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 – 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.

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 ).

A year later, Parliament passed the Act of Settlement 1701 declaring that, in the default of legitimate issue from Anne or William III, the crowns were to settle upon " the most excellent princess Sophia, electress and duchess-dowager of Hanover " and " the heirs of her body, being Protestant ".

Despite the violation of the agreement with England, William III lacked the support of the ruling elites in England or the United Provinces to declare war against France, and reluctantly recognized Philip as king in April 1701.

This enabled William III to secure the support of his subjects and to negotiate the Treaty of Den Haag ( 1701 ) with the United Provinces and Austria.

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

* September 3 – William Stoughton, American judge at the Salem witch trials ( d. 1701 )

* probable – Captain William Kidd, Scottish pirate ( d. 1701 )

To address the succession crisis and preclude a Catholic restoration, the Parliament of England enacted the Act of Settlement 1701, which provided that, failing the issue of Anne and of William III by any future marriage, the Crown of England and Ireland would go to Sophia, Electress of Hanover and her Protestant descendants.

By the terms of the English Act of Settlement 1701, George's mother, Sophia, was designated as the heir to the English throne if the then reigning monarch ( William III ) and his sister-in-law, Princess Anne of Denmark ( later Queen Anne ) died without surviving issue.

Frederick William I entered the war as elector of Brandenburg and king in Prussia-the royal title had been secured in 1701.

His successor, the Crown Prince and later Margrave, George William, began in 1701 to establish the then independent town of St. Georgen am See ( today, the district of St. Georgen ) with its castle, the so-called Ordensschloss, a town hall, a prison and a small barracks.

King William III finally approved the Act of Settlement 1701, which established tenure for judges unless Parliament removed them.

According to the Gap Clock Tower Association, " The clock's face, long telling the time to passing multitudes, overlooks, at the gap, William Penns ' entrance into Conestoga, now Lancaster County, in 1701.

Rudman secured an order from William Penn in October 1701 setting aside up the Schuylkill River, near Manatawny Creek, for members of his congregation.

William Emerson ( 14 May 1701 – 20 May 1782 ), English mathematician, was born at Hurworth, near Darlington, where his father, Dudley Emerson, also a mathematician, taught a school.

It was designed by William Adams Nicholson who also designed the similar building in Lincoln, and was built in 1835, replacing an earlier alms house dating back to 1701.

Chief Magistrate William Stoughton ( Massachusetts ) | William Stoughton ( 1631 – 1701 )

Subsequently in 1701 he rejected a personal appeal from William III of England to conclude peace on his own terms.

* John Tutchin-The Foreigners, published anonymously ( a verse satire on William III's Dutch ministers ; provoked Daniel Defoe to reply with The True-Born Englishman in 1701 ))

) This is an allusion to the wars fought under King William III and Queen Anne against France under Louis XIV, the War of the Grand Alliance ( 1689 – 1697 ) and the War of the Spanish Succession ( 1701 – 1713 ).