* 1640 – William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire, English noble ( d. 1707 )

* January 25 – William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire, English soldier and statesman ( d. 1707 )

It was the birthplace of Sir Edward Dyer ( died 1607 ) an Elizabethan poet and courtier, the writer Henry Fielding ( 1707 – 54 ), and the cleric William Gould.

Her father, William Smith ( 1707 – 1783 ), a liberal Congregationalist, and other forebears were Congregational ministers, and leaders in a society that held its clergy in high esteem.

Reverend William Smith ( 1707 – 1784 ) was a supporter of the American revolution.

* William Cavendish, 4th Earl of Devonshire ( 1640 – 1707 ) was created Duke of Devonshire in 1694

* William Hine 1707 – 1710 ( later organist of Gloucester Cathedral )

The margrave of Baden-Baden, Louis William ( died 1707 ), figured prominently among the soldiers who resisted the aggressions of France.

The most distinguished of these was John Moore, who became Bishop of Norwich in 1691, and Bishop of Ely in 1707 and also William Henry Bragg, Nobel Prize winner.

William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire KG PC ( 25 January 1640 – 18 August 1707 ) was an English soldier, politician and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1661 to 1684 when he inherited the peerage as Earl of Devonshire.

* William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire ( 1640 – 1707 ) was created Duke of Devonshire in 1694

It was the birthplace of Sir Edward Dyer ( died 1607 ) an Elizabethan poet and courtier, the writer Henry Fielding ( 1707 – 54 ), and the cleric William Gould.

Sir Robert Clayton, a Lord Mayor of the City of London and wealthy merchant became owner in the mid-1650s and after his death in 1707 the island was sold to William Benson, a Whig Member of Parliament and architect.

* 1707 in art-Death: Evert Collier, Shitao, W. Velde the Younger, Birth: William Hoare, Van Loo

He was Lord High Chancellor of England under King William III and was a chief architect of the union between England and Scotland achieved in 1707 and the Protestant succession achieved in 1714.

The history of the Catholic Church in the area dates back to William Penn and when Mass was said publicly as early as 1707.

He took up William Congreve's libretto for the 1707 John Eccles opera Semele, writing the music in a month, from 3 June to 4 July 1743.

** William Sherlock, 1641 – 1707, English church leader

The Manor was sold to Sir William Langthorne in 1707, who is represented by the white cross and red fleurs-de-lys from his arms.

* Sir William Gore ( 1643 – 1707 ) Merchant and Lord Mayor of London.

* William Penn-early champion of democracy and religious freedom, was imprisoned for debt in 1707.

Louis William, Margrave of Baden ( 8 April 1655 – 4 January 1707 ) was the ruler of Baden in Germany and chief commander of the Imperial army.

William Dalrymple ( d. 1744 ) ( heir presumptive to the peerages from 1707 to 1744 ) had married Penelope Crichton, 4th Countess of Dumfries, a peeress in her own right.

* Sir William Irby, 2nd Baronet ( 1707 – 1775 ) ( created Baron Boston in 1761 )

* William Irby, 1st Baron Boston ( 1707 – 1775 )

Cambridge University eventually published the notes as Arithmetica Universalis in 1707 long after Newton left academic life.

In his Systema Naturae, published in 1767, Carl von Linné ( 1707 – 1778 ) catalogued all the living creatures into a single system that defined their morphological relations to one another: the Linnean classification system.

A published version of the Articles of Union, agreement that led to the creation of the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707

Details of the engine were published in 1707.

He wrote a captivity narrative about his experience, which was published in 1707 and became well known.

The Cronica dei Matematici ( published at Urbino in 1707 ) is an abridgment of a larger work on which he had written for twelve years, and was intended to contain the lives of more than two hundred mathematicians.

Other major 18th century English novelists are Samuel Richardson ( 1689-1761 ), author of the epistolary novels Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded ( 1740 ) and Clarissa ( 1747-8 ); Henry Fielding ( 1707 – 54 ), who wrote Joseph Andrews ( 1742 ) and The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling ( 1749 ); Laurence Sterne ( 1713 – 68 ) who published Tristram Shandy in parts between 1759 and 1767 ; Oliver Goldsmith (? 1730-74 ) author of The Vicar of Wakefield ( 1766 ); Tobias Smollett ( 1721 – 71 ) a Scottish novelist best known for his comic picaresque novels, such as The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle ( 1751 ) and The Expedition of Humphry Clinker ( 1771 ), who influenced Charles Dickens ; and Fanny Burney ( 1752-1840 ), whose novels " were enjoyed and admired by Jane Austen ," wrote Evelina ( 1778 ), Cecilia ( 1782 ) and Camilla ( 1796 ).

Also as a scholar, Arbuthnot took up an interest in antiquities and published Tables of Grecian, Roman, and Jewish measures, weights and coins ; reduced to the English standard in 1705, 1707, 1709, and, expanded with a preface ( which indicated that his second son, Charles, was born in 1705 ), in 1727 and 1747.

Some examples of the method had previously appeared in algebra books, and Isaac Newton had previously described the method in his lecture notes, but Newton's lesson was not published until 1707.

* Benjamin Whichcote, Several Discourses, posthumously published in four volumes, from this year to 1707

The hymn, " When I Survey the Wondrous Cross ", was written by Isaac Watts, and published in Hymns and Spiritual Songs in 1707.

In 1707 a report was published stating that, when the castle was demolished in 1648, a large flat stone was found engraved I Lord Furnival ; I built this castle-hall ; And under this wall ; Within this tomb was my burial.

He published Contes Turcs ( Paris, 1707 ), and Les Mille et un jours ( 5 vols ,, Paris, 1710-1712 ); an Armenian Dictionary and an Account of Ethiopia.

In support of this view he wrote a letter Concerning Enthusiasm to Lord Somers, dated September 1707, which was published anonymously in the following year, and provoked several replies.

His two treatises, one Of the Christian Priesthood and the other Of the Dignity of the Episcopal Order, originally published in 1707, have been more than once reprinted, and form three volumes of the Library of Anglo-Catholic Theology ( 1847 ).

In 1707, having been assisted in his research by fellow Welsh scholar Moses Williams, he published the first volume of Archaeologia Britannica: an Account of the Languages, Histories and Customs of Great Britain, from Travels through Wales, Cornwall, Bas-Bretagne, Ireland and Scotland.

Alexandre Olivier Exquemelin ( also spelled Esquemeling, Exquemeling, or Oexmelin ) ( c. 1645 – 1707 ) was a French writer best known as the author of one of the most important sourcebooks of 17th century piracy, first published in Dutch as De Americaensche Zee-Roovers, in Amsterdam, by Jan ten Hoorn, in 1678.

He published his work in 1707, shortly after publishing a translation of a study by Pezron on Breton.

He also published Dissertatio de praefectis urbi ( 1704 ; reprinted at Frankfort in 1752 with a life of Drakenborch ); Dissertatio de officio praefectorum praetorio ( 1707 ); and an edition of Silius Italicus ( 1717 ).

In 1707, Fenton published a book of poems.

This became the basis for his two volume work, Natural History of Jamaica, published in 1707 and 1725.

Their major work was Britannia Illustrata: Or Views of Several of the Queens Palaces, as Also of the Principal seats of the Nobility and Gentry of Great Britain, Curiously Engraven on 80 Copper Plates, London ( 1707, published in the winter of 1708 – 09 ).

* Jeremy White ( chaplain ) chaplain to Cromwell, wrote a book, entitled, The Restoration of all things, which was published after his death ( 1707 ) published posthumously, 1712.