1700 in England

1700 in England

Events from the year 1700 in the Kingdom of England.

Incumbents

*Monarch - William III of England

Events

* 27 February - The island of New Britain is discovered by William Dampier.cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-141-02715-0|year=2006]
* 25 March - Treaty of London signed between France, England and Holland. [ [http://www.heraldica.org/topics/royalty/ps1713.htm The House Laws of the German Habsburgs] ]
* 29 July - Princess Anne's only surviving child, Prince William, Duke of Gloucester, dies aged 12 leaving the Protestant succession to the Crown in doubt.citebook|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|pages=289]
* 28 December - Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.

Unknown dates

* William Congreve's play "The Way of the World" is first performed at the New Theatre in Lincoln's Inn Fields.

Births

* 28 November - Nathaniel Bliss, astronomer (died 1764)
* William Tans'ur, hymn writer (d. 1783)

Deaths

* 21 January - Henry Somerset, 1st Duke of Beaufort (born 1629)
* 14 March - Henry Killigrew, dramatist (born 1613)
* 12 May - John Dryden, writer (born 1631)
* 10 July - John Lowther, 1st Viscount Lonsdale, politician (born 1655)
* 19 July (date found dead) - Thomas Creech, translator (born 1659)
* 29 July - Prince William, Duke of Gloucester (born 1689)
* 7 September - William Russell, 1st Duke of Bedford, peer and soldier (born 1616

References

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