The Duke of Marlborough holds certain subsidiary titles: Marquess of Blandford ( created 1702 ), Earl of Sunderland ( 1643 ), Earl of Marlborough ( 1689 ), Baron Spencer, of Wormleighton ( 1603 ), and Baron Churchill, of Sandridge ( 1685 ) ( all are in the English peerage ).

* 1702 – Philip Doddridge, English religious leader, educator, and hymnwriter ( d. 1751 )

The first successful English daily, the Daily Courant, was published from 1702 to 1735.

* 1702 – English colonists under the command of James Moore besiege Spanish St. Augustine in Queen Anne's War.

** Clopton Havers, English physiologist ( d. 1702 )

* April 17 – Thomas Bayes, English mathematician ( b. c. 1702 )

* October 26 – Philip Doddridge, English religious leader ( b. 1702 )

* November 16 – Jack Sheppard, English criminal ( executed ) ( b. 1702 )

When Queen Anne's War started in 1702, the town was again abandoned by its English inhabitants except for Diggory Sargent.

After being transferred to Penn, Delaware's Swedish, Dutch, and English residents used to the relaxed culture of the Restoration monarchy grew uncomfortable with the more conservative Quaker influence, so Delaware petitioned for a separate legislature, which was finally granted in 1702.

Burlington was founded on part of that land by English settlers ( primarily Quakers ) in 1677, and served as the capital of the province until 1702, when West Jersey and East Jersey were combined into a singe Crown Colony.

It was a successor to Kersey's A New English Dictionary ( 1702 ), and drew on it.

* Oliver Heywood ( minister ) ( 1630 – 1702 ), English nonconformist minister

* Anne of Great Britain, ( 1702 – 1714 ) Following the Act of Union with Scotland, Anne's personal union of the Scottish and English crowns was replaced by a political union.

Following the birth of the Catholic James II's only son James Francis Edward Stuart (" The Old Pretender "), the English establishment determined to avoid the possibility of a Catholic dynasty on the English throne by engineering the Glorious Revolution, when the throne was offered to the older of James's two Protestant daughters from his first marriage and her husband, the Stadhouder of Holland, who uniquely reigned as co-monarchs, William III ( 1688 – 1702 ) and Mary II ( 1688 – 1694 ).

The colony was divided until 1702 when West Jersey went bankrupt and the colony was given back to the English crown, who unified the colony again.

Philip Doddridge DD ( 26 June 1702 – 26 October 1751 ) was an English Nonconformist leader, educator, and hymnwriter.

* William Stanley, 9th Earl of Derby ( c. 1655 – 1702 ), English nobleman

Roger Morrice ( 1628 – 1702 ) was an English Puritan minister and political journalist.

All the doors are constructed of solid English oak and the handsome front door dates from when that part of the building was rebuilt in 1702.

* November 26-Edward Stone, English polymath ( born 1702 )

Jack Sheppard ( 4 March 1702 – 16 November 1724 ) was a notorious English robber, burglar and thief of early 18th-century London.

* April 7-Thomas Bayes, English mathematician ( born c. 1702 )

* November 14 – Grégoire Orlyk, Ukrainian-born French Lieutenant General ( b. 1702 )

A further siege took place in 1702, where General Menno van Coehoorn defended the town successfully for the Dutch and in 1747 when it was taken by the French after incompetent defence by Lt General Pieter de la Rocque.

* Lieutenant General John Cutts, 1st Baron Cutts, 1694 – 1702

* General Charles Churchill, 1702 – 1714

* Claude Louis Hector, Duke of Villars ( 1653 – 1734 ), Marshal of France in 1702, Marshal General of France in 1733

In 1702, a disorganized group of General Baptists in Carolina wrote a request for help to the General Baptist Association in England.

He was a prominent statesman and judge and served as Lord Justice General from 1678 to 1680 and from 1704 to 1710 and as Secretary of State from 1702 to 1704.

Thomas Arthur, comte de Lally, baron de Tollendal ( January 1702 – 6 May 1766 ) was a French General of Irish Jacobite Gallowglass ancestry.

* Paul Dudley ( 1686 ) – Chief Justice of Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ( 1745 – 1751 ) and Attorney General of Massachusetts ( 1702 – 1718 )

* General John Churchill, 1st Earl of Marlborough ( 1702 – 1708 )

Findlater was Solicitor General for Scotland from 1693, Lord Chancellor of Scotland from 1702 to 1704 and from 1705 to 1708, Secretary of State from 1696 to 1702 and joint secretary from 1704 to 1705.

After the death of William III in 1702, Heinsius ' hold on the States General diminished, but he remained Grand Pensionary of Holland until his own death in 1720.

