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January–March

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January 11 Events Pre-1600 * 532 – Nika riots in Constantinople: A quarrel between supporters of different chariot teams—the Blues and the Greens—in the Hippodrome escalates into violence. * 630 – Conquest of Mecca: Muhammad and his ...
– The
Mount Etna Mount Etna, or simply Etna ( or ; , or ; ; or ), is an active stratovolcano on the east coast of Sicily, Italy, in the Metropolitan City of Catania, between the cities of Messina, Italy, Messina and Catania. It is located above the Conve ...
volcano erupts in Italy, causing a devastating earthquake that kills 60,000 people in
Sicily Sicily (Italian language, Italian and ), officially the Sicilian Region (), is an island in the central Mediterranean Sea, south of the Italian Peninsula in continental Europe and is one of the 20 regions of Italy, regions of Italy. With 4. ...
and
Malta Malta, officially the Republic of Malta, is an island country in Southern Europe located in the Mediterranean Sea, between Sicily and North Africa. It consists of an archipelago south of Italy, east of Tunisia, and north of Libya. The two ...
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January 22 Events Pre-1600 * 613 – Eight-month-old Heraclius Constantine is crowned as co-emperor ('' Caesar'') by his father Heraclius at Constantinople. * 871 – Battle of Basing: The West Saxons led by King Æthelred I are defeated b ...
– A total
lunar eclipse A lunar eclipse is an astronomical event that occurs when the Moon moves into the Earth's shadow, causing the Moon to be darkened. Such an alignment occurs during an eclipse season, approximately every six months, during the full moon phase, ...
is visible across North and South America. *
February 8 Events Pre-1600 * 421 – Constantius III becomes co-emperor of the Western Roman Empire. * 1238 – The Mongols burn the Russian city of Vladimir. * 1250 – Seventh Crusade: Crusaders engage Ayyubid forces in the Battle of ...
– The
College of William & Mary The College of William & Mary (abbreviated as W&M) is a public university, public research university in Williamsburg, Virginia, United States. Founded in 1693 under a royal charter issued by King William III of England, William III and Queen ...
in
Williamsburg, Virginia Williamsburg is an Independent city (United States), independent city in Virginia, United States. It had a population of 15,425 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. Located on the Virginia Peninsula, Williamsburg is in the northern par ...
is granted a
Royal charter A royal charter is a formal grant issued by a monarch under royal prerogative as letters patent. Historically, they have been used to promulgate public laws, the most famous example being the English Magna Carta (great charter) of 1215, but ...
. *
February 27 Events Pre-1600 * 380 – Edict of Thessalonica: Emperor Theodosius I and his co-emperors Gratian and Valentinian II declare their wish that all Roman citizens convert to Nicene Christianity. * 425 – The University of Constantin ...
– The publication of the first women's magazine, titled ''
The Ladies' Mercury ''The Ladies' Mercury'' (27 February 1693 — 17 March 1693) was a periodical published in London by the Athenian Society notable for being the first periodical in English published and specifically designed for women readers. History In 1690 ...
'', takes place in London. It is published by the Athenian Society. *
March 27 Events Pre-1600 * 1309 – Pope Clement V imposes excommunication and interdiction on Venice, and a general prohibition of all commercial intercourse with Venice, which had seized Ferrara, a papal fiefdom. * 1329 – Pope John XXII ...
Bozoklu Mustafa Pasha Bozoklu Mustafa Pasha (1638 – December 1698) was an Ottoman statesman who served as grand vizier from 1693 to 1694. His epithet ''Bozoklu'' means "from Bozok" (modern Yozgat, Turkey).İsmail Hâmi Danişmend, Osmanlı Devlet Erkânı, Türki ...
becomes the new
Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire The grand vizier of the Ottoman Empire ( or ''Sadr-ı Azam'' (''Sadrazam''); Ottoman Turkish language, Ottoman Turkish: or ) was the ''de facto'' prime minister of the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, sultan in the Ottoman Empire, with the absolute p ...
, after Sultan
Ahmed II Ahmed II (; ; was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1691 to 1695. Early life Ahmed II was born on 25 February 1643 or 1 August 1642, the son of Sultan Ibrahim and Muazzez Sultan. On 21 October 1649, Ahmed, along with his brothers Mehmed ...
appoints him as the successor of
Çalık Ali Pasha Çalık Ali Pasha (also Hacı Çalık Ali Pasha or Merzifonlu Çalık Ali Pasha; died 1698) was an Ottoman statesman who served as grand vizier during the reign of Ahmed II. Early life Ali Pasha was a Turk from Merzifon, a city in north-cen ...
.


