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1707 (MDCCVII ) was acommon year starting on Saturday of theGregorian calendar and acommon year starting on Wednesday of theJulian calendar , the 1707th year of theCommon Era (CE) andAnno Domini 2nd millennium , the 7th year of the18th century , and the 8th year of the1700s decade. As of the start of 1707, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
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In theSwedish calendar it was acommon year starting on Tuesday , one day ahead of the Julian and ten days behind the Gregorian calendar.
December 16 : Thelast recorded eruption of Mount Fuji begins.April 25 (April 14Old Style ) –War of the Spanish Succession –Battle of Almansa : TheBourbon army ofSpain andFrance (with Irish mercenaries) under the French-born EnglishmanJames FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick , soundly defeats the allied forces ofPortugal ,England , and theDutch Republic led by the French-bornHuguenot (in English service)Henri de Massue, Earl of Galway . Following this,Philip V of Spain promulgates the firstNueva Planta decrees , bringing the Kingdoms ofValencia andAragon under the laws of theCrown of Castile .[ 2] May 1 – TheKingdom of England and theKingdom of Scotland are united as theKingdom of Great Britain .May 8 – Thesiege of Játiva within the Spanishkingdom of Valencia begins as 9,000 Castilian and French troops, at the direction ofKing Philip V attack Játiva, defended by troops of theKingdom of Aragon . Játiva (nowXàtiva ) falls on June 6.May 12 (May 1Old Style ) – The new sovereign state of Great Britain comes into being, as a result of theActs of Union , which combine the Kingdoms ofScotland andEngland into a single unitedKingdom of Great Britain ,[ 3] England andScotland , to form theParliament of Great Britain .[ 4] May 23 – Thevolcanic eruption in theSantorini caldera begins.June 4 – On the island now occupied bySri Lanka ,Narendra Sinha becomes the monarch of most of the area as the newKandyan king, succeeding to the throne upon the death of his father, KingVimaladharmasuriya II . Narendra Sinha reigns for almost 32 years until his death on May 13, 1739.June 6 – The soldiers and officers defending the Aragonese city of Játiva are massacred after a larger force of Castilian troops breaks through the walls at the end of a30-day siege . The rest of the town's residents are deported, and most of the dwellings are burned, with the area being renamed "San Felipe".[ 5] June 8 – Less than three months after proclaiming himself to be the newEmperor of India ,Muhammad Azam Shah and his three sons are killed in a battle by his troops led by his half-brotherMuhammad Mu'azzam June 13 – OnFrancis II Rákóczi 's recommendation, and with Count Miklos Bercsényi's support, a meeting of the Hungarian independence activists, held at the village ofÓnod declares the deposing of theHouse of Habsburg (andJoseph I, King of Hungary from the Hungarian throne.June 19 – The coronation of Muhammad Mu'azzam as the new Emperor of India,Bahadur Shah I , takes place inDelhi June 28 –Yeshe Gyatso is installed as the newDalai Lama by his father,Lha-bzang Khan , who has recently deposed the6th Dalai Lama . Though the justification is that the 21-year-old Yeshe was the true reincarnation of the5th Dalai Lama , Yeshe receives no recognition from Buddhists in Tibet or Mongolia and the7th Dalai Lama is installed in 1710.July 29 –August 21 –War of the Spanish Succession –Battle of Toulon : The Allies are obliged to withdraw, but the French fleet is effectively put out of action.August 27 –Charles XII of Sweden launches his campaign to conquer Russia, marching to the east fromAltranstädt with 60,000 coalition troops.[ 6] Riga , guarding theSwedish supply lines.September 14 –Vincenzo Durazzo is elected to a 2-year term as the newDoge of theRepublic of Genoa (including the island ofCorsica ), succeeding the outgoing Doge,Domenico Maria De Mari .September 18 –October 4 –War of the Spanish Succession : Thesiege of the fortress ofCiudad Rodrigo , led by troops under the command ofAlexandre Maître , begins and lasts for 16 days. On the final day, General Maitre begins the attack that takes the fortress within 45 minutes.September 30 –War of the Spanish Succession : the conquest by Austrian troops, of the Italian peninsula city state ofGaeta , is accomplished after a three-month siege led by GeneralWirich Philipp von Daun .October 22 –Scilly naval disaster : Four BritishRoyal Navy ships run aground in theIsles of Scilly , because of faultynavigation . Admiral SirCloudesley Shovell and at least 1,450 sailors all drown.October 23 – The Parliament of theKingdom of Great