* Charles V of Naples ( 1661 – 1700 ), better known as Charles II of Spain

With the death of the infirm and childless Charles II of Spain on 1 November 1700, the succession of the Spanish throne and subsequent control over her empire once again embroiled Europe in war – the War of the Spanish Succession.

* 1700 1 November – King Charles II of Spain died leaving no descendants.

In the reign of Philip's developmentally disabled son and successor Charles II ( 1665 – 1700 ), Spain was essentially left leaderless and was gradually being reduced to a second-rank power.

The Habsburg dynasty became extinct in Spain with Charles II's death in 1700, and the War of the Spanish Succession ensued in which the other European powers tried to assume control of the Spanish monarchy.

Charles II, having no direct heir, was succeeded by his great-nephew Philip V, a French prince, in 1700.

The Spanish branch ended upon the death of Charles II in 1700 and was replaced by the Anjou branch of the House of Bourbon in the person of his great-nephew Philip V.

* 1700 – Battle of Narva – A Swedish army of 8, 500 men under Charles XII defeats a much larger Russian army at Narva.

* 1661 – King Charles II of Spain ( d. 1700 )

Accordingly, King Charles XII of Sweden was welcomed as an ally in the Ottoman Empire following his defeat by the Russians at the Battle of Poltava in 1709 ( part of the Great Northern War of 1700 – 1721.

Albinoni was possibly employed in 1700 as a violinist to Charles IV, Duke of Mantua, to whom he dedicated his Opus 2 collection of instrumental pieces.

Pro-French statesmen, however, were in the majority, and in October 1700, Charles II agreed to bequeath all of his territory to the Dauphin's second son, the Duke of Anjou.

Charles II died on 1 November 1700, and on 24 November, Louis XIV proclaimed Anjou as Philip V, King of Spain.

* November 6 – King Charles II of Spain ( d. 1700 )

In 1700 the Spanish line of Habsburgs was extinguished with the death of Charles II.

Although the young Swedish King Charles XII ( 1682 – 1718 ; reigned 1697 – 1718 ) won spectacular victories in the early years of the Great Northern War, most notably in the stunning success against the Russians at the Battle of Narva ( 1700 ), his plan to attack Moscow and force Russia into peace proved too ambitious.

In 1700, King Charles II of Spain died without a son.

The prospect of Bourbons on both the French and Spanish thrones was resisted as creating an imbalance of power in Europe by its dominant regimes and, upon Charles II's death on 1 November 1700, a Grand Alliance of European nations united against Philip.

Charles II of Spain had died childless in 1700, and the succession was disputed by two claimants: the Habsburg Archduke Charles of Austria and the Bourbon Philip, Duke of Anjou.

After the setbacks of 1700, he focused on transforming his state, an absolute monarchy, in a manner similar to Charles XI of Sweden.

In 1700, Charles XII had a standing army of 77, 000 men ( based on annual training ).

In 1700 the King Charles II of Spain died childless.

Charles II, the last Spanish king from the house of Austria, died in 1700, and in his will he designated Philip V as his heir.

His father, Louis, the Grand Dauphin, had the strongest genealogical claim to the throne of Spain when it became vacant in 1700.

After a solemn ceremony in Madrid, Charles was given the épée d ' or ( Sword of Gold ) by his father ; the sword had been given to Philip V of Spain by his grandfather Louis XIV of France before his departure to Spain in 1700.

Caius Gabriel Cibber ( 1630 – 1700 ) was a Danish sculptor, who enjoyed great success in England, and was the father of the actor, author and poet laureate Colley Cibber.

Boulton's father, also named Matthew and born in 1700, moved to Birmingham from Lichfield to serve an apprenticeship, and in 1723 he married Christiana Piers.

He succeeded his father as Earl of Castlehaven and Baron Arundel on 9 August 1700.

Henry Somerset, 1st Duke of Beaufort, KG, PC ( 1629 – 21 January 1700 ) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1654 and 1667 when he succeeded his father as 3rd Marquess of Worcester.

George Hadley entered Pembroke College, Oxford, on 30 May 1700, and on 13 August 1701 became a member of Lincoln's Inn, where his father purchased chambers for him.

His father, Henri d ' Aguesseau, a hereditary councillor of the parlement of Metz, was a man of singular ability and breadth of view who, after holding successively the posts of intendant of Limousin, Guyenne and Languedoc, was in 1685 called to Paris as councillor of state, appointed director-general of commerce and manufactures in 1695, president of the council of commerce in 1700 and a member of the council of the regency for finance.

Darcy Molineux raised George Molineux's father John ( 1685-1754 ) in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, before settling in Wolverhampton around 1700.

In his will, dated 18 January 1699, and proved 28 June 1700, he divided his means into two parts, one of which he left to his sister Bridget Bastard for the use of his father during his lifetime and afterwards for herself, while he left the other moiety to Miss Playdell and appointed her sole executrix.

Her father was a grandson of Louis XIV and had inherited the Spanish throne in 1700.

His father, Francis, was a member of the royal council for South Carolina from 1717 till 1757, and at one time its president, and his grandfather, James, came from Scotland about 1700.

The king's second wife's son Chador Namgyal, took over the reign's of power in Sikkim, after his father ’ s death, in 1700.

William Gordon was the only son of Alexander Gordon, 5th Viscount of Kenmure and succeeded his father on his death in 1698, but was not able to inherit his family's property until 1700, because of a protracted law suit.

He was born in Donegal, Ulster, Ireland around 1700, and came to North America with his father, the Reverend Thomas Craighead.

A French-born priest, René Ménard, composed motets around 1640, and a second Canadian-born priest, Charles-Amador Martin, is credited with the plainchant music for the Sacrae familiae felix spectaculum, in celebration of the Holy Family feast day in 1700.

Philip V ( Spanish: Felipe V ; French: Philippe de France ; 19 December 1683 – 9 July 1746 ) was King of Spain from 1 November 1700 to 15 January 1724, when he abdicated in favor of his son Louis, and from 6 September 1724, when he assumed the throne again upon his son's death, to his death.

The first suggestion for etched glass reticles was made by Philippe de La Hire in 1700.

* Philippe de France ( 19 December 1683 – 9 July 1746 ), Duke of Anjou, ( later King of Spain ); became King of Spain in 1700 ; married second cousin Princess Maria Luisa of Savoy and had issue ; married again Elisabeth Farnese and had issue such as the future Dauphine of France, Infanta Maria Teresa Rafaela of Spain ;

Although Philippe ceased use of the Anjou title upon becoming King Philip V of Spain in 1700, and renounced his succession rights to the French throne in exchange for retention of his Spanish crown, some Legitimists maintained that neither of these acts was binding.

Although Philippe ceased use of the Anjou title upon becoming King Philip V of Spain in 1700, and renounced his succession rights to the French throne in exchange for retention of his Spanish crown.

* Philippe de France ( 19 December 1683 – 9 July 1746 ), Duke of Anjou, later King of Spain as of 1700 ; married his second cousin Princess Maria Luisa Gabriella of Savoy and had issue ; married again Elisabeth Farnese and had issue ;