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October 7 : Russia's 15-daysiege of Nöteborg begins in Sweden (Great Northern War)October 23 :Battle of Vigo Bay : English and Dutch forces capture the Spanish port of Cádiz (War of the Spanish Succession)1702 by topic Arts and science Countries Lists of leaders Birth and death categories Establishments and disestablishments categories Works category
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1702 (MDCCII ) was acommon year starting on Sunday of theGregorian calendar and acommon year starting on Thursday of theJulian calendar , the 1702nd year of theCommon Era (CE) andAnno Domini 2nd millennium , the 2nd year of the18th century , and the 3rd year of the1700s decade. As of the start of 1702, 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 Wednesday , one day ahead of the Julian and ten days behind the Gregorian calendar.
January 2 – A total solar eclipse is visible from the southernPacific Ocean .January 12 – In North America, ships fromFort Maurepas arrive at Twenty-Seven Mile Bluff to buildFort Louis de la Mobile Mobile, Alabama ), to become the capital ofFrench Louisiana .February 1 – TheDuc de Villeroy , commander of the French Army, is taken as a prisoner of war by the Austrian Army during theBattle of Cremona (War of the Spanish Succession ).March 3 (February 20 O.S.) – KingWilliam III of England is fatally injured in an accident when he is thrown from his horse, "Sorrel", when it trips on a molehill inHampton Court Park near London. Already in poor health before the accident, he dies from complications 16 days later at the age of 51.[ 1] March 14 – An earthquake in the middle of theCalore valley in Italy, east ofBenevento , kills 400 people.March 19 (March 8Old Style ) –Princess Anne Stuart , daughter of the lateKing James II and younger sister of his successor,Mary II of England (who had reigned jointly with her husband, William III, as William and Mary until her death in 1694), ascends the English, Scottish and Irish thrones upon William's death. In her first speech to the English Parliament, made three days later, she tells the assembly "As I know my heart to be entirely English, I can very sincerely assure you there is not anything you can expect or desire from me which I shall not be ready to do for the happiness and prosperity of England."[ 2] Prince George of Denmark and Norway, but none will survive childhood, and she will die without an heir, bringing an end to the reign of the House of Stuart and enabling theHanoverian Succession . After the death of William, theStates General of the Netherlands do not appoint a newstadtholder , and so theDutch Republic becomes a truerepublic again, starting theSecond Stadtholderless Period .March 22 (March 11Old Style ) – The first regular English-language national newspaper,The Daily Courant [ 3] Fleet Street in theCity of London , initially byElizabeth Mallet ; it covers only foreign news.March 24 –Great Northern War :Battle of Darsūniškis – TheSwedish army of about 240 men under the command of Alexander Hummerhielm is defeated by the Polish–Saxon army of 6,000 men underMichał Serwacy Wiśniowiecki .April 3 – TheDutch East India Company shipMerestein strikes rocks and sinks inSaldanha Bay off Jutten Island, Africa with the loss of 101 of the 200 people on board.April 14 – Volcanic eruption of Changbaishan volcano (also known asPaektu Mountain ) on the China/Korea border takes place.April 15 – The BritishProvince of New Jersey , encompassing all of the modern-day U.S. state ofNew Jersey and portions ofNew York , is created as proprietary owners in the provinces ofEast Jersey andWest Jersey surrender their rights to the Crown.