1700 in England

Incumbents

• Monarch – William III
• Parliament – 4th of King William III

  Events

• 27 February – the island of New Britain is discovered by William Dampier in the western Pacific.
• early March – William Congreve's comedy The Way of the World is first performed at the New Theatre, Lincoln's Inn Fields.
• 25 March – Treaty of London signed between France, England and Holland.
• 29 July – Princess Anne's only surviving child, Prince William, Duke of Gloucester, dies aged eleven leaving the Protestant succession to the Crown in doubt.
• September – While in the Netherlands, William III meets his cousin Sophia at Het Loo Palace. This is a precursor to the Act of Settlement of the following year that opens the way to the future succession of the House of Hanover.
• 20 November – first boats reach Leeds from the tideway by way of the Aire and Calder Navigation.
• 25 December – First Christmas hymn authorised to be sung in the Anglican church, "While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks", the words by Nahum Tate having been first published this year, in a supplement to "Tate and Brady".
• 28 December – Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
• Approximate date – Jeremiah Clarke writes the Prince of Denmark's March.

  Births

• 29 March – Charles Cornwallis, 1st Earl Cornwallis
• April – John Wyatt, inventor
• 4 May – Joseph Adams, chief factor of the Hudson's Bay Company
• 14 May – Mary Delany, Bluestocking, artist and writer
• 13 July – John Dandridge, colonel and planter in Virginia
• 20 September – Benedict Leonard Calvert, Governor of Maryland
• 26 September? – Mary Hervey, née Lepell, courtier
• 13 October – Phanuel Bacon, playwright, poet and author
• 31 October – Joseph Blake, alias Blueskin, highwayman
• 28 November – Nathaniel Bliss, Astronomer Royal

  Full date unknown

• John Cecil, 7th Earl of Exeter, peer
• William Craven, 3rd Baron Craven, nobleman
• William Godolphin, Marquess of Blandford, nobleman
• Emanuel Howe, 2nd Viscount Howe, politician and colonial administrator
• John Immyns, attorney and lutenist
• Charles Jennens, landowner and patron of the arts

  Deaths

• 21 January – Henry Somerset, 1st Duke of Beaufort
• 14 March – Henry Killigrew, dramatist
• 12 May – John Dryden, poet
• 10 July – John Lowther, 1st Viscount Lonsdale, politician
• 19 July – Thomas Creech, translator
• 29 July – Prince William, Duke of Gloucester
• 8 August – Joseph Moxon, mathematician and lexicographer
• 7 September – William Russell, 1st Duke of Bedford, peer and soldier