* 1707 – Louis I of Spain ( d. 1724 )

* 1707 – The Habsburg army is defeated by Bourbon army at Almansa ( Spain ) in the War of the Spanish Succession.

Thābit's formula was rediscovered by Fermat ( 1601 – 1665 ) and Descartes ( 1596 – 1650 ), to whom it is sometimes ascribed, and extended by Euler ( 1707 – 1783 ).

This helped the new Kingdom of Great Britain – England and Scotland were formally united in 1707 – to become powerful.

Carl Linnaeus ( Swedish original name Carl Nilsson Linnæus, 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778 ), also known after his ennoblement as, was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature.

Carlo Osvaldo Goldoni (; 25 February 1707 – 6 February 1793 ) was an Italian playwright and librettist from the Republic of Venice.

* 11 Kings and Queens of Naples ( 1266 – 1442, 1700 – 1707, 1735 – 1806 )

** Philip ( 1700 – 1707 )

* Catherine of Siena ( 1707 – 1721 ) Opere, ed.

* 1707 – Last recorded eruption of Mount Fuji in Japan.

* 1642 – Vincenzo da Filicaja, Italian poet ( d. 1707 )

* Leonhard Euler, ( 1707 – 1783 ), Swiss mathematician and physicist

The famous fugue composer Johann Sebastian Bach ( 1685 – 1750 ) shaped his own works after those of Johann Jakob Froberger ( 1616 – 1667 ), Johann Pachelbel ( 1653 – 1706 ), Girolamo Frescobaldi ( 1583 – 1643 ), Dieterich Buxtehude ( c. 1637 – 1707 ), and other composers.

* 1707 24 December – The first British Governor directly appointed by Queen Anne, Roger Elliott, took up residence in the Convent of the Franciscan friars.

* Lady Mary Gordon ( 1682 – 1753 ), married Alexander Fraser, 13th Lord Saltoun, 26 October 1707

* Jeremiah Clarke 1704 – 1707 ( also Organist )

Jeremiah Clarke ( c. 1674 – 1 December 1707 ) was an English baroque composer and organist.

* Jeremiah Clarke ( 1674 – 1707 ), English baroque composer

In 1707, he took over the Chapel Royal's " Master of the Children " post, which had been left vacant by the suicide of Jeremiah Clarke ( one of Croft's pupils in this capacity was Maurice Greene ).

The public correspondence of Samuel Clarke with the English freethinker Anthony Collins in 1707 and 1708 was a debate on the nature of consciousness.

Since Henry VIII broke with Rome, the Archbishops of Canterbury have been selected by the English ( British since the Act of Union in 1707 ) monarch.

* List of English monarchs ( to 1707 )

The British Army came into being with the merger of the Scottish Army and the English Army, following the unification of the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland, as the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707.

This was the main mouthpiece of the English Government promoting the Act of Union 1707.

King James I & VI as he was styled became the first monarch to rule the entire island of Great Britain, although it was merely a union of the English and Scottish crowns, and both countries remained separate political entities until 1707.

Its transformation into a rich leader of modern industry came suddenly and unexpectedly in the next 150 years, following its union with Britain in 1707 and its integration with the advanced English and imperial economies.

" This particular line of criticism also misses the obvious parallels that existed between the story's background ( England conquered by the Normans in 1066, when they killed Saxon King Harold at Hastings, about 130 years previously ) and the prevailing situation in Scott's native Scotland ( Scotland's union with England in 1707 – about the same length of time had elapsed before Scott's writing and the resurgence in his time of Scottish nationalism evidenced by the cult of Robert Burns, the famous poet who deliberately chose to work in Scots vernacular though he was an educated man and spoke modern English eloquently ).

* 1640 – William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire, English noble ( d. 1707 )

* 1788 – Charles Wesley, English Methodist hymnist ( b. 1707 )

The 1707 Acts of Union made Bermudian and other English militiamen British.

Scott's background as a lawyer also informed his perspective, for at the time of the novel, which takes place before the Act of Union of 1707, English law did not apply in Scotland, and even afterward Scotland continued to have its own hybrid legal system.

A decade before the break the king wrote a book in defence of Catholic doctrine for which the Pope rewarded him with the title of Defender of the Faith, a title revoked by the Pope following Henry's break with Rome but still claimed and held by English and, after 1707, British monarchs after being bestowed on the monarch by Parliament.

It was the first in English based on the then new Linnaean taxonomy — a classification of all living things — devised by the eminent Swedish botanist and physician Carolus Linnaeus ( 1707 – 1778 ).

* 1707: Act of Union passed merging the Scottish and the English Parliaments, thus establishing the Kingdom of Great Britain.

* January 25 – William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire, English soldier and statesman ( d. 1707 )

* October 8 – Henry Fielding, English novelist ( b. 1707 )

* February – Walter Charleton, English writer ( d. 1707 )

* December 8 – Nathan Alcock, English physician ( b. 1707 )

English military engineer and mathematician Benjamin Robins ( 1707 – 1751 ) invented a whirling arm apparatus to determine drag and did some of the first experiments in aviation theory.

The British East India Company was an English and later ( from 1707 ) British joint-stock company formed for pursuing trade with the East Indies but which ended up trading mainly with the Indian subcontinent.

All three of these titles merged with the Principality in the same person after the personal union of the Scottish and English crowns in 1603 with the accession of James VI of Scotland as James I of England, with the first Prince of Wales to receive them being his son Henry Frederick ( subsequently an incorporating union created a single British crown in 1707 ).

Scots law, though also a civil law system, is uncodified-it was strongly influenced by Romano-Dutch legal thought, and after the Act of Union 1707, by English law.

Articles of Union were approved by the commissioners on 22 July 1706, and ratified by the Scottish and English Parliaments on 16 January and 6 March 1707 respectively.

Thousands of Scotsmen also participated in the English colonization even before the two countries were united in 1707.