[ 4] April 20 – CometC/1702 H1 is discovered and passes within 0.0435AU (a little more than four million miles or 6.5 million km) of the Earth.April 24 – The first two missionaries from theSociety for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts set sail from England to North America.May 5 – Globular clusterMessier 5 (M5, NGC 5904) is discovered by Gottfried Kirch and his wife Maria Margarethe.May 6 –Cloudesley Shovell is promoted to fulladmiral in the English navy.May 14 (N.S. ) –War of the Spanish Succession : War is declared on France by theGrand Alliance (Kingdom of England ,Dutch Republic andHoly Roman Empire ).May 15 (May 4 O.S.) – KingCharles XII of Sweden and his troops walk unopposed intoWarsaw after troops capture the city.[ 5] May 16 – Much of the city ofUppsala ,Sweden is destroyed in a fire.May 19 – Over 90% of the city ofBergen ,Norway is destroyed and reduced to ashes in a Great Fire.June 2 – English GeneralJohn Churchill , later the Duke of Marlborough, takes command of the alliance of English, Dutch and German troops in theWar of the Spanish Succession .[ 6] June 11 – Anglo-Dutch forcesskirmish with French forces before the walls ofNijmegen and prevent its fall.[ 7] June 15 – Queen Anne's Captain-General, John Churchill, forces the surrender ofKaiserswerth on the Rhine after a siege that began on April 18.[ 8] June 16 – TheEnglish East India Company founds a settlement onPulo Condore (modern-day Côn Sơn Island) off the coast of southernVietnam as anentrepôt June 25 – The premiere of the operaL'Offendere per amore overo la Telesilla byJohann Joseph Fux takes place inVienna .The travel diaryOku no Hosomichi haibun Matsuo Bashō and one of the major texts of Japanese literature of theEdo period , is published eight years after Bashō's death. TheDelaware Colony legislature is separated from that of Pennsylvania. Richard Bentley at Cambridge in England introduces the first written (as opposed to oral) competitive examinations in a Western university.[ 10] Alan Brodrick, 2nd Viscount Midleton born31 January Giovanni Carmine Pellerano born6 February Rasmus Paludan born26 February Henrietta Maria of Brandenburg-Schwedt born2 March Jack Sheppard born4 March Thomas Penn born20 March Willem van Keppel, 2nd Earl of Albemarle born5 June Muhammad Shah born7 August Louis-François Roubiliac born31 August Januarius Maria Sarnelli born12 September Abhai Singh of Marwar born7 November January 2 –Nabeshima Naotsune , Japanese daimyō (d.1749 )January 6 January 10 –Johannes Zick , German fresco painter (d.1762 )January 12 January 13 –Thomas Arthur, comte de Lally , French general of Irish Jacobite ancestry (d.1766 )January 14 –Emperor Nakamikado , of Japan (d.1737 )January 18 –Sava II Petrović-Njegoš ,Metropolitan of Cetinje (d.1782 )January 24 –Frederica Henriette of Anhalt-Bernburg , member of the House of Ascania by birth and Princess of Anhalt-Köthen by marriage (d.1723 )January 26 –Johann Caspar Scheuchzer , Swiss naturalist (d.1729 )January 31 –Alan Brodrick, 2nd Viscount Midleton , English cricketer (d.1747 )February 3 February 6 –Giovanni Carmine Pellerano , Italian Catholic prelate, member of the Knights Hospitaller (d.1783 )February 7 –Carl August Thielo , Danish composer (d.1763 )February 10 February 12 –Robert Hale , Massachusetts physician, soldier (d.1767 )February 26 –Rasmus Paludan , Norwegian theologian and priest (d.1759 )February 27 March 2 March 4 –Jack Sheppard , British burglar and escaper (d.1724 )March 13 –Burkat Shudi , English harpsichord maker of Swiss origin (d.1773 )March 19 –Thomas Penn , son of American colonial leader William Penn (d.1775 )March 21 –Bento de Moura Portugal (d.1766 )March 22 –Matthias de Visch , Flemish painter of history paintings and portraits (d.1765 )March 25 –Pieter Teyler van der Hulst , wealthy Dutch Mennonite merchant and banker (d.1778 )March 27 –Johann Ernst Eberlin , German composer and organist (d.1762 )March 28 –Ignacio de Luzán , Spanish critic and poet (d.1754 )March 29 –Cesare Sportelli , Italian Roman Catholic Redemptorist lawyer (d.1750 )March 31 –Barthélemy-Christophe Fagan , French playwright (d.1755 )April 5 April 7 –William Rawlinson Earle (d.1774 )April 10 –Jonathan Tyers (d.1767 )April 16 –Juan de Balmaseda y Censano Beltrán (d.1778 )April 20 –Zenón de Somodevilla, 1st Marquess of Ensenada , Spanish noble (d.1781 )May 2 –Friedrich Christoph Oetinger , German Lutheran theologian and theosopher (d.1782 )May 3 –John St John, 2nd Viscount St John (d.1748 )May 8 –Andrew Lauder , Burgess of the Royal Burgh of Lauder (1737) (d.1769 )May 10 –Abraham Lehn , Danish landowner (d.1757 )May 11 –Isaac Greenwood , American mathematician (d.1745 )May 12 –Louis Philogène Brûlart, vicomte de Puisieulx , French foreign minister (d.1770 )May 16 –George Nevill, 14th Baron Bergavenny (d.1723 )May 21 –John Rous , Royal Navy officer during King George's War and the Seven Years' War (d.1760 )May 24 –Joseph Friedrich Ernst, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen , fifth Prince (d.1769 )June 1 –John Hancock Jr. , colonial American clergyman, father of politician John Hancock (d.1744 )June 5 June 7 –Louis George, Margrave of Baden-Baden from 1707 until his death (d.1761 )June 9 –William Townshend , British Member of Parliament (d.1738 )June 13 –Michał Kazimierz "Rybeńko" Radziwiłł , Polish-Lithuanian noble (d.1762 )June 19 –Frederick Augustus Rutowsky , German general (d.1764 )June 26 –Philip Doddridge , English religious leader (d.1751 )June 30 –Elizabeth Timothy , colonial American printer and newspaper publisher in South Carolina who worked for Benjamin Franklin (d.1757 )July 6 –Franz Anton Maichelbeck , German organist and composer (d.1750 )July 18 –Maria Clementina Sobieska , Polish noble (d.1735 )July 19 –Philemon Ewer , English shipbuilder (d.1750 )July 20 –Christian Siegmund Georgi , evangelical theologian at Wittenberg, Germany (d.1771 )July 22 –Alessandro Besozzi , Italian composer and virtuoso oboist (d.1793 )July 31 –Jean Denis Attiret , French Jesuit missionary and painter (d.1768 )August 2 –Dietrich of Anhalt-Dessau , German prince of the House of Ascania (d.1769 )August 3 August 7 –Muhammad Shah , Mughal emperor of India (d.1748 )August 14 –Philip Carteret Webb , English barrister (d.1770 )August 16 –Roque Joaquín de Alcubierre , military engineer in the Spanish Army, discovered architectural remains at Pompeii and Herculaneum (d.1780 )August 26 August 28 –Jean Philippe d'Orléans , illegitimate son of future French regentPhilippe d'Orleans (d.1748 )August 31 –Louis-François Roubiliac , French sculptor who worked in England (d.1762 )September 2 –John Evans , Welsh Anglican cleric (d.1782 )September 4 –Legall de Kermeur , French chess player (d.1792 )September 6 –Joseph Bonnier de la Mosson , French aristocrat (d.1744 )September 12 September 14 September 20 –Francesco Serao , Italian physician (d.1783 )October 4 October 5 –Prince Joseph of Saxe-Hildburghausen , German prince (d.1787 )October 22 –Frédéric Maurice Casimir de La Tour d'Auvergne , French prince (d.1723 )October 25 –Christoph II von Dohna , Prussian general (d.1762 )October 29 –Tako Hajo Jelgersma , Dutch painter (d.1795 )November 5 –Grégoire Orlyk , Ukrainian-born FrenchLieutenant General (d.1759 )November 6 –Josias Weitbrecht , German professor of medicine and anatomy in Russia (d.1747 )November 7 –Abhai Singh of Marwar , Raja of Marwar (Jodhpur) Kingdom (r (d.1749 )November 9 –Jacques-Georges Chauffepié , French biographer, Calvinist minister and preacher (d.1786 )November 13 –Dominic Vallarsi , Italian priest (d.1771 )November 14 –Francis Gashry (d.1762 )November 20 December 14 –Stephen Sewall , judge in colonial Massachusetts (d.1760 )December 17 December 21 –Tommaso Crudeli , Florentine free thinker who was imprisoned by the Roman Inquisition (d.1745 )December 22 –Jean-Étienne Liotard , French painter (d.1789 )Ignatius Gregory Peter VI Shahbaddin died4 March Joseph Oriol died23 March Zeb-un-Nissa died26 May Vincent van der Vinne died26 July Olaus Rudbeck died17 September Countess Sophie Henriette of Waldeck died15 October John Benbow died4 