1700 in England

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Events from the year 1700 in England.

## Incumbents

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* Monarch – William III

## Events

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* 27 February – The island of New Britain is discovered by William Dampier in the western Pacific.[1]
* early March – William Congreve's comedy The Way of the World is first performed at the New Theatre, Lincoln's Inn Fields.[2][3]
* 24 March – Treaty of London signed between France, England and the Dutch Republic.[4]
* 24 June – Responsibility for vagrants passes from churchwardens to parish constables under terms of the Vagrant Removal Costs Act (1698).[5]
* 30 July – Princess Anne's only surviving child, Prince William, Duke of Gloucester, dies aged eleven of "a malignant fever" at Windsor Castle, leaving the Protestant succession to the British throne in doubt.[2]
* September – While in the Netherlands, William III meets his cousin Sophia at Het Loo Palace. This is a precursor to the Act of Settlement of the following year that opens the way to the future succession of the House of Hanover.
* 6 September – Edmond Halley returns to England after a voyage of almost one year on HMS Paramour, from which he has observed the Antarctic Convergence,[6] and publishes his findings on terrestrial magnetism in General Chart of the Variation of the Compass.
* 20 November – First boats reach Leeds from the tideway by way of the Aire and Calder Navigation.[7]
* 19 December – The 4th Parliament of King William III is dissolved and new elections are ordered by the King.
* 25 December – First Christmas hymn authorised to be sung in the Anglican church, "While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks", the words by Nahum Tate having been first published this year, in a supplement to "Tate and Brady".
* 28 December – Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester is appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
* Approximate date – Jeremiah Clarke writes the Prince of Denmark's March.

## Births

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* 29 March – Charles Cornwallis, 1st Earl Cornwallis (died 1762)
* April – John Wyatt, inventor (died 1766)
* 4 May (bapt.) – Joseph Adams, chief factor of the Hudson's Bay Company (died 1737)
* 14 May – Mary Delany, Bluestocking, artist and writer (died 1788)
* 13 July – John Dandridge, colonel and planter in Virginia (died 1756)
* 20 September – Benedict Leonard Calvert, Governor of Maryland (died 1732)
* 26 September? – Mary Hervey, née Lepell, courtier (died 1768)
* 13 October – Phanuel Bacon, playwright, poet and author (died 1783)
* 31 October – Joseph Blake, alias Blueskin, highwayman (executed 1724)
* 28 November – Nathaniel Bliss, Astronomer Royal (died 1764)

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* John Cecil, 7th Earl of Exeter, peer (died 1722)
* William Craven, 3rd Baron Craven, nobleman (died 1739)
* Emanuel Howe, 2nd Viscount Howe, politician and colonial administrator (died 1735)
* John Immyns, attorney and lutenist (died 1764)
* Charles Jennens, landowner and patron of the arts (died 1773)

## Deaths

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* 16–27 January – John Dormer, born Huddleston, Jesuit priest (born 1636)
* 21 January – Henry Somerset, 1st Duke of Beaufort (born 1629)
* 14 March – Henry Killigrew, dramatist (born 1613)
* 12 May – John Dryden, poet (born 1631)
* 10 July – John Lowther, 1st Viscount Lonsdale, politician (born 1655)
* 19 July (date found dead) – Thomas Creech, translator (born 1659; suicide)
* 29 July – Prince William, Duke of Gloucester (born 1689)
* 8 August – Joseph Moxon, mathematician and lexicographer (born 1627)
* 7 September – William Russell, 1st Duke of Bedford, peer and soldier (born 1616)

## References

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1. ^ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
2. ^ a b Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 289. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
3. ^ Hochman, Stanley. McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama. Vol. 4\. p. 542.
4. ^ The House Laws of the German Habsburgs.
5. ^ Hardy, Marion R. (2019). "The importance of Midsummer Day 1700". Local Historian. 49: 317–29.
6. ^ Gurney, Alan (1997). Below the Convergence: Voyages Toward Antarctica, 1699-1839. New York: Norton. ISBN 0-393-03949-8.
7. ^ Smith, Peter L. (1987). The Aire & Calder Navigation. Wakefield Historical Publications. p. 6\. ISBN 0-901869-27-9.

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