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Events from the year
1700
in the
Kingdom of England
.
Contents
1
Incumbents
2
Events
2.1
Unknown dates
3
Births
4
Deaths
5
References
6
See also
Incumbents
Monarch
-
William III of England
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
.
Unknown dates
William Congreve
's play
The Way of the World
is first performed at the
New Theatre in Lincoln's Inn Fields
.
[3]
Births
28 November
-
Nathaniel Bliss
, astronomer (died
1764
)
William Tans'ur
, hymn writer (d.
1783
)
Deaths
21 January
-
Henry Somerset, 1st Duke of Beaufort
(born
1629
)
14 March
-
Henry Killigrew
, dramatist (born
1613
)
12 May
-
John Dryden
, writer (born
1631
)
10 July
-
John Lowther, 1st Viscount Lonsdale
, politician (born
1655
)
19 July
(date found dead) -
Thomas Creech
, translator (born
1659
)
29 July
-
Prince William, Duke of Gloucester
(born
1689
)
7 September
-
William Russell, 1st Duke of Bedford
, peer and soldier (born
1616
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
.
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