– The Great Peace of Montreal is signed, ending 100 years of war between the Iroquois Confederacy and New France, and its Huron and Algonquian allies. Formerly allied with the English, the treaty assures the Iroquois will be neutral, if France and England ever resume hostilities. September 16 – Deposed King James II of England (James VII of Scotland) dies in exile, at the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye in France. His supporters, the Jacobites, turn to his son James Francis Edward Stuart (later called "The Old Pretender"), whom they recognise as James VIII and III. Louis XIV of France, the Papal States and Spain also recognise him as the rightful heir. October–December October 9 – The Collegiate School of Connecticut (later renamed Yale University) is chartered in Old Saybrook, Connecticut. November 2 – King Philip V of Spain marries for the first time, to 13-year-old Maria Luisa Gabriella of Savoy, who serves as Queen Consort until her death from tuberculosis at the age of 25. November 11 (O.S., November 22 N.S.) – The House of Commons of England is dissolved by King William III and new elections are called for all 531 seats. December 29 (O.S., January 9, 1702 N.S.) – The Battle of Erastfer takes place near what is now Erastvere in Estonia, as a large Russian force commanded by Boris Sheremetev invades Swedish Livonia and overwhelms a smaller force led by Wolmar Anton von Schlippenbach in the first significant Russian victory in the Great Northern War. Date unknown English agriculturalist Jethro Tull invents a drill for planting seeds in rows. The Philharmonic Society (Academia Philharmonicorum) is established in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Births January–March January 4 – Count Palatine William of Gelnhausen, Imperial Field Marshal (d. 1760) January 6 – Georg Ludwig von Bar, German (d. 1767) January 14 – Thomas Edwards, silversmith active in colonial Boston (d. 1755) January 17 – William Lubbock, British divine (d. 1754) January 18 – Johann Jakob Moser, German jurist (d. 1785) January 23 – Anne Antoine, Comte d'Aché, French naval officer who became vice admiral (d. 1780) January 26 – François Dominique de Barberie de Saint-Contest, French Foreign Minister (d. 1754) January 27 – Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim, German historian and theologian (d. 1790) January 28 Thomas Amory, English dissenting tutor and minister and poet from Taunton (d. 1774) Charles Marie de La Condamine, French mathematician and geographer (d. 1774) February 1 – Johan