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.

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.

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.

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.

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

* John Browne ( anatomist ) ( 1642 – 1702 ), was a British anatomist and surgeon

According to the enthnographer James Mooney, the population of the tribe was about 200 families in 1702 ; 1000 people in 1780 ; 300 in 1805 ; 80 in 1829, when they were living with the Otoe ; and 13 in 1910 ; afterward, their population numbers are combined with those of the Otoe.

The existence of multiple elements in their salts was suspected from 1702, and this was proven in 1807 when potassium and sodium were individually isolated from different salts by electrolysis.

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.

This was used for 400 years until the great fire of 1702 which destroyed large parts of central Uppsala.

The military bath-house was still partly roofed when Christopher Hunter visited the site in 1702.

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.

When the Mayflower's story was retold by historians Nathaniel Morton ( in 1669 ) and Cotton Mather ( in 1702 ), both paraphrased Bradford's passage, and used Bradford's word pilgrims.

At the age of seventeen, she was married off to a Swedish dragoon, Johan Cruse or Johann Rabbe, with whom she remained for eight days in 1702, at which point the Swedish troops were withdrawn from Marienburg.

Dominican friars established a presence on the island in 1556, and the territory was declared a Portuguese colony in 1702.

After Mary's death in 1694, William continued as sole monarch until he was succeeded by Anne upon his own death in 1702.

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

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 ).

In 1652, Olaus Rudbeck ( 1630 – 1702 ), a Swede, discovered certain transparent vessels in the liver that contained clear fluid ( and not white ), and thus named them hepatico-aqueous vessels.

Skippack Township was originally named " Van Bebber's Township " after Matthias Van Bebber, to whom the original land patent was issued in 1702 by William Penn.

A possible son of Richard's named Nicholas, who had been born in Lancashire, married an Anne Mann in Mountmellick in about 1702.

The trap is named after the French player Sire de Légal ( 1702 – 92 ).

According to the " Galaxidi Chronicle ", compiled by a monk named Efthymios in 1702, a huge earthquake in 1580 destroyed several towns in Phocis like Salona ( Amfissa ), Galaxidi, Lidoriki and Mynia.

Its lyrics include a reference to the Copacabana Palace hotel in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (" Avenue Atantico, 1702 "), where U2 stayed when they played in Rio in 1998.

His parents, João Mendes da Silva and Lourença Coutinho, were descended from Portuguese Jews who had emigrated to Colonial Brazil to escape the Inquisition, but in 1702 that tribunal began to persecute the Marranos or anyone of Jewish descent in Rio, and in October 1712 Lourença Coutinho became a victim.

In 1660, Margaret Fell ( 1614 – 1702 ) published a famous pamphlet to justify equal roles for men and women in the denomination, titled: " Women's Speaking Justified, Proved and Allowed of by the Scriptures, All Such as Speak by the Spirit and Power of the Lord Jesus And How Women Were the First That Preached the Tidings of the Resurrection of Jesus, and Were Sent by Christ's Own Command Before He Ascended to the Father ( John 20: 17 ).

Noailles, who had become Archbishop of Paris and cardinal meanwhile, and who in 1702 discarded a relic that had long been venerated at Châlons as the umbilical cord of Jesus, was not prepared to withdraw the approbation which he had given to the book, and Jansenism again raised its head.

From this office he was virtually dismissed on his own confession of unitarianism, and for publishing An Humble Inquiry into the Scripture Account of Jesus Christ ( 1702 ) was sentenced to a year's imprisonment for blasphemy and a fine of £ 1000.

* ‘ An Humble Inquiry into the Scripture Account of Jesus Christ ,’ & c., Dublin, 1702 ( anon.

* January 18 – Maria Clementina Sobieski, Polish princess ( b. 1702 )

Maria Clementina Sobieska ( sometimes spelled: Maria Klementyna Sobieska ) ( 1702 – 1735 ) was a Polish noblewoman, the granddaughter of the Polish king John III Sobieski.

* 18 July 1702 – 3 September 1719: Maria Clementina Sobieska

* Maria Clementina Sobieska, ( 1702 – 1735 ) wife of the Jacobite pretender James Francis Edward Stuart, sister of the above.

# Maria Clementina ( July 18, 1702 – January 24, 1735 ), married James Francis Edward Stuart ( 1688 – 1766 ), son of King James II of England ( 1633 – 1701 ) and had issue ;

* Louis George Simpert of Baden-Baden, ( 7 June 1702 – 22 October 1761 ) Margrave of Baden-Baden, married Maria Anna of Schwarzenberg, had issue ; married again to Maria Anna of Bavaria, no issue ;

* Blessed Gennaro Maria Sarnelli ( 1702 – 1744 ) Priest

The river valley of today's Mulegé was discovered in 1702 by the Jesuit Father Juan Maria de Salvatierra as a place for a mission and consequently for a settlement.

Eleonora Maria Jauch ( 1732 – 1797 ), daughter of The Very Reverend and vice-dean of the cathedral of Bardowick Johann Christian Jauch ( 1702 – 1788 ), married Georg Christian Overbeck ( 1713 – 1786 ), lawyer at Lübeck and son of the dean Caspar Nicolaus Overbeck.

She had two younger sisters, Marguerite Camille Grimaldi ( 1700 – 1758 ) and Maria Paolina Grimaldi ( 1702 – 1726 ).