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 – Johann Valentin Görner, German composer ( d. 1762 )

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

The first successful English daily, the Daily Courant, was published from 1702 to 1735.

* 1701 – 1702: The Daily Courant and The Norwich Post becomes the first daily newspapers in England.

In March 1702, London's first daily newspaper, the Daily Courant, was published in Fleet Street from premises above the White Hart Inn.

There is a blue plaque near the bottom of the hill with these words: " In a house near this site was published in 1702 The Daily Courant first London daily newspaper ".

The Daily Courant was one of the world's first regular daily newspapers, commencing in 1702 from premises in Fleet Street.

The War of the Spanish Succession started in 1702, during which England's main maritime foes were France and Spain, and a number of Bristol ships were given letters of marque, allowing them to strike against enemy shipping.

The question whether there is a limit to the degree of cold possible, and, if so, where the zero must be placed, was first addressed by the French physicist Guillaume Amontons in 1702, in connection with his improvements in the air thermometer.

Queen Anne, who reigned from 1702 to 1714, had favoured deeper political integration between the two kingdoms and became the first monarch of Great Britain.

Bienville went on to found the settlement of Mobile, Alabama in 1702 as the first capital of French Louisiana.

* Louis Juchereau de St. Denis establishes Fort St. Jean Baptiste at the site of present day Natchitoches, Louisiana ( the first permanent European settlement in the Louisiana Territory, after Biloxi ( 1699 ) and Mobile, Alabama ( 1702 ) were separated ).

In 1702, Lisbon sent its first governor successfully, António Coelho Guerreiro, to Lifau, which became capital of all Portuguese dependencies on Lesser Sunda Islands.

As with the first marriage, this too produced two children: a daughter Jane ( 1677 – 1702 ); and a son William, " Poor Billy " born June, 1679, who was developmentally delayed.

The Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 ( 99th Congress, S. 1702,, title II, December 12, 1985,, ) and Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Reaffirmation Act of 1987 (, title I, Sept. 29, 1987,, ) ( both often known as Gramm-Rudman ) were, according to U. S. Senator Phil Gramm of Texas, " the first binding constraint imposed on federal spending, and its spending caps have become part of every subsequent U. S. budget.

French Canadian explorers founded Mobile as the first capital of Louisiana in 1702, and took advantage of the war to build Fort Toulouse at the confluence of the Tallapoosa and Coosa in 1717, trading with the Alabama and Coushatta.

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.

* 1702 – Guillaume Amontons first calculates absolute zero to be − 240 ° C using an air thermometer, theorizing at this point the gas would reach zero volume and zero pressure.

The regiment was numbered as the 23rd Regiment of Foot, though it was one of the first regiments to be granted the honour of a fusilier title and so was known as The Welsh Regiment of Fusiliers from 1702.

In 1702, the first public theater in Russia was built near the Nikolsky gate ; It stood until 1737, when it was destroyed in a fire.

He also designed the obelisk in Ripon market place, erected in 1702, at 80 feet in height it was the first large scale obelisk to be erected in Britain.

The first edition was published posthumously in 1702.

It was first published in Constituciones diocesanas del obispado de Chiappa ( 1702 ) by Francisco Núñez de la Vega, Bishop of Chiapas.

For example, Samuel Richardson, one of the first settlers in what is now the village, already had a mill in use along the Shunock river by 1702.

Talbot became the first minister and laid the cornerstone for the church in 1702.

The Quakers established a meetinghouse and a cemetery on what is now Topanemus Road and held the first meeting on October 10, 1702.

Despite Marlborough's refutations ( claiming ancient precedent for the first allegation, and, for the second, producing a warrant signed by the Queen in 1702 authorising him to make the deductions in lieu of secret-service money for the war ), the findings were enough for Harley to persuade the Queen to release her Captain-General.

When Anne came to the throne after William's death in 1702, the Duke of Marlborough, together with Sidney Godolphin, the first Earl of Godolphin, rose to head the government, partly as a result of his wife's friendship with the queen.

In 1702 the territory officially became a Portuguese colony, known as Portuguese Timor, when Lisbon sent its first governor, with Lifau as its capital.