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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.
Events of 1707
January - June
July - December
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.
Undated
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.
Births
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 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)
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Deaths
January 8 - John Dalrymple, 1st Earl of Stair, Scottish politician (born 1648)
January 10 - Philibert, comte de Gramont, French writer (born 1621)
January 20 - Humphrey Hody, English theologian (born 1659)
March 3 - Aurangzeb, Mughal Emperor of India (born 1618)
April 6 - William van de Velde, the Younger, Dutch painter (born 1633)
April 29 - George Farquhar, Irish dramatist (born 1677)
May 9 - Dieterich Buxtehude, German composer (born c.1637)
May 27 - Marquise de Montespan, mistress of King Louis XIV of France (born 1641)
June 23 - John Mill, English theologian (born c. 1645)
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 - Vicenzo 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)
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