1700 in England

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Events from the year 1700 in the Kingdom of England.

Incumbents

• Monarch: William III

Events

• 27 February - The island of New Britain is discovered by William Dampier in the western Pacific.^[1]
• early March - William Congreve's comedy The Way of the World is first performed at the New Theatre, Lincoln's Inn Fields.^[2][3]
• 25 March - Treaty of London signed between France, England and Holland.^[4]
• 29 July - Princess Anne's only surviving child, Prince William, Duke of Gloucester, dies aged eleven leaving the Protestant succession to the Crown in doubt.^[2]
• 20 November - First boats reach Leeds from the tideway by way of the Aire and Calder Navigation.^[5]
• 28 December - Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
• Approximate date - Jeremiah Clarke writes the Prince of Denmark's March.

Births

• 29 March - Charles Cornwallis, 1st Earl Cornwallis (died 1762)
• April - John Wyatt, inventor (died 1766)
• 4 May (bapt.) - Joseph Adams, chief factor of the Hudson's Bay Company (died 1737)
• 14 May - Mary Delany, Bluestocking, artist and writer (died 1788)
• 13 July - John Dandridge, colonel and planter in Virginia (died 1756)
• 20 September - Benedict Leonard Calvert, Governor of Maryland (died 1732)
• 26 September? - Mary Hervey, née Lepell, courtier (died 1768)
• 13 October - Phanuel Bacon, playwright, poet and author (died 1783)
• 31 October - Joseph Blake, alias Blueskin, highwayman (executed 1724)
• 28 November - Nathaniel Bliss, Astronomer Royal (died 1764)

Full date unknown

• John Cecil, 7th Earl of Exeter, peer (died 1722)
• William Craven, 3rd Baron Craven, nobleman (died 1739)
• William Godolphin, Marquess of Blandford, nobleman (died 1731)
• Emanuel Howe, 2nd Viscount Howe, politician and colonial administrator (died 1735)
• John Immyns, attorney and lutenist (died 1764)
• Charles Jennens, landowner and patron of the arts (died 1773)

Deaths

• 21 January - Henry Somerset, 1st Duke of Beaufort (born 1629)
• 14 March - Henry Killigrew, dramatist (born 1613)
• 12 May - John Dryden, poet (born 1631)
• 10 July - John Lowther, 1st Viscount Lonsdale, politician (born 1655)
• 19 July (date found dead) - Thomas Creech, translator (born 1659; suicide)
• 29 July - Prince William, Duke of Gloucester (born 1689)
• 8 August - Joseph Moxon, mathematician and lexicographer (born 1627)
• 7 September - William Russell, 1st Duke of Bedford, peer and soldier (born 1616)

References

See also