1700

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
Europe at the beginning of the 18th century
November 16: Philip, Duke of Anjou is proclaimed King of Spain by Louis XIV
1700 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1700
MDCC
Ab urbe condita2453
Armenian calendar1149
ԹՎ ՌՃԽԹ
Assyrian calendar6450
Balinese saka calendar1621–1622
Bengali calendar1107
Berber calendar2650
English Regnal year12 Will. 3 – 13 Will. 3
Buddhist calendar2244
Burmese calendar1062
Byzantine calendar7208–7209
Chinese calendar己卯年 (Earth Rabbit)
4397 or 4190
    — to —
庚辰年 (Metal Dragon)
4398 or 4191
Coptic calendar1416–1417
Discordian calendar2866
Ethiopian calendar1692–1693
Hebrew calendar5460–5461
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1756–1757
 - Shaka Samvat1621–1622
 - Kali Yuga4800–4801
Holocene calendar11700
Igbo calendar700–701
Iranian calendar1078–1079
Islamic calendar1111–1112
Japanese calendarGenroku 13
(元禄13年)
Javanese calendar1623–1624
Julian calendarGregorian minus 10 or 11 days
Korean calendar4033
Minguo calendar212 before ROC
民前212年
Nanakshahi calendar232
Thai solar calendar2242–2243
Tibetan calendar阴土兔年
(female Earth-Rabbit)
1826 or 1445 or 673
    — to —
阳金龙年
(male Iron-Dragon)
1827 or 1446 or 674

1700 (MDCC) was an exceptional common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1700th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 700th year of the 2nd millennium, the 100th and last year of the 17th century, and the 1st year of the 1700s decade. As of the start of 1700, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

As of March 1 (O.S. February 19), where the Julian calendar acknowledged a leap day and the Gregorian calendar did not, the Julian calendar fell one day further behind, bringing the difference to 11 days until February 28 (O.S. February 17), 1800.

In Sweden, the year started in the Julian calendar and remained so until February 28. Then, by skipping the leap day, the Swedish calendar was introduced, letting February 28 be followed by March 1, giving the entire year the same pattern as a common year starting on Monday. This calendar, being ten days behind the Gregorian and one day ahead of the Julian, lasts until 1712.

Events

January–March

April–June

  • April 15 – The coronation of King Frederick IV of Denmark takes place at Frederiksborg Castle in Copenhagen.
  • April 18 – Hungarian freedom activist Ferenc Rákóczi is arrested by Austrian authorities and charged with sedition. Imprisoned near Vienna and facing a death sentence, he escapes and later leads the overthrow of the Habsburg control of Hungary.
  • April 21 – In India, the siege of the fortress of Sajjangad (located in the Maharashtra state) is begun by an army led by Fateullahakhan. The fortress falls on June 6.
  • April – Fire destroys many buildings in Gondar, the capital of Ethiopia, including two in the palace complex.
  • May 5
  • May – In Rhode Island (American colony), Walter Clarke, three-term former Governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, is elected deputy governor for the second time, serving under his brother-in-law Samuel Cranston.
  • June 8 (May 28 O.S.) – The legislature for the Province of Massachusetts Bay (the modern-day Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States) passes into law "An Act against Jesuits & Popish Priests" making a finding that Roman Catholic clerics have attempted to incite American Indians into a rebellion against the Crown, and declaring "That all and every Jesuit, Seminary Priest, Missionary, or other Spiritual or Ecclesiastical Person made or ordained by any Authority, Power or Jurisdiction derived, challenged or pretended from the Pope or See of Rome, now residing within this Province or any part thereof, shall depart from and out of the same, at or before the tenth day of September next, in this present year, One Thousand and Seven Hundred." The Province of New York enacts similar legislation later in the year.

July–September

October–December

November 30: Battle of Narva

Date unknown

Births

Daniel Bernoulli born 8 February
Gerard van Swieten born 7 May
Mary Delany born 14 May
Countess Caroline of Erbach-Fürstenau born 29 September
Philip Morant born 6 October
Nathaniel Bliss born 28 November
Jeremias Friedrich Reuß born 8 December

January–March

April–June

July–September

October–December

Deaths

Marguerite Bourgeoys died 12 January
Jan Six died May 28
Pieter Gerritsz van Roestraten died 10 July
Pope Innocent XII died September 27
Patriarch Adrian of Moscow died 16 October
Armand Jean le Bouthillier de Rancé died 27 October
Charles II of Spain died 1 November

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