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1700-1749 Queen Anne Accedes
1700-1749 Queen Anne Accedes is in 18th Century Events.
1701 Death of King James II
Evelyn's Diary. 02 Sep 1701. The death of King James (age 67), happening on the 15th of this month, N. S., after two or three days' indisposition, put an end to that unhappy Prince's troubles, after a short and unprosperous reign, indiscreetly attempting to bring in Popery, and make himself absolute, in imitation of the French, hurried on by the impatience of the Jesuits; which the nation would not endure.
On 16 Sep 1701 King James II of England Scotland and Ireland (age 67) died at Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Yvelines. He was buried in the Church of the English Benedictines.
1702 Death of King William III
Evelyn's Diary. 08 Mar 1702. The King (age 51) had a fall from his horse, and broke his collar bone, and having been much indisposed before, and aguish, with a long cough and other weakness, died this Sunday morning, about four o'clock.
On 08 Mar 1702 King William III of England, Scotland and Ireland (age 51) died. His first cousin Queen Anne of England Scotland and Ireland (age 37) succeeded I Queen England Scotland and Ireland. She, Anne, being the sister of his wife Mary Stewart II Queen England Scotland and Ireland.
1705 General Election
On 1705 Samuel Garrard 4th Baronet (age 55) was elected MP Amersham in the 1705 General Election.
In 1705 Thomas Coke (age 30) was elected MP Derbyshire at the 1705 General Election.
1707 Scilly Naval Disaster
On 22 Oct 1707 Rear-Admiral Cloudesley Shovell (age 56) drowned.
The 1707 Scilly Naval Disaster was the loss of four warships of a Royal Navy fleet off the Scilly Isles [Map] in severe weather on 22 Oct 1707. Around 1,700 sailors lost their lives; one of the worst maritime disasters in British naval history.
Siege of Barcelona
Between 14 Sep 1705 and 19 Oct 1705 a multinational Grand Alliance army led by Lord Peterborough (age 47) captured the city of Barcelona [Map] from its Spanish defenders, most of whom then joined the Grand Aliance army.
On 13 Sep 1705 Prince George of Hesse Darmstadt (age 36) was killed.
Death of Catherine of Braganza Dowager Queen Consort
On 31 Dec 1705 Catherine of Braganza Queen Consort England (age 67) died at the Bemposta Palace some twenty years after the death of her husband King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland. She was buried at Monastery of São Vicente de Fora.
Battle of Ramilles
On 23 May 1706 Arnold Keppel 1st Earl Albermarle (age 36) and Harry Trelawny 5th Baronet (age 19) were present at Ramilles during the Battle of Ramilles.
Colonel James Gardiner (age 18) was shot through the mouth and nearly killed by a French soldier who had returned to plunder the dead. However, Gardiner was spared after being mistaken for a French soldier.
1708 General Election
On 1708 Samuel Garrard 4th Baronet (age 58) was elected MP Amersham in the 1708 General Election.
In 1708 Thomas Coke (age 33) was elected MP Derbyshire at the 1708 General Election.
Battle of Oudenarde
On 11 Jul 1708 Arnold Keppel 1st Earl Albermarle (age 38) was present at Oudenaarde during the Battle of Oudenarde.
John Wallop 1st Earl Portsmouth (age 18) fought as a volunteer.
Siege of Lille
After 11 Jul 1708 Arnold Keppel 1st Earl Albermarle (age 38) distinguished himself at Lille during the Siege of Lille.
Battle of Malplaquet
On 11 Sep 1709 at the Battle of Maplaquet Colonel Edmund Revett and John Murray (age 25) were killed.
1710 General Election
In 1710 Robert Furnese 2nd Baronet (age 22) was elected MP New Romney during the 1710 General Election.
In 1710 Thomas Coke (age 35) was elected MP Grampound at the 1710 General Election.
In 1710 Thomas Frankland 3rd Baronet (age 25) was elected MP Harwich during the 1710 General Election.
