Events

• January 23 - The Principality of Liechtenstein is created within the Holy Roman Empire
• April 25 - Daniel Defoe publishes Robinson Crusoe
• Prussia conducts Europe's first systematic census

Ongoing events

• Great Northern War (1700-1721)

Births

• November 30 - Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, later Princess of Wales.

Deaths

• January 12 - John Flamsteed, astronomer
• June 17 - Joseph Addison, English politician and writer (b. 1672)
• November 8 - Michel Rolle, French mathematician (b. 1652)
• Christoph Ludwig Agricola, German landscape painter