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 - June
- 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.
July - December
Undated
Births
- January 29 - Konstancja Czartoryska, Polish noblewoman (died 1759)
- February 2 - Johann Christoph Gottsched, German writer (died 1766)
- February 9 - Daniel Bernoulli, Dutch mathematician (died 1782)
- March 13 - Michel Blavet, French flutist (died 1768)
- May 7 - Gerard van Swieten, Dutch-born physician (died 1772)
- May 12 - Luigi Vanvitelli, Italian architect (died 1773)
- May 19 - José de Escandón, Spanish colonial governor (died 1770)
- May 26 - Nicolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf, German religious and social reformer (died 1760)
- August 13 - Heinrich, count von Brühl, German statesman (died 1763)
- August 17 - Clemens August of Bavaria (died 1761)
- September 11 - James Thomson, Scottish poet (died 1748)
- September 30 - Stanislaw Konarski, Polish writer (died 1773)
- October 10 - Lambert-Sigisbert Adam, French sculptor (died 1759)
- November 19 - Jean-Antoine Nollet, French abbot and physicist (died 1770)
- November 28 - Nathaniel Bliss, English astronomer (died 1764)
- December 25 - Leopold II of Anhalt-Dessau, Prussian general (died 1751)
- date unknown
- See also Category: 1700 births.
Deaths
- 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
- See also Category: 1700 deaths.
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