque era. Biber worked in Graz and Kroměříž before he illegally left his employer, Princ…
Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, Czech-Austrian violinist and composer (born 1644)
Louis Bourdaloue was a French Jesuit and preacher.
Louis Bourdaloue, French preacher and author (born 1632)
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)