21 January — Peter I signs the "Decree on the Establishment of the First Engineering School".
27 April — a School of Mathematical and Navigational Sciences is founded in Moscow.
24 July — Detroit is founded. The city’s founder (at the time, it was a fur-trading settlement) was the administrator of French possessions in North America Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, whose name was later immortalized in the automobile brand.