April–June

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April 4 Events Pre-1600 * 503 BC – Roman consul Agrippa Menenius Lanatus celebrates a triumph for a military victory over the Sabines. * 190 – Dong Zhuo has his troops evacuate the capital Luoyang and burn it to the ground. * 611 &nd ...
Anne Palles Anne Palles (1619 – 4 April 1693) was an alleged Danish witch. She was the last woman to be legally executed for sorcery in Denmark. Background In 1692, the cunning woman Karen Gregers Madsens from Lommelev was accused of poisoning. She wa ...
becomes the last accused witch to be executed for witchcraft in
Denmark Denmark is a Nordic countries, Nordic country in Northern Europe. It is the metropole and most populous constituent of the Kingdom of Denmark,, . also known as the Danish Realm, a constitutionally unitary state that includes the Autonomous a ...
, after having been convicted of using powers of sorcery.
King Christian V Christian V (15 April 1646 – 25 August 1699) was King of Denmark and Norway from 1670 until his death in 1699. Well-regarded by the common people, he was the first king anointed at Frederiksborg Castle chapel as absolute monarch since the de ...
accepts her plea not to be burned alive, and she is beheaded before her body is set afire. *
April 5 Events Pre-1600 * 823 – Lothair I is crowned King of Italy by Pope Paschal I. * 919 – The Fatimid invasion of Egypt (919–921), second Fatimid invasion of Medieval Egypt, Egypt begins, when the Fatimid heir-apparent, Al-Qa'im (Fa ...
– The
Order of Saint Louis The Royal and Military Order of Saint Louis () is a dynastic order of chivalry founded 5 April 1693 by King Louis XIV, named after Saint Louis (King Louis IX of France). It was intended as a reward for exceptional officers, notable as the fi ...
, the first medal to be awarded in France to military personnel who are not members of nobility, is created by order of King Louis XIV, and named after his ancestor, King Louis IX. *
April 28 Events Pre-1600 * 224 – The Battle of Hormozdgan is fought. Ardashir I defeats and kills Artabanus V, effectively ending the Parthian Empire. * 357 – Emperor Constantius II enters Rome for the first time to celebrate his victor ...
– The 90-gun English Royal Navy warship HMS ''Windsor Castle'' is wrecked beyond repair on the
Goodwin Sands Goodwin Sands is a sandbank at the southern end of the North Sea lying off the Deal, Kent, Deal coast in Kent, England. The area consists of a layer of approximately depth of fine sand resting on an Chalk, Upper Chalk platform belonging to ...
. *
April April is the fourth month of the year in the Gregorian and Julian calendars. Its length is 30 days. April is commonly associated with the season of spring in the Northern Hemisphere, and autumn in the Southern Hemisphere, where it is the ...
Tituba Tituba () was an enslaved Native American woman who was one of the first to be accused of witchcraft during the Salem witch trials of 1692–1693. She was enslaved by Samuel Parris, the minister of Salem Village, in the Province of Massachusett ...
, a slave who had been convicted at the
Salem witch trials The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in Province of Massachusetts Bay, colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693. More than 200 people were accused. Not everyone wh ...
of practicing witchcraft after making a confession, is released from jail in Boston after 13 months when an unknown purchaser pays her jail fees. *
May 18 Events Pre-1600 * 332 – Emperor Constantine the Great announces free distributions of food to the citizens in Constantinople. * 872 – Louis II of Italy is crowned for the second time as Holy Roman Emperor at Rome, at the age of 47 ...
– Forces of
Louis XIV of France LouisXIV (Louis-Dieudonné; 5 September 16381 September 1715), also known as Louis the Great () or the Sun King (), was King of France from 1643 until his death in 1715. His verified reign of 72 years and 110 days is the List of longest-reign ...
attack
Heidelberg Heidelberg (; ; ) is the List of cities in Baden-Württemberg by population, fifth-largest city in the States of Germany, German state of Baden-Württemberg, and with a population of about 163,000, of which roughly a quarter consists of studen ...
, capital of the
Electorate of the Palatinate The Electoral Palatinate was a Imperial State, constituent state of the Holy Roman Empire until it was annexed by the Electorate of Baden in 1803. From the end of the 13th century, its ruler was one of the Prince-electors who elected the Holy ...
. *
May 22 Events Pre-1600 * 192 – Dong Zhuo is assassinated by his adopted son Lü Bu. * 760 – Fourteenth recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet. * 853 – A Byzantine fleet sacks and destroys undefended Damietta in Egypt. ...
– Heidelberg is taken by the invading
French French may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to France ** French language, which originated in France ** French people, a nation and ethnic group ** French cuisine, cooking traditions and practices Arts and media * The French (band), ...
forces; on
May 23 Events Pre-1600 * 1430 – Joan of Arc is captured at the Siege of Compiègne by troops from the Burgundian faction. * 1498 – Girolamo Savonarola is burned at the stake in Florence, Italy. *1533 – The marriage of King Henry ...
Heidelberg Castle Heidelberg Castle () is a ruin in Germany and landmark of Heidelberg. The castle ruins are among the most important Renaissance structures north of the Alps. The castle has only been partially rebuilt since its demolition in the 17th and 18th c ...
is surrendered, after which the French blow up its towers using mines. *
June 5 Events Pre-1600 * 830 – Theodora is crowned Byzantine empress and marries then emperor Theophilos in the Hagia Sophia. She is credited with restoring orthodoxy and the icons. * 1086 – Tutush, brother of Seljuk sultan Malik Sh ...
– The first performance of the opera '' Didon'' by French composer
Henri Desmarets Henri Desmarets (February 1661 – 7 September 1741) was a French composer of the Baroque music, Baroque period primarily known for his stage works, although he also composed sacred music as well as secular cantatas, songs and instrumenta ...
takes place at the
Théâtre du Palais-Royal The Théâtre du Palais-Royal () is a 750-seat Parisian theatre at 38 rue de Montpensier, located at the northwest corner of the Palais-Royal in the Galerie de Montpensier at its intersection with the Galerie de Beaujolais. Brief history O ...
in Paris. *
June 27 Events Pre-1600 * 1358 – The Republic of Ragusa is founded. * 1497 – Cornish rebels Michael An Gof and Thomas Flamank are executed at Tyburn, London, England. * 1499 – Amerigo Vespucci sights what is now Amapá State in B ...
Nine Years' War The Nine Years' War was a European great power conflict from 1688 to 1697 between Kingdom of France, France and the Grand Alliance (League of Augsburg), Grand Alliance. Although largely concentrated in Europe, fighting spread to colonial poss ...
Battle of Lagos The Battle of Lagos took place between a British fleet commanded by Edward Boscawen and a French fleet under Jean-François de La Clue-Sabran over two days in 1759 during the Seven Years' War. They fought south west of the Gulf of Cádiz on ...
off Portugal: The French fleet defeats the joint
Dutch Dutch or Nederlands commonly refers to: * Something of, from, or related to the Netherlands ** Dutch people as an ethnic group () ** Dutch nationality law, history and regulations of Dutch citizenship () ** Dutch language () * In specific terms, i ...
and English fleet.


