What is 1707?
{{Year nav|1707}} {{Year in various calendars|1707}} {{Year article header|1707}} == Events == * [[January 1]] – John V is crowned King of Portugal * [[May 1]] – The [[Acts of Union 1707]] become law, making the separate [[kingdoms]] of [[Kingdom of England|England]] and [[Kingdom of Scotland|Scotland]] into one country, the [[United Kingdom of Great Britain]]. * [[April 25]] – Allied army is defeated by Bourbonic army at Almansa ([[Spain]]) in the [[War of the Spanish Succession]]. * [[September 29]] – Four British [[Royal Navy]] ships run aground near [[Scilly Isles]] because of faulty [[navigation]] – Admiral Sir [[Cloddisley Shovel]] and thousands of sailors drown * [[October 23]] – First [[Parliament of Great Britain]]. * A fortress is founded on the future site of [[Ust-Abakanskoye]] (modern [[Abakan]]). * [[Mount Fuji]] in [[Japan]] erupts. * The [[Lao]] empire of [[Lan Xang]] officially ends and splits into the kingdoms of [[Vientiane]], [[Luang Prabang]], and [[Champasak]]. == Births == * February 1 - [[Frederick, Prince of Wales]] (d. [[1751]]) * April 15 - [[Leonhard Euler]], [[Switzerland|Swiss]] [[mathematician]] and [[physicist]] (d. [[1783]]) * April 22 - [[Henry Fielding]], [[United Kingdom|British]] [[writer]] (d. [[1754]]) * May 23 - [[Carolus Linnaeus]], [[Sweden|Swedish]] [[Botany|botanist]] (d. [[1778]]) * September 7 - [[Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon]], [[French people|French]] [[scientist]] (d. [[1788]]) ==Deaths== * May 9 - [[Dieterich Buxtehude]], [[Germany|German]] [[composer]] (b. c. 1637) [[Category:1707| ]]