1702
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 17th century – 18th century – 19th century |
| Decades: | 1670s 1680s 1690s – 1700s – 1710s 1720s 1730s |
| Years: | 1699 1700 1701 – 1702 – 1703 1704 1705 |
| 1702 in topic: |
| Subjects: Archaeology – Architecture – |
| Art – Literature (Poetry) – Music – Science |
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| Leaders: State leaders – Colonial governors |
| Category: Establishments – Disestablishments |
| Births – Deaths – Works |
Year 1702 (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.
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Events of 1702
January–June
- 12 January – In America, ships from Fort Maurepas arrive at Twenty-Seven Mile Bluff to build Fort Louis de la Mobile (future Mobile, Alabama) to become the capital of French Louisiana.
- 8 March (O.S.) – William III dies; Princess Anne Stuart becomes Queen Anne of England, Scotland and Ireland. Anne is the mother of 17 children by her husband Prince George of Denmark but none of them will survive childhood and she will die without heir to enable the Hanoverian Succession. In the Netherlands, the Staten Generaal do not appoint a new stadtholder and so the United Provinces become a true republic again.
- 11 March (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 defeats Poland again at the Battle of Kliszow.
- 4–14 May – 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 forces the surrender of Kaiserswerth on the Rhine.
July–December
| Gregorian calendar | 1702 MDCCII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2455 |
| Armenian calendar | 1151 ԹՎ ՌՃԾԱ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -142 – -141 |
| Bengali calendar | 1109 |
| Berber calendar | 2652 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2246 |
| Burmese calendar | 1064 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7210 – 7211 |
| Chinese calendar | 辛巳年十二月初四日 (4338/4398-12-4) — to —
壬午年十一月十三日(4339/4399-11-13) |
| Coptic calendar | 1418 – 1419 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1694 – 1695 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5462 – 5463 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Bikram Samwat | 1758 – 1759 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1624 – 1625 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4803 – 4804 |
| Holocene calendar | 11702 |
| Iranian calendar | 1080 – 1081 |
| Islamic calendar | 1113 – 1114 |
| Japanese calendar | Genroku 15 (元禄15年) |
| Korean calendar | 4035 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2245 |
- September – Churchill forces the surrender of Venlo on the Meuse River.
- 27 October – English troops plunder St. Augustine in Florida.
- October – Sir George Rooke fails to take Cádiz, but captures a Spanish treasure fleet and destroys French and Spanish warships. Churchill forces the surrender of Liège.
- 14 December – John Churchill is created Duke of Marlborough.
Undated
- Delaware designated a separate colony.
- Queen Anne's War (1702–1713). The second of the North American Wars fought from 1689 to 1763, it is concurrent with the War of the Spanish Succession in Europe but is entirely due to the unresolved commercial and colonial rivalry between Great Britain and France.
- The British East India Company buys control of the New (or English) Company that was set up as a rival trading organisation in 1698. An Act of Parliament then amalgamates the two as "The United Company of Merchants of England Trading to the East Indies". The charter will be renewed several times in the 18th century, each time with financial concessions to the Crown.
Births
- 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, 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 (d. 1788)
- November 5 – Grégoire Orlyk, Ukrainian-born French Lieutenant General (d. 1759)
Deaths
- March 8 (buried) – Jan de Baen, Dutch portrait painter (b. 1633)
- 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)