1707

1707 (MDCCVII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1707th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 707th year of the 2nd millennium, the 7th year of the 18th century, and the 8th year of the 1700s 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.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
April 25: Spanish and French Bourbons win the Battle of Almansa in Spain.
1707 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1707
MDCCVII
Ab urbe condita2460
Armenian calendar1156
ԹՎ ՌՃԾԶ
Assyrian calendar6457
Balinese saka calendar1628–1629
Bengali calendar1114
Berber calendar2657
British Regnal year5 Ann. 1  6 Ann. 1
Buddhist calendar2251
Burmese calendar1069
Byzantine calendar7215–7216
Chinese calendar丙戌年 (Fire Dog)
4404 or 4197
     to 
丁亥年 (Fire Pig)
4405 or 4198
Coptic calendar1423–1424
Discordian calendar2873
Ethiopian calendar1699–1700
Hebrew calendar5467–5468
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1763–1764
 - Shaka Samvat1628–1629
 - Kali Yuga4807–4808
Holocene calendar11707
Igbo calendar707–708
Iranian calendar1085–1086
Islamic calendar1118–1119
Japanese calendarHōei 4
(宝永4年)
Javanese calendar1630–1631
Julian calendarGregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar4040
Minguo calendar205 before ROC
民前205年
Nanakshahi calendar239
Thai solar calendar2249–2250
Tibetan calendar阳火狗年
(male Fire-Dog)
1833 or 1452 or 680
     to 
阴火猪年
(female Fire-Pig)
1834 or 1453 or 681

In the Swedish calendar it was a common year starting on Tuesday, one day ahead of the Julian and ten days behind the Gregorian calendar.

Events

December 16: The last recorded eruption of Mount Fuji begins.

JanuaryMarch

AprilJune

July September

October December

Date unknown

  • The English Parliament establishes the first turnpike trusts, which place a length of road under the control of trustees, drawn from local landowners and traders. The turnpike trusts borrow capital for road maintenance against the security of tolls, and this arrangement becomes the common method of road maintenance for the next 150 years.
  • Battle of Yuraktau – The event that led to the strengthening of the Bashkir rebellion of 1704–1711

Births

Giuseppe Bonito born 11 January
Pierre Adamoli born 5 August
Johannes Browallius born 30 August
Pietro Rotari born 30 September
Charles Wesley born 18 December

JanuaryMarch

  • 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
    • Pierre-Antoine de La Place, French writer and playwright (d. 1793)
    • Jedidiah Preble, Captain of Infantry in Samuel Waldo's Regiment (d. 1784)
  • March 2
    • Louis-Michel van Loo, French painter (d. 1771)
    • Guillaume Barthez de Marmorières, French civil engineer (d. 1799)
  • 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
    • William Irby, 1st Baron Boston, British peer and Member of Parliament (d. 1775)
    • Mary Jones, English poet (d. 1778)
  • March 20 Hugh Boscawen, 2nd Viscount Falmouth (d. 1782)
  • March 23
    • Stephen van Rensselaer I, second son of Kiliaen van Rensselaer and Maria van Cortlandt (d. 1747)
    • Henry Scudamore, 3rd Duke of Beaufort (d. 1745)

AprilJune

  • 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
    • Stefano Evodio Assemani, Ottoman-born orientalist, translator, working in the Vatican library (d. 1782)
    • Leonhard Euler, Swiss mathematician and physicist (d. 1783)
    • Claude Louis, Comte de Saint-Germain (d. 1778)
  • 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
    • Benito Fernández de Santa Ana, Franciscan friar, president of the Texas missions of the College of Santa Cruz de Querétaro from 1734 to 1750 (d. 1761)
    • Henning Alexander von Kleist, Prussian Lieutenant-General and Chief of Fusiliers (d. 1784)
  • 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)

JulySeptember

OctoberDecember

  • 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
    • Emmerich Joseph von Breidbach zu Bürresheim, Archbishop-Elector of Mainz from 1763 to 1774 and Prince-Bishop of Worms from 1768 to 1774 (d. 1774)
    • Joseph du Pont Duvivier, Acadian-born military leader of the French (d. 1760)
  • November 15 Prince Adarnase of Kartli, Georgian prince royal (d. 1784)
  • November 23 Anna Karolina Orzelska, adventuress and Polish szlachcianka (noblewoman) (d. 1769)
  • November 28 Giammaria Mazzucchelli, Italian writer, bibliographer and historian (d. 1765)
  • December 2
    • Karl Christoph von der Goltz, lieutenant general in the Prussian army during the reign of Frederick the Great (d. 1761)
    • Johann Julius Hecker, German educator who established the first Realschule and Prussia's first teacher-education institution (d. 1768)
  • 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
    • Giuseppe Bonici, Maltese architect and military engineer (d. 1779)
    • Moshe Chaim Luzzatto, Italian rabbi, mystic, and philosopher (d. 1746)
  • probable William Hoare, English painter (d. 1792)

Deaths

References

  1. Robert S. Rait, The Parliaments of Scotland (Maclehose, Jackson and Company, 1924) p.121
  2. Payne, Stanley G. (1973). "Chapter 16: The Eighteenth-Century Bourbon Regime in Spain". A History of Spain and Portugal. Vol. 2. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 0-299-06270-8. Retrieved 2008-04-17.
  3. Acts of Union 1707 parliament.uk, accessed 31 December 2010.
  4. Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. p. 291. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
  5. Ventura Pascual i Beltran, Datos para la historia del exterminio de Játiva en la Guerra de Sucesión (Associació d'Amics de la Costera, 1925) p. 177
  6. "Battle of Poltava: Blunting the Swedish Empire", Warfare History Network
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