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 )

* 1701 – Asano Naganori, Japanese warlord ( b. 1667 )

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.

The Act of Settlement is an act of the Parliament of England that was passed in 1701 to settle the succession to the English and Irish crowns and thrones on the Electress Sophia of Hanover ( a granddaughter of James I ) and her Protestant heirs.

Rather than return to her Roman Catholic brother James Francis Edward Stuart, the English Parliament decided that Sophia of Hanover and her descendants should succeed ( Act of Settlement 1701 ).

* James II and VII ( 6 February 168516 September 1701 ).

* 1633 – James II of England and VII of Scotland ( d. 1701 )

A meaningful starting point, however, is 1688 – 9 when James II fled England and the Parliament of England confirmed William and Mary as joint constitutional monarchs, enacting legislation that limited their authority and that of their successors: the Bill of Rights ( 1689 ), the Mutiny Bill ( 1689 ), the Triennial Bill ( 1694 ), the Treason Act ( 1696 ) and the Act of Settlement ( 1701 ).

* October 14 – King James II of England and Ireland / King James VII of Scotland ( d. 1701 )

* September 6 – Death of King James VII and II ( 1633 – 1701 ) in exile.

In August 1701 George was invested with the Order of the Garter and, within six weeks, the nearest Catholic claimant to the throne of England, ex-King James II, died.

As such, he claimed the English, Scottish and Irish thrones ( as James III of England and Ireland and James VIII of Scotland ) from the death of his father in 1701, when he was recognized as king of England, Scotland and Ireland by his cousin Louis XIV of France.

The protection was extended to Scotland in 1701 by an Act of Parliament which granted to Mr James Smith of Whitehill the sole right to use in Scotland Savery's invention of " an engyne or invention for raiseing of water and occasioning motion of mill-work by the force of fire.

In 1701, when James II died, James Francis Edward became king in the eyes of Jacobites, as " James III ".

James II ( 1633 – 1701 ) c. 1690.

The Two guinea coin was only produced in 1701, the design probably being the work of Johann Crocker a. k. a. John Croker, since James Roettier had died in 1698 and his brother Norbert had moved to France in 1695.

The guinea coin was produced in all years from 1695 to 1701, both with and without the elephant and castle, the design probably being the work of Johann Crocker, also known as John Croker, since James Roettier had died in 1698 and his brother Norbert had moved to France in 1695.

The half guinea coin was produced in all years from 1695 to 1701, with the elephant and castle appearing on some coins from 1695, 1696, and 1698, the design probably being the work of James Roettier and John Croker.

* James II ( 1633 – 1701 ), formerly Duke of York, who in 1688 marched his troops to Salisbury Plain to resist the invasion from his son-in-law William of Orange, only to retreat and disperse them as his support began to evaporate.

* Prince James, Duke of Albany ( 1633 – 1701 ), second son of Charles I, became King in 1685

* James II of England ( 1633 – 1701 ), King of England and Ireland, and as James VII, of Scotland

In this revolution, James II ( 1633 – 1701, reigning 1685-1688 ), a Catholic, a younger brother to Charles II, and a strong believer in the Divine right of kings, was forced to flee to France in 1688 by the Protestant Parliamentarian forces.