- Jan 7 Typewriter patented by Englishman Henry Mill (built years later)
Steele Publishes "Crisis"
Jan 19 Richard Steele publishes "Crisis" defending Hanoverian success
- Feb 2 Nicholas Rowe's play "The Tragedy of Jane Shore" premieres in London
- Feb 15 Parliament of Paris accepts Pope Clemens XI's "Unigenitus" decree
- Mar 6 Treaty of Rastatt signed by Austria and France ending hostilities between them during the War of the Spanish Succession
- Jun 12 Prussia and Russia sign secret treaty
- Jun 26 Spain & Netherlands sign peace and trade agreement
- Jul 14 Battle of Aland, Russian fleet overpowers larger Swedish naval force
- Jul 27 Battle at Hango (Hangut): Russians beat Swedish fleet
British PM Dismissed
Jul 27 British Queen Anne dismisses premier Robert Haley
- Aug 7 The Battle of Gangut: the first important victory of the Russian Navy during the Great Northern War against Sweden
- Sep 7 Treaty of Baden signed by the Holy Roman Empire and France, ending the War of the Spanish Succession; French retain Alsace and Landau, Austria gets east bank of Rhine
- Sep 11 French & Spanish troops under Duke of Berwick occupy Barcelona
- Oct 7 People riot due to beer tax in Alkmaar, Netherlands
- Oct 20 Georg Ludwig von Hannover crowned as Britain's King George I at Westminster Abbey
- Nov 11 A highway in Bronx is laid out, later renamed East 233rd Street
- Nov 22 King Karel XII leaves Turkish captivity to return to Sweden
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