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Year 1700 (MDCC) was an exceptional common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar, but a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. more...
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The Gregorian calendar was 10-day faster until February 28 1700, but 11-day faster since March 1 1700, than the Julian calendar.
Events of 1700
January - June
January 1
Russia accepts the Julian calendar.;
Germany and Denmark-Norway adopt the Gregorian calendar, including the convention that New Year's Day is January 1.;
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January 26 - The Cascadia Earthquake, one of the largest earthquakes on record, ruptures the Cascadia subduction zone offshore from Vancouver Island to northern California, creating a tsunami logged in Japan and oral traditions of the American First Nations.;
February 12 - The Great Northern War begins in Central Europe.;
February 27 - The island of New Britain is discovered.;
March 11 1700 (Swedish calendar March 1) - The Swedish calendar is adopted. 1700 of this calendar is a common year starting on Monday.;
April - Fire destroys many buildings in Gondar, the capital of Ethiopia, including two in the palace complex.;
May 5 - Within a few days of John Dryden's death (1 May O.S.), his last written work ("The Secular Masque") is performed as part of Vanbrugh's version of The Pilgrim.;
May - In Rhode Island (American colony), Walter Clarke, former governor 1679-1686, becomes governor again for 14 more years.;
July - December
November 20 - Great Northern War: Battle of Narva - King Charles XII of Sweden defeats the army of Czar Peter the Great at Narva.;
November 23 - Pope Clement XI succeeds Pope Innocent XII as the 243rd pope.;
December 28 - Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester is appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.;
Undated
Vietnamese gains control of the entire Indochina peninsula.;
The Great Northern War begins with Russia, Denmark and Saxony/Poland making a coordinated attack on Sweden (to 1721).;
Control of Spain passes from the Habsburgs to the Bourbons.;
Mission San Xavier del Bac is founded in New Spain near Tucson, as a Spanish Roman Catholic mission.;
A fire destroys the larger part of Edinburgh, Scotland.;
An inventory made for the Medici family of Florence documents the first piano, invented by their instrument keeper Bartolommeo Cristofori.;
Lions became extinct in Libya around this date.;
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