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1700s
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Events and trends
- The Bonneville Slide blocks the Columbia River near the site of present-day Cascade Locks, Oregon with a land bridge 200 feet (60 m) high. The river eventually removes the blockage, but this event is remembered in the local legends of the Native Americans as the Bridge of the Gods.
- The first newspaper to be published in English
World leaders
- King Frederick IV of Denmark (1699 - 1730).
- King William III of England and Scotland (1689 - 1702).
- Queen Anne of Great Britain (1702 - 1714).
- King Louis XIV of France (1643 - 1715).
- Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor (1658 - 1705).
- Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor (1705 - 1711).
- Tsar Peter I of Russia (1682 - 1725).
- King Charles XII of Sweden (1697 - 1718).
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