1707

Centuries: 17th century - 18th century - 19th century

Decades: 1650s 1660s 1670s 1680s 1690s - 1700s - 1710s 1720s 1730s 1740s 1750s

Years: 1702 1703 1704 1705 1706 - 1707 - 1708 1709 1710 1711 1712

Act of Union with Scotland becomes law, making the separate Kingdoms of England and Scotland into one country.

• April 25 - Allied austriacist army is defeated by borbonic army at Almansa (Spain) in the War of the Spanish Succession.
• May 1 - Union of the Parliaments of Scotland and England forms the Kingdom of Great Britain (See: 1707 Act of Union).
• October 23 - First Parliament of Great Britain.

Births

• February 1 - Frederick, Prince of Wales
• February 25 - Carlo Goldoni, playwright
• April 15 - Leonhard Euler, (Swiss mathematician)
• April 22 - Henry Fielding, author (+ 1754)
• May 23 - Carolus Linnaeus, Swedish botanist (+ 1778)
• August 25 - King Louis of Spain
• September 7 - Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, French philosopher († 1788)

Deaths

• May 27 - Marquise de Montespan, mistress of the French King Louis XIV\n

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