1742

1742 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	1742; MDCCXLII
Ab urbe condita	2495
Armenian calendar	1191; ԹՎ ՌՃՂԱ
Assyrian calendar	6492
Balinese saka calendar	1663–1664
Bengali calendar	1149
Berber calendar	2692
British Regnal year	15 Geo. 2 – 16 Geo. 2
Buddhist calendar	2286
Burmese calendar	1104
Byzantine calendar	7250–7251
Chinese calendar	辛酉年 (Metal Rooster); 4438 or 4378; — to —; 壬戌年 (Water Dog); 4439 or 4379
Coptic calendar	1458–1459
Discordian calendar	2908
Ethiopian calendar	1734–1735
Hebrew calendar	5502–5503
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1798–1799
- Shaka Samvat	1663–1664
- Kali Yuga	4842–4843
Holocene calendar	11742
Igbo calendar	742–743
Iranian calendar	1120–1121
Islamic calendar	1154–1155
Japanese calendar	Kanpō 2; (寛保２年)
Javanese calendar	1666–1667
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar	4075
Minguo calendar	170 before ROC ; 民前170年
Nanakshahi calendar	274
Thai solar calendar	2284–2285
Tibetan calendar	阴金鸡年; (female Iron-Rooster); 1868 or 1487 or 715; — to —; 阳水狗年; (male Water-Dog); 1869 or 1488 or 716

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century ; 18th century ; 19th century ;
Decades:	1720s ; 1730s ; 1740s ; 1750s ; 1760s ;
Years:	1739 ; 1740 ; 1741 ; 1742 ; 1743 ; 1744 ; 1745 ;

Last updated April 14, 2019

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1742 ( MDCCXLII ) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar , the 1742nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 742nd year of the 2nd millennium , the 42nd year of the 18th century , and the 3rd year of the 1740s decade. As of the start of 1742, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Roman numerals Numbers in the Roman numeral system

The numeric system represented by Roman numerals originated in ancient Rome and remained the usual way of writing numbers throughout Europe well into the Late Middle Ages. Numbers in this system are represented by combinations of letters from the Latin alphabet. Roman numerals, as used today, employ seven symbols, each with a fixed integer value, as follows:

A common year is a calendar year with 365 days, as distinguished from a leap year, which has 366. More generally, a common year is one without intercalation. The Gregorian calendar,, employs both common years and leap years to keep the calendar aligned with the tropical year, which does not contain an exact number of days.

A common year starting on Monday is any non-leap year that begins on Monday, 1 January, and ends on Monday, 31 December. Its dominical letter hence is G. The most recent year of such kind was 2018 and the next one will be 2029 in the Gregorian calendar, or likewise, 2013 and 2019 in the obsolete Julian calendar. The century year, 1900, was also a common year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar. See below for more. Any common year that starts on Sunday, Monday or Tuesday has two Friday the 13ths. This common year of this type contains two Friday the 13ths in April and July. Leap years starting on Sunday share this characteristic, but also have another in January.

Events

January–June

January – The House of Commons of Great Britain votes on the alleged rigging of the Chippenham by-election. It becomes a motion of no confidence, which leads to the resignation of Robert Walpole.^[1]
January 9 – Robert Walpole is made Earl of Orford, and resigns as First Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer, effectively ending his period as Prime Minister of Great Britain.^[2] On his formally relinquishing office five days later, he will have served 20 years and 314 days as Prime Minister, the longest single term ever, and also longer than the accumulated terms of any other British Prime Minister.
January 14 – Death of Edmond Halley; James Bradley succeeds him as Astronomer Royal in Great Britain.
January 24 – Charles VII Albert becomes Holy Roman Emperor.
February – Henry Fielding publishes his picaresque novel Joseph Andrews anonymously in London.
February 12 – John Carteret, 2nd Lord Carteret becomes Secretary of State for the Northern Department in Great Britain.
February 16 – Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington, becomes Prime Minister of Great Britain.
April 13 – George Frideric Handel's oratorio The Messiah is first performed, in Dublin, Ireland.
May 17 – Frederick the Great's army defeats the Austrians in Chotusitz.
May 24 – War of the Austrian Succession: French forces defeat the Austrians in the Battle of Sahay.
June – Christian Goldbach formulates Goldbach's conjecture.
June 11 – Peace of Breslau: Austria cedes Silesia to Prussia.
June 20 – Izmir, formerly the ancient Greek city of Smyrna, is destroyed by fire.^[3]

January is the first month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars and the first of seven months to have a length of 31 days. The first day of the month is known as New Year's Day. It is, on average, the coldest month of the year within most of the Northern Hemisphere and the warmest month of the year within most of the Southern Hemisphere. In the Southern hemisphere, January is the seasonal equivalent of July in the Northern hemisphere and vice versa.

