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Year 1707 (MDCCVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar). Year 1707 of the Swedish calendar was a common year starting on Tuesday, one day ahead of the Julian calendar.

January 1 - John V is crowned King of Portugal.
January 16 - The Treaty (or Act) of Union of the two Kingdoms of Scotland and England is ratified by the Scottish Parliament.
March 19 - The Act of Union with Scotland is ratified by the English Parliament.

October 22: Royal Navy wreck.
May 1 - The Acts of Union becomes law, uniting the Parliaments of the Kingdom of England and Kingdom of Scotland to form the Parliament of a united Kingdom of Great Britain.
April 25 - Allied army is defeated by Bourbonic army at Almansa (Spain) in the War of the Spanish Succession.

October 22 - Four British Royal Navy ships run aground near Scilly Isles because of faulty navigation - Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell and thousands of sailors drown.
October 23 - First sitting of the Parliament of the Kingdom of Great Britain in London.
December 16 - Beginning of the last recorded eruption of Mount Fuji in Japan.

December 24 - The first British Governor of Gibraltar, directly appointed by Queen Anne, Roger Elliott, takes up residence in the Convent of the Franciscan Friars.
Late december - Charles XII of Sweden launches his campaign to conquer Russia, marching to the east from Leipzig with 60,000 coalition forces. Another 16,000 is waiting in the outskirts of Riga, guarding the Swedish supply lines.

A fortress is founded on the future site of Ust-Abakanskoye (modern Abakan).
The Lao empire of Lan Xang officially ends and splits into the kingdoms of Vientiane, Luang Prabang, and Champasak.
Hacienda Juriquilla is built in Queretaro, Mexico

January 13 - John Boyle, 5th Earl of Cork, Irish writer (died 1762)
February 1 - Frederick, Prince of Wales (died 1751)
February 14 - Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, French novelist (died 1777)
February 25 - Carlo Goldoni, Italian playwright (died 1793)
March 7 - Stephen Hopkins, founding father of the United States (died 1785)
March 14 - Johan Ihre, Swedish philologist and historical linguist (died 1780)
March 23 - Henry Somerset, 3rd Duke of Beaufort (died 1745)
April 10 - John Pringle, Scottish physician (died 1782)
April 15 - Leonhard Euler, Swiss mathematician and physicist (died 1783)
April 22 - Henry Fielding, British novelist and dramatist (died 1754)
May 1 - Michael Rogers, British soldier (died 1799)
May 12 - Francisco Salzillo, Spanish sculptor (died 1781)
May 23 - Carolus Linnaeus, Swedish botanist (died 1778)
August 14 - Johann August Ernesti, German theologian and philologist (died 1781)
August 24 - Selina, Countess of Huntingdon, English Methodist leader (died 1791)
August 25 - King Louis of Spain (died 1724)
September - Nathan Alcock, English physician (died 1779)
September 5 - John Forbes, British general (died 1759)
September 7 - Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, French scientist (died 1788)
December 18 - Charles Wesley, English Methodist leader, brother of John Wesley (died 1788)
date unknown - Moshe Chaim Luzzatto, Italian rabbi, mystic, and philosopher (died 1746)
probable William Hoare, English painter (died 1792)

See also Category: 1707 births.

August 18 - William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire, English soldier and statesman (born 1640)
August 20 - Nicolas Gigault, French organist and composer (born 1627)
September 15 - George Stepney, British poet and diplomat (born 1663)
September 24 - Vincenzo da Filicaja, Italian poet (born 1642)
October 22 - Sir Cloudesley Shovell, British admiral (born 1650)
December 1 - Jeremiah Clarke, English composer (born 1674)
December 24 - Noël Coypel, French painter (born 1628)
December 27 - Jean Mabillon, French palaeographer and diplomat (born 1632)

See also Category: 1707 deaths.

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