* 1631 – John Dryden, English poet and playwright ( d. 1700 )

Some of their works are considered precursors of archaeoastronomy ; antiquarians interpreted the astronomical orientation of the ruins that dotted the English countryside as William Stukeley did of Stonehenge in 1740, while John Aubrey in 1678 and Henry Chauncy in 1700 sought similar astronomical principles underlying the orientation of churches.

By 1700, it had been reprinted 15 times in Italian, and was translated in Dutch, English, French, German, Russian and Spanish.

Chancery cases on group litigation after 1700 were a totally incoherent mess, which Yeazell has explained by pointing to the trends towards fragmentation and individualism in English society during that period ; the resulting societal pressures ultimately led to the Reform Act 1832.

The Great Vowel Shift was a major change in the pronunciation of the English language that took place in England between 1350 and 1700 .< ref >

Poorly equipped ; beset by incessant rain ; under attack by the Spanish from nearby Cartagena ; and refused aid by the English in the West Indies, the colonists abandoned their project in 1700.

* 1700 – John Dryden, English writer ( b. 1631 )

* 1700 – Nathaniel Bliss, English astronomer ( d. 1764 )

* September 2 – Nathaniel Bliss, English Astronomer Royal ( b. 1700 )

* August 19 – John Dryden, English writer ( d. 1700 )

* January 7 – William Tans ' ur, English hymnist ( b. 1700 )

* November 11 – Joseph " Blueskin " Blake, English highwayman ( executed ) ( b. c. 1700 )

) By 1700 the English West Indies produced 25, 000 tons of sugar, compared to 20, 000 for Brazil, 10, 000 for the French islands and 4, 000 for the Dutch islands.

Literature of the English Restoration period ( 1660 to 1700 ).

The Spanish Bourbons ( in Spain the name is spelled Borbón and rendered into English as Borbon ) have been overthrown and restored several times, reigning 1700 – 1808, 1813 – 1868, 1875 – 1931, and 1975 to the present day.

On the English controlled islands, especially Jamaica and the Bahamas, mahogany was abundant but not exported in any quantity before 1700.

At the end of 1700, an arrival from the sea changed again the future of the town: the landing of the English John Woodhouse who " invented " the wine marsala.

* John Dryden, English poet ( 1631 – 1700 )

So called because of its position at the old West Gate of the town wall, the Chapel first officially opened for worship as Westgate Meeting in 1700 as English Presbytarian but soon joined by an Independent congregation.

By 1700, grenadiers in the English and other armies had adopted a cap in the shape of a bishop's mitre, usually decorated with the regimental insignia in embroidered cloth.

In 1700 several hundred French Huguenots went to the colony of Virginia, where the English Crown had promised them land grants in Lower Norfolk County.

A translation of Ovid's Myrrha, done by English poet John Dryden in 1700, has been interpreted as a critique of the society of that day linking Myrrha to Mary II and Cinyras to James II.

By 1700, Hawksmoor emerged with a major architectural personality, and in the next 20 years he proved himself to be one of the great masters of the English Baroque.

* William Bates ( Quaker immigrant ) ( died 1700 ), the borough's first English settler.

* 1700 – Stanisław Konarski, Polish poet ( d. 1773 )

* 1700 – James Thomson, Scottish poet ( d. 1748 )

* August 27 – James Thomson, Scottish poet ( b. 1700 )

Notable inhabitants of these properties were the Markwicks ( builders and carpenters, from 1700 ) at Coppinghall and Milton Cottage ( Interestingly, the current generation of notable Markwicks in Uckfield run the local picture house ), Edward Kenward ( 19th century maltster ) at the Malt House, Thomas Pentecost ( a Victorian leather cutter and local poet ) in a cottage near the Grammar School and General Sir George Calvert Clarke ( commander of the Royal Scots Greys at Balaclava ) at Church House.

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.

* August 27-James Thomson, Scottish poet ( born 1700 )

* August 9-John Dryden, poet and dramatist ( died 1700 )

Picander was the pseudonym of Christian Friedrich Henrici ( January 14, 1700 – May 10, 1764 ), a German poet and librettist for many of the cantatas which Johann Sebastian Bach composed in Leipzig.

Verbal jugglery, obscenity and eroticism characterise the period between 1700 and 1850, particularly in the works of the era's eponymous poet Kabi Samrat Upendra Bhanja ( 1670 – 1720 ).

* James Thompson ( poet ) ( 1700 – 1748 ), Scottish poet and playwright

* John Edwards ( 1700 ?– 1776 ), Welsh poet

* The poet John Dryden adapted the tale into more modern language under the title of The Cock and the Fox ( 1700 ).

* James Thomson ( poet ) ( 1700 – 1748 ), Scottish poet and playwright

The poet Wali Deccani ( 1667 – 1707 ) visited Delhi in 1700.

1700 ), playwright and poet, brother of Sir Robert Howard

Craig was the son of William Craig, a merchant, and Mary Thomson, sister of the poet James Thomson ( 1700 – 1748 ).

Stanisław Konarski ( actual name: Hieronim Konarski ; born September 30, 1700 in Żarczyce Duże, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship – died August 3, 1773 in Warsaw, Poland ) was a Polish pedagogue, educational reformer, political writer, poet, dramatist, Piarist monk and precursor of the Enlightenment in the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth.