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* 1701 – Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac founds the trading post at Fort Pontchartrain, which later becomes the city of Detroit, Michigan.
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This has been published by J. Mabillon in the Acta sanctorum ordinis sancti Benedicti ( Paris, 1668 – 1701 ).
First documented in the 13th century, Berlin was the capital of the Kingdom of Prussia ( 1701 – 1918 ), the German Empire ( 1871 – 1918 ), the Weimar Republic ( 1919 – 1933 ) and the Third Reich ( 1933 – 1945 ).
The first Icelandic census took place in 1703, following upon the first Danish census of 1700 – 1701.
William " Captain " Kidd ( c. 1645 – 23 May 1701 ) was a Scottish sailor remembered for his trial and execution for piracy after returning from a voyage to the Indian Ocean.
* 1701 – Representatives of the Iroquois Confederacy sign the Nanfan Treaty, ceding a large territory north of the Ohio River to England.
* 1701 – After being convicted of piracy and of murdering William Moore, Captain William Kidd is hanged in London.
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The village was incorporated as a city in 1877 and renamed Cadillac, after Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, a Frenchman who made the first permanent settlement at Detroit in 1701.
French explorer Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac sailed up the Detroit River on July 23, 1701.
The Cadillac automobile was named after the 17th-century French explorer Antoine Laumet de la Mothe, Sieur de Cadillac, who founded Detroit in 1701.
Between Maquaqua / Wyandotte and Detroit ( a distance of roughly ) there were numerous settlers living along the river who inhabited their ancient " Ribbon Farms ", some dating back to the time of Antoine Cadillac's founding of " Fort Pontchartrain du Détroit ", in July 1701.
In that vein, Pierre Le Moyne d ' Iberville and Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville established Biloxi in 1699 and Mobile in 1701 along the Gulf coast, while Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac established Detroit in 1701 along the Great Lakes.
* Louis Antoine de Gontaut, ( 1701 – 1788 ), Count ( afterwards Duke ) of Biron, Marshal of France in 1757
The creature is said to have attacked the first white settler of Detroit in 1701, Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac who, soon after, lost his fortune.
The French settlements in the Pays d ' en Haut south of the Great Lakes were Fort Niagara ( 1678 ), Fort Crevecoeur ( 1680 ), Fort Saint Antoine ( 1686 ), Fort St. Joseph ( 1691 ), Fort Pontchartrain du Détroit ( 1701 ), Fort Michilimackinac ( 1715 ), Fort Miami ( 1715 ), Fort La Baye ( 1717 ), and Fort Beauharnois ( 1727 ).
Statue of French officer Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac commemorating his 1701 landing along the Detroit River.
There, in 1701, the French officer Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, along with fifty-one additional French-Canadians, founded a settlement called Fort Ponchartrain du Détroit, naming it after the comte de Pontchartrain, Minister of Marine under Louis XIV.
It is located on the site where Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, a French colonist, first set foot and landed on the banks of the river in July 1701 and claimed the area for France in the name of King Louis XIV.
In 1701, Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac moved the French garrison to Fort Detroit and closed the mission.
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In 1701 he wrote his hugely popular suites Opus 3, and dedicated that collection to Cosimo III de ' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany.
Christian Thomasius still met opposition as he argued in his 1701 Dissertatio de crimine magiae that it was meaningless to make dealing with the devil a criminal offence, since it was impossible to really commit the crime in the first place.
Madame Henriette died at Saint-Cloud in 1670 ; rumors abounded that she had been poisoned by her husband or his long-term lover, the Chevalier de Lorraine ; the two would remain together till the death of the Duke of Orléans in 1701.
* 2 August 1674 – 9 June 1701 His Royal Highness the Duke of Chartres ( Monseigneur le duc de Chartres )
The expedition to the lower Colorado River was important as the only recorded European incursion into that region between the expeditions of Hernando de Alarcón and Melchior Díaz in 1540 and the visits of Eusebio Francisco Kino beginning in 1701.
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