The village was incorporated as a city in 1877 and renamed Cadillac, after Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, a Frenchman who made the first permanent settlement at Detroit in 1701.

French explorer Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac sailed up the Detroit River on July 23, 1701.

* 1701 – Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac founds the trading post at Fort Pontchartrain, which later becomes the city of Detroit, Michigan.

The Cadillac automobile was named after the 17th-century French explorer Antoine Laumet de la Mothe, Sieur de Cadillac, who founded Detroit in 1701.

Between Maquaqua / Wyandotte and Detroit ( a distance of roughly ) there were numerous settlers living along the river who inhabited their ancient " Ribbon Farms ", some dating back to the time of Antoine Cadillac's founding of " Fort Pontchartrain du Détroit ", in July 1701.

In that vein, Pierre Le Moyne d ' Iberville and Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville established Biloxi in 1699 and Mobile in 1701 along the Gulf coast, while Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac established Detroit in 1701 along the Great Lakes.

* Louis Antoine de Gontaut, ( 1701 – 1788 ), Count ( afterwards Duke ) of Biron, Marshal of France in 1757

The creature is said to have attacked the first white settler of Detroit in 1701, Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac who, soon after, lost his fortune.

The French settlements in the Pays d ' en Haut south of the Great Lakes were Fort Niagara ( 1678 ), Fort Crevecoeur ( 1680 ), Fort Saint Antoine ( 1686 ), Fort St. Joseph ( 1691 ), Fort Pontchartrain du Détroit ( 1701 ), Fort Michilimackinac ( 1715 ), Fort Miami ( 1715 ), Fort La Baye ( 1717 ), and Fort Beauharnois ( 1727 ).

Statue of French officer Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac commemorating his 1701 landing along the Detroit River.

There, in 1701, the French officer Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, along with fifty-one additional French-Canadians, founded a settlement called Fort Ponchartrain du Détroit, naming it after the comte de Pontchartrain, Minister of Marine under Louis XIV.

It is located on the site where Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, a French colonist, first set foot and landed on the banks of the river in July 1701 and claimed the area for France in the name of King Louis XIV.

* Antoine ( 1701 – 1715 )

* 1774 – Charles Marie de La Condamine, French mathematician and geographer ( b. 1701 )

In 1701 he wrote his hugely popular suites Opus 3, and dedicated that collection to Cosimo III de ' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany.

* August 22 – Jean Regnault de Segrais, French writer ( d. 1701 )

* February 4 – Charles Marie de La Condamine, French mathematician and geographer ( b. 1701 )

* November 15 – Madeleine de Scudéry, French writer ( d. 1701 )

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Christian Thomasius still met opposition as he argued in his 1701 Dissertatio de crimine magiae that it was meaningless to make dealing with the devil a criminal offence, since it was impossible to really commit the crime in the first place.

Madame Henriette died at Saint-Cloud in 1670 ; rumors abounded that she had been poisoned by her husband or his long-term lover, the Chevalier de Lorraine ; the two would remain together till the death of the Duke of Orléans in 1701.

* 2 August 1674 – 9 June 1701 His Royal Highness the Duke of Chartres ( Monseigneur le duc de Chartres )

* Jean Renaud de Segrais ( 1624 – 1701 ), poet and novelist

The expedition to the lower Colorado River was important as the only recorded European incursion into that region between the expeditions of Hernando de Alarcón and Melchior Díaz in 1540 and the visits of Eusebio Francisco Kino beginning in 1701.

* The novels of 17th century French writer Madeleine de Scudéry ( 1607 – 1701 ).

* February 4-Charles Marie de La Condamine, French geographer ( born 1701 )

Charles Marie de La Condamine ( 28 January 1701 – 13 February 1774 ) was a French explorer, geographer, and mathematician.

Among his best-known plays are Le Mercure galant, the title of which was changed to La Comédie sans titre (" Play without a title ") ( 1683 ) when the publisher of the literary review of the same name objected ( see " Mercure de France "); La Princesse de Clêves ( 1676 ), an unsuccessful play which, when refurbished with fresh names by its author, succeeded as Germanicus ; Esope à la ville ( 1690 ); and Esope à la cour ( 1701 ). His lack of dramatic instinct could hardly be better indicated than by the scheme of his Esope, which allows the fabulist to come on the stage in each scene and recite a fable.

* Marie Anne Françoise de Noailles ( 1719 – 1793 ) married in 1744 Ludwig Engelbert de La Marck ( 1701 – 1773 ), Count of Schleiden.

Paul Jules ' son, Guy Jules Paul de La Porte, duc Mazarin et de La Meilleraye ( 1701 – 1738 ), married Louise Françoise de Rohan in 1716.

Born in Fossombrone near Urbino, Marche, he went to Rome in 1695, where he studied philosophy at the Collegio Clementino ( Ph. D. in 1701 ) and law at the university La Sapienza.

The University of La Laguna was founded in 1701.

* Omphale ( tragédie en musique ), libretto by La Motte ( 10 November 1701 )

Cadillac and his convoy of 25 canoes sailed down the Detroit River and camped on the shore of Grosse Ile during the evening of July 23, 1701.

The first Jesuit mission, in 1668 at Sault Saint Marie, led to the establishment of further outposts at St. Ignace ( where a mission began work in 1671 ) and Detroit, first occupied in 1701 by the garrison of the former Fort de Buade under the leadership of Cadillac.

In 1701, Sieur de Cadillac moved the French garrison to Fort Detroit and closed the mission.

Cadillac and French settlers arrived at the bank of the Detroit River on July 24, 1701.

1659 – 10 November 1727 ) was an officer who served under the French explorer Cadillac and helped establish the first European settlement at Detroit, Michigan, Fort Pontchartrain du Detroit on the Detroit River in 1701.

The Two guinea coin was only produced in 1701, the design probably being the work of Johann Crocker a. k. a. John Croker, since James Roettier had died in 1698 and his brother Norbert had moved to France in 1695.

The guinea coin was produced in all years from 1695 to 1701, both with and without the elephant and castle, the design probably being the work of Johann Crocker, also known as John Croker, since James Roettier had died in 1698 and his brother Norbert had moved to France in 1695.

The history of the Baptists in Princes Risborough began about 1701, when some members of the General Baptist church at Ford ( later moved to Cuddington ) seceded for doctrinal reasons and established a Particular Baptist meeting there.

Hindley was a Roman Catholic born in Wigan ( Lancs ) in 1701 it is not certain who he was apprenticed to he made clocks in Wigan in 1726-1730 and moved to Petergate York in 1731 and moved to Stonegate York in 1741 until his death in 1771, he was succeeded by his son who died in 1775 ref Loomes ' Watch and Clockmakers of the World ' NAG Press London, 2006 ISBN 0-7198-0330-6.

Founded in 1701, Yale moved to New Haven in 1716.

At Dresden there is a sculptured life-size series in the old Neustädter Kirchhoff, moved here from the palace of Duke George in 1701 after a fire.

When Worms was taken by the French in 1701 he moved to Prostějov () as rabbi.

Founded in November 1935 as the Tacoma Art Association, the museum has since moved to five separate locations: the Jones Hall Tower at the University of Puget Sound, 742 Broadway, a former jailhouse at 621 Pacific Avenue, a historic Bank of Washington building at 1123 Pacific Avenue, and now 1701 Pacific Avenue.