Battle of Briheuga
On 09 Dec 1710 the Battle of Briheuga was concluded at Brihuega Guadalajara Spain. The British rearguard under Lord Stanhope (age 37) was surrounded in Brihuega by a Franco-Spanish army under Duc de Vendôme (age 56). James Stanhope 1st Earl Stanhope surrendered once Vendôme's men had breached the town. The British troops were released and returned home in Oct 1711.
1711 Smallpox Epidemic
In 1711 William Henry Osborne (age 21) died of smallpox in Utrecht.
In 1711 Joseph I Holy Roman Emperor (age 32) died of smallpox. His brother Charles Habsburg Spain VI Holy Roman Emperor (age 25) succeeded VI Holy Roman Emperor.
On 14 Apr 1711 Louis "Le Grand Dauphin" Bourbon Duke Burgundy (age 49) died of smallpox. Louis Bourbon Duke Burgundy (age 28) was appointed Duke Burgundy and Dauphin.
On 17 May 1711 William Henry Granville 3rd Earl of Bath (age 19) died of smallpox. Earl Bath, Baron Granville of Kilkhampton and Biddeford extinct.
Harley's Dozen
On 01 Jan 1712 Queen Anne of England Scotland and Ireland (age 46), on behalf of Robert Harley 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer (age 50), created a number of new Baronies to balance power in Parliament, known as Harley's Dozen, ...
Allen Bathurst 1st Earl Bathurst (age 27) was created 1st Baron Bathurst.
Charles Bruce 4th Earl Elgin 3rd Earl Ailesbury (age 29) by writ of acceleration 3rd Baron Bruce of Skelton in Yorkshire.
James Compton 5th Earl of Northampton (age 24) by writ of acceleration 6th Baron Compton of Compton in Warwickshire.
Thomas Foley 1st Baron Foley (age 38) was created 1st Baron Foley.
George Granville 1st Baron Lansdowne (age 45) was created 1st Baron Lansdowne of Bideford in Devon. Mary Villiers Baroness Lansdowne by marriage Baroness Lansdowne of Bideford in Devon.
George Henry Hay 8th Earl Kinnoull (age 22) was created 1st Baron Hay of Pedwardine in Herefordshire.
Thomas Mansel 1st Baron Mansel (age 44) was created 1st Baron Mansel of Margam. Martha Millington Baroness Mansel by marriage Baroness Mansel of Margam.
Samuel Masham 1st Baron Masham (age 33) was created 1st Baron Masham of Otes in Essex. Abigail Hill Baroness Masham (age 42) by marriage Baroness Masham of Otes in Essex.
Henry Paget 1st Earl Uxbridge (age 48) was created 1st Baron Burton.
Thomas Trevor 1st Baron Trevor Bromham (age 53) was created 1st Baron Trevor Bromham.
Thomas Willoughby 1st Baron Middleton (age 39) was created 1st Baron Middleton. Elizabeth Rothwell Baroness Willoughby and Middleton by marriage Baroness Trevor Bromham, Baroness Middleton.
Thomas Windsor 1st Viscount Windsor (age 42) was created 1st Baron Mountjoy.
French Royal Family Deaths from Measles
On 12 Feb 1712 Maria Adelaide Savoy (age 26) died of measles at Versailles.
On 18 Feb 1712 Louis Bourbon Duke Burgundy (age 29) died of measles contracted when nursing his wife Maria Adelaide Savoy who had died six days previously.
On 08 Mar 1712, their eldest son, heir to the throne, Louis Bourbon Duke Brittany (age 5) died of measles.
The heir to the French throne their only remaining son Louis (age 1), aged two, great-grandson of the reigning monarch Louis "Sun King" XIV King France (age 73) succeeded his great-grandfather three years later in 1715.
