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Year 1700 (MDCC) was an exceptional common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar, but a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar.
The Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar until, then 11 days ahead since .

Events of 1700

January - June

January 1 (Julian) - Russia numbers its years from Christ instead of Creation.
January 26 - The Cascadia Earthquake, one of the largest earthquakes on record, ruptures the Cascadia subduction zone offshore from Vancouver Island to northern California, creating a tsunami logged in Japan and oral traditions of the American First Nations.
February 12 - The Great Northern War begins in Central Europe.
February 27 - The island of New Britain is discovered.
March 1 (Gregorian) - Protestant Germany and Denmark-Norway adopt the Gregorian calendar.
March 1 (Swedish), March 11 (Gregorian), February 29 (Julian) - Swedish calendar is adopted.
April - Fire destroys many buildings in Gondar, the capital of Ethiopia, including two in the palace complex.
May 5 - Within a few days of John Dryden's death (1 May O.S.), his last written work ("The Secular Masque") is performed as part of Vanbrugh's version of The Pilgrim.
May 5 - William Penn began monthly meetings for blacks advocating emancipation
May - In Rhode Island (American colony), Walter Clarke, former governor 1679-1686, becomes governor again for 14 more years.

July - December

November 20 - Great Northern War: Battle of Narva - King Charles XII of Sweden defeats the army of Czar Peter the Great at Narva.

November 23 - Pope Clement XI succeeds Pope Innocent XII as the 243rd pope.

December 28 - Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester is appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.

Undated

Vietnamese gains control of the entire Indochina peninsula.

The Great Northern War begins with Russia, Denmark and Saxony/Poland making a coordinated attack on Sweden (to 1703).

Control of Spain passes from the Habsburgs to the Bourbons.

Mission San Xavier del Bac is founded in New Spain near Tucson, as a Spanish Roman Catholic mission.

A fire destroys the larger part of Edinburgh, Scotland.

An inventory made for the Medici family of Florence documents the first piano, invented by their instrument keeper Bartolommeo Cristofori.

Lions became extinct in Libya around this date.

One scholar observes that the entire military class of Japan is living "as in an inn, that is, consuming now and paying later" (approximate date).

Deaths

January 29 - Konstancja Czartoryska, Polish noblewoman (died 1759)

February 2 - Johann Christoph Gottsched, German writer (died 1766)

February 9 - Daniel Bernoulli, Dutch mathematician (died 1782)

March 13 - Michel Blavet, French flutist (died 1768)

May 7 - Gerard van Swieten, Dutch-born physician (died 1772)

May 12 - Luigi Vanvitelli, Italian architect (died 1773)

May 19 - José de Escandón, Spanish colonial governor (died 1770)

May 26 - Nicolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf, German religious and social reformer (died 1760)

August 13 - Heinrich, count von Brühl, German statesman (died 1763)

August 17 - Clemens August of Bavaria (died 1761)

September 11 - James Thomson, Scottish poet (died 1748)

September 30 - Stanislaw Konarski, Polish writer (died 1773)

October 10 - Lambert-Sigisbert Adam, French sculptor (died 1759)

November 19 - Jean-Antoine Nollet, French abbot and physicist (died 1770)

November 28 - Nathaniel Bliss, English astronomer (died 1764)

December 25 - Leopold II of Anhalt-Dessau, Prussian general (died 1751)

date unknown

Francesca Cuzzoni, Italian opera singer (died 1770)
Karl Friedrich, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp (died 1739)
Franciszek Salezy Potocki, Polish nobleman (died 1772)
Ivan Ranger, Austrian painter (died 1753)

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Births

January 7 - Raffaello Fabretti, Italian antiquary (born 1618)

January 21 - Henry Somerset, 1st Duke of Beaufort (born 1629)

January 22 - Jacob Balthasar Schutz, composer (born 1660)

February 12 - Aleksei Shein, Russian commander and statesman (born 1662)

May - Louis Jolliet, Canadian explorer (born 1645)

May 12 - John Dryden, English writer (born 1631)

May 15 - John Hale, American witch hunter (born 1636)

May 23 - Jens Juel, Danish diplomat (born 1631)

July - John Lowther, 1st Viscount Lonsdale, English politician (born 1655)

July 29 - William, Duke of Gloucester (born 1689)

September 15 - André Le Nôtre, French landscape gardener (born 1613)

September 27 - Pope Innocent XII (born 1615)

October 16 - Patriarch Adrian, Russian Orthodox Church leader (born 1627)

November 1 - Charles II of Spain (born 1661)

November 25 - Stephanus Van Cortlandt, first native born mayor of New York (born 1643)

date unknown

Caius Gabriel Cibber, Danish sculptor (born 1630)
Thomas Creech, English translator (born 1659)
Kamalakara, Indian astronomer and mathematician (born 1616)
Henry Killigrew, English dramatist (born 1613)

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