1707 Calendar
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1707 Historical Event(s)
- 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.
Who Were Born On 1707?
- 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)