The House of Commons of Great Britain was the lower house of the Parliament of Great Britain between 1707 and 1801. In 1707, as a result of the Acts of Union of that year, it replaced the House of Commons of England and the third estate of the Parliament of Scotland, as one of the most significant changes brought about by the Union of the kingdoms of England and Scotland into the Kingdom of Great Britain.

Chippenham (UK Parliament constituency) Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 2010 onwards

Chippenham is a parliamentary constituency, abolished in 1983 but recreated in 2010, and represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election. The 2010 constituency includes the towns of Bradford on Avon, Chippenham, Corsham and Melksham.

July–December

July 7 – War of Jenkins' Ear: Battle of Bloody Marsh – British troops repel those of Spain (under Montiano), in the Province of Georgia.
July 14 – William Pulteney is created 1st Earl of Bath in Great Britain.
September – Construction starts on the Foundling Hospital in London.
November 13 – The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters is founded.
December 2 – The Pennsylvania Journal first appears in the United States.

July 7 is the 188th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 177 days remaining until the end of the year.

The War of Jenkins' Ear was a conflict between Britain and Spain lasting from 1739 to 1748, with major operations largely ended by 1742. Its unusual name, coined by Thomas Carlyle in 1858, refers to an ear severed from Robert Jenkins, a captain of a British merchant ship. There is no evidence that supports the stories that the severed ear was exhibited before the British Parliament.

The Battle of Bloody Marsh was a battle that took place on July 7, 1742, between Spanish and British forces on St. Simons Island, part of the Province of Georgia, resulting in a victory for the British. Part of a much larger conflict, the War of Jenkins' Ear, the battle was for the British fortifications of Fort Frederica and Fort St. Simons, with the strategic goal the sea routes and inland waters they controlled. With the victory, the Province of Georgia established undisputed claim to the island. It is now part of the U.S. state of Georgia. The British also won the Battle of Gully Hole Creek, which took place on the island the same day.

Date unknown

The Kingdom of Prussia captures Jihlava.
The Lopukhina Conspiracy arises at the Russian court.
In Peru, Juan Santos takes the name Atahualpa II, and begins an ill-fated rebellion against Spanish rule.
The Afghan tribes unite as a monarchy.
Daniel le Pelley succeeds Nicolas le Pelley, as Seigneur of Sark.
Molde, Norway, becomes a city.
Eisenach, Germany builds its Stadtschloss (city castle).
Spain completes the construction of Fort Matanzas in the Matanzas Inlet, approximately 15 miles (24 km) south of St. Augustine, Florida.
The University of Erlangen is founded in Bavaria.
Anders Celsius publishes his proposal for a centigrade temperature scale originated in 1741.
Colin Maclaurin publishes his Treatise on Fluxions.
Charles Jervas's English translation of Don Quixote is published posthumously. Through a printer's error, the translator's name is printed as 'Charles Jarvis', leading the book to forever be known as the Jarvis translation. It is acclaimed as the most faithful English rendering of the novel made up to this time.
The Roman Catholic church decrees that Roman ceremonial practice in Latin (not in Chinese) is to be the law for Chinese missions.

The Kingdom of Prussia was a German kingdom that constituted the state of Prussia between 1701 and 1918. It was the driving force behind the unification of Germany in 1871 and was the leading state of the German Empire until its dissolution in 1918. Although it took its name from the region called Prussia, it was based in the Margraviate of Brandenburg, where its capital was Berlin.

Jihlava is a city in the Czech Republic. Jihlava is the capital of the Vysočina Region, situated on the Jihlava river on the historical border between Moravia and Bohemia, and is the oldest mining town in the Czech Republic, approximately 50 years older than Kutná Hora.

Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the west by the Pacific Ocean. Peru is a megadiverse country with habitats ranging from the arid plains of the Pacific coastal region in the west to the peaks of the Andes mountains vertically extending from the north to the southeast of the country to the tropical Amazon Basin rainforest in the east with the Amazon river.

Births

January 8 – Philip Astley, English circus organizer (d. 1814)
March 9 – Michael Anckarsvärd, Swedish politician (d. 1838)
March 10 – Sampson Salter Blowers, American lawyer, jurist (d. 1842)

January 8 is the eighth day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 357 days remaining until the end of the year.

Philip Astley English equestrian, circus owner, and inventor, regarded as being the "father of the modern circus"

Philip Astley was an English equestrian, circus owner, and inventor, regarded as being the "father of the modern circus". The circus industry, as a presenter of an integrated entertainment experience that includes music, domesticated animals, acrobats, and clowns, traces its heritage to Astley's Amphitheatre, a riding school that Astley founded in London following the success of trick-riding displays given by him and his wife Patty Jones in 1768.

1814 (MDCCCXIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1814th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 814th year of the 2nd millennium, the 14th year of the 19th century, and the 5th year of the 1810s decade. As of the start of 1814, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar MohammadKhanQajari.jpg — Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar

March 14 – Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar, Iranian king (d. 1797)
March 12 – Aletta Haniel, German business person (d. 1815)
April 28 – Henry Dundas, British statesman (d. 1811)
May 6 – Jean Senebier, Swiss pastor, botanist (d. 1809)
June 25 – Johann Schweighäuser, German classical scholar (d. 1830)
June 26 – Arthur Middleton, American politician (d. 1787)
June 28 – William Hooper, American statesman (d. 1790)
July 21 – John Cleves Symmes, American statesman (d. 1814)
July 27 – Nathanael Greene, American general (d. 1786)
August 14 – Pope Pius VII (b. Barnaba Niccolò Maria Luigi Chiaramonti), Italian Benedictine (d. 1823)

March 14 is the 73rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 292 days remaining until the end of the year.

Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar, also known by his regnal name of Agha Mohammad Shah, was the founder of the Qajar dynasty of Iran, ruling from 1789 to 1797 as king (shah). Originally chieftain of the Qoyunlu branch of the Qajar tribe, Agha Mohammad Khan was enthroned as the king of Iran in 1789, but was not officially crowned until March 1796, having deposed Lotf Ali Khan of the Zand dynasty in 1794. Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar was famously the eunuch Monarch, being castrated as a young adult upon his capture by Adel Shah Afshar, and hence was childless. He was assassinated on 17 June 1797, and was succeeded by his nephew, Fath-Ali Shah Qajar.

1797 (MDCCXCVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1797th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 797th year of the 2nd millennium, the 97th year of the 18th century, and the 8th year of the 1790s decade. As of the start of 1797, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

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September 14 – James Wilson, American politician, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 1798)
October 3 – Anders Jahan Retzius, Swedish chemist, botanist (d. 1821)
October 6 – Johan Herman Wessel, Norwegian poet (d. 1785)
November 5 – Richard Cosway, English artist (d. 1821)

December 9 – Carl Wilhelm Scheele, Swedish chemist (d. 1785)
December 16 – Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Prussian general (d. 1819)
December 26 (bapt.)– George Chalmers, Scottish antiquarian (d. 1825)
date unknown– Rafaela Herrera, Nicaraguan heroine (d. 1805)
date unknown– Francis Nash, American military officer (d. 1777)
date unknown– Hendrik Frans de Cort, Flemish painter (d. 1810)

Deaths

January 1 – Peregrine Bertie, 2nd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English statesman (b. 1686)

