Around 1707 – 1708 he entered the service of Duke Johann Wilhelm of Saxe-Eisenach, becoming Konzertmeister on 24 December 1708 and Secretary and Kapellmeister in August 1709.

The size of the invading Swedish army was peeled of as Charles left Leszczyński with some 24, 000 German and Polish troops, departing eastwards from Saxony in late 1707 with some 35, 000 men, adding a further 12, 500 under Adam Ludwig Lewenhaupt marching from Livonia.

After the Treaty of Altranstädt on 24 September 1707, he was delivered up to Charles, who ordered his execution through the breaking wheel.

* Claude, Count of Saint-Germain ( 1707 – 1778 ), Marshal of France since 24. 3. 1775

Vincenzo da Filicaja ( 30 December 1642 – 24 September 1707 ) was an Italian poet.

Noël Coypel (; 25 December 1628 – 24 December 1707 ), French painter born in Paris, also called, from the fact that he was much influenced by Poussin, Coypel le Poussin, was the son of an unsuccessful artist.

* Sir George Rooke 1 May 1707 – 24 January 1709?

Walter Charleton ( 2 February 1619 – 24 April 1707 ) was an English writer.

He died 24 April 1707.

A publication called The Post Man reported from 21 June 1707 to 24 June 1707 that two great matches at cricket ( to be ) plaid ( sic ), between London and Croydon ; the first at Croydon on Tuesday, July 1st, and the other to be plaid in Lamb's-Conduit-Fields, near Holborn, on the Tuesday ( sic ) following, being the 3rd of July.

An evolution expounded in the book which attempts to explain the facts leading up to the Act of Union 1707 dates all the way back to the 6 December 1604 when King James was presented with a proposed embellishment for unification.

* December 30 – Vincenzo da Filicaja, Italian poet ( d. 1707 )

Mount Fuji, last erupts in December 1707.

* December 25 – Noël Coypel, French painter ( d. 1707 )

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

Subsequently Baluze was appointed professor of Canon law at the Collège de France on December 31, 1689, and directed it from 1707 to 1710.

He was born in Lisbon and succeeded his father Peter II in December 1706, and was proclaimed on 1 January 1707.

Charles Wesley ( 18 December 1707 – 29 March 1788 ) was an English leader of the Methodist movement, son of Anglican clergyman and poet Samuel Wesley, the younger brother of Anglican clergyman John Wesley and Anglican clergyman Samuel Wesley ( the Younger ), and father of musician Samuel Wesley, and grandfather of musician Samuel Sebastian Wesley.

* December 30-Vincenzo da Filicaja, poet ( died 1707 )

This was followed by further natural disasters, including the October 4, 1707 Great Hoei Earthquake and the Hōei eruption of Mount Fuji in December of the same year.

* 9 December 1707: Khan-i-Dauran Bahadur

* 9 December 1707 – 6 February 1711: Subedar of Oudh and Faujdar of Gorakhpur

* 6, 000 foot and 6, 000 horse, 9 December 1707

Handel's first Italian opera, Rodrigo, showed an incomplete grasp of Italian style, with much of Keiser's Hamburg influence still evident ; it was not a success when premiered in Florence, in late November or early December 1707.

Paterson personally accompanied the disastrous Scottish expedition to Panama in 1698, where his wife and child died and he became seriously ill. On his return to Scotland in December 1699, he became instrumental in the movement for the Union of Scotland and England, culminating in his support of the Act of Union 1707.

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

On 13 December 1707, King Philip V confirmed the titles in Spain, and conferred the dignity Grandee of Spain to James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick.

18 December 1633 ; died 6 April 1707 ) was a Dutch marine painter.

William Hoare of Bath RA ( c. 1707 – 12 December 1792 ) was an English portraitist, painter and printmaker ; he was the leading Portraitist at Bath, Somerset until the arrival in the town of Thomas Gainsborough.

Jean Mabillon ( 23 November 1632 – 27 December 1707 ) was a French Benedictine monk and scholar, considered the founder of palaeography and diplomatics.

* 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.

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