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| 1700 |
| | | Charles II, the childless king of Spain. leaves all his territories to Philip of Anjou, a grandson of the French king, Louis XIV | |
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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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| 1701 |
| | | The Act of Settlement declares that no Catholic may inherit the English crown | |
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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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| 1703 |
| | | Peter the Great falls for a Lithuanian serf, Catherine, who becomes his life-long companion | |
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| 1707 |
| | | The death of Aurangzeb introduces the long period of decline of the Mughal empire | |
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| 1712 |
| | | The tsar formally marries Catherine, his mistress for nearly ten years (though they may have married secretly five years earlier) | |
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| 1713 |
| | | The emperor Charles VI issues a Pragmatic Sanction, declaring that the remaining Habsburg empire can be inherited through the female line | |
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| 1714 |
| | | On the death of Queen Anne, the Act of Settlement delivers the British crown to the elector of Hanover, as George I | |
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| 1715 |
| | | Louis XIV dies after seventy-two years on the throne | |
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