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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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| 1703 |
| | | Peter the Great falls for a Lithuanian serf, Catherine, who becomes his life-long companion | |
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| 1703 |
| | | Peter the Great founds the port and city of St Petersburg, giving Russia access to the Baltic | |
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| 1704 |
| | | The tenth Sikh guru, Gobind Rai, names as his successor the sacred book known as the Granth | |
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| 1704 |
| | | The duke of Marlborough wins a major victory over the French at Blenheim, capturing twenty-four battalions and four regiments | |
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| 1707 |
| | | The death of Aurangzeb introduces the long period of decline of the Mughal empire | |
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| 1707 |
| | | The Act of Union merges England and Scotland as 'one kingdom by the name of Great Britain', a century after the union of the crowns | |
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| 1708 |
| | | The secret of true porcelain is at last discovered in the west, at Dresden, by Johann Friedrich Böttger | |
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| 1709 |
| | | The Swedish king Charles XII suffers his first major defeat in a brilliant career, when he faces the Russians at Poltava | |
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| 1709 |
| | | The Tatler launches a new style of journalism in Britain's coffee houses, followed two years later by the Spectator | |
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