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1701 (MDCCI) was a common year starting on Saturday in the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday in the Julian calendar. It was the first year of the 18th century.
Births
- September 7 – Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, French naturalist (d. 1788)