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•  January 1, 1707 – John V is crowned King of Portugal.
•  January 16, 1707 – The Scottish Parliament ratifies the Act of Union, paving the way for the creation of Great Britain.
•  March 24, 1707 – The Acts of Union 1707 is signed, officially uniting the Kingdoms of England and Scotland to create the Kingdom of Great Britain.
•  April 25, 1707 – The Habsburg army is defeated by Bourbon army at Almansa (Spain) in the War of the Spanish Succession.
•  May 1, 1707 – The Act of Union joins the Kingdom of England and Kingdom of Scotland to form the Kingdom of Great Britain.
•  October 22, 1707 – Scilly naval disaster: four British Royal Navy ships run aground near the Isles of Scilly because of faulty navigation. Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell and thousands of sailors drown.
•  October 23, 1707 – The first Parliament of Great Britain meets.
•  October 28, 1707 – The 1707 Hōei earthquake causes more than 5,000 deaths in Honshu, Shikoku and Kyūshū, Japan
•  December 16, 1707 – Last recorded eruption of Mount Fuji in Japan.

•  February 25, 1707 – Carlo Goldoni, Italian writer (d. 1793)
•  April 15, 1707 – Leonhard Euler, Swiss mathematician (d. 1783)
•  April 22, 1707 – Henry Fielding, English author (d. 1754)
•  May 23, 1707 – Carolus Linnaeus, Swedish botanist (d. 1778)
•  August 24, 1707 – Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon, English Evangelical Revivalist (d. 1791)
•  August 25, 1707 – King Louis I of Spain, (d. 1724)
•  September 7, 1707 – Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, French naturalist, biologist and author (d. 1788)
•  December 18, 1707 – Charles Wesley, English Methodist hymnist (d. 1788)