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| 1700 |
| | | The Banqueting House at Hampton Court is built with carving by Grinling Gibbons and a painted interior which is the work, at least in part, of Antonio Verrio | |
|  | Ceiling of Queen Anne's Drawing Room, by Verrio
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| 1700 |
| | | Poland, Russia and Denmark attack Sweden, beginning the 21-year Northern War | |
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| c. 1700 |
| | | Peter the Great sets up numerous schools and commercial enterprises to enable Russia to compete in Europe | |
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| 1700 |
| | | Boston merchant Samuel Sewall publishes The Selling of Joseph, a very early anti-slavery tract | |
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| c. 1700 |
| | | The original medieval Milbourne House is largely rebuilt | |
|  | Milbourne House, in Barnes
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| 1701 |
| | | The Act of Settlement declares that no Catholic may inherit the English crown | |
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| 1701 |
| | | The War of the Spanish Succession breaks out between French and Austrian claimants to the Spanish throne | |
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| 1702 |
| | | The Augustan Age begins in English literature, claiming comparison with the equivalent flowering under Augustus Caesar | |
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| 1702 |
| | | On the death of her brother-in-law, William III, Anne becomes queen of England and Scotland | |
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| 1702 |
| | | German chemist Georg Stahl coins the name phlogiston for the substance believed to be released in the process of burning | |
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