The village was incorporated as a city in 1877 and renamed Cadillac, after Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, a Frenchman who made the first permanent settlement at Detroit in 1701.

French explorer Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac sailed up the Detroit River on July 23, 1701.

* 1774 – Charles Marie de La Condamine, French mathematician and geographer ( b. 1701 )

* 1701 – Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac founds the trading post at Fort Pontchartrain, which later becomes the city of Detroit, Michigan.

In 1701 he wrote his hugely popular suites Opus 3, and dedicated that collection to Cosimo III de ' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany.

* August 22 – Jean Regnault de Segrais, French writer ( d. 1701 )

* February 4 – Charles Marie de La Condamine, French mathematician and geographer ( b. 1701 )

* November 15 – Madeleine de Scudéry, French writer ( d. 1701 )

Christian Thomasius still met opposition as he argued in his 1701 Dissertatio de crimine magiae that it was meaningless to make dealing with the devil a criminal offence, since it was impossible to really commit the crime in the first place.

The Cadillac automobile was named after the 17th-century French explorer Antoine Laumet de la Mothe, Sieur de Cadillac, who founded Detroit in 1701.

Madame Henriette died at Saint-Cloud in 1670 ; rumors abounded that she had been poisoned by her husband or his long-term lover, the Chevalier de Lorraine ; the two would remain together till the death of the Duke of Orléans in 1701.

* 2 August 1674 – 9 June 1701 His Royal Highness the Duke of Chartres ( Monseigneur le duc de Chartres )

* Jean Renaud de Segrais ( 1624 – 1701 ), poet and novelist

The expedition to the lower Colorado River was important as the only recorded European incursion into that region between the expeditions of Hernando de Alarcón and Melchior Díaz in 1540 and the visits of Eusebio Francisco Kino beginning in 1701.

* The novels of 17th century French writer Madeleine de Scudéry ( 1607 – 1701 ).

In that vein, Pierre Le Moyne d ' Iberville and Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville established Biloxi in 1699 and Mobile in 1701 along the Gulf coast, while Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac established Detroit in 1701 along the Great Lakes.