1707
year
1707 (MDCCVII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1707th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 707th year of the 2nd millennium, the 7th year of the 18th century, and the 8th year of the 1700s decade. As of the start of 1707, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 17th century – 18th century – 19th century |
| Decades: | 1670s 1680s 1690s – 1700s – 1710s 1720s 1730s |
| Years: | 1704 1705 1706 – 1707 – 1708 1709 1710 |
| Gregorian calendar | 1707 MDCCVII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2460 |
| Armenian calendar | 1156 ԹՎ ՌՃԾԶ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6457 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1628–1629 |
| Bengali calendar | 1114 |
| Berber calendar | 2657 |
| British Regnal year | 5 Ann. 1 – 6 Ann. 1 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2251 |
| Burmese calendar | 1069 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7215–7216 |
| Chinese calendar | 丙戌年 (Fire Dog) 4403 or 4343 — to — 丁亥年 (Fire Pig) 4404 or 4344 |
| Coptic calendar | 1423–1424 |
| Discordian calendar | 2873 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1699–1700 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5467–5468 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1763–1764 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1628–1629 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4807–4808 |
| Holocene calendar | 11707 |
| Igbo calendar | 707–708 |
| Iranian calendar | 1085–1086 |
| Islamic calendar | 1118–1119 |
| Japanese calendar | Hōei 4 (宝永４年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1630–1631 |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 11 days |
| Korean calendar | 4040 |
| Minguo calendar | 205 before ROC 民前205年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | 239 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2249–2250 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阳火狗年 (male Fire-Dog) 1833 or 1452 or 680 — to — 阴火猪年 (female Fire-Pig) 1834 or 1453 or 681 |
Events
change- January 1 – John V is crowned King of Portugal
- May 1 – The Acts of Union 1707 become law, making the separate kingdoms of England and Scotland into one country, the United Kingdom of Great Britain.
- April 25 – Allied army is defeated by Bourbonic army at Almansa (Spain) in the War of the Spanish Succession.
- September 29 – Four British Royal Navy ships run aground near Scilly Isles because of faulty navigation – Admiral Sir Cloddisley Shovel and thousands of sailors drown
- October 23 – First Parliament of Great Britain.
- A fortress is founded on the future site of Ust-Abakanskoye (modern Abakan).
- Mount Fuji in Japan erupts.
- The Lao empire of Lan Xang officially ends and splits into the kingdoms of Vientiane, Luang Prabang, and Champasak.
Births
change- February 1 - Frederick, Prince of Wales (d. 1751)
- April 15 - Leonhard Euler, Swiss mathematician and physicist (d. 1783)
- April 22 - Henry Fielding, British writer (d. 1754)
- May 23 - Carolus Linnaeus, Swedish botanist (d. 1778)
- September 7 - Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, French scientist (d. 1788)
Deaths
change- May 9 - Dieterich Buxtehude, German composer (b. c. 1637)