He is known as the leader of the Forty-seven Ronin in their 1702 vendetta and thus the hero of the Chūshingura.

In 1944 he was appointed to the 1702 Chair of Chemistry in the University of Cambridge, which he held until his retirement in 1971, after a heart attack.

On Christmas Day 1702 he dared to hold a religious assembly at the very gates of Alais, and put to flight the local militia which came forth to attack him.

His claim to fame came as a result of his defense of the city from an attack and possible invasion by the British on August 5, 1702.

An estimated 15 Frenchmen were killed in the attack and buried at Fort L ' Huillier, which was abandoned by 1702.

Under the leadership of Oishi Kuranosuke they avenged the death of their lord by killing Kira at his mansion in Edo on December 15, 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.

During the Great Northern War, the Swedes again captured Rzeszów, in 1702, then several different armies occupied the town, ransacking it and destroying houses.

In February 1702 William, then prostrated with his last illness, sent Albemarle to the Netherlands to arrange the coming campaign, and he only returned in time to receive William's last commissions on his deathbed, including being entrusted with the king's private papers.

In 1702 he became élève, in 1716 adjoint, and in 1718 associé of the Académie des Sciences ; and, as the young king's instructor in geography, received the title of First Royal Geographer with a fixed salary, an office which was then created for the first time.

This collection of wooden huts was burned to the ground twice: once in the 17th century by the residents of Scalloway, then the capital of Shetland, who disapproved of the immoral and drunken activities of the assembled fishermen and sailors ; and again in 1702 by the French fleet.

The revolt by the Camisards broke out in 1702, with the worst of the fighting through 1704, then scattered fighting until 1710 and a final peace by 1715.

Thereafter, the books were stored temporarily in various noble palaces in Stockholm, first in Count Lillie ’ s house on what was then Norrmalm Square ( 1697 – 1702 ), and later in the Bonde Palace ( 1702 – 1730 ), and Count Per Brahe ’ s house on Helgeandsholmen ( 1730 – 1768 ).

He was then briefly appointed Secretary of State for the Southern Department, a post he held between January and May 1702.

It became subjects to France, then Artois ( 1237 – 1329 ), then France again until it ceased to exist as a county and was annexed to France in 1702.

He was then involved in an incident during the Action of August 1702, where a number of his captains refused to support him while commanding a squadron of ships.

* Madame d ' Aulnoy followed suit with a three-volume collection simply entitled Contes de Fées Fairy Tales, and then her Contes Nouveaux ou Les Fées à la Mode (" New Tales or Fairies In Fashion ") ( 1698 – 1702 ).

They returned it in 1697 but then captured it again in 1702.

He then reveals that Graves has been working to sabotage his succession to the throne and has him arrested for violating the Treason Act of 1702.

In 1702, she wrote The Beau ’ s Duel and The Stolen Heiress, both of which were produced that same year, and then Love's Contrivance for the next season.

After graduating from The Roxbury Latin School and then Harvard in 1690, he studied law at the Temple in London, and became attorney-general of Massachusetts ( 1702 to 1718 ).

This is a list of the principal Ministers of the Crown of the Kingdom of England, and then of the Kingdom of Great Britain from May 1702, at the beginning of the reign of Queen Anne.

In 1702, during the Great Northern War, Swedish troops destroyed Korczyn once again, and the town never recovered since then.

About 1697 he settled permanently in Hamburg, and became the chief composer at the highly renowned Gänsemarktoper ( now rebuilt as the Hamburg State Opera ) in Hamburg from 1697 to 1717 ; however he was actually first the director in 1702, and was not at various times from then to 1717, almost each time due to political instabilities.

" Rumphius died in 1702, so never saw his work in print ; the embargo was lifted in 1704, but then no publisher could be found for it.

In 1702 he became an alderman of the city of London and was knighted ; he served as Sheriff of London for 1704 and then elected Lord Mayor of London for 1711, being the last lord mayor to ride on horseback in his procession.

In 1702 he became a captain, and aide-de-camp to the duke of Vendôme, then in command of the French forces in Italy.

He won the battle of Rauge on 5 September 1701 and was subsequently promoted to major general, but was then defeated by a large Russian force under Boris Sheremetev at Erastfer on 30 December the same year and at Sagnitz and Hummelshof on 19 July 1702.

* May 10 – Emperor Nakamikado of Japan ( b. 1702 )

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.

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 )

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.

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

In 1702 Scarlatti left Naples and did not return until the Spanish domination had been superseded by that of the Austrians.

Then in 1702 the French astronomer Philippe de la Hire used a year he labeled at the end of years labeled ante Christum ( BC ), and immediately before years labeled post Christum ( AD ) on the mean motion pages in his Tabulæ Astronomicæ, thus adding the designation 0 to Kepler's Christi.

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.

It includes the history of the regiment from 1702, plus a military library.

The most important of these, Magnalia Christi Americana ( 1702 ), comprises seven distinct books, many of which depict biographical and historical narratives to which later American writers, such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Elizabeth Drew Stoddard, and Harriet Beecher Stowe, would look in describing the cultural significance of New England for later generations after the American Revolution.

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

Boston had been plagued by smallpox outbreaks in 1690 and 1702.

Magnalia Christi Americana, considered Mather's greatest work, was published in 1702, when he was 39.

The death of William III in 1702 once again created a political upheaval as the king was replaced by Queen Anne, who immediately began her offensive against Nonconformists.

The dukedom was created in 1702 by Queen Anne ; John Churchill, whose wife was a favourite of the queen, had earlier been made Lord Churchill of Eyemouth in the Scottish peerage ( 1682 ), which became extinct with his death, and Earl of Marlborough ( 1689 ) by King William III.

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

David Abercromby was a 17th-century Scottish physician and writer, thought to have died in 1702.

With Eugene's help Louis found employment in the Imperial army, only to be killed in action against the French in 1702.

During a daring raid on Cremona on the night of 31 January / 1 February 1702 Eugene captured the French commander-in-chief.

Eugene's European reputation was growing ( Cremona and Luzzara had been celebrated as victories throughout the Allied capitals ), yet because of the condition and morale of his troops the 1702 campaign had not been a success.

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

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

* 1702 – Johann Valentin Görner, German composer ( d. 1762 )

In 1702, the Dutch, who were interested in Shetland's herring fisheries, fought a naval battle against the French warships just off the island.

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