Through his father, Alfred Nobel was a descendant of the Swedish scientist Olaus Rudbeck ( 1630 – 1702 ), and in his turn the boy was interested in engineering, particularly explosives, learning the basic principles from his father at a young age.

* 1702 – Dietrich of Anhalt-Dessau ( d. 1769 )

* 1702 – Jean Bart, French admiral ( b. 1651 )

In February 1705, Queen Anne, who had made Marlborough a Duke in 1702, granted him the Park of Woodstock and promised a sum of £ 240, 000 to build a suitable house as a gift from a grateful crown in recognition of his victory – a victory which British historian Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy considered one of the pivotal battles in history, writing – " Had it not been for Blenheim, all Europe might at this day suffer under the effect of French conquests resembling those of Alexander in extent and those of the Romans in durability.

The term Bayesian refers to Thomas Bayes ( 1702 – 1761 ), who proved a special case of what is now called Bayes ' theorem in a paper titled " An Essay towards solving a Problem in the Doctrine of Chances ".

New England suffered smallpox epidemics in 1677, 1689 – 90, and 1702.

In the same year he set up his periodical A Review of the Affairs of France which supported the Harley Ministry, chronicling the events of the War of the Spanish Succession ( 1702 – 1714 ).

* John Churchill, 1st Earl of Marlborough ( 1650 – 1722 ), became Duke of Marlborough in 1702

* 1702 – Queen Anne's War: James Moore, Governor of the Province of Carolina, abandons the Siege of St. Augustine.

Born at Elston Hall, Nottinghamshire near Newark-on-Trent, England, the youngest of seven children of Robert Darwin of Elston ( 12 August 1682 – 20 November 1754 ), a lawyer, and his wife Elizabeth Hill ( 1702 – 1797 ).

* 1620 – François Charpentier, French archaeologist ( d. 1702 )

* 1702 – Carl August Thielo, Danish composer ( d. 1763 )

* 1702 May – Formal beginning of the War of the Spanish Succession.

* 1702 – Philip Doddridge, English religious leader, educator, and hymnwriter ( d. 1751 )

* 1702 – José de Nebra, Spanish composer ( d. 1768 )

* 1702 – Alessandro Besozzi, Italian composer and oboist ( d. 1775 )

* 1702 – Johannes Zick, German painter ( d. 1762 )

* 1702 – Great Northern War: A numerically superior Polish-Saxon army of Augustus II the Strong, operating from an advantageous defensive position, is defeated by a Swedish army half its size under the command of King Charles XII in the Battle of Klissow.

* John Browne ( anatomist ) ( 1642 – 1702 ), was a British anatomist and surgeon

* 1702 – Friedrich Christoph Oetinger, German theologian ( d. 1782 )

* 1702 – The Daily Courant, England's first national daily newspaper is published for the first time.

* 1702 – Dominique Bouhours, French essayist and critic ( b. 1628 )

* June 19 – Johann Ernst Eberlin, German composer ( b. 1702 )

At the age of seventeen, she was married off to a Swedish dragoon, Johan Cruse or Johann Rabbe, with whom she remained for eight days in 1702, at which point the Swedish troops were withdrawn from Marienburg.

Wilhelm Weirick ( 1731 – 1807 ), a veteran of the American Revolution, and grandson of German immigrant Johann Georg Weyrich ( 1702 – 1751 ).

* 1702 – Ferdinand Johann Adam von Pernau publishes a pioneering and very popular essay on bird behaviour.

* June 19 – Johann Ernst Eberlin, composer ( born 1702 )

Leipzig collegia musica, consisting mostly of university students, enjoyed a succession of particularly illustrious directors, including Johann Kuhnau ( 1688 ), Telemann ( 1702 ), and Bach ( 1729 – 1737 ), who composed several concertos and dramme per musica for weekly performances at Zimmerman's coffeehouse and for " extraordinary " concerts.

* Collegium Musicum ( Leipzig )-a musical ensemble founded in Leipzig in 1702 by Georg Philipp Telemann, later associated with Johann Sebastian Bach.

****** Johann Christoph Bach VIII ( 1702 – 1756 )

Among them was a History of Japan, translated from the manuscript into English by Sloane's librarian Johann Caspar Scheuchzer ( 1702 – 1729 ) and published at London, in 2 vols., in 1727.

