Events

January–March

January 8 Events Pre-1600 * 307 – Emperor Huai of Jin, Sima Chi becomes emperor of the Jin dynasty (266–420), Jin dynasty in succession to his brother, Emperor Hui of Jin, Sima Zhong, despite a challenge from his other brother, Sima Ying. * 871 ...

– Thomas Aikenhead is hanged outside

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, becoming the last person in Great Britain to be executed for

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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 ...

– French writer Charles Perrault releases the book '' Histoires ou contes du temps passé'' (literally "Tales of Past Times", known in England as "Mother Goose tales") in Paris, a collection of popular

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s, including '' Cinderella'', '' Puss in Boots'', '' Red Riding Hood'', ''The

Sleeping Beauty "Sleeping Beauty" (, or ''The Beauty Sleeping in the Wood''; , or ''Little Briar Rose''), also titled in English as ''The Sleeping Beauty in the Woods'', is a fairy tale about a princess curse, cursed by an evil fairy to suspended animation in fi ...

'' and '' Bluebeard''. *

February 22 Events Pre-1600 * 1076 – Having received a letter during the Lenten synod of 14–20 February demanding that he abdicate, Pope Gregory VII excommunicates Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor. * 1316 – The Battle of Picotin, between Fer ...

– Gerrit de Heere becomes the new Governor of Dutch Ceylon, succeeding Thomas van Rhee and administering the colony for almost six years until his death. *

February 26 Events Pre-1600 * 747 BC – According to Ptolemy, the epoch (origin) of the Nabonassar Era began at noon on this date. Historians use this to establish the modern BC chronology for dating historic events. * 320 – Chandragupta ...

– Conquistador Martín de Ursúa y Arizmendi and 114 soldiers arrive at Lake Petén Itzá in what is now

Guatemala Guatemala, officially the Republic of Guatemala, is a country in Central America. It is bordered to the north and west by Mexico, to the northeast by Belize, to the east by Honduras, and to the southeast by El Salvador. It is hydrologically b ...

and begin the

Spanish conquest of Guatemala In a protracted conflict during the Spanish colonization of the Americas, Spanish colonisers gradually incorporated the territory that became the modern country of Guatemala into the colonial Viceroyalty of New Spain. Before the conquest, this te ...

with an attack on the capital of the

Itza people The Itza are a Maya ethnic group descendants of the Chanes Maya, Chanes from the Chontal Maya, Chontal region of Tabasco from where they made a historic migration arriving at Bacalar and northern Yucatán during the 10th century, then they arri ...

there before moving northward to the Yucatan peninsula. *

March 9 Events Pre-1600 *141 BC – Liu Che, Posthumous name, posthumously known as Emperor Wu of Han, assumes the throne over the Han dynasty of China. *1009 – First known mention of Lithuania, in the Annals of Quedlinburg, annals of the mo ...

– Grand Embassy of Peter the Great: Tsar

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of Russia sets out to travel in Europe incognito, as ''Artilleryman Pjotr Mikhailov''. *

March 13 Events Pre-1600 * 222 – Roman emperor Elagabalus is murdered alongside his mother, Julia Soaemias. He is replaced by his 14-year old cousin, Severus Alexander. * 624 – The Battle of Badr, the first major battle between the Mu ...

– The Spanish conquest of Petén, and of Yucatán, is completed with the fall of

Nojpetén Nojpetén (also spelled Noh Petén, and also known as Tayasal) was the capital city of the Itza people, Itza Maya civilization, Maya kingdom of Peten Itza kingdom, Petén Itzá. It was located on an island in Lake Petén Itzá in the modern depa ...

, capital of the Itza Maya Kingdom, the last independent Maya state. *

March 22 Events Pre-1600 * 106 – Start of the Bostran era, the calendar of the province of Arabia Petraea. * 235 – Roman emperor Severus Alexander is murdered, marking the start of the Crisis of the Third Century. * 871 – Æthel ...

– Charles II of Spain issues a Royal Cedula extending to the indigenous nobles of the Spanish Crown colonies, as well as to their descendants, the preeminence and honors customarily attributed to the Hidalgos of Castile. *

March 26 Events Pre-1600 * 590 – Emperor Maurice proclaims his son Theodosius as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire. * 624 – First Eid al-Fitr celebration. * 1021 – The death of the Fatimid caliph al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, kept secret ...

– Safavid occupation of Basra: Safavid government troops take control of

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April–June

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 ...

– Charles XII becomes king of Sweden at age 14 on the death of his father, Charles XI, from stomach cancer. * April 23 – As Chinese troops from the Manchu Dynasty (ruled by the Kangxi Emperor) complete their conquest of

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, Galdan Boshugtu Khan, ruler of the last part of Mongolia to be conquered, the Dzungar Khanate, poisons himself, ending the resistance to conquest. *

May 6 Events Pre-1600 * 1527 – Spanish and German troops sack Rome; many scholars consider this the end of the Renaissance. * 1536 – The Siege of Cuzco commences, in which Incan forces attempt to retake the city of Cuzco from the Sp ...

– General Bernard Desjean, Baron de Pointis of

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carries out an attack and pillaging of the Spanish South American fort of Cartagena de Indias (now in

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) with 1,200 soldiers and 650 pirate mercenaries. The French attackers overwhelm the city for the next 18 days. The Baron reneges on a contract to share the wealth with the pirates, who will come back to Cartagena a second time and makes a more violent attack. * May 17 (May 7 Old Style) – The 13th century royal '' Tre Kronor'' ("Three Crowns") castle in

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burns to the ground, and a large portion of the royal library is destroyed. * June 2 – Augustus, Elector of Saxony converts to Roman Catholicism in order to be eligible to rule Poland. * June 10 – The last mass execution for witchcraft in western Europe when the five Paisley witches are hanged and then burned in Scotland. * June 27 – After becoming a Roman Catholic, Augustus the Strong is elected King Augustus II of Poland. * June 30 – The earliest reported

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match takes place in

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in England.

July–September

* July 4 – A Byzantine icon, the "Weeping Madonna of Pócs", arrives in

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after a five-month journey following its forced removal from the Hungarian village of Pócs by order of the

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, Leopold I. It has been housed for more than 320 years in St. Stephen's Cathedral. * July 6 – A major naval battle takes place between the

Republic of Venice The Republic of Venice, officially the Most Serene Republic of Venice and traditionally known as La Serenissima, was a sovereign state and Maritime republics, maritime republic with its capital in Venice. Founded, according to tradition, in 697 ...

and the

Ottoman Empire The Ottoman Empire (), also called the Turkish Empire, was an empire, imperial realm that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Centr ...

with each side having 25 battleships, supplemented by smaller vessels. The Venetian Navy, under the command of Admiral Bartolomeo Contarini, suffers 71 deaths and 163 injuries, and even worse casualties in a second engagement on September 20. * July 27 – Mahmud Shah II, the Sultan of Johor and Pahang (now part of

Malaysia Malaysia is a country in Southeast Asia. Featuring the Tanjung Piai, southernmost point of continental Eurasia, it is a federation, federal constitutional monarchy consisting of States and federal territories of Malaysia, 13 states and thre ...

) takes on full power upon the death of the regent, the Bendahara Paduka Raja. Mahmud II was only 10 years old when he became the Sultan upon the assassination of his father, Ibrahim Shah in 1685. *

July 28 Events Pre-1600 *1364 – Troops of the Republic of Pisa and the Republic of Florence clash in the Battle of Cascina. *1540 – Henry VIII of England marries his fifth wife, Catherine Howard. *1571 – La Laguna encomienda, known t ...

– The opera '' Vénus et Adonis'', composed by Henri Desmarets with libretto by Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, receives its first performance, premiering at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal in

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. * August 10 – The Siege of Barcelona ends in

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after 52 days as Louis Joseph, Duke of Vendôme of France obtains the surrender of Barcelona from the Austrian General, Prince George of Hesse-Darmstadt. * September 5 (August 25 O.S.) – During the

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 ...

