Events from the year1700 inEngland.

• Monarch –William III

• 27 February – The island ofNew Britain is discovered byWilliam Dampier in the westernPacific.^[1]
• early March –William Congreve's comedyThe Way of the World is first performed at theNew Theatre, Lincoln's Inn Fields.^[2][3]
• 24 March –Treaty of London signed betweenFrance, England and theDutch Republic.^[4]
• 24 June – Responsibility forvagrants passes fromchurchwardens toparish constables under terms of the Vagrant Removal Costs Act (1698).^[5]
• 30 July –Princess Anne's only surviving child,Prince William, Duke of Gloucester, dies aged eleven of "a malignant fever" atWindsor Castle, leaving the Protestantsuccession to the British throne in doubt.^[2]
• September – While in the Netherlands,William III meets his cousinSophia atHet Loo Palace. This is a precursor to theAct of Settlement of the following year that opens the way to the future succession of theHouse of Hanover.
• 6 September –Edmond Halley returns to England after a voyage of almost one year onHMSParamour, from which he has observed theAntarctic Convergence,^[6] and publishes his findings on terrestrial magnetism inGeneral Chart of the Variation of the Compass.
• 20 November – First boats reachLeeds from the tideway by way of theAire and Calder Navigation.^[7]
• 19 December – The4th Parliament of King William III is dissolved and new elections are ordered by the King.
• 25 December – First Christmas hymn authorised to be sung in the Anglican church, "While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks", the words byNahum Tate having been first published this year, in a supplement to "Tate and Brady".
• 28 December –Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester is appointedLord Lieutenant of Ireland.
• Approximate date –Jeremiah Clarke writes thePrince of Denmark's March.

• 29 March –Charles Cornwallis, 1st Earl Cornwallis (died 1762)
• April –John Wyatt, inventor (died 1766)
• 4 May(bapt.) –Joseph Adams, chief factor of theHudson's Bay Company (died 1737)
• 14 May –Mary Delany, Bluestocking, artist and writer (died 1788)
• 13 July –John Dandridge, colonel and planter in Virginia (died 1756)
• 20 September –Benedict Leonard Calvert, Governor of Maryland (died 1732)
• 26 September? –Mary Hervey, née Lepell, courtier (died 1768)
• 13 October –Phanuel Bacon, playwright, poet and author (died 1783)
• 31 October –Joseph Blake, alias Blueskin, highwayman (executed 1724)
• 28 November –Nathaniel Bliss,Astronomer Royal (died 1764)

• John Cecil, 7th Earl of Exeter, peer (died 1722)
• William Craven, 3rd Baron Craven, nobleman (died 1739)
• Emanuel Howe, 2nd Viscount Howe, politician and colonial administrator (died 1735)
• John Immyns, attorney and lutenist (died 1764)
• Charles Jennens, landowner and patron of the arts (died 1773)

• 16–27 January –John Dormer, born Huddleston, Jesuit priest (born 1636)
• 21 January –Henry Somerset, 1st Duke of Beaufort (born 1629)
• 14 March –Henry Killigrew, dramatist (born 1613)
• 12 May –John Dryden, poet (born 1631)
• 10 July –John Lowther, 1st Viscount Lonsdale, politician (born 1655)
• 19 July (date found dead) –Thomas Creech, translator (born 1659; suicide)
• 29 July –Prince William, Duke of Gloucester (born 1689)
• 8 August –Joseph Moxon, mathematician and lexicographer (born 1627)
• 7 September –William Russell, 1st Duke of Bedford, peer and soldier (born 1616)

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• Years of the 17th century in England

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