Years: 1704 1705 1706 - 1707 - 1708 1709 1710

Decades: 1670s 1680s 1690s - 1700s - 1710s 1720s 1730s

Centuries: 17th century - 18th century - 19th century 1707 in literature 1707 in music 1707 in science List of state leaders in 1707 List of religious leaders in 1707

Events

• March 26 - Act of Union with Scotland becomes law, making the separate Kingdoms of England and Scotland into one country, the Kingdom of Great Britain.
• April 25 - Allied army is defeated by Bourbonic army at Almansa (Spain) in the War of the Spanish Succession.
• May 1 - Union of the Parliaments of Scotland and England forms the Kingdom of Great Britain (See: Act of Union 1707).
• October 23 - First Parliament of Great Britain.
• A fortress is founded on the future site of Ust-Abakanskoye(modern Abakan).

Births

• February 1 - Frederick, Prince of Wales
• February 25 - Carlo Goldoni, playwright
• April 15 - Leonhard Euler, (Swiss mathematician)
• April 22 - Henry Fielding, author (+ 1754)
• May 23 - Carolus Linnaeus, Swedish botanist (+ 1778)
• August 25 - King Louis of Spain
• September 7 - Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, French philosopher († 1788)

Deaths

• March 3 - Aurangzeb, Mughal emperor (born 1618)
• April 6 - William van de Velde, the younger, Dutch painter (born 1633)
• April 20 - George Farquhar, British dramatist (born 1677)
• May 9 - Dietrich Buxtehude, Danish composer
• May 27 - Marquise de Montespan, mistress of the French King Louis XIV
• June 23 - John Mill, English theologian (born c1645)
• September 15 - George Stepney, British poet and diplomatist (born 1663)
• September 24 - Vicenzo da Filicaja, Italian poet (born 1642)
• October 22 - Sir Cloudsley Shovel, British admiral (born 1650)

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