, the Battle of Hudson's Bay is fought between English and French ships in Hudson Bay near what is now the Canadian province of

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; The French warship ''Pélican'' captures York Factory, a trading post of the English

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. * September 11 – Battle of Zenta: Prince Eugene of Savoy crushes the Ottoman army of Mustafa II, and effectively ends Turkish hopes of recovering lost ground in Hungary. * September 17 –

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becomes the new Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire in the wake of the disastrous Ottoman defeat at Zenta, replacing Grand Vizier Elmas Mehmed Pasha, who was killed in the battle by his own troops. * September 20 – The Treaty of Ryswick is signed by France and the Grand Alliance, to end both the

and King William's War.

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 ...

recognises William III as King of England & Scotland, and both sides return territories they have taken in battle. In North America, the treaty returns Port-Royal (Acadia) to France.

October–December

* October 7 – The opera '' Issé'', composed by André Cardinal Destouches with libretto by Antoine Houdar de la Motte, premieres at the Palace of Fontainebleau in France. * October 16 – The Norwegian Code, promulgated by King Christian V of Denmark-Norway in 1687, is amended to provide for torture of condemned criminals in certain capital offenses in Norway, with permission for burning with hot irons, or cutting off the prisoner's right hand while the prisoner is being transported for

decapitation Decapitation is the total separation of the head from the body. Such an injury is invariably fatal to humans and all vertebrate animals, since it deprives the brain of oxygenated blood by way of severing through the jugular vein and common c ...

. * October 19 – Misión Loreto, the first Roman Catholic mission on Mexico's Baja California Peninsula, is founded by Spanish missionary Juan María de Salvatierra. * October 24 – The first opéra-ballet, combining elements of both mediums of entertainment, is performed as '' L'Europe galante'' makes its debut at the Salle du Palais-Royal in

. Composed by André Campra, with

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by Antoine Houdar de la Motte, the opera and ballet is conducted by Marin Marais. * October 30 – The

, between France and the Grand Alliance comes to an end with the signing of the last pacts of the Peace of Ryswick in the Dutch city of Rijswijk as Leopold I of

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accedes two days before a deadline that had been set by the other members of the Grand Alliance. The areas of the Duchy of Lorraine (Lotharingen),

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, and Vieux-Brisach ( Breisach) are returned by France to Leopold's control. * November 24 – The elaborate burial of the late King Charles XI of Sweden takes place more than seven months after his April 5 death, with interment at the Riddarholmen Church on the island of Riddarholmen near

. * November 30 – Prince Eugene of Savoy, a field marshal within the

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, purchases a large tract of land in

for construction of the Belvedere Palace. * December 2 – The first service is held in

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since rebuilding work after the

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began. * December 7 – Louis, Duke of Burgundy, and Marie Adélaïde of Savoy marry in the royal chapel at the

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in France. * December 8 – Tsangyang Gyatso is installed in

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as the 6th Dalai Lama in a ceremony at

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, filling a vacancy that had existed since 1682. * December 11 – A ball in the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles is held to celebrate the Duke of Burgundy and Marie Adélaïde's wedding. * December 14 – The coronation ceremony takes place for King Charles XII of Sweden.

Date unknown

* The

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s of the

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conquer Outer Mongolia. * The

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passes the Trade with Africa Act 1697 (''An Act to settle the Trade to Africa''), which end the Royal African Company's monopoly on all English trade with Africa. * William Dampier's '' A New Voyage Round the World'' is published in England. * Christopher Polhem starts

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's first technical school. * Heinrich Escher, Mayor of

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, introduces

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to Switzerland from

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. * Martin Mere, England's largest lake, is finally drained by Thomas Fleetwood. * The use of " litters" (wheelless transports that carried by four servants) increases in

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Ongoing

* Great Famine of 1695–1697 in Scandinavia. * Great Famine of Estonia (1695–97). * " Seven ill years" of famine in

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Births

January–March

January 1 January 1 is the first day of the calendar year in the Gregorian Calendar; 364 days remain until the end of the year (365 in leap years). This day is also known as New Year's Day since the day marks the beginning of the year. __TOC__ Events ...

