Year by year · 18th century

1701

1701 in world history: 13 events, 5 births, 3 deaths, 1 work, 3 states founded and 2 that came to an end. 1,215 recorded states existed that year.

Events

  1. 23 May

    Captain William Kidd is hanged for piracy

    Kidd, commissioned as a privateer by English backers, was hanged at Execution Dock in Wapping. Many historians think he was made a scapegoat to protect his powerful sponsors.

  2. 24 July

    Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac founds Detroit

    French officer Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac established Fort Pontchartrain du Détroit on the strait between Lakes Erie and Huron. The trading post grew into Detroit, later the heart of the US car industry.

  3. 9 October

    Connecticut charters the school that became Yale

    The Connecticut General Assembly chartered the Collegiate School to train ministers and public leaders. It later settled in New Haven and in 1718 was renamed Yale College after the benefactor Elihu Yale.

  4. 27 November

    Anders Celsius is born in Uppsala

    The Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius was born. In 1742 he proposed a 100-degree temperature scale, originally with 0 for boiling water; it was later inverted to become the Celsius scale.

  5. Treaty · Peace

    Great Peace of Montreal

    The Great Peace of Montreal was a peace treaty signed in August 1701 by the governor of New France, Louis-Hector de Callière, and the representatives of about forty Native nations, among them the Iroquois Confederacy and France's Native allies of the Great…

  6. Treaty

    Treaty of Hamburg (1701)

    The Treaty of Hamburg (1701) settled the succession dispute that followed the extinction of the Güstrow line of the House of Mecklenburg in 1695.

  7. Battle

    Battle of Feyiase

    The Battle of Feyiase was fought in 1701 between the Asante and the Denkyira, the dominant Akan power of the region to which the Asante had paid tribute.

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Wars and longer events

Born in 1701 5

Died in 1701 3

Works 1

States founded 3

States that came to an end 2

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