Hamilton-Mohun Duel
Pepy's Diary. 21 Feb 1668. Thence with Brouncker and T. Harvey to Westminster Hall [Map], and there met with Colonel Birch (age 52) and Sir John Lowther, and did there in the lobby read over what I have drawn up for our defence, wherein they own themselves mightily satisfied; and Birch, like a particular friend, do take it upon him to defend us, and do mightily do me right in all his discourse. Here walked in the Hall with him a great while, and discoursed with several members, to prepare them in our business against to-morrow, and meeting my cozen Roger Pepys (age 50), he showed me Granger's written confession1, of his being forced by imprisonment, &c., by my Lord Gerard (age 50), most barbarously to confess his forging of a deed in behalf of Fitton (age 38), in the great case between him [Fitton] and my Lord Gerard; which business is under examination, and is the foulest against my Lord Gerard that ever any thing in the world was, and will, all do believe, ruine him; and I shall be glad of it.
Note 1. Pepys here refers to the extraordinary proceedings which occurred between Charles, Lord Gerard, and Alexander Fitton, of which a narrative was published at the Hague in 1665. Granger was a witness in the cause, and was afterwards said to be conscience-stricken from his perjury. Some notice of this case will be found in North's "Examen", p. 558; but the copious and interesting note in Ormerod's "History of Cheshire", Vol. iii., p. 291, will best satisfy the reader, who will not fail to be struck by the paragraph with which it is closed-viz., "It is not improbable that Alexander Fitton, who, in the first instance, gained rightful possession of Gawsworth [Map] under an acknowledged settlement, was driven headlong into unpremeditated guilt by the production of a revocation by will which Lord Gerard had so long concealed. Having lost his own fortune in the prosecution of his claims, he remained in gaol till taken out by James II to be made Chancellor of Ireland (under which character Hume first notices him), was knighted, and subsequently created Lord Gawsworth after the abdication of James, sat in his parliament in Dublin in 1689, and then is supposed to have accompanied his fallen master to France. Whether the conduct of Fitton was met, as he alleges, by similar guilt on the part of Lord Gerard, God only can judge; but his hand fell heavily on the representatives of that noble house. In less than half a century the husbands of its two co-heiresses, James, Duke of Hamilton (age 9), and Charles, Lord Mohun, were slain by each other's hands in a murderous duel arising out of a dispute relative to the partition of the Fitton estates, and Gawsworth itself passed to an unlineal hand, by a series of alienations complicated beyond example in the annals of this country". B. .
On 12 Nov 1712 Charles Mohun 4th Baron Mohun Okehampton (age 37) duelled with James Hamilton Duke Hamilton, 1st Duke Brandon (age 54) at Hyde Park [Map] over a legal dispute about the estate and inheritance of the late Earl Macclesfield.
Mohun had married Charlotte Orby Baroness Mohun Okehampton grand-daughter of Charles Gerard 1st Earl Macclesfield. James Hamilton Duke Hamilton, 1st Duke Brandon had married Elizabeth Gerard Duchess Brandon (age 32).
On 15 Nov 1712 James Hamilton Duke Hamilton, 1st Duke Brandon died from wounds received duelling. His son James Hamilton 5th Duke Hamilton 2nd Duke Brandon (age 9) succeeded 5th Duke Hamilton, 2nd Duke Brandon of Suffolk, 2nd Baron Dutton of Cheshire.
On 15 Nov 1712 Charles Mohun 4th Baron Mohun Okehampton died from wounds received duelling; his father had died the same way. Baron Mohun Okehampton and Baronet Mohun of Boconnoc in Cornwall extinct.
1713 General Election
In 1713 John Eden 2nd Baronet (age 35) was elected MP County Durham unopposed succeeding his father at the 1713 General Election.
In 1713 John Rushout 4th Baronet (age 27) stood for MP Evesham without success at the 1713 General Election.
On 22 Aug 1713 Leonard Smelt (age 30) was elected MP Northallerton during the 1713 General Election.
On 22 Aug 1713 Thomas Frankland 3rd Baronet (age 28) was elected MP Thirsk during the 1713 General Election.