1707 in England
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Events from the year 1707 in the Kingdom of England, then England.
Incumbents
- Monarch – Anne (starting 1 May, England merges with Scotland)
- Parliament – 2nd of Queen Anne (until 3 April)
Events
- 16 January – The Parliament of Scotland passes the Union with England Act.
- 19 March – The Act of Union with Scotland is ratified by the Parliament of England.
- 14 April (25 April New Style) – At the Battle of Almansa (Spain) in the War of the Spanish Succession, the Bourbon army of Spain and France (with Irish mercenaries) under the French-born Englishman James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick, soundly defeats the allied forces of Portugal, England, and the Dutch Republic led by the French-born Huguenot in English service Henri de Massue, Earl of Galway.[1]
- 1 May – England becomes part of the united kingdom of Great Britain as a result of the 1706 Treaty of Union that was ratified by the Acts of Union[2] and merges the Parliaments of England and Scotland to form the Parliament of Great Britain.[3] The Equivalent, a sum of £398,000, is paid to Scotland by the English government.
Births
- 13 January – John Boyle, 5th Earl of Cork, writer (died 1762)
- 28 January (bapt.) – John Baskerville, printer (died 1775)
- 1 February (NS) – Frederick, Prince of Wales, heir apparent to the British throne from 1727 (born in Hanover; died 1751)
- 23 March – Henry Scudamore, 3rd Duke of Beaufort (died 1745)
- 22 April – Henry Fielding, novelist and dramatist (died 1754)
Deaths
- 20 January – Humphrey Hody, theologian (born 1659)
- 30 March – Henry Hall, poet and composer of church music (born c. 1656)
- 29 April – George Farquhar, dramatist (born 1677 in Ireland)
References
- ^ Payne, Stanley G. "Chapter 16: The Eighteenth-Century Bourbon Regime in Spain". A History of Spain and Portugal. Vol. 2. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 0-299-06270-8. Retrieved 2008-04-17.
- ^ "Act of Union 1707". Parliament of the United Kingdom. Retrieved 2016-03-11.
- ^ Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 291. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.