Thread: Lets Count to Infinity = D

YAY 1700!!!!! NEW HUNDRED!!

1701[
January - June

* January 18 - The Duchy of Prussia becomes the Kingdom of Prussia as Frederick I becomes King in Prussia.
* March 8 - Mecklenburg-Strelitz is created as a north German duchy.
* March - The War of Spanish Succession begins.
* April 21 - In Japan, the young daimyo Asano Naganori is ordered to commit seppuku (ritual suicide). A group of 47 samurai of his service begin planning to avenge his death.
* May 23 - After being convicted of murdering William Moore and for piracy, Captain William Kidd is hanged in London.
* June 24 - The Act of Settlement 1701, by the Parliament of England, becomes law. The crown of Great Britain passes to Sophia, Electress of Hanover and her descendants on the death of Princess Anne, the heiress presumptive to the throne after her brother in law, King William III.

[edit] July - December

* July 24 - What is later to be Detroit, Michigan is founded as a French emporium named Fort Ponchartrain.
* September 16 - Prince James Francis Edward Stuart becomes the new claimant to the thrones of Scotland as King James VIII, and England as King James III.
* October 9 - The Collegiate School of Connecticut (later renamed Yale University) is chartered in Old Saybrook, Connecticut.

[edit] Undated

* The Philharmonic Society (Academia philharmonicorum) is established in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
* Jethro Tull (agriculturist) invented a drill for planting seeds in rows.
* Pierre Antoine Motteux's English translation of the novel Don Quixote is first published. Motteux publishes it under the name Peter Motteux. While popular among readers, it will eventually come to be known as one of the worst translations of the novel, totally betraying the spirit of Miguel de Cervantes's masterpiece.
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1702

1703 - 31st Mechanized Infantry Regiment "Asturias" Established

February 1704 - In America, Mardi Gras is celebrated with the Masque de la Mobile in the capital of French Louisianne, Mobile (Alabama)