England and Scotland unite
England and Scotland merge into one kingdom
Under the Acts of Union passed by both parliaments, England and Scotland, which had shared a monarch since 1603, merged on 1 May 1707 into the Kingdom of Great Britain with a single parliament at Westminster. Scotland kept its own church and legal system.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1682 Accession of Peter the Great — 25 years earlier
- 1700–1721 Great Northern War — 7 years earlier
- 1703 Founding of Saint Petersburg — 4 years earlier
- 1709 Battle of Poltava — 2 years later
- 1721 Proclamation of the Russian Empire — 14 years later
Middle East
- 1722 Fall of Isfahan — 15 years later
Asia
- 1707 Death of Aurangzeb — same year
Alive at the time
- Louis XIV (aged 69)
- Isaac Newton (aged 64)
- Kangxi Emperor (aged 53)
- Peter the Great (aged 35)
- Johann Sebastian Bach (aged 22)
- Voltaire (aged 13)
- Benjamin Franklin (aged 1)
- Aurangzeb (aged 89)
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (aged 61)
- Tokugawa Tsunayoshi (aged 61)