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

Events

• January 18 - Frederick I becomes King of Prussia.
• May 23 - After being convicted of murdering William Moore and for piracy, Captain William Kidd is hanged in London.
• July 24 - Detroit, Michigan founded.
• September 16 - Prince James Francis Edward Stuart becomes the new claimant to the thrones of Scotland as King James VIII and England as King James III.
• October 9 - The Collegiate School of Connecticut (later renamed Yale University) is chartered in Old Saybrook, Connecticut.
• Philharmonic Society (Academia philharmonicorum) established in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
• In Japan, the young daimyo Asano Naganori is ordered to commit seppuku (ritual suicide). 47 samurai of his service begin planning to avenge his death.
• The English Parliament passes the Act of Settlement 1701, passing the crown of Great Britain to Sophia, Electress of Hanover and her descendants on the death of Princess Anne, the heiress presumptive to the throne after her brother in law, King William III.
• Jethro Tull (agriculturist) invented a drill for planting seeds in rows.

Births

• 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 Florez, Spanish historian (d. 1773)
• March 18 - Niclas Sahlgren, Swedish merchant and philanthropist (d. 1776)
• April 27 - King Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia (d. 1773)
• May 14 - William Emerson, English mathematician (d. 1782)
• 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 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 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 - Charles Sedley, English playwright
• 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

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