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| c. 1700 |
| | In the years after the battle of the Boyne, Catholic ownership of land in Ireland is reduced to just 14% of the total | |
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| c. 1700 |
| | Holland and England are now producing the magnificent ocean-going merchant vessels known as East Indiamen | |
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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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| 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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| 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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