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Year '''1702''' ('''[[Roman numerals|MDCCII]]''') was a [[common year starting on Sunday]] (link will display the full calendar) of the [[Gregorian calendar]] (or a [[common year starting on Wednesday]] of the 11-day slower [[Julian calendar]]). 1702 of the [[Swedish calendar]] was a [[common year starting on Tuesday]], one day ahead of the Julian calendar.
== Events of 1702 ==
===January - June===
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* [[January 12]] - In America, ships from [[Fort Maurepas]] arrive at Twenty-Seven Mile Bluff to build ''[[Fort Louis de la Mobile]]'' (future [[Mobile, Alabama]]) to become capital of [[French Louisiana]].
* [[March 8]] - [[William III of England|William III]] died; Princess Anne Stuart becomes Queen [[Anne of England]], [[Scotland]] and [[Ireland]]. [[The States]] doesn't appoint a new [[stadtholder]], so the [[Dutch Republic|United Provinces]] become a true republic again.
* [[March 11]] ([[Old Style|O.S.]])- The first regular [[English language]] [[newspaper]], ''[[The Daily Courant]]''. is published for the first time.
* [[May]] - [[Warsaw]] is conquered by [[Charles XII of Sweden]], who later the same year defeat Poland again at the [[Battle of Kliszow]].
* [[May 4]]/[[May 14|14]] - The [[War of the Spanish Succession]] widens, as war is declared on [[France]] by the [[Grand Alliance]].
* [[June]] - Queen Anne's Captain-General [[John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough|John Churchill]] forces the surrender of [[Kaiserswerth]] on the [[Rhine]]
===July - December===
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[[Image:Mapstaug.jpg|thumb|210px|right| [[October 27]]: [[St. Augustine, Florida|St. Augustine]].]]
* [[September]] - [[John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough|Churchill]] forces the surrender of [[Venlo]] on the [[Meuse River]].
* [[October 27]] - [[England|English]] troops plunder [[St. Augustine, Florida|St. Augustine]] in [[Florida]].
* [[October]] - [[Sir George Rooke]] fails to take [[Cádiz]], but captures a Spanish treasure fleet and destroys French and Spanish [[warship]]s. [[John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough|Churchill]] forces the surrender of [[Liège (city)|Liège]].
* [[December 14]] - [[John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough|John Churchill]] is created [[Duke of Marlborough]].
* [[December 15]] - [[Forty-seven Ronin]], formerly in the service of [[Asano Naganori]], assault the household of [[Kira Yoshinaka]], and kill him in vengeance for their lord. Their display of the ideals of [[Bushidō]] becomes a national legend.
==Births==
{{Year in other calendars}}
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* [[January 14]] - [[Emperor Nakamikado of Japan]] (d. [[1737]])
* [[February 10]] - [[Carlo Marchionni]], Italian architect (d. [[1786]])
* [[March 4]] - [[Jack Sheppard]], British burglar and escapee (d. [[1724]])
* [[March 27]] - [[Johann Ernst Eberlin]], German composer (d. [[1762]])
* [[May 2]] - [[Friedrich Christoph Oetinger]], German theologian (d. [[1782]])
* [[June 26]] - [[Philip Doddridge (Nonconformist)|Philip Doddridge]], English religious leader (d. [[1751]])
* [[July 31]] - [[Jean Denis Attiret]], French Jesuit missionary and painter (d. [[1768]])
* [[August 15]] - [[Francesco Zuccarelli]], painter, elected to the [[Venetian Academy]] in [[1763 in art|1763]] (d. [[1788 in art|1788]])
* [[november 5]]- Grégoire Orlyk, Ukrainian-born French [[Lieutenant General]] (d. [[1759]])
: ''See also [[:Category: 1702 births]].''
==Deaths==
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*[[March 8]] - [[William III of Orange]]/King [[William III of England]], [[Wales]], [[Scotland]] and [[Ireland]] (b. [[1650]])
*[[April 23]] - [[Margaret Fell]], English Quaker leader (b. [[1614]])
*[[April 27]] - [[Jean Bart]], French admiral (b. [[1651]])
*[[May 27]] - [[Dominique Bouhours]], French critic (b. [[1628]])
*[[September 28]] - [[Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland]], English statesman (b. [[1640]])
*[[November 4]] - [[John Benbow]], English admiral (b. [[1653]])
: ''See also [[:Category: 1702 deaths]].''
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