1700 38642 225354721 2008-07-13T06:55:08Z Histrydude 1568174 {{year nav|1700}} {{C18YearInTopicX}} Year '''1700''' ('''[[Roman numerals|MDCC]]''') was an [[Leap year#Rules for determining when to have a leap year|exceptional]] [[common year starting on Friday]] (link will display the full calendar) of the [[Gregorian calendar]], but a [[leap year starting on Monday]] <ref>"[http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/index.html?year=1700&country=20 Calendar in year 1700 (Russia)]" (full Julian calendar), Russia used the Julian calendar until [[1918]].</ref> of the [[Julian calendar]]. <!-- 10-day span=Mon-Thu,Tue-Fri,Wed-Sat,Thu-Sun,Fr-Mo,Sa-Tu,Sun-Wed --> The Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar until {{OldStyleDate|February 28|1700|[[February 18]], 1700}}, then 11 days ahead since {{OldStyleDate|March 1|1700|[[February 19]], 1700}}. == Events of 1700 == [[Image:Cascadia subduction zone USGS.png|thumb|140px|right| [[January 26|Jan. 26]]: [[Cascadia Earthquake]] / [[tsunami]].]] ===January - June=== <!-- Link all dates, even if repeated, for date-format preferences. --> * [[January 1]] (Julian) - [[Russia]] begins numbering its calendar from the birth of Christ (Anno Domini) instead of since the Creation (Anno Mundi). * [[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) - The [[Swedish calendar]] is adopted. * [[April]] - Fire destroys many buildings in [[Gondar]], the capital of [[Ethiopia]], including 2 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]] begins 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=== <!-- Link all dates, even if repeated, for date-format preferences. --> [[Image:Victory at Narva.jpg|thumb|200px|right| [[November 20]]: [[Battle of Narva]].]] * [[November 20]] - [[Great Northern War]] - [[Battle of Narva]]: King [[Charles XII of Sweden]] defeats the army of [[Czar]] [[Peter I of Russia|Peter the Great]]. * [[November 23]] - [[Pope Clement XI]] succeeds [[Pope Innocent XII]] as the 243rd [[pope]]. * [[December 28]] - [[Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester]] is appointed [[Lord Lieutenant of Ireland]]. ===Undated=== * The [[Vietnam]]ese gain 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]]). [[Image:Klavier Tastatur.jpg|thumb|120px|right| [[piano]].]] * Control of [[Spain]] passes from the [[Habsburg]]s to the [[Bourbon house|Bourbon]]s. * [[Mission San Xavier del Bac]] is founded in [[New Spain]] near [[Tucson, Arizona|Tucson]], as a [[Spain|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]]. * [[Lion]]s 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). * The value of sales of English manufactured products to the Atlantic economy - £3.9 million. ==Births== {{Year in other calendars|japanese=[[Kansei]] 1 &ndash; 2}} <!-- Link all dates, even if repeated, for date-format preferences. --> * [[January 29]] - [[Konstancja Czartoryska (1700-1759)|Konstancja Czartoryska]], Polish noblewoman (d. [[1759]]) * [[February 2]] - [[Johann Christoph Gottsched]], German writer (d. [[1766]]) * [[February 9]] - [[Daniel Bernoulli]], Dutch mathematician (d. [[1782]]) * [[March 13]] - [[Michel Blavet]], French flutist (d. [[1768]]) * [[May 7]] - [[Gerard van Swieten]], Dutch-born physician (d. [[1772]]) * [[May 12]] - [[Luigi Vanvitelli]], Italian architect (d. [[1773]]) * [[May 19]] - [[José de Escandón]], Spanish colonial governor (d. [[1770]]) * [[May 26]] - [[Nicolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf]], German religious and social reformer (d. [[1760]]) * [[August 13]] - [[Heinrich, count von Brühl]], German statesman (d. [[1763]]) * [[August 17]] - [[Clemens August of Bavaria]] (d. [[1761]]) * [[September 