1702

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Year 1702 (MDCCII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar). 1702 of the Swedish calendar was a common year starting on Tuesday, one day ahead of the Julian calendar.

[edit] Events of 1702

12 January – In America, ships from Fort Maurepas arrive at Twenty-Seven Mile Bluff to build Fort Louis de la Mobile (future Mobile, Alabama) to become the capital of French Louisiana.
8 March – William III dies; Princess Anne Stuart becomes Queen Anne of England, Scotland and Ireland. Anne is the mother of 17 children by her husband Prince George of Denmark but none of them will survive childhood and she will die without heir to enable the Hanoverian Succession. In the Netherlands, the Staten Generaal do not appoint a new stadtholder and so the United Provinces become a true republic again.
11 March (O.S.) – The first regular English language newspaper, The Daily Courant. is published for the first time.
May – Warsaw is conquered by Charles XII of Sweden, who later the same year defeats Poland again at the Battle of Kliszow.
4-14 May – The War of the Spanish Succession widens, as war is declared on France by the Grand Alliance.
June – Queen Anne's Captain-General John Churchill forces the surrender of Kaiserswerth on the Rhine.

September – Churchill forces the surrender of Venlo on the Meuse River.
27 October – English troops plunder St. Augustine in Florida.
October – Sir George Rooke fails to take Cádiz, but captures a Spanish treasure fleet and destroys French and Spanish warships. Churchill forces the surrender of Liège.
14 December – John Churchill is created Duke of Marlborough.
15 December – Forty-seven Ronin, formerly in the service of Asano Naganori, assault the household of Kira Yoshinaka, and kill him in vengeance for their lord. Their display of the ideals of Bushido becomes a national legend.

Delaware designated a separate colony.
Queen Anne's War (1702–1713). The second of the North American Wars fought from 1689 to 1763, it is concurrent with the War of the Spanish Succession in Europe but is entirely due to the unresolved commercial and colonial rivalry between Great Britain and France.
The British East India Company buys control of the New (or English) Company that was set up as a rival trading organisation in 1698. An Act of Parliament then amalgamates the two as "The United Company of Merchants of England Trading to the East Indies". The charter will be renewed several times in the 18th century, each time with financial concessions to the Crown.