1700 in England
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Events from the year 1700 in the Kingdom of England.
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[edit] Incumbents
- Monarch - William III of England
[edit] Events
- 27 February - The island of New Britain is discovered by William Dampier.[1]
- 25 March - Treaty of London signed between France, England and Holland.[2]
- 29 July - Princess Anne's only surviving child, Prince William, Duke of Gloucester, dies aged 12 leaving the Protestant succession to the Crown in doubt.[3]
- 28 December - Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
[edit] Unknown dates
- William Congreve's play The Way of the World is first performed at the New Theatre in Lincoln's Inn Fields.[3]
[edit] Births
- 28 November - Nathaniel Bliss, astronomer (died 1764)
- William Tans'ur, hymn writer (d. 1783)
[edit] Deaths
- 21 January - Henry Somerset, 1st Duke of Beaufort (born 1629)
- 12 May - John Dryden, writer (born 1631)
- 29 July - Prince William, Duke of Gloucester (born 1689)
- 7 September - William Russell, 1st Duke of Bedford, peer and soldier (born 1616)
- Thomas Creech, translator (born 1659)
- Henry Killigrew, dramatist (born 1613)
- John Lowther, 1st Viscount Lonsdale, politician (born 1655)
- Joseph Moxon, mathematical lexicographer (born 1627)
[edit] References
- ^ (2006) Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. ISBN 0-141-02715-0.
- ^ The House Laws of the German Habsburgs
- ^ a b Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 289. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
