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 | | May 23 - After being convicted of murdering William Moore and for piracy, Captain William Kidd is hanged in London. |
 | | The English Parliament passes the Act of Settlement 1701, passing the crown of Great Britain to Sophia, Electress of Hanover and her descendants on the death of Princess Anne, the heiress presumptive to the throne after her brother in law, King William III. |
 | | July 7 - William Stoughton, American judge at the Salem witch trials (b. |
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