January 14 – Edmond Halley, English astronomer (b. 1656)
February 22 – Charles Rivington, English publisher (b. 1688)
March 23 – Jean-Baptiste Dubos, French author (b. 1670)
April 2 – James Douglas, Scottish physician, anatomist (b. 1675)
April 15 – Samuel Shute, Governor of Massachusetts Bay and New Hampshire (b. 1662)
April 17 – Arvid Horn, Swedish statesman (b. 1664)
May 13 – Ludwig IX, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (b. 1719)
May 21 – Lars Roberg, Swedish physician (b. 1664)
May 26 – Pylyp Orlyk, Ukrainian Zaporozhian Cossack starshina, diplomat (b. 1672)
June 18 – John Aislabie, British politician (b. 1670)
June 27 – Nathan Bailey, English philologist, lexicographer
July 1 – Bohuslav Matěj Černohorský, Czech composer (b. 1684)
July 2 – Robert Petre, 8th Baron Petre, British peer, renowned horticulturist (b. 1713)
July 4 – Guido Grandi, Italian mathematician (b. 1671)
July 9 – John Oldmixon, English historian (b. 1673)
July 12 – Evaristo Abaco, Italian composer (b. 1675)
July 14 – Richard Bentley, English scholar and critic (b. 1662)
July 19 – William Somervile, English poet (b. 1675)
July 23 – Susanna Wesley, mother of John and Charles Wesley, known as mother of Methodism. (b. 1669)
July 30 – Nicholas Roosevelt (1658–1742), Dutch-American politician (b. 1658)
August 14 – Maria van Lommen, Dutch gold- and silversmith and guild member (b. 1688)
August 25 – Carlos Seixas, Portuguese composer (b. 1704)
September 18 – Vincenzo Ludovico Gotti, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1664)
September 22 – Frederic Louis Norden, Danish explorer (b. 1708)
September 27 – Hugh Boulter, Irish Archbishop of Armagh (b. 1672)
September 28 – Jean Baptiste Massillon, French bishop (b. 1663)
November 12 – Friedrich Hoffmann, German physician, chemist (b. 1660)
November 20 – Melchior de Polignac, French diplomat (b. 1661)
November 24 – Andrew Bradford, American publisher (b. 1686)
December 18 – William Fairfield, Massachusetts Speaker of the House of Deputies (b. 1662)
December 31 – Karl III Philip, Elector Palatine (b. 1661)

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1662 (MDCLXII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1662nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 662nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 62nd year of the 17th century, and the 3rd year of the 1660s decade. As of the start of 1662, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

1796 (MDCCXCVI) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1796th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 796th year of the 2nd millennium, the 96th year of the 18th century, and the 7th year of the 1790s decade. As of the start of 1796, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

1728 (MDCCXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1728th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 728th year of the 2nd millennium, the 28th year of the 18th century, and the 9th year of the 1720s decade. As of the start of 1728, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

1800 (MDCCC) was an exceptional common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1800th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 800th year of the 2nd millennium, the 100th and last year of the 18th century, and the 1st year of the 1800s decade. As of the start of 1800, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923. As of March 1, when the Julian calendar acknowledged a leap day and the Gregorian calendar did not, the Julian calendar fell one day further behind, bringing the difference to 12 days until 1899.

1611 (MDCXI) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1611th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 611th year of the 2nd millennium, the 11th year of the 17th century, and the 2nd year of the 1610s decade. As of the start of 1611, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

1601 (MDCI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1601st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 601st year of the 2nd millennium, the 1st year of the 17th century, and the 2nd year of the 1600s decade. As of the start of 1601, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923. January 1 of this year (1601-01-01) is used as the base of file dates and of Active Directory Logon dates by Microsoft Windows. It is also the date from which ANSI dates are counted and were adopted by the American National Standards Institute for use with COBOL and other computer languages. This epoch is the beginning of the 400-year Gregorian leap-year cycle within which digital files first existed; the last year of any such cycle is the only leap year whose year number is divisible by 100. All versions of the Microsoft Windows operating system from Windows 95 onward count units of one hundred nanoseconds from this epoch.

