1702

This page relates to the year 1702 Gregorian Calendrier.

Events

America

January 6th: Foundation by the French Pierre Mobile Moyne d' Iberville of (North America). This creation is indicated capital large Louisiana of 1702 with 1720.
May 15th: War of succession of Spain. Hostilities between French colonists and English in Acadie, between English colonists of Caroline and Spanish of Florida.
October 27th: The English troops attack St Augustine in Florida.

Africa

Civil war with the Benign .

Asia

December 15th: Revenge on the 47 rōnin.

The Middle East

September: The vizier Huseyin Köprülü is returned by the Othoman sultan . Thirteen top dogs will follow one another between 1703 and 1718.

Europe

: Failure of the Prince Eugene with the battles of Casement bolt where Villeroy is taken.
May 4th: Declaration of the war with the France and the Spain by the England.
March 8th:

Death of the king d' Angleterre William of Orange. It is Anne Stuart, wife of king de Danemark, who succeeds to him (fine in 1714). John Churchill (Marlborough) with the favor of the queen (end in 1711).
Following the death of William of Orange, the United Provinces abolish the Stathouder At.

May 13rd: The “Great Alliance” gathering the United Provinces, England and E Holy roman Empire, declares the war in France and Spain.
May 14th: The Swedish troops occupy Warsaw.
May 15th: First Franco-English military confrontation of the War of succession of Spain.
July 7th: Russian Victoire of Boris Cheremetiev on the Swedes with Hummelshof. Catch of Volmar and Marienbourg. The Livonie is devastated. The troops of Apraxine prevail in Ingrie.
July 19th: The Swedish troops occupy Cracow at the time of the Second War of North after a victory with Kliszów.
July 27th: Vendôme beats the imperial ones with Sant-Vittoria, close to Mantoue.
: The Prince Eugene must raise the seat of Mantoue.
August 15th: Vendôme is victorious with the Bataille of Luzzara (Italy).
September 2nd: The French take Gustalla (Italy).
September 3rd: naval Battle of Santa-Martha. The French Jean-Baptiste of the Break-in (4 boats) takes the ascending one on an English fleet ordered by John Benbow (7 boats).
September 8th: Maximilien II Emmanuel of Bavaria takes Ulm.
September 23rd - October 7th: Successes of combined with the Netherlands.
October 14th: French Victoire of Villars to the Battle of Friedlingen on the prince of Bade.
October 23rd: naval Battle of Vigo. A squadron anglo-Dutchwoman attacks and seizes a Spanish convoy of return of the Mexico in spite of the escort ensured by the French ships of Chateaurenault.
October 25th: Tallard occupies Trêve then the castle of Trarbach (November 7th).
October 29th: Marlborough takes Liege.
October 30th: Pierre Large the takes Noteborg and renames the fortress Schlüsselbourg (the “Key of the Baltique”).
December: The French occupy the Lorraine.

the military border between the Hungary and the Ottoman Empire is transferred to the south, along the Save.
Beginnings of the war of Hungarian independence against the absolutism of Léopold Ier.
the Coumans and the Iazyges, established between the the Danube and the the Tisza with the Middle Ages, where they were magyarisés, are given in mortgage to the Chevaliers teutonic and transformed into serfs. They carry out during first half of the century a long resistance to reconquer their old statute of freedom, which they will find in 1745.

France

February 14th: Division of Paris in twenty districts.
April 15th: Vincent-François of Maretz is named bishop of Saint-Malo. It will remain it until its death in 1739.
April: Intense cold wave in France. The vines freeze between the Seine and the Loire.
July 24th: An about sixty Protestants deliver prisoners in a Cevennes borough , on the edge of the Tarn, the Bridge-with-Monvert and kill their geôlier, a priest, the abbot of Chayla, vicar-general of the bishop of Mende. The Protestants of the the Cevennes take the weapons; it is the beginning of the Guerre of Camisards, directed by Gédéon Laporte, then with its death by its nephew Pierre Laporte, said Roland , assisted by Jean Cavalier, which will be controlled only in January 1705.
December: The duke of Burgundy, grandson of the king enters with deliberative voice all Councils of the government, of which the Conseil of in top.

Religion

Catechism , of Pasteur calvinist Osterwald.
the apostolic vicar Kodde, in residence with Utrecht, is declared favorable to the Jansenists and attracts those which are worried in France (Pasquier Quesnel). Kodde is suspended by Clément XI.

Art & culture

Economy & company

Events in the course of dating

Plague with the Bengal in India.
Abolition of the serfdom of the glèbe to the Denmark.
In Russia, suppression of the terem (gynécée).

Births in 1702

Death in 1702

March 8th: The king Guillaume III of England ( William III ). The title of prince d' Orange passes to a branch junior.
April 27th: Jean Bart, French corsair.
May 27th: Dominique Bouhours, Jesuit and critical literary French.
July 6th: Nicolas Lebègue, French musician (° 1631).
François Coigneux de Bachaumont, French poet.

Easter Day

April 16th: Sunday of Easter.
For other religious holidays, to see Comput.

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