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1707
Events from the year 1707 in the Kingdom of England, then England.
Incumbents
Monarch – Anne (until 1 May; England and Scotland unite)
Events
16 January – The Parliament of Scotland passes the Union with England Act.
19 March – The Act of Union with Scotland is passed by the Parliament of England.
14 April (25 April New Style) – At the Battle of Almansa (Spain) in the War of the Spanish Succession, the Bourbon army of Spain and France (with Irish mercenaries) under the French-born Englishman James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick, soundly defeats the allied forces of Portugal, England, and the Dutch Republic led by the French-born Huguenot in English service Henri de Massue, Earl of Galway.https://archive.org/details/historyofspainpo00payn A History of Spain and Portugal 2 Chapter 16: The Eighteenth-Century Bourbon Regime in Spain Stanley G. Payne Madison University of Wisconsin Press 0-299-06270-8 2008-04-17 registration
1 May – England becomes part of the united kingdom of Great Britain as a result of the 1706 Treaty of Union that was ratified by the Acts of Unionhttp://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/evolutionofparliament/legislativescrutiny/act-of-union-1707/ Act of Union 1707 Parliament of the United Kingdom 2016-03-11 and merges the Parliaments of England and Scotland to form the Parliament of Great Britain.Williams Hywel Cassell's Chronology of World History https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/291 registration London Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2005 0-304-35730-8 291 The Equivalent, a sum of £398,000, is paid to Scotland by the English government to compensate for the fact that Scotland had no National Debt but, on Union, was taking on shared responsibility for England’s National Debt.
Births
13 January – John Boyle, 5th Earl of Cork, writer (died 1762)
28 January (bapt.) – John Baskerville, printer (died 1775)
1 February (NS) – Frederick, Prince of Wales, heir apparent to the British throne from 1727 (born in Hanover; died 1751)
23 March – Henry Scudamore, 3rd Duke of Beaufort (died 1745)
22 April – Henry Fielding, novelist and dramatist (died 1754)
Deaths
20 January – Humphrey Hody, theologian (born 1659)
30 March – Henry Hall, poet and composer of church music (born c. 1656)
29 April – George Farquhar, dramatist (born 1677 in Ireland)
References
See also
1707 in Scotland
1707 in Wales
1707
Category:Years of the 18th century in England
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