1707

Events 
 January 1 – John V is crowned King of Portugal
 May 1 – The Acts of Union 1707 become law, making the separate kingdoms of England and Scotland into one country, the United Kingdom of Great Britain.
 April 25 – Allied army is defeated by Bourbonic army at Almansa (Spain) in the War of the Spanish Succession.
 September 29 – Four British Royal Navy ships run aground near Scilly Isles because of faulty navigation – Admiral Sir Cloddisley Shovel and thousands of sailors drown
 October 23 – First Parliament of Great Britain.
 A fortress is founded on the future site of Ust-Abakanskoye (modern Abakan).
 Mount Fuji in Japan erupts.
 The Lao empire of Lan Xang officially ends and splits into the kingdoms of Vientiane, Luang Prabang, and Champasak.

 Births 
 February 1 - Frederick, Prince of Wales (d. 1751)
 April 15 - Leonhard Euler, Swiss mathematician and physicist (d. 1783)
 April 22 - Henry Fielding,  British writer (d. 1754)
 May 23 - Carolus Linnaeus, Swedish botanist (d. 1778)
 September 7 - Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, French scientist (d. 1788)

Deaths
 May 9 - Dieterich Buxtehude, German composer (b. c. 1637)