February 1701
Events
France
- , Louis XIV in his letters patent right of Philippe V to succeed the crown of France. Beginning of the War of succession of Spain.
- 5 - February 6th: The French troops drive out the Dutchmen of the Spanish Netherlands.
- February 11th: François II Rákóczi and Louis XIV of France begins the negotiations in connection with the fight for Hungarian independence.
- February 15th: First representation of the Madnesses in love with Jean-François Regnard.
- February 18th: Philippe of Anjou, grandson of Louis XIV enters to Madrid. He refuses to attend a Autodafé organized in his honor.
- February 18th: Measure altitude of the Pic of St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre by the forwarding of Jean-Dominique Cassini (Cassini I).
- February 20th: Alexandre Vaultier de Moyencourt, future governor of Guadeloupe, wife Marie-Anne of the Cross with Pont-l'Abbé.
- February 21st: Louis de Sacy between with the French Academy.
Great Britain
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February 4th: first of The Unhappy Penitent of Catherine Trotter Cockburn with the royal Theater of Drury Lane.
- February 10th: The English Parliament votes the Acte of establishment excluding the catholic from the English throne, Jacques Stuart in the highest degree.
- February 21st: shipwreck of HMS Roebuck with on its board William Dampier, Buccaneer English, close to the island of the Rise.
- William Whiston becomes the assistant of Newton.
- Robert Drury, English navigator, embarks on board the Deagrave , voyage during which there will remain captive with Madagascar during fifteen years.
- Release of Henry Nevil Payne, playwright and agitator catholic Scottish, last political prisoner to be tortured in England.
United Provinces
- February 22nd: The United Provinces recognize Philippe V as king of Spain.
Lithuania
- New alliance between Auguste II of Poland and the tsar Pierre Ier of Russia to Birze against their Swedish adversary.
Births and death
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: birth with Östergötland of Johan Agrell, type-setter German baroque.
- February 9th: one of the possible dates of the death of Daniel Tauvry, doctor and anatomist French.
- February 15th: death of François of Clermont-Thunder, count of Boundary-line.
- death of Äeneas de Caprara, Austrian marshal, at the time of the War of the league of Augsburg.
- death in Algeria of Miguel de Barrios, Spanish poet.
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