11]] - [[James Thomson (Seasons)|James Thomson]], Scottish poet (d. [[1748]]) * [[September 30]] - [[Stanislaw Konarski]], Polish writer (d. [[1773]]) * [[October 10]] - [[Lambert-Sigisbert Adam]], French sculptor (d. [[1759]]) * [[November 19]] - [[Jean-Antoine Nollet]], French abbot and physicist (d. [[1770]]) * [[November 28]] - [[Nathaniel Bliss]], English astronomer (d. [[1764]]) * [[December 25]] - [[Leopold II of Anhalt-Dessau]], Prussian general (d. [[1751]]) *''date unknown'' **[[Francesca Cuzzoni]], Italian opera singer (d. [[1770]]) **[[Charles Frederick, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp|Karl Friedrich, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp]] (d. [[1739]]) **[[Franciszek Salezy Potocki]], Polish nobleman (d. [[1772]]) **[[Ivan Ranger]], Austrian painter (d. [[1753]]) : ''See also [[:Category: 1700 births]].'' ==Deaths== <!-- Link all dates, even if repeated, for date-format preferences. --> * [[January 7]] - [[Raffaello Fabretti]], Italian antiquary (b. [[1618]]) * [[January 21]] - [[Henry Somerset, 1st Duke of Beaufort]] (b. [[1629]]) * [[January 22]] - Jacob Balthasar Schutz, composer (b. [[1660]]) * [[February 12]] - [[Aleksei Shein]], Russian commander and statesman (b. [[1662]]) * [[May]] - [[Louis Jolliet]], Canadian explorer (b. [[1645]]) * [[May 12]] - [[John Dryden]], English writer (b. [[1631]]) * [[May 15]] - [[John Hale (Salem pastor)|John Hale]], American witch hunter (b. [[1636]]) * [[May 23]] - [[Jens Juel (diplomat)|Jens Juel]], Danish diplomat (b. [[1631]]) * [[July]] - [[John Lowther, 1st Viscount Lonsdale]], English politician (b. [[1655]]) * [[July 29]] - [[William, Duke of Gloucester]] (b. [[1689]]) * [[September 15]] - [[André Le Nôtre]], French landscape gardener (b. [[1613]]) * [[September 27]] - [[Pope Innocent XII]] (b. [[1615]]) * [[October 16]] - [[Patriarch Adrian]], Russian Orthodox Church leader (b. [[1627]]) * [[November 1]] - [[Charles II of Spain]] (b. [[1661]]) * [[November 25]] - [[Stephanus Van Cortlandt]], first native born mayor of New York (b. [[1643]]) *''date unknown'' **[[Caius Gabriel Cibber]], Danish sculptor (b. [[1630]]) **[[Thomas Creech]], English translator (b. [[1659]]) **[[Kamalakara]], Indian astronomer and mathematician (b. [[1616]]) **[[Henry Killigrew]], English dramatist (b. [[1613]]) : ''See also [[:Category: 1700 deaths]].'' == Notes == {{reflist}} [[Category:1700| ]] [[af:1700]] [[am:1700 እ.ኤ.አ.]] [[ar:1700]] [[an:1700]] [[ast:1700]] [[ay:1700]] [[az:1700]] [[bn:১৭০০]] [[map-bms:1700]] [[be:1700]] [[be-x-old:1700]] [[bh:१७००]] [[bs:1700]] [[br:1700]] [[bg:1700]] [[ca:1700]] [[cv:1700]] [[cs:1700]] [[co:1700]] [[cy:1700]] [[da:1700]] [[de:1700]] [[et:1700]] [[el:1700]] [[es:1700]] [[eo:1700]] [[eu:1700]] [[fr:1700]] [[fy:1700]] [[ga:1700]] [[gd:1700]] [[gl:1700]] [[ko:1700년]] [[hy:1700]] [[hi:1700]] [[hr:1700.]] [[io:1700]] [[ilo:1700]] [[bpy:মারি ১৭০০]] [[id:1700]] [[ia:1700]] [[os:1700]] [[is:1700]] [[it:1700]] [[he:1700]] [[jv:1700]] [[ka:1700]] [[csb:1700]] [[sw:1700]] [[ht:1700 (almanak gregoryen)]] [[la:1700]] [[lb:1700]] [[lt:XVII amžiaus 10-as dešimtmetis#1700]] [[hu:1700]] [[mk:1700]] [[mi:1700]] [[mr:इ.स. १७००]] [[ms:1700]] [[nah:1700]] [[nl:1700]] [[new:१७००]] [[ja:1700年]] [[nap:1700]] [[no:1700]] [[nn:1700]] [[nrm:1700]] [[nov:1700]] [[oc:1700]] [[uz:1700]] [[pi:१७००]] [[nds:1700]] [[pl:1700]] [[pt:1700]] [[ksh:Joohr 1700]] [[ro:1700]] [[ru:1700 год]] [[sa:१७००]] [[sq:1700]] [[scn:1700]] [[simple:1700]] [[sk:1700]] [[sl:1700]] [[sr:1700]] [[su:1700]] [[fi:1700]] [[sv:1700]] [[tl:1700]] [[th:พ.ศ. 2243]] [[tr:1700]] [[uk:1700]] [[vec:1700]] [[vo:1700]] [[wa:1700]] [[vls:1700]] [[zh-yue:1700年]] [[zh:1700年]]