* 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.

* 1707 – Jeremiah Clarke, English composer ( b. 1674 )

* 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

* 1707 – Athénaïs de Montespan, French mistress of Louis XIV of France ( b. 1640 )

* October 5 – Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart de Mortemart, mistress of Louis XIV of France ( d. 1707 )

* August 31 – King Louis I of Spain ( b. 1707 )

* Françoise-Athénaïs, marquise de Montespan ( 1641 – 1707 ): mistress to King Louis XIV of France

Anglo-American settlers named the county for Frederick Louis, Prince of Wales ( 1707 – 1751 ), the eldest son of King George II of Great Britain.

Frederick Louis, Prince of Wales ( 1 February 1707 – 20 March 1751 ) was a member of the House of Hanover and therefore of the Hanoverian and later British Royal Family, the eldest son of George II and father of George III, as well as the great-grandfather of Queen Victoria.

* Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban's heart ( 1633 – 1707 ), designer of Louis XIV's military fortifications.

** Louis of France ( 1707 – 1712 ), Duke of Brittany,

Louis I ( Luis Felipe ; 25 August 1707 – 31 August 1724 ) was King of Spain from 15 January 1724 until his death in August the same year.

The margrave of Baden-Baden, Louis William ( died 1707 ), figured prominently among the soldiers who resisted the aggressions of France.

Young James also learned much from Antonio Verrio ( 1639 ?– 1707 ) and Louis Laguerre ( 1663 – 1721 ), prominent foreign decorative painters then working in England.

After Almanza, Berwick was created Duque de Liria y Xérica ( English: Duke of Liria and Jérica ) and Lieutenant of Aragon by Philip V of Spain in 1707, and Duc de Fitz-James ( English: Duke of Fitz-James ) in the Peerage of France by Louis XIV in 1710.

Françoise Athénaïs de Rochechouart de Mortemart, marquise of Montespan ( 5 October 1641 – 27 May 1707 ), better known as Madame de Montespan, was the most celebrated maîtresse en titre of King Louis XIV of France, by whom she had seven children.

* Louis I of Spain ( 1707 – 1724 )

Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte of Buffon (; 7 September 1707 – 16 April 1788 ) was a French naturalist, mathematician, cosmologist, and encyclopedic author.

Louis William, Margrave of Baden ( 8 April 1655 – 4 January 1707 ) was the ruler of Baden in Germany and chief commander of the Imperial army.

These pieces of art were designed by Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban ( 1633 – 1707 ), a military engineer of King Louis XIV.

* Claude Louis, Comte de Saint-Germain ( 1707 – 1778 ), French general

On the death of his cousin, Jean Louis Charles, Duke of Longueville ( 1646 – 1694 ) and in accordance to his will, Conti claimed the principality of Neuchâtel against Marie d ' Orléans, Duchesse of Nemours, ( 1625 – 1707 ), a sister of the duke.

This portrait shows King Louis XIV, Madame de Ventadour ( governess of the children of the Duke of Burgundy ), the 3-year old Louis, Duke of Brittany ( 1707 – 1712 ), Louis, Grand Dauphin and Louis, Duke of Burgundy, future dauphin.

Once the other leading foreign painters of allegoric schemes, Antonio Verrio and Louis Laguerre, had died in 1707 and 1721 respectively, Thornhill had the field to himself, although by the end of his life commissions for grand schemes had dried up from changes in taste.

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.

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 ).

El reinado relámpago, Luis I y Luisa Isabel de Orleáns, 1707 – 1724.

The hymn, " When I Survey the Wondrous Cross ", was written by Isaac Watts, and published in Hymns and Spiritual Songs in 1707.

When the house of Orléans-Longueville became extinct with Marie d ' Orleans-Longueville's death in 1707, the Principality of Neuchâtel () went to King Frederick I in Prussia of the Berlin-based Hohenzollern dynasty, who then ruled Neuchâtel in personal union.

In 1707 a report was published stating that, when the castle was demolished in 1648, a large flat stone was found engraved I Lord Furnival ; I built this castle-hall ; And under this wall ; Within this tomb was my burial.

The Manor House was destroyed in the accidental fire of 1707 and was never rebuilt ; the city's Latin motto, Ex igne resurgam (" Out of the fire I shall arise "), is a reference to this incident.

* Stephen van Rensselaer I ( 1707 – 1747 )

But as early as 1707, after Alexander Menshikov occupied Swedish Ingria ( Izhora ) during the Great Northern War, Peter I of Russia officially designated him Prince Izhorsky.

Her son was the first ruler of both Aragon and Catalonia ( where he is known as Alfons I ) thereby establishing the dynastic union between the two countries that lasted until the Crown of Aragon was dissolved in 1707.

On the day in 1707 that the Treaty of Union was signed to merge the Parliament of Scotland with the Parliament of England and create the Kingdom of Great Britain, the carilloner in St. Giles rang the bells in the tune Why should I be so sad on my wedding day?

Cavalier wrote later ( July 10, 1707 ): " The only consolation that remains to me is that the regiment I had the honour to command never looked back, but sold its life dearly on the field of battle.

They claimed it was a breach of the Act of Union 1707 between England and Scotland, since Queen Elizabeth I had been Queen of England but not of Scotland.

* Alamgir I, also known as Aurangzeb, ruler of the Mughal Empire 1658 – 1707

The design dated from the early 17th century, when it was ordered by King James I and VI to be used on ships on the high seas, and it subsequently came into use as a national flag with the union of England and Scotland in 1707.

Azam Shah and his two sons, Sultan Muhammad Bidar Bakht Mirza and Shahzada Wala Jah Bahadur, were later defeated and executed by Azam Shah's elder brother, Prince Shah Alam ( later crowned Bahadur Shah I ), at Jajuwan on 19 June 1707.

In 1707, the Principality of Neuchâtel went to King Frederick I in Prussia of the Berlin-based Hohenzollern, who then ruled Neuchâtel in personal union.

The Buddhist order had become extinct thrice during the preceding five hundred years and was re-established in the reigns of Vimala Dharma Suriya I ( 1591 – 1604 ) and Vimala Dharma Suriya II ( 1687 – 1707 ) as well.

In 1707, Guru Gobind Singh accepted an invitation by Bahadur Shah I, Aurangzeb's successor, to meet in southern India.

In 1707, Peter I did marry again, to Marta Helena Skowrońska who dyed her hair black so she would not resemble Anna Mons.