July–September

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July 17 Events Pre-1600 * 180 – Twelve inhabitants of Scillium (near Kasserine, modern-day Tunisia) in North Africa are executed for being Christians. This is the earliest record of Christianity in that part of the world. * 1048 – Dama ...
– A total
lunar eclipse A lunar eclipse is an astronomical event that occurs when the Moon moves into the Earth's shadow, causing the Moon to be darkened. Such an alignment occurs during an eclipse season, approximately every six months, during the full moon phase, ...
is visible in New Zealand and across the Pacific Ocean. *
July 29 Events Pre-1600 *587 BC – The Neo-Babylonian Empire sacks Jerusalem and destroys the First Temple. * 615 – Pakal ascends the throne of Palenque at the age of 12. * 904 – Sack of Thessalonica: Saracen raiders under Leo o ...
Nine Years' War The Nine Years' War was a European great power conflict from 1688 to 1697 between Kingdom of France, France and the Grand Alliance (League of Augsburg), Grand Alliance. Although largely concentrated in Europe, fighting spread to colonial poss ...
Battle of Landen The Battle of Landen, also known as Battle of Neerwinden took place on 29 July 1693, during the Nine Years' War near Landen, then in the Spanish Netherlands, now part of Belgium. A Kingdom of France, French army under François-Henri de Montmor ...
:
William III of England William III (William Henry; ; 4 November 1650 – 8 March 1702), also known as William of Orange, was the sovereign Prince of Orange from birth, Stadtholder of County of Holland, Holland, County of Zeeland, Zeeland, Lordship of Utrecht, Utrec ...
is defeated by the
French French may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to France ** French language, which originated in France ** French people, a nation and ethnic group ** French cuisine, cooking traditions and practices Arts and media * The French (band), ...
(with Irish Jacobite mercenaries). *
August 21 Events Pre-1600 * 959 – Eraclus becomes the 25th bishop of Liège. *1140 – Song dynasty general Yue Fei defeats an army led by Jin dynasty (1115–1234), Jin dynasty general Wuzhu at the Battle of Yancheng during the Jin–Song War ...
– The Indian Ocean port of
Pondicherry Pondicherry, officially known as Puducherry, is the Capital city, capital and most populous city of the Puducherry (union territory), Union Territory of Puducherry in India. The city is in the Puducherry district on the southeast coast of Indi ...
, capital of
French India French India, formally the (), was a French colony comprising five geographically separated enclaves on the Indian subcontinent that had initially been factories of the French East India Company. They were ''de facto'' incorporated into the ...
is captured by a 17-ship fleet from the Netherlands and 1,600 men under the command of Laurens Pit the Younger. *
September 9 Events Pre-1600 *337 – Constantine II, Constantius II, and Constans succeed their father Constantine I as co-emperors. The Roman Empire is divided between the three Augusti. * 1000 – Battle of Svolder, Viking Age. * 1141 &ndas ...
Francesco Invrea Francesco Invrea (Genoa, 1641Genoa, 1723) was the 132nd Doge of the Republic of Genoa and king of Corsica. Biography His dogate was internally characterized by normal administrative activity and, on the other hand, it was in foreign policy th ...
, King of Corsica, begins a two-year term as the
Doge Doge, DoGE or DOGE may refer to: Internet culture * Doge (meme), an Internet meme primarily associated with the Shiba Inu dog breed ** Dogecoin, a cryptocurrency named after the meme ** Kabosu (dog), the dog portrayed in the original Doge image ...
of the
Republic of Genoa The Republic of Genoa ( ; ; ) was a medieval and early modern Maritime republics, maritime republic from the years 1099 to 1797 in Liguria on the northwestern Italy, Italian coast. During the Late Middle Ages, it was a major commercial power in ...
in Italy, succeeding
Giovanni Battista Cattaneo Della Volta Giovanni Battista Cattaneo Della Volta (Genoa, 23 June 1638 - Genoa, 24 December 1721) was the 131st Doge of the Republic of Genoa and king of Corsica. Biography The mandate of the doge Cattaneo Della Volta, the eighty-sixth in biennial success ...
. *
September 10 Events Pre-1600 * 506 – The bishops of Visigothic Gaul meet in the Council of Agde. * 1089 – The first synod of pope Urban II starts in Melfi, with seventy bishops and twelve abbots in attendance. The synod issues several decree ...
– France begins the siege of the Spanish Netherlands (now Belgium) fort of Charleroi. *
September 14 Events Pre-1600 *AD 81 – Domitian became Emperor of the Roman Empire upon the death of his brother Titus. * 786 – "Night of the three Caliphs": Harun al-Rashid becomes the Abbasid caliph upon the death of his brother al-Hadi. Bir ...
– King
Louis XIV LouisXIV (Louis-Dieudonné; 5 September 16381 September 1715), also known as Louis the Great () or the Sun King (), was King of France from 1643 until his death in 1715. His verified reign of 72 years and 110 days is the List of longest-reign ...
of France sends a letter to
Pope Innocent XII Pope Innocent XII (; ; 13 March 1615 – 27 September 1700), born Antonio Pignatelli, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 12 July 1691 to his death in September 1700. He took a hard stance against nepotism ...
announcing the rescission of the
Declaration of the Clergy of France The ''Declaration of the Clergy of France'' was a four-article document of the 1681 assembly of the French clergy. Promulgated in 1682, it codified the principles of Gallicanism into a system for the first time into an official and definitive for ...
issued in 1682. *
September 23 Events Pre-1600 * 38 – Drusilla, Caligula's sister who died in June, with whom the emperor is said to have an incestuous relationship, is deified. * 1122 – Pope Callixtus II and Holy Roman Emperor Henry V agree to the Concordat o ...
– Manuel Afonso Nzinga a Nlenke, ruling as
King Manuel I Manuel I (; 31 May 146913 December 1521), known as the Fortunate (), was King of Portugal from 1495 to 1521. A member of the House of Aviz, Manuel was Duke of Beja and Viseu prior to succeeding his cousin, John II of Portugal, as monarch. Manue ...
of the
Kingdom of Kongo The Kingdom of Kongo ( or ''Wene wa Kongo;'' ) was a kingdom in Central Africa. It was located in present-day northern Angola, the western portion of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, southern Gabon and the Republic of the Congo. At its gre ...
(in present-day northern Angola) is executed on orders of the new king, Álvaro X.


