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What Happened In Year 1700?

• January 1, 1700 – Russia begins using the Anno Domini era and no longer uses the Anno Mundi era of the Byzantine Empire.
• January 26, 1700 – The magnitude 9 Cascadia Earthquake takes place off the west coast of the North America, as evidenced by Japanese records.
• February 27, 1700 – The island of New Britain is discovered.
• February 28, 1700 – Today is followed by March 1 in Sweden, thus creating the Swedish calendar.
• March 1, 1700 – Sweden introduces its own Swedish calendar, in an attempt to gradually merge into the Gregorian calendar, reverts to the Julian calendar on this date in 1712, and introduces the Gregorian Calendar on this date in 1753.
• November 30, 1700 – Battle of Narva – A Swedish army of 8,500 men under Charles XII defeats a much larger Russian army at Narva.

Who Were Born In The Year 1700?

• February 2, 1700 – Johann Christoph Gottsched, German writer (d. 1766)
• February 8, 1700 – Daniel Bernoulli, Dutch-born mathematician (d. 1782)
• March 13, 1700 – Michel Blavet, French flutist (d. 1768)
• May 7, 1700 – Gerard van Swieten, Dutch-born physician (d. 1772)
• May 12, 1700 – Luigi Vanvitelli, Italian architect (d. 1773)
• May 19, 1700 – José de Escandón, Spanish colonial governor (d. 1770)
• May 26, 1700 – Nicolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf, German religious and social reformer (d. 1760)
• August 13, 1700 – Heinrich, count von Brühl, German statesman (d. 1763)
• September 9, 1700 – Princess Anna Sophie of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (d. 1780)
• September 11, 1700 – James Thomson, Scottish poet (d. 1748)
• September 30, 1700 – Stanisław Konarski, Polish writer (d. 1773)
• October 10, 1700 – Lambert-Sigisbert Adam, French sculptor (d. 1759)
• October 20, 1700 – Charlotte Aglaé of Orléans, Duchess of Modena (d. 1761)
• November 19, 1700 – Jean-Antoine Nollet, French abbot and physicist (d. 1770)
• November 28, 1700 – Nathaniel Bliss, Astronomer Royal (d. 1764)
• December 25, 1700 – Leopold II of Anhalt-Dessau, Prussian general (d. 1758)

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