1700

1700

Year 1700 (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.

Events of 1700

January 1 (Julian) - Russia numbers its years from Christ instead of Creation.
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) - Swedish calendar is adopted.
April - Fire destroys many buildings in Gondar, the capital of Ethiopia, including two 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 began 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.

Vietnamese gains 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).

See also Category: 1700 births.

January 7 - Raffaello Fabretti, Italian antiquary (born 1618)
January 21 - Henry Somerset, 1st Duke of Beaufort (born 1629)
January 22 - Jacob Balthasar Schutz, composer (born 1660)
February 12 - Aleksei Shein, Russian commander and statesman (born 1662)
May - Louis Jolliet, Canadian explorer (born 1645)
May 12 - John Dryden, English writer (born 1631)
May 15 - John Hale, American witch hunter (born 1636)
May 23 - Jens Juel, Danish diplomat (born 1631)
July - John Lowther, 1st Viscount Lonsdale, English politician (born 1655)
July 29 - William, Duke of Gloucester (born 1689)
September 15 - André Le Nôtre, French landscape gardener (born 1613)
September 27 - Pope Innocent XII (born 1615)
October 16 - Patriarch Adrian, Russian Orthodox Church leader (born 1627)
November 1 - Charles II of Spain (born 1661)
November 25 - Stephanus Van Cortlandt, first native born mayor of New York (born 1643)
date unknown
- Caius Gabriel Cibber, Danish sculptor (born 1630)
- Thomas Creech, English translator (born 1659)
- Kamalakara, Indian astronomer and mathematician (born 1616)
- Henry Killigrew, English dramatist (born 1613)

See also Category: 1700 deaths.

^ "Calendar in year 1700 (Russia)" (full Julian calendar), Russia used the Julian calendar until 1918.