October–December

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October October is the tenth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars. Its length is 31 days. The eighth month in the old calendar of Romulus , October retained its name (from Latin and Greek ''ôctō'' meaning "eight") after Januar ...
William Congreve William Congreve (24 January 1670 – 19 January 1729) was an English playwright, satirist, poet, and Whig politician. He spent most of his career between London and Dublin, and was noted for his highly polished style of writing, being regard ...
's comedy ''
The Double-Dealer ''The Double Dealer'' is a comic play written by English playwright William Congreve, first produced in 1693. Incidental music for the play was written by Henry Purcell. Characters and plot This comedy sees character Mellefont, nephew and pro ...
'' is first performed in London. *
October 4 Events Pre-1600 *AD 23 – Rebels sack the Chinese capital Chang'an during a peasant rebellion. * 1209 – Otto IV is crowned Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire by Pope Innocent III. * 1302 – The Byzantine–Venetian War comes ...
Battle of Marsaglia The Battle of Marsaglia was a battle in the Nine Years' War, fought in Italy on 4 October 1693, between the French army of Marshal Nicolas Catinat and the army of the Grand Alliance under Duke Victor Amadeus II of Savoy. Catinat, advancing f ...
near
Turin Turin ( , ; ; , then ) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in northern Italy. It is the capital city of Piedmont and of the Metropolitan City of Turin, and was the first Italian capital from 1861 to 1865. The city is main ...
in the
Duchy of Savoy The Duchy of Savoy (; ) was a territorial entity of the Savoyard state that existed from 1416 until 1847 and was a possession of the House of Savoy. It was created when Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor, raised the County of Savoy into a duchy f ...
: A French force under the command of General
Nicolas Catinat Nicolas Catinat (, 1 September 1637 – 22 February 1712) was a French military commander and Marshal of France under Louis XIV. Life The son of a magistrate, Catinat was born in Paris on 1 September 1637. He entered the Gardes Française ...
defeats the Savoyard forces, leaving 10,000 dead or wounded, while sustaining only 1,000 casualties. *
October 11 Events Pre-1600 *1138 – A massive earthquake strikes Aleppo; it is one of the most destructive earthquakes ever. * 1142 – A peace treaty ends the Jin–Song wars. *1311 – The peerage and clergy restrict the authority of En ...
Charleroi Charleroi (, , ; ) is a city and a municipality of Wallonia, located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium. It is the largest city in both Hainaut and Wallonia. The city is situated in the valley of the Sambre, in the south-west of Belgium, not ...
falls to French forces. *
October 29 Events Pre-1600 * 312 – Constantine the Great enters Rome after his victory at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge, stages a grand '' adventus'' in the city, and is met with popular jubilation. Maxentius' body is fished out of the Tiber ...
– The Great Storm changes the course of rivers and alters the coastline from Virginia to Long Island in America. *
November 7 Events Pre-1600 * 335 – Athanasius, 20th pope of Alexandria, is banished to Trier on the charge that he prevented a grain fleet from sailing to Constantinople. * 680 – The Sixth Ecumenical Council commences in Constantinople. ...
King Charles II of Spain issues a royal edict providing sanctuary in Spanish Florida for escaped slaves from the English colony of South Carolina. *
November 14 Events Pre-1600 * 332 BC – Alexander the Great is crowned pharaoh of Egypt. 1601–1900 * 1680 – German astronomer Gottfried Kirch discovers the Great Comet of 1680, the first comet to be discovered by telescope. *1770 – Ja ...
– General
Santaji Ghorpade Santaji Ghorpade (Santaji Mhaloji Ghorpade, ; 1660–1696) was a Maratha (caste), Maratha general and statesman who served as the 7th Senapati of the Maratha Empire during the reign of Chattrapati Rajaram I. He is widely regarded as one of the ...
of the
Maratha Empire The Maratha Empire, also referred to as the Maratha Confederacy, was an early modern India, early modern polity in the Indian subcontinent. It comprised the realms of the Peshwa and four major independent List of Maratha dynasties and states, Ma ...
in
India India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, seventh-largest country by area; the List of countries by population (United Nations), most populous country since ...
is defeated by General Himmat Khan of the Mughal Empire near Vikramhalli, and retreats. A week later, after regrouping his troops, Santaji defeats Himmat at their next encounter. *
November 21 Events Pre-1600 *164 BCE – Judas Maccabeus, son of Mattathias of the Hasmonean family, rededicates the Temple in Jerusalem, an event that is commemorated each year by the festival of Hanukkah. (25 Kislev 3597 in the Hebrew calendar.) * 2 ...
– The 46-gun Royal Navy frigate HMS ''Mordaunt'' founders off of the coast of Cuba. *
November 29 Events Pre-1600 * 528 – Antioch suffers its second major earthquake in two years, killing thousands and destroying its remaining edifice. * 561 – Following the death of King Chlothar I at Compiègne, his four sons, Charibert ...
– A fleet of 30 English and Dutch ships captures the French port of
Saint-Malo Saint-Malo (, , ; Gallo language, Gallo: ; ) is a historic French port in Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany (administrative region), Brittany. The Fortification, walled city on the English Channel coast had a long history of piracy, earning much wealth ...
*
December 16 Events Pre-1600 * 714 – Pepin of Herstal, mayor of the Merovingian palace, dies at Jupille (modern Belgium). He is succeeded by his infant grandson Theudoald, while his widow Plectrude holds actual power in the Frankish Kingdom. * ...
Diego de Vargas Diego de Vargas Zapata y Luján Ponce de León y Contreras (1643–1704), commonly known as Don Diego de Vargas, was a Spanish Governor of the New Spain territory of Santa Fe de Nuevo México (currently covering the modern US states of New Mex ...
, Spanish colonial governor of
Santa Fe de Nuevo México Santa Fe de Nuevo México (; shortened as Nuevo México or Nuevo Méjico, and translated as New Mexico in English) was a province of the Spanish Empire and New Spain, and later a territory of independent Mexico. The first capital was San Juan d ...
(now the area around the capital of the U.S. state of
New Mexico New Mexico is a state in the Southwestern United States, Southwestern region of the United States. It is one of the Mountain States of the southern Rocky Mountains, sharing the Four Corners region with Utah, Colorado, and Arizona. It also ...
), returns to the walled city of Santa Fe and requests the
Pueblo people The Pueblo peoples are Native Americans in the Southwestern United States who share common agricultural, material, and religious practices. Among the currently inhabited Pueblos, Taos, San Ildefonso, Acoma, Zuni, and Hopi are some of the ...
to accept the authority of the colonial government. Negotiations fail and a siege begins on December 29. The Pueblo defenders surrender the next day and the 70 rebels are executed soon after. The 400 civilian women and children are made slaves and distributed to the Spanish colonists. *
December 27 Events Pre-1600 * 537 – The second Hagia Sophia in Constantinople is consecrated. *1512 – The Spanish Crown issues the Laws of Burgos, governing the conduct of settlers with regard to Indigenous peoples of the Americas, native Ind ...
– The new 80-gun English Navy warship HMS ''Sussex'' departs Portsmouth on its maiden voyage, escorting a fleet of 48 warships and 166 merchant ships to the Mediterranean Sea. The fleet runs into a storm on February 27, 1694, and on March 1, ''Sussex'' and 12 other warships sink, along with a cargo of gold.


