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Year 1702 (''' MDCCII ''') was a Common Year Starting On Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Year Starting On Wednesday of the 11-day slower Julian Calendar ). 1702 of the Swedish Calendar was a Common Year Starting On Tuesday , one day ahead of the Julian calendar.

EVENTS OF 1702

January - June

January 12 - In America, ships from Fort Maurepas arrive at Twenty-Seven Mile Bluff to build '' Fort Louis De La Mobile '' (future Mobile, Alabama ) to become capital of French Louisiana .

March 8 - William III died; Princess Anne Stuart becomes Queen Anne Of England , Wales , Scotland and Ireland . The States doesn't appoint a new Stadtholder , so the United Provinces become a true republic again.

March 11 ( O.S. )- The first regular English Language Newspaper , '' The Daily Courant ''. is published for the first time.

May - Warsaw is conquered by Charles XII Of Sweden , who later the same year defeat Poland again at the Battle Of Kliszow .

May 4 / 14 - The War Of The Spanish Succession widens, as war is declared on France by the Grand Alliance .

June - Queen Anne's Captain-General John Churchill forces the surrender of Kaiserswerth on the Rhine

July - December

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September - Churchill forces the surrender of Venlo on the River Meuse .

October 27 - English troops plunder St. Augustine in Florida .

October - Sir George Rooke fails to take Cádiz , but captures a Spanish treasure fleet and destroys French and Spanish Warship s. Churchill forces the surrender of Liège .

December 14 - John Churchill is created Duke Of Marlborough .

December 15 - Forty-Seven Ronin , formerly in the service of Asano Naganori , assault the household of Kira Yoshinaka , and kill him in vengeance for their lord. Their display of the ideals of Bushido becomes a national legend.

BIRTHS

January 14 - Emperor Nakamikado Of Japan (d. 1737 )

February 10 - Carlo Marchionni , Italian architect (d. 1786 )

March 4 - Jack Sheppard , British burglar and escapee (d. 1724 )

March 27 - Johann Ernst Eberlin , German composer (d. 1762 )

May 2 - Friedrich Christoph Oetinger , German theologian (d. 1782 )

June 26 - Philip Doddridge , English religious leader (d. 1751 )

July 31 - Jean Denis Attiret , French Jesuit missionary and painter (d. 1768 )

August 15 - Francesco Zuccarelli , painter, elected to the Venetian Academy in 1763 (d. 1788 )

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DEATHS

March 8 - William III Of Orange /King William III Of England , Wales , Scotland and Ireland (b. 1650 )

April 23 - Margaret Fell , English Quaker leader (b. 1614 )

April 27 - Jean Bart , French admiral (b. 1651 )

May 27 - Dominique Bouhours , French critic (b. 1628 )

September 28 - Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl Of Sunderland , English statesman (b. 1640 )

November 4 - John Benbow , English admiral (b. 1653 )

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