General
Population: 640 Million*
- Entertainment: Writers include Congreve (comedy), George Farquhar (comedy), Thomas Hyde (religious history)
Art includes Kneller "Matthew Prior"
Music includes William Croft, Joseph Sauveur explains musical vibration in tones, Bach composes "Toccata and Fugue in D minor"
- Fashion: Start of late Baroque period
- Religion: Death of Pope Innocent XII – Giovanni Francesco Albani becomes Pope Clement XI
- Science: J.P. de Tournefort discovers ammonium chloride
Extinction of dodo birds
- Technology: Commode becomes popular piece of furniture
- Deaths: Sculptor Caius Gabriel Cribber, Dramatist John Dryden, Duke of Gloucester - Stuart heir, Pope Innocent XII, King Charles II of Spain,
Actress Armande Bejart
Palace of Forty Pillars redesigned,
Africa
- Mauritius: Dodo birds extinct
Americas
- General: Colonies begin to prosper
- Canada: Cascadia quake tsynami hits Vancouver Island
- Caribbean: European exploits begin
Asia
- Burma: Mon kingdoms present
- Japan: Development of Kabuki theater
Tsunami from Cascadia quake hits Japan
Europe
- General: Age of Enlightenment introduces revolutionary new ideas to Europe
Crown treaty between Emperor Leopold I and Elector Frederick III of Brandenburg who is recognized as Frederick I "King in Prussia"
Great Northern War begins between Sweden and Russia over Baltic - Saxons invade Livonia - Sweden defeats Russia at Narva - Denmark, Russia, Poland and Saxony (Germany) attack Sweden
Grand Alliance reorganized
- England: Agricultural Revolution begins
Anne of England's son dies the Duke of Gloucester – only remaining Stuart heirs in exile in France –
throne passes to Electress Sophia of Hanover and mother of electoral prince – future King George I
New calendar adopted in England and colonies - Mar 24, 1700 was followed by Mar 25, 1701
Smallpox hits Shetland islands for 60 years - Norn language in Shetland islands starts to die out
- German States: Berlin academy of Science founded – Leibniz elected president
Unmarried women taxed in Berlin
German Protestant states adopt Gregorian calendar
- Spain: Death of King Charles II of Spain – end of Spanish Hapsburgs – names Philip of Anjou (Grandson of Louis XIV) as heir and crowned - but Holy Roman Emperor Leopold claims throne - start of War of Spanish Succession
The Andalusian Francisco Romero becomes first famous Spanish bull fighter
Pacific
- Easter Island: Long period of war on Easter Island
- Tahiti: First contact between Tahitians and Europeans