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The year 1700 in science and technology involved some significant events.

General

• July 11 - The Prussian Academy of Sciences is founded with Leibniz as president.^[1]

Geology

• January 26 - 1700 Cascadia earthquake: At approximately 9 p.m., a gigantic earthquake ripped across the present-day west coast of Canada and the United States along the Cascadia subduction zone, across more than 600 miles (966 km) from Vancouver Island to Cape Mendocino. The magnitude of the earthquake is estimated to have been between 8.7 and 9.2. At that time there was no written documentation of the event, however, the Orphan Tsunami of 1700, which it triggered, hit Japan approximately 10 hours later, flooding fields and washing away houses.^[2]

Technology

• (c. 1700) The clarinet might have been invented by the German flute maker Johann Christoph Denner as a modification of the chalumeau, but it was not until the late 18th century that composers included clarinets into their orchestrations.^[3]

Births

• February 8 - Daniel Bernoulli, mathematician (died 1782)
• November 19 - Jean-Antoine Nollet, clergyman and physicist (died 1770)
• November 28 - Nathaniel Bliss, astronomer (died 1764)
• undated - William Braikenridge, clergyman and geometer (died 1762)^[4]

Deaths

• May 22 - Louis Jolliet, explorer (born 1645)
• undated - Kamalakara, astronomer and mathematician (born 1616)

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