Those holding this view include: 1600s: Sussex Baptists d. 1612: Edward Wightman 1627: Samuel Gardner 1628: Samuel Przypkowski 1636: George Wither 1637: Joachim Stegmann 1624: Richard Overton 1654: John Biddle ( Unitarian ) 1655: Matthew Caffyn 1658: Samuel Richardson 1608 – 1674: John Milton 1588 – 1670: Thomas Hobbes 1605 – 1682: Thomas Browne 1622 – 1705: Henry Layton 1702: William Coward 1632 – 1704: John Locke 1643 – 1727: Isaac Newton 1676 – 1748: Pietro Giannone 1751: William Kenrick 1755: Edmund Law 1759: Samuel Bourn 1723 – 1791: Richard Price 1718 – 1797: Peter Peckard 1733 – 1804: Joseph Priestley Francis Blackburne ( 1765 ) ( 1765 ).

In February 1705, Queen Anne, who had made Marlborough a Duke in 1702, granted him the Park of Woodstock and promised a sum of £ 240, 000 to build a suitable house as a gift from a grateful crown in recognition of his victory – a victory which British historian Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy considered one of the pivotal battles in history, writing – " Had it not been for Blenheim, all Europe might at this day suffer under the effect of French conquests resembling those of Alexander in extent and those of the Romans in durability.

The term Bayesian refers to Thomas Bayes ( 1702 – 1761 ), who proved a special case of what is now called Bayes ' theorem in a paper titled " An Essay towards solving a Problem in the Doctrine of Chances ".

The death of William III in 1702 once again created a political upheaval as the king was replaced by Queen Anne, who immediately began her offensive against Nonconformists.

In 1702, the Dutch, who were interested in Shetland's herring fisheries, fought a naval battle against the French warships just off the island.

Queen Anne, who reigned from 1702 to 1714, had favoured deeper political integration between the two kingdoms and became the first monarch of Great Britain.

Bayes ' theorem was named after the Reverend Thomas Bayes ( 1702 – 61 ), who studied how to compute a distribution for the probability parameter of a binomial distribution ( in modern terminology ).

The term Bayesian refers to Thomas Bayes ( 1702 – 1761 ), who proved a special case of what is now called Bayes ' theorem.

In 1702, it was named the Rio Jesus Maria by Captain Jose Lopez Naranjo, the Tewa Irish scout and Captain of War of the New Mexico Indian Auxiliaries who was ordered by the Viceroy of New Spain to search the Tierra Incognita for a French incursion into New Mexico.

As with the first marriage, this too produced two children: a daughter Jane ( 1677 – 1702 ); and a son William, " Poor Billy " born June, 1679, who was developmentally delayed.

Yair Chayim Bacharach ( 1639, Lipník nad Bečvou, Moravia — 1702 ) was a German rabbi and major 17th century posek, who lived first in Koblenz and then remainder of his life in Worms and Metz.

By 1702, Victor Amadeus was considering changing allegiance to the emperor again having entered secret correspondence with the emperor who promised him the Duchy of Montferrat.

Since William III died childless in 1702 the principality became a matter of dispute between Prince John William Friso of Nassau-Dietz of the Frisian Nassaus and King Frederick I of Prussia, who both claimed the title Prince of Orange.

Jean Bart ( 21 October 1650 – 27 April 1702 ) was a French sailor who served the French crown as naval commander and privateer.

* John William Friso, Prince of Orange, Prince of Nassau-Dietz, who became the titular Prince of Orange in 1702

The Garter theory is only speculation, but it is corroborated by a story first recorded by John Dennis in 1702 and Nicholas Rowe in 1709: that Shakespeare was commanded to write the play by Queen Elizabeth, who wanted to see " Falstaff in love ".

In late 1702 Psalmanazar met the Scottish priest William Innes, who was a chaplain of a Scottish army unit.

Arecibo is also known as La Villa del Capitán Correa ( Captain Correa's Villa ) after the Puerto Rican hero Captain Antonio de los Reyes Correa, who as a member of the Spanish Army defended Arecibo from a British invasion led by rear-admiral William Whetstone on August 5, 1702.

Christian Albert's son Frederick IV ( d. 1702 ) was again attacked by Denmark, but had a powerful champion in King Charles XII of Sweden, who secured his rights by the Treaty of Travendal in 1700.

Also in 1688, Lord Cornbury married, in a clandestine ceremony, Katherine O ' Brien, daughter of Henry, Lord Ibrackan, eldest son of the 7th Earl of Thomond, who succeeded her mother in 1702 as 8th Baroness Clifton.

" In the Old Kilkenny Review, year unknown, Peter Smithwick, K. M., Solicitor, wrote that the tradition of Kilkenny is that Sullivan ’ s Brewery was founded in 1702 ... Daniel Sullivan, allegedly a Protestant, bought the property in trust for Pierse Bryan of Jenkinstown, who was Catholic but prohibited by the Penal Laws from buying land ... Twenty years later a Protestant informer got a decree declaring himself the owner of the property ... The property was on the West side of High Street, " standing backward in James ’ Street.

Following the death of the 3rd Earl of Macclesfield without heir in 1702, a disagreement had arisen over who should succeed to his extensive estates, based at Gawsworth Hall, Cheshire.

This collection of wooden huts was burned to the ground twice: once in the 17th century by the residents of Scalloway, then the capital of Shetland, who disapproved of the immoral and drunken activities of the assembled fishermen and sailors ; and again in 1702 by the French fleet.