Date unknown

* China concentrates all its foreign trade on
Canton Canton may refer to: Administrative divisions * Canton (administrative division), territorial/administrative division in some countries * Township (Canada), known as ''canton'' in Canadian French Arts and entertainment * Canton (band), an It ...
; European ships are forbidden to land anywhere else. * A religious
schism A schism ( , , or, less commonly, ) is a division between people, usually belonging to an organization, movement, or religious denomination. The word is most frequently applied to a split in what had previously been a single religious body, suc ...
takes place in Switzerland, within a group of Swiss and Alsatian
Anabaptists Anabaptism (from Neo-Latin , from the Greek : 're-' and 'baptism'; , earlier also )Since the middle of the 20th century, the German-speaking world no longer uses the term (translation: "Re-baptizers"), considering it biased. The term (tra ...
led by
Jakob Ammann Jakob Ammann (also Jacob Amman, Amann; 12 February 1644 – between 1712 and 1730) was a Swiss Anabaptist leader and the namesake of the Amish religious movement. Personal life The full facts about the personal life of Jacob Ammann are in ...
. Those who follow Ammann become the Mennonite
Amish The Amish (, also or ; ; ), formally the Old Order Amish, are a group of traditionalist Anabaptism, Anabaptist Christianity, Christian Christian denomination, church fellowships with Swiss people, Swiss and Alsace, Alsatian origins. As they ...
sect. * The Knights of the Apocalypse are formed in Italy. * The ''Academia Operosorum Labacensium'' is established in Ljubljana, Slovenia. * Financier Richard Hoare (banker), Richard Hoare relocates Hoare's Bank (founded 1672) from Cheapside to Fleet Street in London. * Italian barber Giovanni Paolo Feminis creates a perfume water called Aqua Admirabilis, earliest known form of eau de Cologne. * John Locke publishes his influential book ''Some Thoughts Concerning Education''. * William Penn publishes his proposal for Federal Europe, European federation, ''Essay on the Present and Future Peace of Europe''. * English astronomer Edmond Halley studies records of births and deaths in Breslau (Poland), producing a life table consolidating year of birth and age at death. He uses this to work out the price of life annuities. * Dimitrie Cantemir presents his ''Kitâbu 'İlmi'l-Mûsiki alâ Vechi'l-Hurûfât (The Book of the Science of Music through Letters)'' to Sultan
Ahmed II Ahmed II (; ; was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1691 to 1695. Early life Ahmed II was born on 25 February 1643 or 1 August 1642, the son of Sultan Ibrahim and Muazzez Sultan. On 21 October 1649, Ahmed, along with his brothers Mehmed ...
, which deals with melodic and rhythmic structure and practice of Ottoman classical music, Ottoman music, and contains the scores for around 350 works composed during and before his own time, in an alphabetical notation system he invented.


Births


January–March

* January 1 – Francesco Carlo Rusca, Swiss painter (d. 1769) * January 3 ** Giovanni Bianchi (physician), Giovanni Bianchi, Italian physician and zoologist (d. 1775) ** Matthew Hutton (archbishop of Canterbury), Matthew Hutton, Archbishop of York and Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1758) * January 12 – Queen Jeongseong, Queen Consort of Korea (d. 1757) * January 16 – Francesco Campora, Italian painter (d. 1763) * January 17 – Melchor de Navarrete, Spanish colonial governor of Florida and Mexico (d. 1761) * January 19 ** Jonathan Rashleigh (1693–1764), Jonathan Rashleigh, politician (d. 1764) ** Hyacinthe Collin de Vermont, French painter (d. 1761) * January 23 – Georg Bernhard Bilfinger, German mathematician (d. 1750) * January 26 – William Robinson (Rhode Island official), William Robinson, deputy governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (d. 1751) * January 28 ** Robert Sawyer Herbert, British Member of Parliament (d. 1769) ** Empress Anna of Russia, Empress of Russia (d. 1740) ** Gregor Werner, Austrian composer (d. 1766) * January 29 – Henry Herbert, 9th Earl of Pembroke, English peer and architect (d. 1750) * January 30 – Countess Palatine Maria Anna of Neuburg, Countess Palatine of Neuburg by birth, Duchess of Bavaria (d. 1751) * February 12 – Avdotya Chernysheva, Russian lady-in-waiting (d. 1747) * February 13 – José del Campillo, Spanish politician (d. 1743) * February 15 – Peter Schenk the Younger, German engraver and map publisher (d. 1775) * February 24 ** James Quin, English actor (d. 1766) ** Johann Jacob Rambach (theologian), Johann Jacob Rambach, German theologian (d. 1735) * March 2 – Sir Thomas Wheate, 2nd Baronet, English politician (d. 1746) * March 5 – Johann Jakob Wettstein, Swiss theologian (d. 1754) * March 6 – Edward Willes (bishop), Edward Willes, English Anglican bishop and cryptanalyst (d. 1773) * March 7 – Pope Clement XIII, pope of the Catholic Church (d. 1769) * March 15 – Sir William Heathcote, 1st Baronet, British politician (d. 1751) * March 16 – Malhar Rao Holkar, Indian nobleman (d. 1766) * March 17 – Countess Palatine Elisabeth Auguste Sofie of Neuburg, Grandmother of Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria (d. 1728)


April–June

* April 1 – Melusina von der Schulenburg, Countess of Walsingham, British Countess (d. 1778) * April 3 ** George Edwards (naturalist), George Edwards, English naturalist (d. 1773) ** John Harrison, English clockmaker, horologist and inventor of the marine chronometer (d. 1776) *
April 4 Events Pre-1600 * 503 BC – Roman consul Agrippa Menenius Lanatus celebrates a triumph for a military victory over the Sabines. * 190 – Dong Zhuo has his troops evacuate the capital Luoyang and burn it to the ground. * 611 &nd ...
– John West, 1st Earl De La Warr, British general (d. 1766) * April 13 – Johann Georg Keyßler, German polymath (d. 1743) * April 16 ** Mary Alexander, British American merchant (d. 1760) ** Anne Sophie Reventlow, Danish royal consort, Queen of Denmark-Norway (d. 1743) * April 20 – Daniel Brodhead II, American justice of the peace (d. 1755) * April 25 – Sir Charles Hotham, 5th Baronet, British diplomat (d. 1738) * April 26 – William Wollaston (Ipswich MP elected 1733), William Wollaston, British politician (d. 1757) * April 29 – Asmus Ehrenreich von Bredow (d. 1756) * April 30 – Giuseppe Maria Feroni, Italian cardinal (d. 1767) * May 4 – Thomas Gent, Irish printer and writer (d. 1778) * May 9 – Charles Howard, 7th Earl of Suffolk, English Earl (d. 1722) * May 10 ** John Fox (biographer), John Fox, English biographer (d. 1763) ** Henry Hare, 3rd Baron Coleraine, Irish peer and politician (d. 1749) * May 15 – Henry Winder, English chronologist (d. 1752) * May 24 – Georg Rafael Donner, Austrian sculptor (d. 1741) * May 31 – Bartolomeo Nazari, Italian painter (d. 1758) * June 1 ** Alexey Bestuzhev-Ryumin, Russian diplomat, chancellor of the Russian Empire (d. 1768) ** Johann Dietrich von Hülsen, German canon (d. 1767) * June 17 ** Prince Charles William of Hesse-Darmstadt, Prince of Hesse-Darmstadt and Obrist (d. 1707) ** Diego de Torres Villarroel, Spanish writer (d. 1770) ** Johann Georg Walch, German theologian (d. 1775) * June 19 – Christian August Hausen, German mathematician and physicist (d. 1743) * June 20 – Wilhelmina Maria Frederica of Rochlitz, Polish noble (d. 1729) * June 29 – Juan Bautista de Anza I, Spanish militar and explorer (d. 1740)


