Benbow remained on station, and in August 1702 engaged Jean du Casse in an extended action off the coast of South America in which he suffered a mortal wound.

In 1702, this mission was again abandoned when South Carolina's colonial governor, James Moore, led a joint British-Indian invasion of Florida.

Between 1674 and 1702, nearly all of present-day South Jersey was part of the Province of West Jersey, shown in yellow.

During the British colonial period, nearly all of South Jersey was part of the Province of West Jersey, existing between 1674 and 1702 as a Quaker commonwealth.

The Barbados slave code also served as the basis for the slave codes adopted in several other British colonies, including Jamaica ( 1664 ), South Carolina ( 1696 ), and Antigua ( 1702 ).

In 1702, this mission was again abandoned when South Carolina's colonial governor, James Moore, led a joint British-Indian invasion of Florida.

* 1702 – Queen Anne's War: James Moore, Governor of the Province of Carolina, abandons the Siege of St. Augustine.

The most widely recognized building of the university library is Carolina Rediviva, the " revived Carolina ", thus named in reference to Academia Carolina ( see illustration ), which held the university library from the earliest times until 1691, when it was moved to the upper floor of Gustavianum, where it miraculously survived the great city fire of 1702.

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

In 1702, English General Baptists who had settled in the Province of Carolina requested help from the General Baptists in England.

After the outbreak of open war between Spain and England in 1702, slaving raids by Uchise Creek and Yamasee Indians allied with the English Province of Carolina began reaching far down the Florida peninsula.

Castillo de San Marcos has withtood siege by British forces led by the governor of the Carolina Colony James Moore, in 1702 and Georgia's colonial governor James Oglethorpe in 1740.

In November 1702, English forces under orders from Governor James Moore of Charles Town, set sail from Carolina in an attempt to capture the city.

The Academia Carolina was damaged in the city fire of 1702, was later restored but continued to decay and finally demolished in the 1770s.

The library remained in Gustavianum, which luckily escaped the flames in 1702, until Carolina Rediviva was completed in 1841.

Under this collective name, the travels of the bulk of the tribe may be traced to North Carolina ( 1702 ), back to Virginia ( Fort Christanna, 1714 ).

* Count Bengt Gabrielsson Oxenstierna of Korsholm and Vasa ( 1623 – 1702 ), President of the Royal Swedish Chancellery, Military Governor of Warsaw ;

Trained in law at an early age by Andrew Hamilton, Benjamin Chew inherited his mentor's clients, the descendants of William Penn, including Thomas Penn ( 1702 – 1775 ) and his brother Richard Penn, Sr. ( 1706 – 1771 ), and their sons Governor John Penn ( 1729 – 1795 ), Richard Penn, Jr. ( 1734 – 1811 ), and John Penn ( 1760 – 1834 ).

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.

His estate in Westchester County, New York is the site the present-day town of Scarsdale and was granted on March 21, 1701 or 1702 by Lieutenant Governor of New York John Nanfan.

Through his father, Alfred Nobel was a descendant of the Swedish scientist Olaus Rudbeck ( 1630 – 1702 ), and in his turn the boy was interested in engineering, particularly explosives, learning the basic principles from his father at a young age.

* 1702 – Dietrich of Anhalt-Dessau ( d. 1769 )

The question whether there is a limit to the degree of cold possible, and, if so, where the zero must be placed, was first addressed by the French physicist Guillaume Amontons in 1702, in connection with his improvements in the air thermometer.

* 1702 – Jean Bart, French admiral ( b. 1651 )

In 1702 Scarlatti left Naples and did not return until the Spanish domination had been superseded by that of the Austrians.

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.

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.

It includes the history of the regiment from 1702, plus a military library.

The most important of these, Magnalia Christi Americana ( 1702 ), comprises seven distinct books, many of which depict biographical and historical narratives to which later American writers, such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Elizabeth Drew Stoddard, and Harriet Beecher Stowe, would look in describing the cultural significance of New England for later generations after the American Revolution.

New England suffered smallpox epidemics in 1677, 1689 – 90, and 1702.

Boston had been plagued by smallpox outbreaks in 1690 and 1702.

Magnalia Christi Americana, considered Mather's greatest work, was published in 1702, when he was 39.

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.

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.

David Abercromby was a 17th-century Scottish physician and writer, thought to have died in 1702.

With Eugene's help Louis found employment in the Imperial army, only to be killed in action against the French in 1702.

During a daring raid on Cremona on the night of 31 January / 1 February 1702 Eugene captured the French commander-in-chief.

Eugene's European reputation was growing ( Cremona and Luzzara had been celebrated as victories throughout the Allied capitals ), yet because of the condition and morale of his troops the 1702 campaign had not been a success.

* 1620 – François Charpentier, French archaeologist ( d. 1702 )

* 1702 – Carl August Thielo, Danish composer ( d. 1763 )

* 1702 – Johann Valentin Görner, German composer ( d. 1762 )

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

* 1702 May – Formal beginning of the War of the Spanish Succession.