The dukedom was created in 1702 by Queen Anne ; John Churchill, whose wife was a favourite of the queen, had earlier been made Lord Churchill of Eyemouth in the Scottish peerage ( 1682 ), which became extinct with his death, and Earl of Marlborough ( 1689 ) by King William III.

* John Churchill, 1st Earl of Marlborough ( 1650 – 1722 ), became Duke of Marlborough in 1702

In 1702 Telemann became director of the opera house Opernhaus auf dem Brühl, where too he employed student performers.

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.

In 1702, Lisbon sent its first governor successfully, António Coelho Guerreiro, to Lifau, which became capital of all Portuguese dependencies on Lesser Sunda Islands.

Anne became Queen upon the death of William III on 8 March 1702, and was immediately popular.

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.

John William Friso ( 4 August 1687 – 14 July 1711 ) ( or Dutch: Johan Willem Friso van Oranje-Nassau ) became the titular Prince of Orange in 1702.

Savery became a military engineer, rising to the rank of Captain by 1702, and spent his free time performing experiments in mechanics.

Talbot became the first minister and laid the cornerstone for the church in 1702.

In 1702 the territory officially became a Portuguese colony, known as Portuguese Timor, when Lisbon sent its first governor, with Lifau as its capital.

After the accession of Queen Anne in March 1702, he became commander of the land forces co-operating with Sir George Rooke in Spain, where he fought in the Battle of Cádiz in August 1702 and the Battle of Vigo Bay in October 1702 during the War of the Spanish Succession.

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

In 1702 he became élève, in 1716 adjoint, and in 1718 associé of the Académie des Sciences ; and, as the young king's instructor in geography, received the title of First Royal Geographer with a fixed salary, an office which was then created for the first time.

Jones initially served at sea, teaching mathematics on board Navy ships between 1695 and 1702 where he became very interested in navigation and published A New Compendium of the Whole Art of Navigation in 1702 dedicated to a benefactor John Harris.

Having befriended Princess Anne in 1692, he became a favourite of hers after her accession to the throne, receiving the post of Master of the Horse in 1702.

In 1702 he was appointed a member of the Board of Trade and Plantations, and eight years later he became Secretary of State for the Southern Department and joint keeper of the signet for Scotland.

After following various callings in London, Craggs, who was a person of considerable financial ability, entered the service of the Duchess of Marlborough, and through her influence became in 1702 member of parliament for Grampound, retaining his seat until 1713.

In 1701 he was nominated by the Commons to conduct the impeachment of Lord Somers ; and in 1702 he became solicitor-general and was knighted by Queen Anne.

It became subjects to France, then Artois ( 1237 – 1329 ), then France again until it ceased to exist as a county and was annexed to France in 1702.

In 1702, Hedvig Sofia became a widow and formal Regent for her minor son, the Duke of Holstein-Gottorp.

When he died in 1702 the titles became extinct.

In the same year he set up his periodical A Review of the Affairs of France which supported the Harley Ministry, chronicling the events of the War of the Spanish Succession ( 1702 – 1714 ).

In 1702, Thomas Savery wrote in The Miner's Friend: " So that an engine which will raise as much water as two horses, working together at one time in such a work, can do, and for which there must be constantly kept ten or twelve horses for doing the same.

Olaus Rudbeck ( also known as Olof Rudbeck the Elder, to distinguish him from his son, and occasionally with the surname Latinized as Olaus Rudbeckius ) ( September 13, 1630 – December 12, 1702 ) was a Swedish scientist and writer, professor of medicine at Uppsala University and for several periods rector magnificus of the same university.

In the reign of Queen Anne ( 1702 – 1714 ), the same basic design was used, with threepences produced in 1703 – 1710 and 1713.

Under Anne in 1702 he again accepted the same office in the ministry of Lord Godolphin, but finally retired in 1704.

He succeeded his father as 12th Earl of Kent in 1702, having succeeded his mother as 2nd Baron Lucas earlier the same year.

Grey succeeded his father as 12th Earl of Kent in 1702, having succeeded his mother as 2nd Baron Lucas earlier the same year.

In 1702, she wrote The Beau ’ s Duel and The Stolen Heiress, both of which were produced that same year, and then Love's Contrivance for the next season.

He won the battle of Rauge on 5 September 1701 and was subsequently promoted to major general, but was then defeated by a large Russian force under Boris Sheremetev at Erastfer on 30 December the same year and at Sagnitz and Hummelshof on 19 July 1702.

Then in 1702 the French astronomer Philippe de la Hire used a year he labeled at the end of years labeled ante Christum ( BC ), and immediately before years labeled post Christum ( AD ) on the mean motion pages in his Tabulæ Astronomicæ, thus adding the designation 0 to Kepler's Christi.

Year 1702 ( MDCCII ) was a common year starting on Sunday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar.

Her travels continued until at least 1712, and would take her to every county in England, though the main body of her journal was not written until the year 1702.

Ten centuries after Bede, the French astronomers Philippe de la Hire ( in the year 1702 ) and Jacques Cassini ( in the year 1740 ), purely to simplify certain calculations, put the Julian Dating System ( proposed in the year 1583 by Joseph Scaliger ) and with it an astronomical era into use, which contains a leap year zero, which precedes the year 1 ( AD ) but does not exactly coincide with the year 1 BC.

Charles Scarburgh ( often now spelled Scarborough ) left his interest to his wife Elizabeth in 1702, and John West's interest went to his eldest son a year later.

He retired while in the rank of field marshal in 1702 and died the following year.

Having failed to reach Rome, Psalmanazar traveled through the German principalities between 1700 and 1702, and appeared in the Netherlands around the year 1702, where he served as an occasional mercenary and soldier.

The year 1702 in literature involved some significant events.

* Richard Steele, The Funeral ; or, Grief a-la-mode: A comedy, published this year, although the work states " 1702 ", performed sometime between October 9 and December 11

She was captured by the French in 1702, was recaptured later that year and renamed HMS Fox, rebuilt in 1727 and broken up in 1737.

" 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.

The year 1702 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Events from the year 1702 in Canada.

Later in the year, the regiment assisted in the capture of Huy and Limbourg, but the campaigns in 1702 and 1703 nevertheless " were largely indecisive ".

Here lyeth the Body of John Benbow, Esq., Admiral of the White, a true pattern of English Courage, who lost his life in Defence of his Queene & Country, November the 4th, 1702, In the 52nd year of his age, by a wound in his Legg.

Soon in August 1699 he had been appointed as the Governor of Fort St. George, in the year 1702 when the fort itself was besieged by Daud Khan of the Carnatic the Mughal Empire's local Subedar ( lieutenant ), Thomas Pitt was instructed to vie for peace.

Threatened with prosecution for his religious opinions he went to Geneva, where he spent the year 1701 ; he returned to the Cévennes on the eve of the rebellion of the Camisards, who by the murder of the Abbé du Chayla at Pont-de-Monvert on the night of July 24, 1702 raised the standard of revolt.