1707

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 topic:
Arts
Architecture - Literature - Music
Other topics
Canada - Science
Lists of leaders:
Colonial governors - State leaders ---- From Categories:
births - deaths

Events

January 1 - John V is crowned King of Portugal
March 26 - The Act of Union 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.
September 29 - Four British Royal Navy ships run aground near Scilly Isles because of faulty Navigation - Admiral Sir Cloddisley Shovel and thousands of sailors drown
October 23 - First Parliament of Great Britain.
A fortress is founded on the future site of Ust-Abakanskoye (modern Abakan).
Mount Fuji in Japan erupts.
The Lao empire of Lan Xang officially ends and splits into the kingdoms of Vientiane, Luang Prabang, and Champasak.

January 13 - John Boyle, 5th Earl of Cork, Irish writer (d. 1762)
February 1 - Frederick, Prince of Wales (d. 1751)
February 14 - Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, French novelist (d. 1777)
February 25 - Carlo Goldoni, Italian playwright (d. 1793)
March 7 - Stephen Hopkins, founding father of the United States (d. 1785)
March 14 - Johan Ihre, Swedish philologist and historical linguist (d. 1780)
March 23 - Henry Somerset, 3rd Duke of Beaufort (d. 1745)
April 10 - John Pringle, Scottish physician (d. 1782)
April 15 - Leonhard Euler, Swiss mathematician and physicist (d. 1783)
April 22 - Henry Fielding, British novelist and dramatist (d. 1754)
May 12 - Francisco Salzillo, Spanish sculptor (d. 1781)
May 23 - Carolus Linnaeus, Swedish botanist (d. 1778)
August 14 - Johann August Ernesti, German theologian and philologist (d. 1781)
August 24 - Selina, Countess of Huntingdon, English Methodist leader (d. 1791)
August 25 - King Louis of Spain (d. 1724)
September 5 - John Forbes, British general (d. 1759)
September 7 - Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, French scientist (d. 1788)
December 12 - Charles Wesley, English Methodist leader, brother of John Wesley (d. 1788)
William Hoare, English painter (d. 1792)
Moshe Chaim Luzzatto, Italian rabbi, mystic, and philosopher (d. 1746)