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1702
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1702 (MDCCII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1702nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 702nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 2nd year of the 18th century, and the 3rd year of the 1700s decade. As of the start of 1702, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

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October 7: Russia's 15-day siege of Nöteborg begins in Sweden (Great Northern War)
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October 23: Battle of Vigo Bay: English and Dutch forces capture the Spanish port of Cádiz (War of the Spanish Succession)
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In the Swedish calendar it was a common year starting on Wednesday, one day ahead of the Julian and ten days behind the Gregorian calendar.

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  • The travel diary Oku no Hosomichi ("Narrow road to the deep north"), a major work of haibun by the Japanese poet Matsuo Bashō and one of the major texts of Japanese literature of the Edo period, is published eight years after Bashō's death.
  • The Delaware Colony legislature is separated from that of Pennsylvania.
  • Richard Bentley at Cambridge in England introduces the first written (as opposed to oral) competitive examinations in a Western university.[10]
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Alan Brodrick, 2nd Viscount Midleton born 31 January
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Giovanni Carmine Pellerano born 6 February
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Rasmus Paludan born 26 February
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Henrietta Maria of Brandenburg-Schwedt born 2 March
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Jack Sheppard born 4 March
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Thomas Penn born 20 March
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Willem van Keppel, 2nd Earl of Albemarle born 5 June
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Muhammad Shah born 7 August
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Louis-François Roubiliac born 31 August
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Januarius Maria Sarnelli born 12 September
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Abhai Singh of Marwar born 7 November

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Deaths

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Ignatius Gregory Peter VI Shahbaddin died 4 March
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Joseph Oriol died 23 March
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Zeb-un-Nissa died 26 May
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Vincent van der Vinne died 26 July
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Olaus Rudbeck died 17 September
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Countess Sophie Henriette of Waldeck died 15 October
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John Benbow died 4 November
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