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1701 Historical Event(s)
January 18, 1701
– Frederick I becomes King of Prussia.
May 15, 1701
– The War of the Spanish Succession begins.
May 23, 1701
– After being convicted of piracy and of murdering William Moore, Captain William Kidd is hanged in London.
July 9, 1701
– War of the Spanish Succession: Austrians defeat France in the Battle of Carpi.
July 19, 1701
– Representatives of the Iroquois Confederacy sign the Nanfan Treaty, ceding a large territory north of the Ohio River to England.
July 24, 1701
– Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac founds the trading post at Fort Pontchartrain, which later becomes the city of Detroit, Michigan.
September 16, 1701
– James Francis Edward Stuart, sometimes called the “Old Pretender”, becomes the Jacobite claimant to the thrones of England and Scotland.
October 9, 1701
– The Collegiate School of Connecticut (later renamed Yale University) is chartered in Old Saybrook, Connecticut.
Who Were Born On 1701?
January 27, 1701
– Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim, German historian (d. 1790)
January 28, 1701
– Charles Marie de La Condamine, French mathematician and geographer (d. 1774)
March 18, 1701
– Niclas Sahlgren, Swedish merchant and philanthropist (d. 1776)
April 27, 1701
– King Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia (d. 1773)
May 14, 1701
– William Emerson, English mathematician (d. 1782)
August 4, 1701
– Thomas Blackwell, Scottish classical scholar (d. 1757)
October 15, 1701
– Marie-Marguerite d'Youville, first native Canadian canonized (d. 1771)
October 18, 1701
– Charles le Beau, French historian (d. 1778)
October 22, 1701
– Maria Amalia of Austria, Holy Roman Empire Empress (d. 1756)
November 5, 1701
– Pietro Longhi, Venetian painter (d. 1785)