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1701 Calendar

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•  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.

•  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)
•  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)
•  November 27, 1701 – Anders Celsius, Swedish inventor and astronomer (d. 1744)