The highest point in the country is Mount Fuji ( Fujisan, also erroneously called Fujiyama ), a volcano dormant since 1707 that rises to 3, 776 meters above sea level in Shizuoka Prefecture.

In the early 18th century there were several maritime disasters attributable to serious errors in reckoning position at sea, such as the loss of four ships of the fleet of Sir Cloudesley Shovell in the Scilly naval disaster of 1707.

The Acts of Union took effect in 1707, uniting the separate Parliaments and crowns of England and Scotland and forming the single Kingdom of Great Britain.

Absorbed by the Kingdom of Mercia during the 7th century and then by the unified Kingdom of England from 927 to 1707, it was a separate ealdormanship briefly in the 10th century before forming part of the Earldom of Mercia in the 11th century.

The town became a coal mining centre with thirty-two mines recorded on the Ardeer Estate when it was sold to the Rev Patrick Warner in 1707.

By 2010, its 60th year, it is now called the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo due to HM Queen Elizabeth's awarding of the Royal title in celebration of six decades of this tattoo, one of the world's popular and much awaited military events, as well as Scotland's and Edinburgh's proudest activity in honor of the Scottish personnel and officers of the British Armed Forces and their contribution to the UK's military prestige through the centuries from the merger of the English and Scottish nations to form Great Britain in 1707.

Between 1707 and 1731, the center of activity shifted from the Main Crater to other parts of Volcano Island.

However, the Austrian Military Sea Frontier authority survived, and Uskok activity resumed in later years, almost causing another war between Habsburg and Venice in 1707.

* 1707 – The Habsburg army is defeated by Bourbon army at Almansa ( Spain ) in the War of the Spanish Succession.

Lands at Glasnevin were leased to such families and a Protestant church was erected there in 1707.

" This particular line of criticism also misses the obvious parallels that existed between the story's background ( England conquered by the Normans in 1066, when they killed Saxon King Harold at Hastings, about 130 years previously ) and the prevailing situation in Scott's native Scotland ( Scotland's union with England in 1707 – about the same length of time had elapsed before Scott's writing and the resurgence in his time of Scottish nationalism evidenced by the cult of Robert Burns, the famous poet who deliberately chose to work in Scots vernacular though he was an educated man and spoke modern English eloquently ).

In 1707, a patriot called Pierre Fatio protested at this situation, and the Little Council had him shot.

* 1707-1709 — Loya jirga was gathered by Mir Wais Hotak at Kandahar in 1707, but according to Ghulam Mohammad Ghobar it was gathered in Manja in 1709.

Scott's background as a lawyer also informed his perspective, for at the time of the novel, which takes place before the Act of Union of 1707, English law did not apply in Scotland, and even afterward Scotland continued to have its own hybrid legal system.

The Battle at the Lizard, a naval battle, took place off The Lizard on 21 October 1707.

Several battles are considered classics in history, notably the Grand Alliance victories at Blenheim ( 1704 ) and Ramillies ( 1706 ), which drove the French forces from Germany and the Netherlands, or the French victory at Almansa ( 1707 ).

The Earl of Galway led another attempt on Madrid in 1707, but Berwick roundly defeated him at the Battle of Almansa on 25 April.

By 1707 this number had swollen to at least 120, 000 despite casualties.

Life-sized, finely detailed sculptures by Francisco Salzillo ( 1707 – 1783 ) are removed from their museums and carried around the city in elegant processions amid flowers and, at night, candles, pausing at stations which are meant to re-enact the final moments before the crucifixion of Jesus.

Famous people connected with the town include Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell, who lived at May Place between 1694 and 1707, and Sir Frederick Currie who also lived at the Manor House, May Place.

Construction began at the east end, with the East Wing constructed from 1701 – 03, the east end of the Garden Front from 1701 – 06, the Central Block ( including dome ) from 1703 – 06, and the west end of the Garden Front from 1707 – 09.

* Nathaniel Saltonstall ( 1639 – 1707 ), judge at the Salem witch trials

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.

Subsequently Baluze was appointed professor of Canon law at the Collège de France on December 31, 1689, and directed it from 1707 to 1710.

As a young man in Rome in 1707 – 08 he had written two Italian oratorios at a time when opera performances in the city were temporarily forbidden under papal decree.

From 1707, the Broschi family lived in the coastal city of Barletta, a few miles from Andria, but at the end of 1711, they made the much longer move to the capital city of Naples, where, in 1712 Carlo's elder brother Riccardo was enrolled at the Conservatory of S. Maria di Loreto, specialising in composition.

The construction of a bridge in 1707 meant the settlement was now commonly referred to as Stalybridge, meaning the bridge at Stayley.

The eruptions of 1707 and 1715 occurred in Binitiang Malaki crater ( the cinder cone visible from Tagaytay ).

Like his volume on Wycliffe, the work was accompanied by the publication of a selected group of documents, in this case illustrative of the history of Queen Anne's reign down to 1707.

Following the 1707 union of England and Scotland, and the 1801 creation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, British foreign policy, on the continent, was to contain expansion by its competitor powers such as France and Spain.

Carl Linnaeus was born in the village of Råshult in Småland, Sweden on 23 May 1707.

Around 1707 – 1708 he entered the service of Duke Johann Wilhelm of Saxe-Eisenach, becoming Konzertmeister on 24 December 1708 and Secretary and Kapellmeister in August 1709.

Although described as a Union of Crowns, until 1707 there were in fact two separate Crowns resting on the same head.

The Acts took effect on 1 May 1707.

The Scottish parliament voted on 6 January 1707, by 110 to 69, to adopt the Treaty of Union.

Euler was born on April 15, 1707, in Basel to Paul Euler, a pastor of the Reformed Church.

Living during the agitations for the union of England and Scotland, he took part as a Jacobite in the war of pamphlets inaugurated and sustained by prominent men on both sides of the Border, and he crossed swords with no less redoubtable a foe than Daniel Defoe in his Advantages of the Act of Security compared with those of the intended Union ( Edinburgh, 1707 ), and A Vindication of the Same against Mr De Foe ( ibid.

A decade before the break the king wrote a book in defence of Catholic doctrine for which the Pope rewarded him with the title of Defender of the Faith, a title revoked by the Pope following Henry's break with Rome but still claimed and held by English and, after 1707, British monarchs after being bestowed on the monarch by Parliament.

The united kingdom of Great Britain came into being on 1 May 1707, as a result of the political union of the Kingdom of England ( which included Wales ) and the Kingdom of Scotland.

It was the first in English based on the then new Linnaean taxonomy — a classification of all living things — devised by the eminent Swedish botanist and physician Carolus Linnaeus ( 1707 – 1778 ).

In 1707, the Acts of Union merged England and Scotland, and thereafter taxes on it rose dramatically.

Year 1707 ( MDCCVII ) was a common year starting on Saturday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar.

The outstanding cultural leader was Carl Linnaeus ( 1707 – 78 ), whose work in biology and ethnography had a major impact on European science.

Towards the late 18th century, Mathurin Jacques Brisson ( 1723 – 1806 ) and Comte de Buffon ( 1707 – 1788 ) began new works on birds.

An active stratovolcano that last erupted in 1707 – 08, Mount Fuji lies about south-west of Tokyo, and can be seen from there on a clear day.

Articles of Union were approved by the commissioners on 22 July 1706, and ratified by the Scottish and English Parliaments on 16 January and 6 March 1707 respectively.

Under the Acts of Union, England and Scotland were united into a single kingdom called Great Britain, with one parliament, on 1 May 1707.