July–September

* July 7 – Gilles-François de Beauvais, French Jesuit (d. 1773) * July 12 – Jean-Baptiste de Brancas, Roman Catholic archbishop (d. 1770) * July 16 – Cecilia Rosa de Jesús Talangpaz, Servant of God (d. 1731) *
July 17 Events Pre-1600 * 180 – Twelve inhabitants of Scillium (near Kasserine, modern-day Tunisia) in North Africa are executed for being Christians. This is the earliest record of Christianity in that part of the world. * 1048 – Dama ...
– Gerard Melder, miniature and watercolor painter from the Northern Netherlands (d. 1754) * July 21 – Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle, Prime Minister of Great Britain (d. 1768) * July 26 – Alexandre Le Riche de La Poupelinière, Patron of music and literature (d. 1762) * August 1 – Hugh Hughes (poet), Hugh Hughes, Welsh poet (d. 1776) * August 7 ** Sir Edmund Bacon, 5th Baronet, British politician (d. 1738) ** Charles, Prince of Rochefort, French noble (d. 1763) * August 8 – Laurent Belissen, French composer (d. 1762) * August 9 ** Anne Cecil, Countess of Salisbury, British noble (d. 1757) ** Princess Sophia Wilhelmina of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Princess of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld by birth and by marriage Princess of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (d. 1727) * August 11 – Francisco de Merlo, Spanish noblemen, military and notary (d. 1758) * August 13 – Gustavus Handcock, Irish politician (d. 1751) * September 3 – Charles Radclyffe, Titular 5th Earl of Derwentwater (d. 1746) * September 7 – Victor I, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym (d. 1772) *
September 9 Events Pre-1600 *337 – Constantine II, Constantius II, and Constans succeed their father Constantine I as co-emperors. The Roman Empire is divided between the three Augusti. * 1000 – Battle of Svolder, Viking Age. * 1141 &ndas ...
– Quinault-Dufresne, French actor (d. 1767) *
September 10 Events Pre-1600 * 506 – The bishops of Visigothic Gaul meet in the Council of Agde. * 1089 – The first synod of pope Urban II starts in Melfi, with seventy bishops and twelve abbots in attendance. The synod issues several decree ...
– James MacSparran, Church of England clergyman in America (d. 1757) * September 13 – Joseph Emanuel Fischer von Erlach, Austrian architect (d. 1742) * September 19 – Louis Charles Armand Fouquet, French general and diplomat (d. 1747) * September 21 – Thomas Secker, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1768) * September 22 – Simon Nikolaus Euseb von Montjoye-Hirsingen, Prince Bishop of Basel (d. 1775)


October–December

* October 3 – Conway Blennerhassett, Irish politician (d. 1724) * October 5 – Johann Christian Buxbaum, German physician, botanist and traveller (d. 1730) * October 6 – Marie-Madeleine de Parabère, French aristocrat (d. 1755) * October 9 – Johann Lorenz von Mosheim, German church historian (d. 1755) *
October 11 Events Pre-1600 *1138 – A massive earthquake strikes Aleppo; it is one of the most destructive earthquakes ever. * 1142 – A peace treaty ends the Jin–Song wars. *1311 – The peerage and clergy restrict the authority of En ...
** Frederick Charles, Prince of Stolberg-Gedern (d. 1767) ** John Hobart, 1st Earl of Buckinghamshire, British politician (d. 1756) * October 14 – Daniel Maichel, German philosopher (d. 1752) * October 15 – Sir Edward Wilmot, 1st Baronet, Royal surgeon (d. 1786) * October 18 ** John Chandler (sheriff), John Chandler, American judge and sheriff (d. 1762) ** John Gilbert (archbishop of York), John Gilbert, Archbishop of York (d. 1761) ** Jeremiah Markland, British classical scholar (d. 1776) * October 20 – Gideon Wanton, Rhode Island colonial governor (d. 1767) * October 21 ** Adriaan van der Burg, painter from the Northern Netherlands (d. 1733) ** Frederik Nannestad, Norwegian bishop (d. 1774) * October 22 – Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron, American planter (d. 1781) * October 25 – Antoine Ferrein, French anatomist (d. 1769) * October 28 – Šimon Brixi, Czech composer (d. 1735) * October 30 – Samuel Chew (justice), Samuel Chew, American judge (d. 1743) * November 5 – Ivan Neplyuyev, Russian noble (d. 1773) * November 9 – Countess Henriette Charlotte of Nassau-Idstein, German princess (d. 1734) * November 10 – Roland-Michel Barrin de La Galissonière, French admiral (d. 1756) * November 13 – Thomas Watson-Wentworth, 1st Marquess of Rockingham, British politician (d. 1750) * November 22 ** Louise Élisabeth de Bourbon, daughter of Louis (d. 1775) ** Zheng Xie, Chinese painter (d. 1766) * November 28 – Anthonie van der Heim, Dutch politician, urban magistrate and judge in Rotterdam, Grand Pensionary of Holland (d. 1746) * November 30 – Christoph Förster, German composer (d. 1745) * December 9 – Nathaniel Appleton, Congregational minister (d. 1784) * December 29 – Pierre Joseph Céloron de Blainville, French explorer (d. 1759) * ''date unknown'' – Heyat Mahmud, Bengali poet (d. 1760)


Deaths


January–March

* January 1 – Theodor Undereyck, German theologian (b. 1635) * January 4 – Thomas Hanford, first minister in Norwalk, Connecticut (b. 1621) * January 6 ** Mehmed IV, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1648 to 1687 (b. 1642) ** Marguerite de la Sablière, French salonist and polymath (b. 1640) * January 7 ** Marco Antonio Tomati (bishop of Asti), Marco Antonio Tomati, Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1583) ** Federico Visconti, Cardinal Archbishop of Milan (b. 1617) * January 8 – Jan Andrzej Morsztyn, Polish poet (b. 1621) * January 21 – Honda Toshinaga, daimyo (b. 1635) * January 27 – Anthony Lowther (died 1693), Anthony Lowther, English politician (b. 1641) * January 31 ** Ahasuerus Fromanteel, English clockmaker (b. 1607) ** Baptist Levinz, English bishop (b. 1644) * February 4 – John de Britto, Portuguese Jesuit missionary and martyr (b. 1647) * February 7 – Paul Pellisson, French writer (b. 1624) * February 9 – William Turner (London MP), William Turner, English Sheriff, Lord Mayor and M.P. of London (b. 1615) * February 11 – John de Brito, Portuguese Jesuit missionary and martyr (b. 1647) * February 13 – Johann Caspar Kerll, German composer and organist (b. 1627) * February 18 – Elias Tillandz, Swedish physician, botanist, professor of medicine and university rector (Royal Academy of Turku) (b. 1640) * February 21 – Pierre-Joseph-Marie Chaumonot, French missionary (b. 1611) * February 22 – Henrik Horn, Swedish military leader and noble (b. 1618) * February 24 – Filippo Alferio Ossorio, Catholic Bishop of Fondi (b. 1634) * March 3 – William Stockdale, Member of Parliament (b. 1634) * March 6 – Antonio Carafa (general), Antonio Caraffa, Austrian Military commander (b. 1646) * March 8 – Countess Palatine Leopoldine Eleonora of Neuburg (b. 1679) * March 10 – Carlo Cesare Malvasia, Italian art historian (b. 1616) * March 13 – John Rashleigh (1619–1693) of Coombe, John Rashleigh, English politician (b. 1619) * March 17 – Richard Whithed (Stockbridge MP), Richard Whithed, English politician (b. 1660) * March 21 – Walter Chetwynd, English antiquary, politician (b. 1633) * March 24 – Constantin Cantemir, Ruler of Moldavia (b. 1612) *
March 27 Events Pre-1600 * 1309 – Pope Clement V imposes excommunication and interdiction on Venice, and a general prohibition of all commercial intercourse with Venice, which had seized Ferrara, a papal fiefdom. * 1329 – Pope John XXII ...
– Sylvanus Morgan, English painter (b. 1620) * March 31 – Adriaantje Hollaer, Dutch painter (b. 1610)


