1702


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::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/26/Siege_of_Nöteborg_(1702).jpg" caption="siege of Nöteborg]] begins in Sweden (Great Northern War)"] ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/09/Battle_of_Vigo_Bay_1702.webp" caption="[[October 23]]: [[Battle of Vigo Bay]]: English and Dutch forces capture the Spanish port of Cádiz (War of the Spanish Succession)"] ::

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.

Events

January–March

April–June

July–September

October–December

Date unknown

  • The travel diary Oku no Hosomichi ("Narrow road to the deep north"), 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.
  • The Delaware Colony legislature is separated from that of Pennsylvania.
  • Richard Bentley at Cambridge in England introduces the first written (as opposed to oral) competitive examinations in a Western university.

Births

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2e/Viscount_Midleton_2nd,_England.jpg" caption="[[Alan Brodrick, 2nd Viscount Midleton]] born [[31 January"] ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/34/Giovanni_Carmine_Pellerano.jpg" caption="[[Giovanni Carmine Pellerano]] born [[6 February"] ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2d/Rasmus_Paludan.jpg" caption="Rasmus Paludan]] born [[26 February"] ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/93/Henrietta_Maria_of_Brandenburg-Schwedt.jpg" caption="[[Henrietta Maria of Brandenburg-Schwedt]] born [[2 March"] ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8b/Jack_Sheppard_-_Thornhill.jpg" caption="[[Jack Sheppard]] born [[4 March"] ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/87/Thomas_Penn_by_Arthur_Devis_(1712-1787).jpg" caption="[[Thomas Penn]] born [[20 March"] ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/47/William_Anne_Keppel,_2nd_Earl_of_Albemarle,_by_Charles_Philips.jpg" caption="[[Willem van Keppel, 2nd Earl of Albemarle]] born [[5 June"] ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f3/Muḥammad_Sháh_on_horseback.jpg" caption="[[Muhammad Shah]] born [[7 August"] ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/21/Roubiliac_by_Joseph_Wilton,_1761,_National_Portrait_Gallery,_London.JPG" caption="[[Louis-François Roubiliac]] born [[31 August"] ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1f/Beato_Gennaro_Maria_Sarnelli_-_tela_per_la_beatificazione.jpg" caption="[[Januarius Maria Sarnelli]] born [[12 September"] ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/38/Abhai_Singh.jpg" caption="[[Abhai Singh of Marwar]] born [[7 November"] ::

January–March

April–June

July–September

October–December

Date unknown

Deaths

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3f/Ignatius_Gregory_Peter_VI_Shahbaddin.jpg" caption="[[Ignatius Gregory Peter VI Shahbaddin]] died [[4 March"] ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2d/Statue_of_Saint_Joseph_Oriol_-Santa_Maria_del_Mar-_Barcelona_2014.jpg" caption="[[Joseph Oriol]] died [[23 March"] ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/87/Zeb-un-Nisa_Begum.jpg" caption="[[Zeb-un-Nissa]] died [[26 May"] ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5a/Vincent_laurensz_van_der_vinne_ca1655.JPG" caption="[[Vincent van der Vinne]] died [[26 July"] ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e5/Olaus_Rudbeck_Sr_(portrait_by_Martin_Mijtens_Sr,_1696).jpg" caption="[[Olaus Rudbeck]] died [[17 September"] ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/49/Herzogin_Sophia_Henriette_von_Sachsen-Hildburghausen.jpg" caption="[[Countess Sophie Henriette of Waldeck]] died [[15 October"] ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6a/Vice-Admiral_John_Benbow,_1653-1702_RMG_BHC2546.tiff" caption="[[John Benbow]] died [[4 November"] ::

References

References

  1. Arthur Lyon Cross, ''A History of England and Greater Britain'' (Macmillan, 1917) p. 648
  2. Maureen Waller, ''Sovereign Ladies: The Six Reigning Queens of England'' (John Murray, 2006) p. 313
  3. (2006). "Penguin Pocket On This Day". Penguin Reference Library.
  4. [https://www.nj.gov/state/archives/pdf/proprietors.pdf "Using the Records of the East and West Jersey Proprietors"], by Joseph R. Klett (New Jersey State Archives, 2014) p. 5
  5. Theodore Ayrault Dodge, ''Gustavus Adolphus'' (Houghton Mifflin, 1890) p. 838
  6. James Falkner, ''Marlborough's War Machine 1702-1711'' (Pen & Sword Military, 2014) p. 16
  7. Wijn, J.W.. (1956). "Het Staatsche Leger: Deel VIII Het tijdperk van de Spaanse Successieoorlog (The Dutch States Army: Part VIII The era of the War of the Spanish Succession)". Martinus Nijhoff.
  8. John A. Lynn, ''The Wars of Louis XIV 1667-1714'' (Taylor & Francis, 2013)
  9. Harding, Richard. (2002). "Seapower and Naval Warfare, 1650-1830". Taylor & Francis.
  10. Ball, W. W. Rouse. (1889). "A History of the Study of Mathematics at Cambridge". Cambridge University Press.

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