Eighteenth-Century Chronology: 1700

Literature

• John Blackmore, Satire Against Wit
• Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote, translated into English by Motteux, vol. 1
• Daniel Defoe, An Enquiry into Occasional Conformity
• John Dryden, Fables and The Secular Masque
• Fénelon, Dialogue des morts
• Marquess of Halifax, Works
• Harrington, Collected Works
• Pomfret, The Choice, Reason
• Prior, Carmen Seculare
• Nahum Tate, Panacea: A Poem on Tea
• Sir William Temple, Letters, edited by Jonathan Swift
• Ned Ward, The London Spy, in twelve parts

Theatre

• Burnaby, The Reform'd Wife
• Susanna Centlivre, The Perjur'd Husband
• Colley Cibber's adaptation of Shakespeare's Richard III
• Colley Cibber, Love Makes a Man
• William Congreve, The Way of the World
• John Dennis, Iphigenia
• Farquhar, The Inconstant Couple
• Charles Johnson, The Gentleman-Cully
• Anne Oldfield's first major role, Alinda, in The Pilgrim
• Nicholas Rowe, The Ambitious Stepmother
• Thomas Southerne, The Fate of Capua
• John Vanbrugh, The Pilgrim

Art

• Nicholas Hawksmoor, architect, becomes assistant to John Vanbrugh

Music

Science, Technology, & Medicine

• Leibniz is elected president of the new Berlin Academy of Science
• J. P. de Tournefort of France discovers ammonium chloride

Politics & Law

• Last Statute against Papists
• Attacks on Somers and Burnet
• The dispute over Irish Forfeitures
• The Act of Resumption
• The Partition Treaty
• Copenhagen comes under bombardment
• Massachusetts and New York require all Catholics to leave the colonies

Philosophy & Theology

• Sor Juana Inéz de la Cruz, Fama y obras póstumas (posthumous third volume of her works)
• Natives first admitted to the religious orders in the Philippines

Milestones

• Death of John Dryden
• Birth of Dyer ???
• Death of the Duke of Gloucester
• Birth of James Thomson

Miscellaneous