Events
- 23 May - After being convicted of murder and piracy, Captain William Kidd is hanged in London.
- 24 June - The Act of Settlement 1701, by the Parliament of England, becomes law. The crown of Great Britain passes to Sophia, Electress of Hanover and her descendants on the death of Princess Anne, the heiress presumptive to the throne after her brother in law, King William III.
- 7 September - The Treaty of Grand Alliance signed between England, Austria and the Dutch Republic.
- 16 September - Following the death of the deposed James II, his son Prince James Francis Edward Stuart becomes the new claimant to the thrones of Scotland as King James VIII and England as King James III. Louis XIV of France (where James is exiled) recognises him as the rightful heir, as do the Papal States and Spain.
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“When the world was half a thousand years younger all events had much sharper outlines than now. The distance between sadness and joy, between good and bad fortune, seemed to be much greater than for us; every experience had that degree of directness and absoluteness which joy and sadness still have in the mind of a child”
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“Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve!”
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