– Johann Pfeiffer, German violinist (d. 1761) *

January 7 Events Pre-1600 *49 BC – The Senate of the Roman Republic, Senate of Rome says that Caesar will be declared a public enemy unless he disbands his army, prompting the tribunes who support him to flee to where Caesar is waiting in Ravenna ...

** Wilhelm August von der Osten, Danish civil servant (d. 1764) ** Robert Wallace, minister of the Church of Scotland, writer on population (d. 1771) *

January 9 Events Pre-1600 * 681 – Twelfth Council of Toledo: King Erwig of the Visigoths initiates a council in which he implements diverse measures against the Jews in Spain. * 1038 – An earthquake in Dingxiang, China kills an estimate ...

– Gabriel Hanger, 1st Baron Coleraine, English politician (d. 1773) *

– William Capell, 3rd Earl of Essex, English courtier and diplomat (d. 1743) *

January 13 Events Pre-1600 * 27 BC – Octavian transfers the state to the free disposal of the Roman Senate and the people. He receives Spain, Gaul, and Syria as his province for ten years. * 532 – The Nika riots break out, during the ra ...

– Paul-François de Galluccio, marquis de L'Hôpital, French nobleman and ambassador to Russia (d. 1767) *

January 16 Events Pre-1600 * 1458 BC – Hatshepsut dies at the age of 50 and is buried in the Valley of the Kings. * 27 BC – Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus is granted the title Augustus by the Roman Senate, marking the beginning of the R ...

– Jules, Prince of Soubise, French nobleman and Prince of Soubise (d. 1724) *

January 17 Events Pre-1600 * 38 BC – Octavian divorces his wife Scribonia and marries Livia Drusilla, ending the fragile peace between the Second Triumvirate and Sextus Pompey. * 1362 – Saint Marcellus' flood kills at least 25,000 peopl ...

– Franz Neumayr, German Jesuit preacher (d. 1765) *

January 19 Events Pre-1600 * 379 – Emperor Gratian elevates Flavius Theodosius at Sirmium to '' Augustus'', and gives him authority over all the eastern provinces of the Roman Empire. * 649 – Conquest of Kucha: The forces of Kucha surren ...

– Thérèse de Couagne, capitalist and slave owner who played an active role in the economy of New France (d. 1764) *

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 ...

– Antoine-Martin Chaumont de La Galaizière, French nobleman (d. 1783) *

January 23 Events Pre-1600 * 393 – Roman emperor Theodosius I proclaims his eight-year-old son Honorius co-emperor. * 971 – Using crossbows, Song dynasty troops soundly defeat a war elephant corps of the Southern Han at Shao. * 1229 ...

– Joseph François Dupleix, Governor-General of French India and rival of Robert Clive (d. 1763) *

January 26 Events Pre-1600 * 661 – The Rashidun Caliphate is effectively ended with the assassination of Ali, the last caliph. * 1531 – The 6.4–7.1 Lisbon earthquake kills about thirty thousand people. * 1564 – The Council of T ...

– Sir Hugh Acland, 6th Baronet, British landowner, politician and MP (d. 1728) *

January 30 Events Pre-1600 * 1018 – Poland and the Holy Roman Empire conclude the Peace of Bautzen. * 1287 – King Wareru founds the Hanthawaddy Kingdom, and proclaims independence from the Pagan Kingdom. 1601–1900 * 1607 – An es ...

– Johann Joachim Quantz, German flautist and composer (d. 1773) *

February 1 Events Pre-1600 * 1327 – The teenaged Edward III is crowned King of England, but the country is ruled by his mother Queen Isabella and her lover Roger Mortimer. * 1411 – The First Peace of Thorn is signed in Thorn (Toruń), ...

– Josse Boutmy, composer, organist and harpsichordist of the Austrian Netherlands (d. 1779) *

February 4 Events Pre–1600 * 211 – Following the death of the Roman Emperor Septimius Severus at Eboracum (modern York, England) while preparing to lead a campaign against the Caledonians, the empire is left in the control of his two quarrellin ...

