1700 in England:

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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.^[1]
• 25 March - Treaty of London signed between France, England and Holland.^[2]
• 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.^[3]
• 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.^[3]

Births

• 28 November - Nathaniel Bliss, astronomer (died 1764)
• unknown date - 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

See also