Britain first meets in London.October 28 – TheHōei earthquake (the most powerful in Japan until2011 ) strikes, with an estimatedlocal magnitude of 8.6 and kills at least 5,000 people.November 30 –War of the Spanish Succession : TheSiege of Pensacola ends, with the Spanish successfully defending their fort.December 16 – Thelast recorded eruption of Mount Fuji begins in Japan.December 24 – The first British Governor ofGibraltar , directly appointed byQueen Anne ,Roger Elliott , takes up his residence in the Convent of the Franciscan Friars.December 28 –Charles XII of Sweden and his coalition of troops begin crossing the first line of defense of theRussian Empire , theVistula River , in their attempt to conquer Russia.[ 6] Louis, Duke of Brittany (1707–1712) born8 January Giuseppe Bonito born11 January Pierre Adamoli born5 August Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon born24 August Johannes Browallius born30 August Pietro Rotari born30 September Charles Wesley born18 December January 2 –Johann Adam Lehmus , German poet of numerous spiritual songs (d.1788 )January 8 –Louis, Duke of Brittany , second son of Louis of France (d.1712 )January 11 –Giuseppe Bonito , Neapolitan painter of the Rococo period (d.1789 )January 13 –John Boyle, 5th Earl of Cork , Irish writer (d.1762 )January 17 –Prospero Colonna di Sciarra , Italian cardinal of the family of the dukes of Carbognano (d.1765 )January 22 –Carl Höckh , German violinist and composer (d.1773 )January 26 –Abbé François Blanchet , French littérateur (d.1784 )February 1 –Frederick, Prince of Wales (d.1751 )February 13 February 25 –Carlo Goldoni , Italian playwright (d.1793 )February 26 –Mariano Arciero , Italian Roman Catholic priest (d.1788 )February 27 –Joseph Johann Kauffmann , Austrian painter known for his portraits, church decorations and castle depictions (d.1782 )February 28 –Johann Christian Senckenberg , German physician (d.1772 )March 1 March 2 March 3 –Johan Ihre , Swedish philologist and historical linguist (d.1780 )March 7 –Stephen Hopkins , governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (d.1785 )March 8 March 20 –Hugh Boscawen, 2nd Viscount Falmouth (d.1782 )March 23 April 4 –Hans Karl von Winterfeldt , Prussian general (d.1757 )April 6 –Abraham de Haen , Dutch draughtsman, engraver, painter and poet (d.1748 )April 10 April 13 –Sir Henry Cavendish, 1st Baronet , British politician who held several appointments in the Kingdom of Ireland (d.1776 )April 15 April 20 –Robert Foulis , Scottish printer and publisher (d.1776 )April 22 –Henry Fielding , English novelist and dramatist known for his earthy humour and satire (d.1754 )April 25 –Léopold Clément, Hereditary Prince of Lorraine , French prince (d.1723 )April 26 –Johannes Burman , Dutch botanist and physician (d.1780 )April 28 –Olivier de Vézin , Canadian ironmaster and chief surveyor of Louisiana (d.1776 )May 1 –Herbert Windsor, 2nd Viscount Windsor (d.1758 )May 2 –Jean-Baptiste Barrière , French cellist and composer (d.1747 )May 12 –Francisco Salzillo , Spanish sculptor (d.1781 )May 14 –António Teixeira , Portuguese composer (d.1774 )May 19 –Robert Hamilton , moderator (d.1787 )May 23 –Carl Linnaeus , Swedish botanist (d.1778 )May 31 –Pietro De Martino , Italian mathematician and astronomer (d.1746 )June 4 June 15 –Johannes Grubenmann , member of the Swiss family Grubenmann who were famous as carpenters and civil engineers (d.1771 )June 18 –Pietro Correr , Italian politician and diplomat (d.1768 )June 20 –Louis de Cardevac, marquis d'Havrincourt (d.1767 )July 7 –Henry Cunningam , Irish Anglican priest (d.1777 )July 8 –Jacques-Philippe Le Bas , French engraver (d.1783 )July 10 –Sir William Lowther, 1st Baronet, of Little Preston , English landowner and curate (d.1788 )July 17 –Johann Joseph von Trautson , Roman Catholic clergyman (d.1757 )July 23 –Edward Bentham , Oxford based theologian who in 1763 (d.1776 )August 4 –Johann August Ernesti , German Rationalist theologian and philologist (d.1781 )August 5 –Pierre Adamoli , French collector (d.1769 )August 7 –Carl Günther Ludovici , German philosopher, lexicographer and economist (d.1778 )August 20 –Jacques Roettiers , engraver in England and France (d.1784 )August 24 –Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon , English Methodist leader (d.1791 )August 25 – KingLouis I of Spain (d.1724 )August 27 –Zanetta Farussi , Italian comedic actress (d.1776 )August 30 –Johannes Browallius , Finnish and Swedish Lutheran theologian, physicist, botanist, friend of Carl Linnaeus (d.1755 )September –Nathan Alcock , English physician (d.1779 ) September 1 –John Salusbury , Welsh nobleman (d.1762 )September 2 –Gian Benedetto Mittarelli , Italian monk and