List of events
Events from the year 1700 in England
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 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] 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 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) 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)