1707

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century – 18th century – 19th century
Decades:	1670s  1680s  1690s  – 1700s –  1710s  1720s  1730s
Years:	1704 1705 1706 – 1707 – 1708 1709 1710

Events

• January 1 – John V is crowned King of Portugal
• March 26 – The Act of Union becomes law, making the separate Kingdoms of England and Scotland into one country, the Kingdom of Great Britain.
• April 25 – Allied army is defeated by Bourbonic army at Almansa (Spain) in the War of the Spanish Succession.
• September 29 – Four British Royal Navy ships run aground near Scilly Isles because of faulty navigation – Admiral Sir Cloddisley Shovel and thousands of sailors drown
• October 23 – First Parliament of Great Britain.
• A fortress is founded on the future site of Ust-Abakanskoye (modern Abakan).
• Mount Fuji in Japan erupts.
• The Lao empire of Lan Xang officially ends and splits into the kingdoms of Vientiane, Luang Prabang, and Champasak.

Births

• February 1 - Frederick, Prince of Wales (d. 1751)
• April 15 - Leonhard Euler, Swiss mathematician and physicist (d. 1783)
• April 22 - Henry Fielding, British writer (d. 1754)
• May 23 - Carolus Linnaeus, Swedish botanist (d. 1778)
• September 7 - Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, French scientist (d. 1788)

Deaths

• May 9 - Dieterich Buxtehude, German composer (b. c. 1637)

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