1707 in England

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Events from the year 1707 in the kingdom of England, then England.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Anne (starting 1 May, England merges with Scotland)
• Parliament – 2nd of Queen Anne (until 3 April)

Events

• 16 January – The Parliament of Scotland passes the Union with England Act.
• 19 March – The Act of Union with Scotland is ratified 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.^[1]
• 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 Union^[2] and merges the Parliaments of England and Scotland to form the Parliament of Great Britain.^[3] The Equivalent, a sum of £398,000, is paid to Scotland by the English government.

Births

• 13 January – John Boyle, 5th Earl of Cork, writer (died 1762)
• 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 Great Britain