monastic historian (d.1777 )September 3 –Johann Peter Süssmilch , German Protestant pastor (d.1767 )September 5 –John Forbes , British general (d.1759 )September 7 –Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon , French scientist (d.1788 )September 22 –John Rattray , Edinburgh surgeon who served as surgeon to Prince Charles Edward Stuart (d.1771 )September 29 –Antoine Clériadus de Choiseul-Beaupré (d.1774 )September 30 October 4 –Francesco Fontebasso , Italian painter of the late-Baroque or Rococo period of Venice (d.1769 )October 6 –Thomas Falkner , English Jesuit missionary (d.1784 )October 20 –Thomas Church , British priest and controversialist (d.1756 )October 30 –Jeanne Thérèse du Han , Lorraine nobility (d.1748 )November 7 –Dieterich Bernhard Ludewig , German organist (d.1740 )November 9 –Louis de Pardaillan de Gondrin , French courtier, freemason and great-grandson of Madame de Montespan (d.1743 )November 12 November 15 –Prince Adarnase of Kartli , Georgian prince royal (d.1784 )November 23 –Anna Karolina Orzelska , adventuress and Polishszlachcianka (noblewoman) (d.1769 )November 28 –Giammaria Mazzucchelli , Italian writer, bibliographer and historian (d.1765 )December 2 December 4 –Louise Françoise de Bourbon, Mademoiselle du Maine , granddaughter of Louis XIV of France and his mistress Françoise-Athénaïs (d.1743 )December 11 –Paul von Werner , chief of the Prussian Hussar Regiment No. 6 (d.1785 )December 17 –Ernest Frederick II, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen (d.1745 )December 18 December 22 –Johann Amman , Swiss-Russian botanist (d.1741 )December 25 –Sir Joseph Hoare, 1st Baronet , Anglo-Irish politician (d.1801 )date unknown probable William Hoare , English painter (d.1792 )January 1 –Eleanor de Moura , former Spanish viceroy of Sicily (b. c.1642 )January 4 –Louis William, Margrave of Baden-Baden , Germany (b.1655 )January 8 –John Dalrymple, 1st Earl of Stair , Scottish politician (b.1648 )January 10 –Philibert, comte de Gramont , French writer (b.1621 )January 16 –William Bowes , English politician (b.1657 )January 20 January 22 –Richard Towneley , English mathematician and astronomer from Towneley near Burnley (b.1629 )February 22 –Giacinto Calandrucci , Italian painter (b.1646 )Aurangzeb March 3 –Aurangzeb ,Mughal Emperor of India (b.1618 )March 17 –Elisabeth Charlotte, Countess of Holzappel (b.1640 )March 27 –Jean-François Gerbillon , French Jesuit missionary active in China (b.1654 )March 30 –Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban , French noble and military engineer noted for designing fortifications (b.1633 )April 2 –Gérard Edelinck , Flemish engraver (b.1640 )April 6 –Willem van de Velde the Younger , Dutch painter (b.1633 )April 24 –Walter Charleton , English natural philosopher (b.1619 )April 26 –Johann Christoph Denner , German musical instrument maker (b.1655 )April 28 –Christian, Duke of Saxe-Eisenberg (b.1653 )April 29 –George Farquhar , Irish dramatist (b.1677 )May 3 –Michiel de Swaen , Flemish poet (b.1654 )May 9 –Dieterich Buxtehude , German composer (b. c.1637 )May 10 –Johann Ernst III, Duke of Saxe-Weimar (b.1664 )May 19 –Jean II d'Estrées , French noble (b.1624 )May 21 –Joan Geelvinck , Dutch politician (b.1644 )May 24 –Henri Albert de La Grange d'Arquien , French Catholic cardinal (b.1613 )May 27 –Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart de Mortemart , mistress of KingLouis XIV of France (b.1641 )May 31 –Simon Patrick , English theologian and bishop (b.1626 )June 8 –Muhammad Azam Shah , Mughal emperor (b.1653 )June 15 –Giorgio Baglivi , Armenian doctor and writer (b.1668 )June 21 –Robert Phelips , English politician (b.1619 )June 23 –John Mill , English theologian (b. c.1645 )June 27 –Johann Zahn , German author (b.1641 )August 7 –Henry Poley , English politician (b.1654 )August 18 –William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire , English soldier, statesman (b.1640 )August 20 –Nicolas Gigault , French organist and composer (b.1627 )September 12 –Samuel Willard , American theologian (b.1640 )September 15 –George Stepney , British poet and diplomat (b.1663 )September 21 –Wilhelmus Beekman , Dutch politician (b.1623 )September 24 –Vincenzo da Filicaja , Italian poet (b.1642 )October 10 –Johann Patkul , Livonian nobleman, politician (b.1660 )October 22 – SirCloudesley Shovell , British admiral, drowned (b.1650 )November 26 –Leonhard Dientzenhofer , German architect (b.1660 )November 27 –Fitz-John Winthrop , Governor of the Connecticut Colony (b.1637 )December 1 –Jeremiah Clarke , English composer and organist, suicide (b.1674 )December 24 December 27 date unknown 
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