Between 1702 and 1712 Weenix was occupied with an important series of twelve large hunting pictures for the Elector Palatine Johann Wilhelm's castle of Bensberg, near Cologne.

Johann Ernst Eberlin ( 27 March 1702 – 19 June 1762 ) was a German composer and organist whose works bridge the baroque and classical eras.

In 1702 Johann Sebastian Bach's application for the position of the organist in Sangerhausen ( belonging to Weißenfels ) failed, because the Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels preferred the-in 2010 rediscovered-composer Johann Augustin Kobelius.

From 1700 to 1702 he must have met and possibly tutored the young Johann Sebastian Bach, who arrived in Lüneburg in 1700 and studied at the Michaelisschule, a school associated with the Church of St. Michael ( Michaeliskirche ).

At Lüneburg Johann Christopher Jauch ( 1669 – 1725 ) was Royal British and Electoral Brunswick-Lüneburg Dean of the Lutheran churches ( Königlich Großbritannischer und Kurfürstlich Braunschweig-Lüneburgischer Stadtsuperintendent ) at St. John's Church, Lüneburg, while Johann Christian Jauch ( 1702 – 1778 ) became canon, 1754 subsenior collegii canonici, 1760 The Very Reverend ( Erster Domherr ) and vice-dean ( Vizedekan ) of the Lutheran cathedral of Bardowick.

The granddaughter of The Very Reverend and vice-dean of the cathedral of Bardowick Johann Christian Jauch ( 1702 – 1788 ), Margaretha Eleonora Ludivica Jauch ( 1772 – 1805 ) was twice married.

Eleonora Maria Jauch ( 1732 – 1797 ), daughter of The Very Reverend and vice-dean of the cathedral of Bardowick Johann Christian Jauch ( 1702 – 1788 ), married Georg Christian Overbeck ( 1713 – 1786 ), lawyer at Lübeck and son of the dean Caspar Nicolaus Overbeck.

Bach, however, was not the first to compose such a set: Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer wrote a 20-key cycle in his 1702 work Ariadne musica.

* 1762 – Johannes Zick, German fresco painter ( b. 1702 )

* February 10 – Friedrich Christoph Oetinger, German theologian ( b. 1702 )

** Yair Bacharach, German rabbi ( d. 1702 )

Yair Chayim Bacharach ( 1639, Lipník nad Bečvou, Moravia — 1702 ) was a German rabbi and major 17th century posek, who lived first in Koblenz and then remainder of his life in Worms and Metz.

* Friedrich Christoph Oetinger ( 1702 – 1782 ) German pietist, for the study of the " divine system of relations "

Having failed to reach Rome, Psalmanazar traveled through the German principalities between 1700 and 1702, and appeared in the Netherlands around the year 1702, where he served as an occasional mercenary and soldier.

Friedrich Christoph Oetinger ( 2 May 1702 – 10 February 1782 ) was a German theosopher.

M5 was discovered by the German astronomer Gottfried Kirch in 1702 when he was observing a comet.

He represented William III at various other German courts, and in 1702 was sent to Vienna, where he had already acted as envoy in 1693.

Subsequent editions of Nieuwe Vestingbouw appeared in Dutch ( 1702, and frequently afterwards ), English ( London, 1705 ), French ( Wesel, 1705 ), and German ( Düsseldorf, 1709 ).

Gerhard Tersteegen ( November 25, 1697 – April 3, 1769 ), was a German Reformed religious writer, born at Moers, at that time the capital of a countship belonging to the house of Orange-Nassau ( it fell to Prussia in 1702 ), which formed a Protestant enclave in the midst of a Roman Catholic country.

* Catéchisme ou instruction dans la religion chrétienne ( 1702 ), also translated into English, Dutch and German ;

Christian Friedrich von Kahlbutz ( 1651 in Kampehl, Brandenburg – 1702 in Kampehl ) was a German knight, who is today most famous because of the state of preservation of his body ; no noticeable mummification process was used upon his death.

Anthony Ulrich ( German: Anton Ulrich ; 4 October 1633, Hitzacker – 27 March 1714, Salzdahlum ) was duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg and ruled over the Wolfenbüttel subdivision of the duchy from 1685 until 1702 jointly with his brother, and solely from 1704 until his death.