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1702| 1689–1724 | UK [horse-racing] | The Byerley Turk, the Darley Arabian, and the Godolphin Arab, the horses from which all modern thoroughbreds are descended in the male line, are imported to England from the Middle East and north Africa. | | 1702 | England [thought and scholarship] | English writer Daniel Defoe publishes his pamphlet ‘The Shortest Way with the Dissenters’, a satire on religious intolerance in the form of a spoof of bigotry, which some readers take seriously. Defoe is imprisoned and pilloried. | | 8 March 1702 | United Netherlands, England [births and deaths] | William III, stadtholder (provincial governor) of the United Netherlands 1672–1702, king of England 1689–1702, dies in London, England (51). | | 8 March 1702 | Britain, United Netherlands [political events] | When King William III of Britain dies at Hampton Court Palace, outside London, England, after a fall from his horse, he is succeeded by his sister-in-law, Queen Anne. She has no claim to be stadtholder (ruler, with limited powers) in the United Netherlands, as William had been, and control of Dutch affairs passes to the States General (parliament) under Anthony Heinsius. | | 23 April - 4 May 1702 | UK, United Netherlands, Austria, Habsburg Monarchy, Holy Roman Empire, France [War of the Spanish Succession (1701–1714)] | Britain, the United Netherlands, and Austria declare war on France, marking the formal opening of the War of the Spanish Succession. | | 26 September 1702 | UK, France, United Netherlands, Spanish Netherlands [War of the Spanish Succession (1701–1714)] | Allied forces under the English general John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, take the town of Roermond in the Spanish Netherlands from the occupying French forces. |
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