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=== April&ndash;June ===
* [[April 3]] &ndash; The [[Dutch East India Company]] ship ''Merestein'' strikes rocks and sinks in [[Saldanha Bay]] off Jutten Island, Africa with the loss of 101 of the 200 people on board.
* [[April 14]] &ndash; Volcanic eruption of Changbaishan volcano (also known as [[Paektu Mountain]]) on the China/Korea border takes place.
* [[April 15]] &ndash; The British [[Province of New Jersey]], encompassing all of the modern-day U.S. state of [[New Jersey]] and portions of [[New York (state)|New York]], is created as proprietary owners in the provinces of [[East Jersey]] and [[West Jersey]] surrender their rights to the Crown.<ref>[https://www.nj.gov/state/archives/pdf/proprietors.pdf "Using the Records of the East and West Jersey Proprietors"], by Joseph R. Klett (New Jersey State Archives, 2014) p. 5</ref>
* [[April 20]] &ndash; Comet [[C/1702 H1]] is discovered and passes within 0.0435 [[astronomical unit|AU]] (a little more than four million miles or 6.5 million km) of the Earth.
* [[April 24]] &ndash; The first two missionaries from the [[Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts]] set sail from England to North America.
* [[May 5]] &ndash; Globular cluster [[Messier 5]] (M5, NGC 5904) is discovered by Gottfried Kirch and his wife Maria Margarethe.
* [[May 6]] &ndash; [[Cloudesley Shovell]] is promoted to full [[admiral]] in the English navy.
* [[May 14]] ([[New Style|N.S.]]) &ndash; [[War of the Spanish Succession]]: War is declared on France by the [[Grand Alliance (League of Augsburg)|Grand Alliance]] ([[Kingdom of England]], [[Dutch Republic]] and [[Holy Roman Empire]]).
* [[May 15]] (May 4 O.S.) &ndash; King [[Charles XII of Sweden]] and his troops walk unopposed into [[Warsaw]] after troops capture the city.<ref>Theodore Ayrault Dodge, ''Gustavus Adolphus'' (Houghton Mifflin, 1890) p. 838</ref>
* [[May 16]] &ndash; Much of the city of [[Uppsala]], [[Sweden]] is destroyed in a fire.
* [[May 19]] &ndash; Over 90% of the city of [[Bergen]], [[Norway]] is destroyed and reduced to ashes in a Great Fire.
* [[June 2]] &ndash; English General [[John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough|John Churchill]], later the Duke of Marlborough, takes command of the alliance of English, Dutch and German troops in the [[War of the Spanish Succession]].<ref name=Falkner>James Falkner, ''Marlborough's War Machine 1702-1711'' (Pen & Sword Military, 2014) p. 16</ref>
*[[June 11]] &ndash; Anglo-Dutch forces [[Assault on Nijmegen (1702)|skirmish with French forces]] before the walls of [[Nijmegen]] and prevent its fall.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Wijn |first=J.W. |title=Het Staatsche Leger: Deel VIII Het tijdperk van de Spaanse Successieoorlog (The Dutch States Army: Part VIII The era of the War of the Spanish Succession) |publisher=Martinus Nijhoff |date=1956|language=Dutch}}</ref>
* [[June 15]] &ndash; Queen Anne's Captain-General, John Churchill, forces the surrender of [[Kaiserswerth]] on the Rhine after a siege that began on April 18.<ref name=Lynn> John A. Lynn, ''The Wars of Louis XIV 1667-1714'' (Taylor & Francis, 2013)</ref>
* [[June 16]] &ndash; The [[Kingdom of England|English]] [[East India Company]] founds a settlement on [[Pulo Condore (island)|Pulo Condore]] (modern-day Côn Sơn Island) off the coast of southern [[Vietnam]] as an ''[[entrepôt]]'' for ships travelling between India and China.
* [[June 25]] &ndash; The premiere of the opera ''L'Offendere per amore overo la Telesilla'' by [[Johann Joseph Fux]] takes place in [[Vienna]].