1702

1702 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	1702; MDCCII
Ab urbe condita	2455
Armenian calendar	1151; ԹՎ ՌՃԾԱ
Assyrian calendar	6452
Balinese saka calendar	1623–1624
Bengali calendar	1109
Berber calendar	2652
English Regnal year	14 Will. 3 – 1 Ann. 1
Buddhist calendar	2246
Burmese calendar	1064
Byzantine calendar	7210–7211
Chinese calendar	辛巳年 (Metal Snake); 4398 or 4338; — to —; 壬午年 (Water Horse); 4399 or 4339
Coptic calendar	1418–1419
Discordian calendar	2868
Ethiopian calendar	1694–1695
Hebrew calendar	5462–5463
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1758–1759
- Shaka Samvat	1623–1624
- Kali Yuga	4802–4803
Holocene calendar	11702
Igbo calendar	702–703
Iranian calendar	1080–1081
Islamic calendar	1113–1114
Japanese calendar	Genroku 15; (元禄１５年)
Javanese calendar	1625–1626
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar	4035
Minguo calendar	210 before ROC; 民前210年
Nanakshahi calendar	234
Thai solar calendar	2244–2245
Tibetan calendar	阴金蛇年; (female Iron-Snake); 1828 or 1447 or 675; — to —; 阳水马年; (male Water-Horse); 1829 or 1448 or 676

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century; 18th century ; 19th century;
Decades:	1680s; 1690s; 1700s; 1710s; 1720s;
Years:	1699; 1700; 1701; 1702; 1703; 1704; 1705;

1702 (MDCCII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1702nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 702nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 2nd year of the 18th century, and the 3rd year of the 1700s decade. As of the start of 1702, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

In the Swedish calendar it was a common year starting on Wednesday, one day ahead of the Julian and ten days behind the Gregorian calendar.

October 7: Siege of Nöteborg (1702)

October 23: Battle of Vigo Bay.

Events[edit]

January–March[edit]

January 2 – A total solar eclipse is visible from the southern Pacific Ocean.
January 12 – In North America, ships from Fort Maurepas arrive at Twenty-Seven Mile Bluff, to build Fort Louis de la Mobile (future Mobile, Alabama), to become the capital of French Louisiana.
February 1 – The Duc de Villeroy, commander of the French Army, is taken as a prisoner of war by the Austrian Army during the Battle of Cremona
March 3 (February 20 O.S.) – King William III of England is fatally injured in an accident when he is thrown from his horse, "Sorrel", while riding in Hampton Court Park near London. Already in poor health before the accident, he dies from his injuries 16 days later at the age of 51.^[1]
March 14 – An earthquake in the middle of the Calore valley in Italy, east of Benevento, kills 400 people.
March 19 (March 8 Old Style) – Princess Anne Stuart, daughter of the late King James II and younger sister of his successor, Mary II of England (who had reigned jointly with her husband, William III, as "William and Mary" until her death in 1694), ascends the English, Scottish and Irish thrones upon William's death. In her first speech to the English Parliament, made three days later, she tells the assembly "As I know my heart to be entirely English, I can very sincerely assure you there is not anything you can expect or desire from me which I shall not be ready to do for the happiness and prosperity of England."^[2] Anne is the mother of 17 children by her husband, Prince George of Denmark and Norway, but none will survive childhood, and she will die without an heir, bringing and end to the reign of the House of Stuart and enabling the Hanoverian Succession. After the death of William, the States General of the Netherlands do not appoint a new stadtholder, and so the Dutch Republic becomes a true republic again.
March 22 (March 11 Old Style) – The first regular English-language national newspaper, The Daily Courant, begins publication^[3] on Fleet Street in the City of London; it covers only foreign news.
March 24 – Battle of Darsūniškis: The Swedish army of about 240 men, under the command of Alexander Hummerhielm, is defeated by the Polish–Saxon army of 6,000 men, under Michał Serwacy Wiśniowiecki.

April–June[edit]