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1628 (MDCXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1628th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 628th year of the 2nd millennium, the 28th year of the 17th century, and the 9th year of the 1620s decade. As of the start of 1628, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

1592 (MDXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1592nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 592nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 92nd year of the 16th century, and the 3rd year of the 1590s decade. As of the start of 1592, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

1723 (MDCCXXIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1723rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 723rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 23rd year of the 18th century, and the 4th year of the 1720s decade. As of the start of 1723, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

1740 (MDCCXL) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1740th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 740th year of the 2nd millennium, the 40th year of the 18th century, and the 1st year of the 1740s decade. As of the start of 1740, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

1736 (MDCCXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1736th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 736th year of the 2nd millennium, the 36th year of the 18th century, and the 7th year of the 1730s decade. As of the start of 1736, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

1733 (MDCCXXXIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1733rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 733rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 33rd year of the 18th century, and the 4th year of the 1730s decade. As of the start of 1733, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

1726 (MDCCXXVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1726th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 726th year of the 2nd millennium, the 26th year of the 18th century, and the 7th year of the 1720s decade. As of the start of 1726, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

1724 (MDCCXXIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1724th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 724th year of the 2nd millennium, the 24th year of the 18th century, and the 5th year of the 1720s decade. As of the start of 1724, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

1710 (MDCCX) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1710th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 710th year of the 2nd millennium, the 10th year of the 18th century, and the 1st year of the 1710s decade. As of the start of 1710, 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 Saturday, one day ahead of the Julian and ten days behind the Gregorian calendar.

1664 (MDCLXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1664th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 664th year of the 2nd millennium, the 64th year of the 17th century, and the 5th year of the 1660s decade. As of the start of 1664, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923. It is one of eight years (CE) to contain each Roman numeral once.

1712 (MDCCXII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1712th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 712th year of the 2nd millennium, the 12th year of the 18th century, and the 3rd year of the 1710s decade. As of the start of 1712, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923. In the Swedish calendar it began as a leap year starting on Monday and remained so until Thursday, February 29. By adding a second leap day Sweden reverted to the Julian calendar and the rest of the year was in sync with the Julian calendar. Sweden finally made the switch from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar in 1753. This year has 367 days.

1701 (MDCCI) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1701st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 701st year of the 2nd millennium, the 1st year of the 18th century, and the 2nd year of the 1700s decade. As of the start of 1701, 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 Tuesday, one day ahead of the Julian and ten days behind the Gregorian calendar.

References

↑ "A dozen Downing Street departures". BBC News. 2007-05-09. Archived from the original on August 23, 2007. Retrieved 2007-07-14.
↑ Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. p. 309. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
↑ "Fires, Great", in The Insurance Cyclopeadia: Being an Historical Treasury of Events and Circumstances Connected with the Origin and Progress of Insurance, Cornelius Walford, ed. (C. and E. Layton, 1876) p50

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[1] "A dozen Downing Street departures". BBC News. 2007-05-09. Archived from the original on August 23, 2007. Retrieved 2007-07-14.

[Cassell's_Chronology309-2] Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. p. 309. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.

[3] "Fires, Great", in The Insurance Cyclopeadia: Being an Historical Treasury of Events and Circumstances Connected with the Origin and Progress of Insurance, Cornelius Walford, ed. (C. and E. Layton, 1876) p50

Gregorian calendar	1742 MDCCXLII
Ab urbe condita	2495
Armenian calendar	1191 ԹՎ ՌՃՂԱ
Assyrian calendar	6492
Balinese saka calendar	1663–1664
Bengali calendar	1149
Berber calendar	2692
British Regnal year	15 Geo. 2 – 16 Geo. 2
Buddhist calendar	2286
Burmese calendar	1104
Byzantine calendar	7250–7251
Chinese calendar	辛酉年 (Metal Rooster) 4438 or 4378 — to — 壬戌年 (Water Dog) 4439 or 4379
Coptic calendar	1458–1459
Discordian calendar	2908
Ethiopian calendar	1734–1735
Hebrew calendar	5502–5503
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1798–1799
- Shaka Samvat	1663–1664
- Kali Yuga	4842–4843
Holocene calendar	11742
Igbo calendar	742–743
Iranian calendar	1120–1121
Islamic calendar	1154–1155
Japanese calendar	Kanpō 2 (寛保２年)
Javanese calendar	1666–1667
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar	4075
Minguo calendar	170 before ROC 民前170年
Nanakshahi calendar	274
Thai solar calendar	2284–2285
Tibetan calendar	阴金鸡年 (female Iron-Rooster) 1868 or 1487 or 715 — to — 阳水狗年 (male Water-Dog) 1869 or 1488 or 716

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