1701

This article is about the year 1701. For the number, see 1701 (number). For other uses, see 1701 (disambiguation).

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century – 18th century – 19th century
Decades:	1670s  1680s  1690s  – 1700s –  1710s  1720s  1730s
Years:	1698 1699 1700 – 1701 – 1702 1703 1704

1701 by topic:

Arts and Sciences

Archaeology – Architecture – Art – Literature (Poetry) – Music – Science

Countries

Canada –Denmark – England – France – Ireland – Norway – Russia – Scotland –Sweden –

Lists of leaders

Colonial governors – State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Works category

Works

1701 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1701 MDCCI
Ab urbe condita	2454
Armenian calendar	1150 ԹՎ ՌՃԾ
Assyrian calendar	6451
Bengali calendar	1108
Berber calendar	2651
English Regnal year	13 Will. 3 – 14 Will. 3
Buddhist calendar	2245
Burmese calendar	1063
Byzantine calendar	7209–7210
Chinese calendar	庚辰年 (Metal Dragon) 4397 or 4337     — to — 辛巳年 (Metal Snake) 4398 or 4338
Coptic calendar	1417–1418
Discordian calendar	2867
Ethiopian calendar	1693–1694
Hebrew calendar	5461–5462
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1757–1758
- Shaka Samvat	1623–1624
- Kali Yuga	4802–4803
Holocene calendar	11701
Igbo calendar	701–702
Iranian calendar	1079–1080
Islamic calendar	1112–1113
Japanese calendar	Genroku 14 (元禄１４年)
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar	4034
Minguo calendar	211 before ROC 民前211年
Thai solar calendar	2243–2244

1701 (MDCCI) was a common year starting on Saturday (dominical letter B) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday (dominical letter E) of the Julian calendar, the 1701st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 701st year of the 2nd millennium, the 1st year of the 18th century, and the 2nd year of the 1700s decade. Note that the Julian day for 1701 is 11 calendar days difference, which continued to be used from 1582 until the complete conversion of the Gregorian calendar was entirely done in 1929. In the Swedish calendar it was a common year starting on Tuesday, one day ahead of the Julian and ten days behind the Gregorian calendar.

Events

January–June

• January 1 – First day of the 18th century.
• January 12 – Parts of Netherlands adopt the Gregorian calendar
• January 18 – The electorate of Brandenburg-Prussia becomes the Kingdom of Prussia as Elector Frederick III is proclaimed King Frederick I. Prussia remains part of the Holy Roman Empire. It consists of Brandenburg, Pomerania and East Prussia. Berlin is the capital.
• January 28 – The Chinese storm Dartsedo.
• January – Robert Walpole enters the Parliament of England and soon makes his name as a spokesman for Whig policy.
• March 8 – Mecklenburg-Strelitz is created as a north German duchy.
• March – The War of the Spanish Succession begins. It is an international retaliation to Louis XIV’s acceptance in 1700 of the Spanish crown on behalf of his grandson Philip of Anjou, who became Philip V, first Bourbon king of Spain. Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor forms the Grand Alliance with Great Britain, the Netherlands, Denmark, Portugal, Savoy and Prussia. Louis XIV allies France with Spain and Bavaria.
• April 21 – In Japan, the young daimyo Asano Naganori is ordered to commit seppuku (ritual suicide). A group of 47 samurai of his service begin planning to avenge his death.
• May 23 – After being convicted of murdering William Moore and for piracy, Captain William Kidd is hanged in London.
• June 24 – The Act of Settlement 1701 is passed by the Parliament of England to exclude the Catholic Stuarts from the British monarchy. Under its terms, King William III, childless, would be succeeded by Queen Mary II's sister Princess Anne and her descendants. If Anne should have no descendants, she would be succeeded by Sophia of Hanover and her descendants (hence the Hanoverian Succession in 1714).

July–December

• July 9 – Crossing of the Düna: Following his victories over Denmark and Russia in 1700, Charles XII of Sweden escalates the conflict in the Great Northern War by an invasion of Poland. The Swedes defeat the army of Saxony (then a Polish territory) at the River Dvina.
• July 24 – Foundation of a French emporium named Fort Ponchartrain (later to become Detroit).
• August 4 – The Great Peace of Montreal is signed, ending 100 years of war between the Iroquois Confederacy and New France and its Huron and Algonquian allies. Formerly allied with the English, the treaty assured the Iroquois would be neutral if France and England were to ever resume hostilities.
• September 6 – Death of King James VII and II (1633–1701) in exile. His supporters, the Jacobites, turn to his son James Francis Edward Stuart (1688–1766), later called "The Old Pretender", whom they recognise as James VIII and III.
• October 9 – The Collegiate School of Connecticut (later renamed Yale University) is chartered in Old Saybrook, Connecticut.

Date unknown

• English agriculturalist Jethro Tull invents a drill for planting seeds in rows.
• The Philharmonic Society (Academia Philharmonicorum) is established in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Births

Anders Celsius

• January 27 – Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim, German historian and theologian (d. 1790)
• January 28 – Charles Marie de La Condamine, French mathematician and geographer (d. 1774)
• February 14 – Enrique Flórez, Spanish historian (d. 1773)
• March 18 – Niclas Sahlgren, Swedish merchant and philanthropist (d. 1776)
• April 9 – Giambattista Nolli, Italian architect and surveyor (d. 1756)
• April 27 – King Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia (d. 1773)
• May 14 – William Emerson, English mathematician (d. 1782)
• May 18 – Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond, English aristocrat, philanthropist and cricket patron (d. 1750)
• August 4 – Thomas Blackwell, Scottish classical scholar (d. 1757)
• October 15 – Marie-Marguerite d'Youville, Canadian saint (d. 1771)
• October 18 – Charles le Beau, French historian (d. 1778)
• November 5 – Pietro Longhi, Venetian painter (d. 1785)
• November 10 – Johann Joseph Couven, German Baroque architect (d. 1763)
• November 27 – Anders Celsius, Swedish astronomer (d. 1744)

Deaths

• January 14 – Tokugawa Mitsukuni, Japanese warlord (b. 1628)
• March 15 – Jean Renaud de Segrais, French writer (b. 1624)
• April 4 – Joseph Haines, English entertainer and author
• April 21 – Asano Naganori, Japanese warlord (b. 1667)
• May 23 – Captain William Kidd, Scottish pirate (b. 1645)
• June 2 – Madeleine de Scudéry, French writer (b. 1607)
• July 7 – William Stoughton, American judge at the Salem witch trials (b. 1631)
• August 20 – Sir Charles Sedley, 5th Baronet, English playwright (b. 1639)
• August 22 – John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English royalist statesman (b. 1628)
• September 15 – Edmé Boursault, French writer (b. 1638)
• September 16 – King James II of England/James VII of Scotland (b. 1633)
• October 3 – Joseph Williamson, English politician (b. 1633)
• November 5 – Charles Gerard, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield, French-born English politician (b. c.1659)
• December 21 – Sir Hugh Paterson, 1st Baronet, Baronet of Bannockburn (b. 1659)

References

• War of the Spanish Succession, 1701–1714