March 3 (February 20 O.S.) – King
William III of England is fatally injured in an accident when he is thrown from his horse, "Sorrel", while riding in
Hampton Court Park near London. Already in poor health before the accident, he dies from his injuries 16 days later at the age of 51.[1]
March 14 – An earthquake in the middle of the
Calore valley in Italy, east of
Benevento, kills 400 people.
March 19 (March 8
Old Style) –
Princess Anne Stuart, daughter of the late
King James II and younger sister of his successor,
Mary II of England (who had reigned jointly with her husband, William III, as "William and Mary" until her death in 1694), ascends the English, Scottish and Irish thrones upon William's death. In her first speech to the English Parliament, made three days later, she tells the assembly "As I know my heart to be entirely English, I can very sincerely assure you there is not anything you can expect or desire from me which I shall not be ready to do for the happiness and prosperity of England."[2] Anne is the mother of 17 children by her husband,
Prince George of Denmark and Norway, but none will survive childhood, and she will die without an heir, bringing an end to the reign of the House of Stuart and enabling the
Hanoverian Succession. After the death of William, the
States General of the Netherlands do not appoint a new
stadtholder, and so the
Dutch Republic becomes a true
republic again.
October 1 – The founding deed of the
University of Wrocław is signed by the Holy Roman Emperor
Leopold I of the House of Austria, King of Hungary and Bohemia.
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.
^Theodore Ayrault Dodge, Gustavus Adolphus (Houghton Mifflin, 1890) p. 838
^James Falkner, Marlborough's War Machine 1702-1711 (Pen & Sword Military, 2014) p. 16
^Wijn, J.W. (1956). Het Staatsche Leger: Deel VIII Het tijdperk van de Spaanse Successieoorlog (The Dutch States Army: Part VIII The era of the War of the Spanish Succession) (in Dutch). Martinus Nijhoff.
^
abc John A. Lynn, The Wars of Louis XIV 1667-1714 (Taylor & Francis, 2013)
^Richard Harding, Seapower and Naval Warfare, 1650-1830 (Taylor & Francis, 2002) p. 169
^Ball, W. W. Rouse (1889). A History of the Study of Mathematics at Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. p. 193.
March 3 (February 20 O.S.) – King
William III of England is fatally injured in an accident when he is thrown from his horse, "Sorrel", while riding in
Hampton Court Park near London. Already in poor health before the accident, he dies from his injuries 16 days later at the age of 51.[1]
March 14 – An earthquake in the middle of the
Calore valley in Italy, east of
Benevento, kills 400 people.
March 19 (March 8
Old Style) –
Princess Anne Stuart, daughter of the late
King James II and younger sister of his successor,
Mary II of England (who had reigned jointly with her husband, William III, as "William and Mary" until her death in 1694), ascends the English, Scottish and Irish thrones upon William's death. In her first speech to the English Parliament, made three days later, she tells the assembly "As I know my heart to be entirely English, I can very sincerely assure you there is not anything you can expect or desire from me which I shall not be ready to do for the happiness and prosperity of England."[2] Anne is the mother of 17 children by her husband,
Prince George of Denmark and Norway, but none will survive childhood, and she will die without an heir, bringing an end to the reign of the House of Stuart and enabling the
Hanoverian Succession. After the death of William, the
States General of the Netherlands do not appoint a new
stadtholder, and so the
Dutch Republic becomes a true
republic again.
October 1 – The founding deed of the
University of Wrocław is signed by the Holy Roman Emperor
Leopold I of the House of Austria, King of Hungary and Bohemia.
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.
^Theodore Ayrault Dodge, Gustavus Adolphus (Houghton Mifflin, 1890) p. 838
^James Falkner, Marlborough's War Machine 1702-1711 (Pen & Sword Military, 2014) p. 16
^Wijn, J.W. (1956). Het Staatsche Leger: Deel VIII Het tijdperk van de Spaanse Successieoorlog (The Dutch States Army: Part VIII The era of the War of the Spanish Succession) (in Dutch). Martinus Nijhoff.
^
abc John A. Lynn, The Wars of Louis XIV 1667-1714 (Taylor & Francis, 2013)
^Richard Harding, Seapower and Naval Warfare, 1650-1830 (Taylor & Francis, 2002) p. 169
^Ball, W. W. Rouse (1889). A History of the Study of Mathematics at Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. p. 193.