This has been published by J. Mabillon in the Acta sanctorum ordinis sancti Benedicti ( Paris, 1668 – 1701 ).

* 1628 – John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English statesman ( d. 1701 )

* 1701 – Thomas Blackwell, Scottish scholar ( d. 1757 )

Anders Celsius ( 27 November 1701 – 25 April 1744 ) was a Swedish astronomer.

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 – Enrique Florez, Spanish historian ( d. 1773 )

* 1774 – Charles Marie de La Condamine, French mathematician and geographer ( b. 1701 )

* 1701 September – England, the Netherlands and Austria signed the Treaty of The Hague.

* 1688 – 1701: Frederick II / IV / I ( also Elector of Brandenburg and King in Prussia )

* 1701 – 1713: Frederick I / II / IV ( also Duke of Prussia and Elector of Brandenburg )

* 1701 – William Stoughton, American judge at the Salem witch trials ( b. 1631 )

* 1701 – Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim, German historian ( d. 1790 )

* 1628 – Tokugawa Mitsukuni, Japanese warlord ( d. 1701 )

* 1701 – War of the Spanish Succession: Austrians defeat France in the Battle of Carpi.

* 1701 – Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac founds the trading post at Fort Pontchartrain, which later becomes the city of Detroit, Michigan.

* 1701 – Representatives of the Iroquois Confederacy sign the Nanfan Treaty, ceding a large territory north of the Ohio River to England.

* 1701 – Frederick I crowns himself King of Prussia in Königsberg.

* 1701 – After being convicted of piracy and of murdering William Moore, Captain William Kidd is hanged in London.

* 1701 – The War of the Spanish Succession begins.

* September 28 – Asano Naganori, Japanese warlord ( d. 1701 )

In 1701 ( by the Western calendar ), two daimyo, Asano Takumi-no-Kami Naganori, the young daimyo of the Akō Domain ( a small fiefdom in western Honshū ), and Lord Kamei of the Tsuwano Domain, were ordered to arrange a fitting reception for the envoys of the Emperor in Edo, during their sankin kōtai service to the Shogun.

In 1701, Asano Naganori, the daimyo of Akō han, having been allegedly insulted by Kira Yoshinaka in Edo Castle, attempted to kill him.

In 1701, he witnessed Asano Naganori injuring Kira Yoshinaka, and he arrested Asano.

In 1701, his lord Asano Naganori wounded Kira Kōzuke no Suke, and was sentenced to commit seppuku, which resulted in the elimination of Asano control of the domain.

Ukiyo-e depicting the assault of Asano Naganori on Kira Yoshinaka in the Matsu no Ōrōka in 1701

On March 14, 1701, Asano Takumi no Kami Naganori attacked and injured Kira Kozuke no Suke Yoshihisa after an insult there, which later led to the bloody incident of the Forty-seven Ronin.

* July 11 – Tokugawa Mitsukuni, Japanese warlord ( d. 1701 )

* 1701 – Charles Gerard, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield, French-born English politician ( b. c. 1659 )

* May 20 – William Emerson, English mathematician ( b. 1701 )

* December 12 – Wu Jingzi, Chinese writer ( b. 1701 )

* March 8 – Thomas Blackwell, Scottish classical scholar ( b. 1701 )

* February 4 – Charles Marie de La Condamine, French mathematician and geographer ( b. 1701 )

* September 2 – Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim, German historian and theologian ( b. 1701 )

* December 23 – Marie-Marguerite d ' Youville, Canadian saint ( b. 1701 )

** Pietro Longhi, Venetian painter ( b. 1701 )

* March 13 – Charles le Beau, French historian ( b. 1701 )

* February 20 – King Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia ( b. 1701 )

* August 20 – Enrique Florez, Spanish historian ( b. 1701 )

* April 25 – Anders Celsius, Swedish astronomer ( b. 1701 )

A prime example of the species was the Sauble Elm, which grew beside the banks of the Sauble River in Ontario, Canada, to a height of 43 m ( 140 ft ), with a d. b. h of 196 cm ( 6. 43 ft ) before succumbing to Dutch elm disease ; when it was felled in 1968, a tree-ring count established that it had germinated in 1701.

Thomas Townshend b. 2 Jun 1701, d. 21 May 1780

* December 23: Marie-Marguerite d ' Youville, grey nun ( b. 1701 )

* November 7 – François Rebel, composer ( b. 1701 )

* unknown date – Jean-Baptiste Malter, dancer ( b. 1701 )

He was the oldest of seven children, his siblings being: Mary ( b. 1689 ), John ( b. 1691 ), Nathaniell ( b. 1694 ), Elizabeth ( b. 1695 / 96 ), Hannah ( b. 1699 ), and Charity ( b. 1701 ).