1701 - What happened in 1701 ?
January 1701
Tuesday 18:
Frederick I becomes King of Prussia.
May 1701
Sunday 15:
The War of the Spanish Succession begins.
Monday 23:
After being convicted of piracy and of murdering William Moore, Captain William Kidd is hanged in London.
» May 1701
July 1701
Sunday 24:
Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac founded trading post at Ft Pontchartrain, which later becomes the city of Detroit.
September 1701
Friday 16:
Prince James Francis Edward Stuart, more commonly referred to as the "Old Pretender", becomes the Jacobite claimant of the thrones of Scotland and England
October 1701
Sunday 09:
The Collegiate School of Connecticut (later renamed Yale University) is chartered in Old Saybrook, Connecticut.
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