April 3 – The Dutch East India Company ship Merestein strikes rocks and sinks in Saldanha Bay off Jutten Island, Africa with the loss of 101 of the 200 people on board.
April 14 – Volcanic eruption of Changbaishan volcano (also known as Paektu Mountain) takes place.
April 15 – The British Province of New Jersey, encompassing all of the U.S. state of New Jersey and portions of New York, is created as proprietary owners in the provinces of East Jersey and West Jersey surrender their rights to the Crown.^[4]
April 20 – Comet C/1702 H1 is discovered and passes within 0.0435 AU (a little more than four million miles or 6.5 million km) of the Earth.
April 24 – The first two missionaries from the United Society Partners in the Gospel (USPG) set sail from England to North America.
May 5 – Globular cluster Messier 5 (M5, NGC 5904) is discovered by Gottfried Kirch and his wife Maria Margarethe.
May 6 – Cloudesley Shovell is promoted to full admiral in the English navy.
May 14 (N.S.) – War of the Spanish Succession: War is declared on France by the Grand Alliance (Kingdom of England, Dutch Republic and Holy Roman Empire).
May 15 (May 4 O.S.) – King Charles XII of Sweden and his troops walk unopposed into Warsaw after troops capture the city.^[5]
May 16 – Much of the city of Uppsala, Sweden is destroyed by fire.
May 19 – Over 90% of the city of Bryggen, Norway is destroyed and reduced to ashes in the Great Fire.
June 2 – English General John Churchill, later the Duke of Marlborough, takes command of the alliance of English, Dutch and German troops in the War of the Spanish Succession.^[6]
June 15 – Queen Anne's Captain-General, John Churchill, forces the surrender of Kaiserswerth on the Rhine after a siege that began on April 18.^[7]
June 16 – the English East India Company founds a settlement on Pulo Condore (now called Côn Sơn Island) off the coast of southern Vietnam as an entrepôt for ships travelling between India and China.
June 25 – The premiere of the opera L'Offendere per amore overo la Telesilla by Johann Joseph Fux takes place in Vienna.

July–September[edit]

July 19 (July 8 O.S.; July 9 Swedish calendar) – Battle of Klissow: Charles XII of Sweden decisively defeats the Polish–Lithuanian-Saxon army as part of the Great Northern War.
July 23 – The first performance of the opera Médus, roi des Mèdes by François Bouvard takes place at the Paris Opera.
July 24 –
- Camisard hostilities begin in France with the assassination at le Pont-de-Montvert of a local embodiment of royal oppression, François Langlade, the Abbé of Chaila.^[7]
- A total eclipse of the sun is visible on a path crossing the northern Pacific Ocean and Central America.
July 30 (July 19 O.S.; July 20 Swedish calendar) – Great Northern War: Russia defeats Sweden during the Battle of Hummelshof.
August 11 – Częstochowa, Poland, is captured by Swedish army during the Great Northern War.
September 19 – Jupiter occults Neptune.
September 25 – General John Churchill forces the surrender of Venlo on the Meuse River.^[7]

October–December[edit]

October 1 – The founding deed of the University of Wrocław is signed by the Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I of the House of Austria, King of Hungary and Bohemia.
October 12 – Sir George Rooke fails in his initial attempt to take Cadiz, but captures a Spanish treasure fleet and destroys French and Spanish warships.^[8]
October 14 – The Battle of Friedlingen takes place between France and the Holy Roman Empire.
October 18 – Battle of Flint River: Spanish and Apalachee Indian forces fail in their attack against Creek Indians, supported by English traders, in what is now the state of Georgia.
October 19 – The opera Der Sieg der fruchtbaren Pomona by Reinhard Keiser is premiered at the Hamburg Opera for the birthday of King Frederick IV of Denmark.
October 23 –
- Battle of Vigo Bay: English and Dutch forces capture the defended harbor of Cádiz.
- Churchill forces the surrender of Liège.
October 27 – English troops plunder St. Augustine, Spanish Florida.
October 28 – Sieur Juchereau, Lieutenant General of Montréal, establishes the first trading post on the Wabash River in order to trade Buffalo hides with American Indians. The site of the trading post may be the modern-day location of Vincennes, Indiana.
November 7 – The first performance of the opera Tancrède by André Campra takes place at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal in Paris.
November 10 – Queen Anne's War in North America: The Siege of St. Augustine opens; English forces besiege St. Augustine, Spanish Florida.
November 15 – The opera La Clemenza d'Augusto by Johann Joseph Fux is premiered in Vienna.
November 22 – The Dutch East India Company pinnace Amsterdam founders en route to Basra from Bombay during a storm. All hands are lost.
December 14 – John Churchill is created duke of Marlborough.
December 30 – The Siege of St. Augustine in Spanish Florida is lifted.

Date unknown[edit]

The travel diary Oku no Hosomichi (meaning "Narrow road to/of the interior"), a major work of haibun by the Japanese poet Matsuo Bashō and one of the major texts of Japanese literature of the Edo period, is published eight years after Bashō's death.
Delaware is designated a separate colony.
Richard Bentley at Cambridge in England introduces the first written (as opposed to oral) competitive examinations in a Western university.^[9]

Births[edit]

Alan Brodrick, 2nd Viscount Midleton born 31 January

Giovanni Carmine Pellerano born 6 February

Rasmus Paludan born 26 February

Henrietta Maria of Brandenburg-Schwedt born 2 March

Jack Sheppard born 4 March

Thomas Penn born 20 March

Willem van Keppel, 2nd Earl of Albemarle born 5 June

Muhammad Shah born 7 August

Louis-François Roubiliac born 31 August

Januarius Maria Sarnelli born 12 September

Abhai Singh of Marwar born 7 November