1700

1700 (MDCC) was an exceptional common year starting on Friday.

January 1 - Russia accepts Julian calendar.
January 1 - in around this year, Germany and Denmark-Norway adopt the Gregorian calendar, including the convention that New Year's Day is January 1.
January 26 - The Cascadia Earthquake, one of the largest earthquakes on record, ruptures the Cascadia subduction zone offshore from Vancouver Island to northern California, creating a tsunami logged in Japan and oral traditions of the American First Nations.
February 27 - The island of New Britain is discovered.
March 1 - Swedish calendar adopted.
April - Fire destroys many buildings in Gondar, the capital of Ethiopia, including two in the palace complex.
November 20 - Great Northern War: Battle of Narva - King Charles XII of Sweden defeats the army of Tsar Peter the Great at Narva.
December 28 - Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.

Vietnamese gain control of entire Indochina peninsula.
The Great Northern War begins with Russia, Denmark and Saxony/Poland making a coordinated attack on Sweden (to 1721).
Control of Spain passes from the Habsburgs to the Bourbons.
Mission San Xavier del Bac founded in New Spain near Tucson, as a Spanish Roman Catholic mission.
A fire destroys the larger part of Edinburgh.
Lions became extinct from Libya by this date.
Wolves became extinct from the British Isles by this date.
William Street gets married and becomes known as the greatest surveyor in Virginia.
An inventory made for the Medici family of Florence documents the first piano, invented by their instrument keeper Bartolomeo Cristofori.

January 7 - Raphael Fabretti, Italian antiquary (born 1618)
January 21 - Henry Somerset, 1st Duke of Beaufort (born 1629)
February 12 - Aleksei Shein, Russian commander and statesman (born 1662)
May 12 - John Dryden, English writer (born 1631)
July 29 - William, Duke of Gloucester (born 1689)
September 15 - André Le Nôtre, French landscape gardener (born 1613)
September 27 - Pope Innocent XII (born 1615)
November 1 - Charles II of Spain (born 1661)
November 25 - Stephanus Van Cortlandt, first native born mayor of New York (born 1643)
Patriarch Adrian, Russian Orthodox Church leader
James Tuchet, 5th Earl of Castlehaven
Caius Gabriel Cibber, Danish sculptor (born 1630)
Thomas Creech, English translator (born 1659)
Louis Joliet, Canadian explorer (born 1645)
Jens Juel, Danish diplomat (born 1631)
Kamalakara, Indian astronomer and mathematician (born 1616)
Henry Killigrew, English dramatist (born 1613)
John Lowther, 1st Viscount Lonsdale, English politician (born 1655)
Joseph Moxon, English mathematical lexicographer (born 1627)
John Hale, American witch hunter (born 1636)

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