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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]].
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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===
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* [[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===
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[[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 – 2}}
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* [[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==
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* [[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]].''
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