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Centuries: 17th century - 18th century - 19th century
Decades: 1650s 1660s 1670s 1680s 1690s - 1700s - 1710s 1720s 1730s 1740s 1750s
Years: 1697 1698 1699 1700 1701 - 1702 - 1703 1704 1705 1706 1707
Events
- March 8 - William III died; Princess Anne Stuart becomes Queen Anne of England, Scotland and Ireland.
- March 11 - The first regular English language newspaper, The Daily Courant. is published for the first time.
- May 4/14 - The War of the Spanish Succession widens, as war is declared on France by the Grand Alliance.
- June - Queen Anne's Captain-General John Churchill forces the surrender of Kaiserswerth on the Rhine
- September - Churchill forces the surrender of Venlo on the River Meuse
- October - Sir George Rooke fails to take Cadiz, but captures a Spanish treasure fleet and destroys French and Spanish warships. Churchill forces the surrender of Liège
- December 14 - John Churchill is created Duke of Marlborough
- December 15 - Forty-Seven Ronin, formerly in the service of Asano Naganori, assault the household of Kira Yoshinaka, and kill him in vengeance for their lord.|Forty-Seven Ronin]], formerly in the service of Asano Naganori, assault the household of Kira Yoshinaka, and kill him in vengence for their lord. Their display of the ideals of bushido becomes a national legend.
Year in topic
Births
- Thomas Bayes - British mathematician and Presbyterian minister, noted for Bayes' theorem (died 1761)
- Emperor Nakamikado of Japan
Deaths
- March 8 - William III of Orange, Stadtholder of Holland, Zeeland and Utrecht, King William III of England, Scotland and Ireland (born 1650)
- John Benbow, English admiral (born 1653)