April–June

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April 4 Events Pre-1600 * 503 BC – Roman consul Agrippa Menenius Lanatus celebrates a triumph for a military victory over the Sabines. * 190 – Dong Zhuo has his troops evacuate the capital Luoyang and burn it to the ground. * 611 &nd ...
** Isaac Aboab da Fonseca, Portuguese Sephardic rabbi (b. 1605) **
Anne Palles Anne Palles (1619 – 4 April 1693) was an alleged Danish witch. She was the last woman to be legally executed for sorcery in Denmark. Background In 1692, the cunning woman Karen Gregers Madsens from Lommelev was accused of poisoning. She wa ...
, Danish witch (b. 1619) *
April 5 Events Pre-1600 * 823 – Lothair I is crowned King of Italy by Pope Paschal I. * 919 – The Fatimid invasion of Egypt (919–921), second Fatimid invasion of Medieval Egypt, Egypt begins, when the Fatimid heir-apparent, Al-Qa'im (Fa ...
** Philip William August, Count Palatine of Neuburg, Eighth son of Elector Palatine Philip William (b. 1668) ** Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans, Duchess of Montpensier, French writer (b. 1627) ** George Louis I, Count of Erbach-Erbach (b. 1643) ** Christian Scriver, German hymnwriter (b. 1629) * April 9 – Roger de Rabutin, comte de Bussy, French writer (b. 1618) * April 15 ** Pierre Cureau de La Chambre, French priest (b. 1640) ** Sir John Cutler, 1st Baronet, English merchant and financier (b. 1608) * April 17 – Rutger von Ascheberg, Courland-born soldier in Swedish service (b. 1621) * April 20 – Claudio Coello, Spanish Baroque painter (b. 1642) * May 2 – Ernest, Landgrave of Hesse-Rheinfels and later of Hessen-Rheinfels-Rotenburg (b. 1623) * May 3 – Claude de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, French courtier (b. 1607) * May 6 ** François Tallemant the Elder, French translator (b. 1620) ** William Yardley, Quaker minister (b. 1632) * May 8 – Jan Verkolje, painter from the Northern Netherlands (b. 1650) * May 13 – Thomas Jervoise (died 1693), Thomas Jervoise, English politician (b. 1616) * May 15 ** Jacques Du Frische, theologian (b. 1640) ** John Hamilton, 2nd Lord Bargany, Scottish peer accused of treason and cleared of charges (b. 1640) * May 16 – Philippe Couplet, Flemish Jesuit missionary (b. 1623) *
May 18 Events Pre-1600 * 332 – Emperor Constantine the Great announces free distributions of food to the citizens in Constantinople. * 872 – Louis II of Italy is crowned for the second time as Holy Roman Emperor at Rome, at the age of 47 ...
– Giacomo Altoviti, Italian religious (b. 1604) * May 21 – Henry Erskine, 3rd Lord Cardross, Scottish nobleman and covenanter (b. 1650) * May 25 ** Al-Hurr al-Amili, Muslim cleric and scholar (b. 1624) ** Madame de La Fayette, French writer (b. 1634) * May 27 ** Asano Mitsuakira (b. 1617) ** John Spencer (priest), John Spencer, English clergyman, scholar, Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (b. 1630) * June 3 – Camille de Neufville de Villeroy, Archbishop of Lyon (b. 1606) * June 4 – John Wildman, English soldier and politician (b. 1621) * June 6 – Dirck Ferreris, Dutch painter (b. 1634) * June 7 – Miklós Erdődy, Ban of Croatia (b. 1630) * June 12 ** John Ashby (Royal Navy officer), John Ashby, Royal Navy admiral (b. 1646) ** Christen Jensen Lodberg, Danish bishop (b. 1625) * June 17 – Francisco Marcos de Velasco, Spanish military governor, commander of Antwerp Citadel (b. 1633) * June 18 – Johann Heinrich von Anethan, German vicar general and canon (b. 1628) * June 20 – Juliana of Hesse-Eschwege, German noblewoman (b. 1652) * June 22 – Wolfgang Leinberer, German astronomer, philosopher, mathematician, professor, priest in the Society of Jesus (b. 1635) * June 23 – Sir John Wittewrong, 1st Baronet, English parliamentarian (b. 1618) * June 24 ** Sir Henry Lyttelton, 2nd Baronet, English politician (b. 1624) ** Pavel Josef Vejvanovský, Czech composer (b. 1633) ** Isaac Willaerts, painter from the Northern Netherlands (b. c. 1620) * June 26 – John Philip II, Wild- and Rhinegrave of Salm-Dhaun (b. 1645) * June 30 – Christina zu Mecklenburg, princess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (b. 1639)


