William " Captain " Kidd ( c. 1645 – 23 May 1701 ) was a Scottish sailor remembered for his trial and execution for piracy after returning from a voyage to the Indian Ocean.

* 1701 – After being convicted of piracy and of murdering William Moore, Captain William Kidd is hanged in London.

* probable – Captain William Kidd, Scottish pirate ( d. 1701 )

In London, Execution Dock is located on the north bank of the River Thames in Wapping ; after tidal immersion, particularly notorious criminals ' bodies could be hung in cages a little further downstream at either Cuckold's Point or Blackwall Point, as a warning to other waterborne criminals of the possible consequences of their actions ( such a fate befell Captain William Kidd in May 1701 ).

He was the original Captain Driver in Oronooko ( 1696 ), Captain Fireball in George Farquhar's Sir Harry Wildair ( 1701 ) and Sable in Richard Steele's Funeral ( 1702 ); he was particularly well regarded as the First Gravedigger in Hamlet and as several characters in the plays of Ben Jonson.

Viscount Dursley received his commission as a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy on 10 March 1699 and was promoted to Captain on 2 April 1701.

The infamous Captain Kidd, who had been convicted of piracy and murder, was taken from Newgate Prison and executed at the dock in 1701.

In 1701 he published Essays upon I The Balance of Power II The Right of Making War, Peace, and Alliances III Universal Monarchy, “ a highly partisan attack on William III ’ s foreign policy .”

In August 1701 Davenant published The True Picture of a Modern Whig, an attempt to counter the Whig party ’ s push to dissolve the Tory party Parliament by “ defending Tory views and exposing Whig motives .” His Tom Double Returned out of the Country, also published 1701, explained all of Davenant ’ s ideas on trade and public finance and the underlying reasoning behind them.

“ In 1701, Father Gillibrand, S. J., Chaplain of the Squire of Crosby, established the first religious services held in the city for Catholics for upwards of a century.

In 1701, the duke of Maine gave the letters patent for the creation of “ L ’ Hôpital de la Charité ”.

The Two guinea coin was only produced in 1701, the design probably being the work of Johann Crocker a. k. a. John Croker, since James Roettier had died in 1698 and his brother Norbert had moved to France in 1695.

* Limitations for the next Foreign Successor, or A New Saxon Race: Debated in a Conference betwixt Two Gentlemen ; Sent in a Letter to a Member of Parliament ( 1701 )

* Propositions for Uniting the Two East India Companies ( 1701 )

Philadelphia grew from a few hundred inhabitants in 1683 to over 2, 500 in 1701.

Historically, it was the name for the first Russian three-rouble gold coin issued for general circulation in 1701.

In 1701 he rescued the young alchemist Johann Friedrich Böttger, who had fled from the court of the king of Prussia, Fredrick I, who had expected that he produce gold for him as he had boasted he could.

The lower hoist ( left ) quarter represents France, which founded the fort and settlement in 1701 ; it has five gold fleurs-de-lis on a white field.

The valid time of these facts is somewhere between 1701 and 1800, whereas the transaction time starts when we insert the facts into the database, for example, January 21, 1998.

In an unexpected decision, Lord Kames stated that ' we sit here to enforce right not to enforce wrong ' and the court emphatically rejected Wedderburn's appeal, ruling that ‘ the dominion assumed over this Negro, under the law of Jamaica, being unjust, could not be supported in this country to any extent: That, therefore, the defender had no right to the Negro ’ s service for any space of time, nor to send him out of the country against his consent: That the Negro was likewise protected under the act 1701, c. 6.

*" Our name is Legion, and we are Many " is from Daniel Defoe's " Legion's Memorial ," delivered to the British House of Commons on May 14, 1701, in which Defoe defends the right to petition, claiming to represent 200, 000 petitioners.

When the Bermudian sloop Seaflower was seized by the Bahamians in 1701, the response of Bermuda Governor Bennett was to issue letters of marque to Bermudian vessels.

When the Bermudian sloop Seaflower was seized by the Bahamians in 1701, the response of Bermuda Governor Bennett was to issue letters-of-marque to Bermudians vessels.

A broadside song Captain Kidd's Farewell to the Seas, or, the Famous Pirate's Lament was printed shortly after his execution and popularised the common belief that Kidd had confessed to the false charges.

At the end of the song, which coincided with the third ( i. e. last ) English warning shot, Tromp fired a full broadside thereby beginning the Battle of Goodwin Sands and the First Anglo-Dutch War.

The earliest surviving version of the song is in a broadside printed in England between 1672 and 1685, under the name Diddle Diddle, Or The Kind Country Lovers.

One such song by Bolduc is La chanson du bavard, which notably employs an introduction inviting the listener to hear a tale, as is common in broadside ballads.

Newspapers reported troops singing the song as they marched in the streets of Boston on July 18, 1861, and there were a " rash " of broadside printings of the song with substantially the same words as the undated John Brown Song!

Originally an English street ballad ( or broadside ), the song became particularly popular in the United States by parlor singers and ballad-printers.

" Pretty Polly Perkins of Paddington Green " is the title of an English song, composed by the London music hall and broadside songwriter Harry Clifton ( 1832 – 1872 ), and first published in 1864.

The transfer of Audacious < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s broadside to Spartiate meant that Captain Maurice-Julien Emeriau now faced three opponents.

Captain Antoine René Thévenard used the spring on his anchor cable to angle his broadside into a raking position across the bow of Nelson's flagship, which consequently suffered over 100 casualties, including the admiral.

Captain de Boades of the Réfléchi was killed in the opening broadside of Admiral Drake's Princessa, and the four ships of the French van were, according to a French observer, " engaged with seven or eight vessels at close quarters.

Captain opened fire on the Spanish vessels with her larboard ( port ) side broadside and then put the helm over and hooked her larboard cat-head with the starboard quarter of San Nicolás.

Captain Holm assumed that the Dictator could not follow down the narrow sound, and assumed that the attack would come from smaller vessels and over Holmen, and deliberately set his broadside towards Holmen.

A Broadside ( printing ) | broadside of George Washington's Farewell Address, from the Rare Book and Special Collections Division of the Library of Congress

Two different broadside songsheets printed by him survive, dated to about 1523 ; two survivals of ephemeral unbound works from such an early date suggest that he may have printed a considerable amount of music.

Two broadside ballads refer to the " Allan Water ".

Two broadside copies were printed before 1700, and it appeared in James Watson's Collection of Poems ( 1706 – 1710 ).

The reliquary of the heart of the Anne, Duchess of Brittany is a box oval, bivalvular, made of a sheet of gold pushed back and guillochéd, articulated by a hinge, broadside of a gold cordelière and topped by a crown of lily and clover.

The communalist position tends to lead to the view that more recent, particularly printed broadside ballads, where we may even know the author, are a debased form of the genre.