November January 2 –Christian Adolf I, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Franzhagen , German nobleman (b.1641 )January 7 –Ernst von Trautson , Austrian Roman Catholic clergyman who was Prince-Bishop of Vienna (b.1633 )January 17 –Stanisław Herakliusz Lubomirski , Polish noble (b.1642 )February 16 –John Milner , English clergyman (b.1628 )February 17 –Peder Syv , Danish historian (b.1631 )February 27 –Münejjim Bashi , Ottoman astrologer, Sufi, and historianMarch 2 –Giuseppe de Lazzara , Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Alife (1676–1702) (b.1626 )March 4 –Ignatius Gregory Peter VI Shahbaddin , Patriarch of the Syriac Catholic Church from 1678 to 1702 (b. c.1641 )March 8 March 18 –Johannes Rothe , Dutch preacher (b.1628 )March 23 –Joseph Oriol , Spanish Catholic priest, saint (b.1650 )March 24 –Sir James Clavering, 1st Baronet , English landowner (b.1620 )April 2 –Iver Leganger , Norwegian priest, non-fiction writer (b.1629 )April 3 April 12 –Paul Mezger , Austrian Benedictine theologian and academic (b.1637 )April 20 –Anna Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury , English countess (b.1642 )April 22 –François Charpentier , French archaeologist and man of letters (b.1620 )April 23 –Margaret Fell , English Quaker leader (b.1614 )April 27 May 10 –Antonio Gherardi , Italian painter (b.1638 )May 14 –Marc Hyacinthe de Rosmadec , French naval officer, appointed governor general of the French Antilles but died before taking office (b.1635 )May 17 –Jan Wyck , Dutch military painter (b.1645 )May 26 –Zeb-un-Nissa , Mughal princess and poet, imprisoned by her father for the last 20 years of her life (b.1638 )May 27 –Dominique Bouhours , French critic (b.1628 )June 1 –François Provost , career soldier from France who served in New France in 1665 (b.1638 )June 2 –John Moore , Member of Parliament for the City of London (b.1620 )June 7 –Benedetto Giacinto Sangermano , Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Nusco (1680–1702) (b.1638 )June 20 July 12 –Nanbu Shigenobu , Edo period Japanese samurai (b.1616 )July 19 –Frederick IV, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp (b.1671 )July 26 –Vincent van der Vinne , Dutch Mennonite painter (b.1628 )August 1 –Sir William Courtenay, 1st Baronet , English politician (b.1628 )August 8 –Callinicus II of Constantinople , Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople (b.1630 )August 14 –Louis Thomas, Count of Soissons and Prince of Savoy (b.1657 )August 15 –Charles, Prince of Commercy , French field marshal (b.1661 )September 11 –Sir Robert Southwell , English diplomat (b.1635 )September 12 –Alfonso Basilio Ghetaldo , Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Stagno (1694–1702) (b.1647 )September 17 –Olaus Rudbeck , Swedish architect (b.1630 )September 20 –William Campion , English politician (b.1640 )September 28 –Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland , English statesman (b.1641 )October 14 –Franz Anton, Count of Hohenzollern-Haigerloch (b.1657 )October 15 October 16 –Francesco Casati , Roman Catholic prelate, Titular Archbishop ofTrapezus (1670–1702) (b.1620 )October 17 October 22 –Guy Aldonce de Durfort de Lorges , French noble and soldier (b.1630 )October 27 –Niccolò Radulovich , Roman Catholic cardinal (b.1627 )November 2 –Andrés de las Navas y Quevedo , Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Santiago de Guatemala (1682–1702) (b.1632 )November 4 –John Benbow , English officer in the Royal Navy (b.1653 )November 5 –William Stanley, 9th Earl of Derby (b.1655 )November 13 –Dudley Bradstreet , American magistrate, Justice of the Peace of Andover (b.1648 )November 26 –Gerrit de Heere , Governor of Dutch Ceylon during its Dutch period (b.1657 )November 29 –Nanbu Yukinobu , early to mid-Edo period Japanese samurai (b.1642 )December 8 December 16 –Henry FitzJames , illegitimate son of 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