July–September

* July 4 – Ermanno Stroiffi, Italian painter (b. 1616) * July 8 – François Duchesne, French historian (b. 1616) * July 12 ** John Ashby (Royal Navy officer), John Ashby, English admiral (b. c. 1640) ** Johan Hadorph, Swedish director-general of the Central Board of National Antiquities (b. 1630) * July 13 ** Cataldo Amodei, Sicilian composer (b. 1649) ** Michiel Nouts, Dutch painter (b. 1628) ** Johann Konrad von Roggenbach, Prince-Bishop of Basle (b. 1618) * July 19 – Hendrik Trajectinus, Count of Solms, Dutch lieutenant-general (b. 1638) * July 22 – John Davies (translator), John Davies, Welsh translator and writer (b. 1625) * July 26 – Ulrika Eleonora of Denmark, Queen consort of Sweden (b. 1656) * July 31 – Willem Kalf, painter from the Northern Netherlands (b. 1619) * August 7 – John George II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (b. 1627) * August 12 – Mark Sension, Connecticut settler (b. 1630) * August 15 – Gregorio María de Silva y Mendoza, 9th Duke of the Infantado (b. 1649) *
August 21 Events Pre-1600 * 959 – Eraclus becomes the 25th bishop of Liège. *1140 – Song dynasty general Yue Fei defeats an army led by Jin dynasty (1115–1234), Jin dynasty general Wuzhu at the Battle of Yancheng during the Jin–Song War ...
– Patrick Sarsfield, 1st Earl of Lucan, Irish Jacobite peer (b. 1655) * August 23 – Johann Daniel Major, German professor of theoretical medicine (b. 1634) * August 27 – Edward Rawson (politician), Edward Rawson, American settler (b. 1615) * August 28 ** Johann Christoph Bach (musician at Arnstadt), Johann Christoph Bach, German composer (b. 1645) ** Jane Howard, Duchess of Norfolk, British noble (b. 1640) * August 30 – Laurent Cassegrain, French priest, astronomer and physicist (b. 1629) * September 1 – Nicolas Potier de Novion, French politician (b. 1618) * September 5 – Otto Grote zu Schauen, German politician (b. 1636) * September 6 – Odoardo Farnese, Hereditary Prince of Parma (b. 1666) *
September 9 Events Pre-1600 *337 – Constantine II, Constantius II, and Constans succeed their father Constantine I as co-emperors. The Roman Empire is divided between the three Augusti. * 1000 – Battle of Svolder, Viking Age. * 1141 &ndas ...
– Ihara Saikaku, Japanese writer (b. 1642) * September 12 ** Elisabeth Baulacre, Genevan industrialist (b. 1613) ** Lionel Copley, List of colonial governors of Maryland, Colonial governor of Maryland (b. 1648) ** Gabrielle de Rochechouart de Mortemart, French noble (b. 1633) * September 13 ** Lazar Baranovych, Ukrainian bishop (b. 1616) ** Flavio Chigi (1631–1693), Flavio Chigi, Italian cardinal and librarian (b. 1631) *
September 14 Events Pre-1600 *AD 81 – Domitian became Emperor of the Roman Empire upon the death of his brother Titus. * 786 – "Night of the three Caliphs": Harun al-Rashid becomes the Abbasid caliph upon the death of his brother al-Hadi. Bir ...
– Aert Jansse van Nes, Dutch admiral (b. 1626) * September 16 – Giovanni Battista de Belli, Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Telese o Cerreto Sannita (b. 1630) * September 19 – Johann Weikhard von Valvasor, Slovenian nobleman and polymath (b. 1641) * September 24 – Henri Justel, French scholar, royal administrator, bibliophile and librarian (b. 1620) * September 25 – William Bassett (died 1693), William Bassett, English landowner and politician (b. 1628) * September 27 – John Lovelace, 3rd Baron Lovelace, English politician (b. 1640) * September 28 ** Pietro Antonio d'Alessandro, Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1628) ** Thomas Knyvett, 7th Baron Berners, English politician (b. 1656) * September 30 – Bankei Yōtaku, Japanese Zen buddhist monk (b. 1622)


October–December

* October 1 – Pedro Abarca, Spanish theologian (b. 1619) *
October 4 Events Pre-1600 *AD 23 – Rebels sack the Chinese capital Chang'an during a peasant rebellion. * 1209 – Otto IV is crowned Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire by Pope Innocent III. * 1302 – The Byzantine–Venetian War comes ...
– Thomas Clayton (physician), Thomas Clayton, English politician (b. 1612) * October 5 – George Lawton (settler), George Lawton, American settler (b. 1607) * October 8 – Thomas Bampfield, English politician (b. 1623) * October 9 ** Marquard Sebastian Schenk von Stauffenberg, Prince-Bishop of Bamberg (b. 1644) ** Unshō, Japanese Buddhist scriptural commentator (b. 1604) * October 10 – Charles Patin, French physician (b. 1633) * October 12 – Sir Christopher Conyers, 2nd Baronet, Conyers baronets and Lord Lieutenant of Durham (b. 1621) * October 14 – Philipp Kilian, German engraver (b. 1628) * October 17 – Charles Schomberg, 2nd Duke of Schomberg, English general (b. 1645) * October 25 – Theodor von Strattman, Austrian diplomat (b. 1637) * October 26 ** Coenraad van Beuningen, Dutch diplomat (b. 1622) ** Kyprian Zochovskyj, Metropolitan of Kyiv (b. 1635) * November 2 – Theodor Kerckring, Dutch anatomist (b. 1638) * November 9 – Samuel Hale (settler), Samuel Hale, Connecticut settler and politician (b. 1615) * November 12 – Maria van Oosterwijck, Dutch Golden Age painter (b. 1623) * November 13 – Francesco Fortezza, Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1621) * November 16 – Francis Marsh, Irish bishop (b. 1626) * November 23 – Job Adriaenszoon Berckheyde, Dutch painter (b. 1630) * November 24 – William Sancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1617) * November 30 – Francesco Lorenzo Brancati di Lauria, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1612) * December 5 – Levinus Bennet, English politician (b. 1631) * December 12 – Countess Palatine Anna Magdalena of Birkenfeld-Bischweiler, Countess of Hanau-Lichtenberg (b. 1640) * December 13 ** Dosoftei, Moldavian Metropolitan (b. 1624) ** Willem van de Velde the Elder, Dutch painter (b. c. 1611) * December 14 – Giuseppe Felice Tosi, Italian composer (b. 1619) *
December 16 Events Pre-1600 * 714 – Pepin of Herstal, mayor of the Merovingian palace, dies at Jupille (modern Belgium). He is succeeded by his infant grandson Theudoald, while his widow Plectrude holds actual power in the Frankish Kingdom. * ...
– Jacques Rousseau (painter), Jacques Rousseau, painter from France (b. 1630) * December 21 – Hendrick Mommers, Dutch painter (b. 1623) * December 22 – Elisabeth Hevelius, Danzig astronomer (b. 1647) * December 24 – Nicolaes Maes, Dutch painter (b. 1634) *
December 27 Events Pre-1600 * 537 – The second Hagia Sophia in Constantinople is consecrated. *1512 – The Spanish Crown issues the Laws of Burgos, governing the conduct of settlers with regard to Indigenous peoples of the Americas, native Ind ...
– Henri de Villars (died 1693), Henri de Villars, French prelate (b. 1621) * December 29 – Vere Fane, 4th Earl of Westmorland, English Earl (b. 1644) * ''date unknown'' – Lars Nilsson (shaman), Lars Nilsson, Sami shaman in Sweden


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