1700s - Definition and Overview

Centuries: 17th century - 18th century - 19th century
Decades: 1670s 1680s 1690s - 1700s - 1710s 1720s 1730s
Years: 1700 1701 1702 1703 1704 1705 1706 1707 1708 1709

Events and Trends

The Bonneville Slide blocks the Columbia River near the site of present-day Cascade Locks, Oregon with a land bridge 200 feet high. The river eventually removes the blockage, but this event is remembered in the local legends of the Native Americans as the Bridge of the Gods.
The first newspaper to be published in English

King Frederick IV of Denmark (1699 - 1730).
King William III of England and Scotland (1689 - 1702).
Queen Anne of Great Britain (1702 - 1714).
King Louis XIV of France (1643 - 1715).
Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor (1658 - 1705).
Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor (1705 - 1711).
Tsar Peter I of Russia (1682 - 1725).
King Charles XII of Sweden (1697 - 1718).

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	mohreuro: 5-2 How did the rise of Prussia in the late 1600s/early 1700s affect the balance of power in its region and across Europe?
	geologist: ...by tapping into the Carboniferous Formation and spewing it up into the sky we've become a volcano that has erupted since the 1700s #quote
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