1700 in England

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Incumbents

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]
25 March - Treaty of London signed between France, England and Holland.^[4]
29 July - Princess Anne's only surviving child, Prince William, Duke of Gloucester, dies aged eleven leaving the Protestant succession to the Crown in doubt.^[2]
20 November - First boats reach Leeds from the tideway by way of the Aire and Calder Navigation.^[5]
28 December - Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester 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)

John Cecil, 7th Earl of Exeter, peer (died 1722)
William Craven, 3rd Baron Craven, nobleman (died 1739)
William Godolphin, Marquess of Blandford, nobleman (died 1731)
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)

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)

↑ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
1 2 Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. p. 289. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
↑ Hochman, Stanley. McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama. 4. p. 542.
↑ The House Laws of the German Habsburgs
↑ Smith, Peter L. (1987). The Aire & Calder Navigation. Wakefield Historical Publications. p. 6. ISBN 0-901869-27-9.

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