* 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.

* 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

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.

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.

The Scottish parliament voted on 6 January 1707, by 110 to 69, to adopt the Treaty of Union.

Atlas of Scottish History to 1707.

* Harvie, Christopher Scotland and Nationalism: Scottish Society and Politics 1707 – 1977 ISBN 0-04-941006-7

Scottish Literature since 1707.

Scotland and Nationalism: Scottish Society and Politics 1707 to the Present ( 2004 ) excerpt and text search online edition

Modern Scottish History, 1707 To the Present: vol 5: Major Documents ( Tuckwell Press, 1998 ) online edition

" 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 ).

The Darien scheme failed for a number of reasons, and the ensuing Scottish debt contributed to the 1707 Acts of Union that joined the previously separate states of the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland – into the Kingdom of Great Britain ".

Scottish may refer to something of, from, or related to Scotland, a country in northern Europe, part of the United Kingdom since 1707.

His reign was the second longest in Scottish history before the Act of Union with England in 1707, ( James VI's was the longest 1567 – 1625 ).

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

Following the 1707 union between the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland, Newton used his previous experience to direct the 1707 – 1710 Scottish recoinage, resulting in a common currency for the new Kingdom of Great Britain.

It is probably best known from the royal coats of arms of Scotland and the United Kingdom: two unicorns support the Scottish arms ; a lion and a unicorn support the UK arms, representing the 1707 Union of England ( whose traditional heraldic symbol is the lion ) and Scotland.

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 ).

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.

From 1707 until 1963 Scottish peers elected 16 representative peers to sit in the House of Lords.

Between 1707 and 1963, Scottish peers participated in elections to determine which of them would take the sixteen seats allocated to them as a whole.

Under the terms of the Acts of Union, which joined England and Scotland in 1707, Edinburgh was one of the four Scottish castles to be maintained and permanently garrisoned by the new British Army, along with Stirling, Dumbarton and Blackness.

In the United Kingdom, the royal veto (" withholding Royal Assent ") was last exercised in 1707 by Queen Anne with the Scottish Militia Bill 1708.

The Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature: From Columba to the Union, until 1707 includes a history of the Kingship by Benjamin Hudson.

He served as Lord High Admiral of Scotland and sat in the House of Lords as a Scottish Representative Peer from 1707 to 1710.

Stemming from this, the Parliament of England decided that, to ensure the stability and future prosperity of Great Britain, full union of the two parliaments and nations was essential before Anne's death and used a combination of exclusionary legislation ( the Alien Act of 1705 ), politics, and bribery to achieve it within three years under the Act of Union 1707.

The Acts of Union between the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland were a pair of Parliamentary Acts passed by both parliaments in 1707, which dissolved them in order to form a Kingdom of Great Britain governed by a unified Parliament of Great Britain according to the Treaty of Union.

* 1707 – The first Parliament of Great Britain meets.

Using these new tactics and the support of authors, the Company petitioned Parliament again in both 1707 and 1709 to introduce a bill providing for copyright.

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.

* Norfolk ( UK Parliament constituency ), from 1707 to 1832

* Parliament of England ( 13th century to 1707 )

* Parliament of Scotland ( 13th century to 1707 )

* Parliament of Great Britain ( 1707 – 1800 )

The system was continued in the Parliament of Great Britain ( from 1707 to 1800 ) and the United Kingdom Parliament, until 1950.

The original Parliament of Scotland ( or " Estates of Scotland ") was the national legislature of the independent Kingdom of Scotland and existed from the early thirteenth century until the Kingdom of Scotland merged with the Kingdom of England under the Acts of Union 1707 to form the Kingdom of Great Britain.

* The Original Institution, Power and Jurisdiction of Parliament ( 1707 );

This event was the result of the Treaty of Union that was agreed on 22 July 1706, and then ratified by both the Parliament of England and Parliament of Scotland each passing an Act of Union in 1707.

The Tone had been improved by its Conservators, who had obtained Acts of Parliament in 1699 and 1707, which had allowed them to straighten and dredge the river and parts of the Parrett, and to build locks and half-locks to manage the water levels.

On the right, about one-third of the way down from the Castle toward the Palace is Parliament Square, named after the old Parliament House which housed both the law courts and the old Parliament of Scotland between the 1630s and 1707 ( when it was adjourned by the Act of Union ) Parliament House is now the home of the Court of Session, Scotland's supreme civil court.

* Acts of Union 1707, passed by both the Parliament of England and the Parliament of Scotland to form the Kingdom of Great Britain

** the Parliament of Great Britain ( 1707 – 1800 )

The then ancient Palace of Westminster, the seat of the English ( before 1707 ) and, later, British Parliament, was merely a converted building ; the House of Commons's odd seating arrangements was due to the chamber's previous existence as a chapel.