Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
October 7: Russia's 15-day siege of Nöteborg begins in Sweden
October 23: Battle of Vigo Bay: English and Dutch forces capture the Spanish port of Cadiz
1702 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1702
MDCCII
Ab urbe condita2455
Armenian calendar1151
ԹՎ ՌՃԾԱ
Assyrian calendar6452
Balinese saka calendar1623–1624
Bengali calendar1109
Berber calendar2652
English Regnal year14 Will. 3  1 Ann. 1
Buddhist calendar2246
Burmese calendar1064
Byzantine calendar7210–7211
Chinese calendar辛巳年 (Metal Snake)
4399 or 4192
     to 
壬午年 (Water Horse)
4400 or 4193
Coptic calendar1418–1419
Discordian calendar2868
Ethiopian calendar1694–1695
Hebrew calendar5462–5463
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1758–1759
 - Shaka Samvat1623–1624
 - Kali Yuga4802–4803
Holocene calendar11702
Igbo calendar702–703
Iranian calendar1080–1081
Islamic calendar1113–1114
Japanese calendarGenroku 15
(元禄15年)
Javanese calendar1625–1626
Julian calendarGregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar4035
Minguo calendar210 before ROC
民前210年
Nanakshahi calendar234
Thai solar calendar2244–2245
Tibetan calendar阴金蛇年
(female Iron-Snake)
1828 or 1447 or 675
     to 
阳水马年
(male Water-Horse)
1829 or 1448 or 676

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.

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 (meaning "Narrow road to/of the interior"), 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.
  • Delaware is designated a separate colony.
  • Richard Bentley at Cambridge in England introduces the first written (as opposed to oral) competitive examinations in a Western university.[9]

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Deaths

References

  1. Arthur Lyon Cross, A History of England and Greater Britain (Macmillan, 1917) p. 648
  2. Maureen Waller, Sovereign Ladies: The Six Reigning Queens of England (John Murray, 2006) p. 313
  3. Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
  4. "Using the Records of the East and West Jersey Proprietors", by Joseph R. Klett (New Jersey State Archives, 2014) p. 5
  5. Theodore Ayrault Dodge, Gustavus Adolphus (Houghton Mifflin, 1890) p. 838
  6. James Falkner, Marlborough's War Machine 1702-1711 (Pen & Sword Military, 2014) p. 16
  7. 1 2 3 John A. Lynn, The Wars of Louis XIV 1667-1714 (Taylor & Francis, 2013)
  8. Richard Harding, Seapower and Naval Warfare, 1650-1830 (Taylor & Francis, 2002) p. 169
  9. Ball, W. W. Rouse (1889). A History of the Study of Mathematics at Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. p. 193.
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