1702

1702 (MDCCII) was a common year beginning on a Sunday according to the Gregorian calendar.

Events

• 20 April: in Rome, Italy, the astronomers Giacomo Filippo Maraldi and Francesco Bianchini discover the C/1702 H1. It will also be discovered independently by Maria Winkelmann-Kirch (on 21 April, in Berlin) and by Philippe de la Hire (on 24 April, in

Paris).

• July 3: Austria (Party of the Archduke Carlos), declares the war to France and Spain (partisan of Felipe de Anjou). Thus begins the Spanish War of Succession.
• October 23: In the river of Vigo (Spain) the Battle of Rande is released.
• 14 December: in Japan, by orders of shōgun, kill 47 rōnin for collective haraquiri.
• In the United States, the West Jersey and East Jersey colonies unite to form New Jersey.
• In England, Queen Anne rises to the throne.

Art and literature

The Daily Courant, first diary of human history.

• 11 March: London is published The Daily Courant, the first daily newspaper of History.
• In Aguascalientes, Mexico, the Temple of Merced begins to be built.

Births

• January 6: José Nebra, Spanish composer (f. 1768).
• 27 March: Johann Ernst Eberlin, German composer and organist (f. 1762).
• March 21: Francisco Xavier de Oliveira, Portuguese writer (f. 1783)
• 28 March: Ignacio de Luzán, Spanish writer (f. 1754).
• 2 June: Marquis de la Ensenada, Spanish politician (f. 1781).
• August 15: Francesco Zuccarelli, Italian painter (f. 1788).
• Thomas Bayes, English mathematician (f. 1761).

Deaths

• March 8th: William III, English king (n. 1650).
• 10 May: Antonio Gherardi, painter, architect and Italian sculptor (n. 1638)