– James Franklin, American colonial author (d. 1735) *

February 5 Events Pre-1600 * *2 BC – Caesar Augustus is granted the title ''pater patriae'' by the Roman Senate. *AD 62, 62 – AD 62 Pompeii earthquake, Earthquake in Pompeii, Italy. *756 – Chinese New Year; An Lushan proclaims himself E ...

– William Smellie, Scottish obstetrician and medical instructor (d. 1763) *

February 9 Events Pre-1600 * 474 – Zeno (emperor), Zeno is crowned as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire, Eastern Roman Empire *1003 – Boleslaus III, Duke of Bohemia, Boleslaus III is restored to authority with armed support from Bolesław I ...

– Sir James Johnstone, 3rd Baronet, Scottish baronet and politician (d. 1772) *

February 13 Events Pre-1600 * 962 – Emperor Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, Otto I and Pope Pope John XII, John XII co-sign the ''Diploma Ottonianum'', recognizing John as ruler of Rome. *1258 – Siege of Baghdad (1258), Siege of Baghdad: Hulegu Kh ...

– Knud Leem, Norwegian priest and linguist (d. 1774) *

February 15 Events Pre-1600 * 438 – Roman emperor Theodosius II publishes the law codex Codex Theodosianus * 590 – Khosrau II is crowned king of Persia. * 706 – Byzantine emperor Justinian II has his predecessors Leontios and Ti ...

– Vito Maria Amico, Italian monk (d. 1752) *

February 24 Events Pre-1600 * 484 – King Huneric of the Vandals replaces Nicene bishops with Arian ones, and banishes some to Corsica. * 1303 – The English are defeated at the Battle of Roslin, in the First War of Scottish Independence. ...

– Bernhard Siegfried Albinus, German anatomist (d. 1770) *

** Giuseppe Pedretti, Italian painter (d.

1778 Events January–March * January 18 – Third voyage of James Cook: Sea captain, Captain James Cook, with ships HMS Resolution (1771), HMS ''Resolution'' and HMS Discovery (1774), HMS ''Discovery'', first views Oahu, Oʻahu th ...

) ** Edward Thompson, prominent Yorkshire politician (d. 1742) *

February 28 Events Pre-1600 *202 BC – Emperor Gaozu of Han, Liu Bang is enthroned as the Emperor of China, beginning four centuries of rule by the Han dynasty. * 870 – The Fourth Council of Constantinople (Roman Catholic), Fourth Council of Co ...

** Caio Domenico Gallo, Italian historian (d. 1780) ** Agustín de Montiano y Luyando, Spanish dramatist whose work is linked to Neoclassicism (d. 1764) *

March 6 Events Pre-1600 * 12 BCE – The Roman emperor Augustus is named Pontifex Maximus, incorporating the position into that of the emperor. * 845 – The 42 Martyrs of Amorium are killed after refusing to convert to Islam. * 1204 &ndas ...

– Jacques Deschamps, French theologian and priest (d. 1759) *

– Friederike Caroline Neuber, German actress and theatre director (d. 1760) *

March 12 Events Pre-1600 * 538 – Vitiges, king of the Ostrogoths ends his siege of Rome and retreats to Ravenna, leaving the city to the victorious Byzantine general, Belisarius. * 1088 – Election of Urban II as the 159th Pope of th ...

– Joseph Leblanc dit Le Maigre, Acadian farmer and trader (d. 1772) *

March 20 Events Pre-1600 *1206 – Michael IV of Constantinople, Michael IV Autoreianos is appointed Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople. *1600 – The Linköping Bloodbath takes place on Maundy Thursday in Linköping, Sweden: five Swedish n ...

– József Dravecz, Slovene Roman Catholic priest (d. 1779) * March 21 – Christian Gottlieb Priber, German immigrant with legal training who emigrated to the British Colonies of North America (d. 1744) * March 24 ** Louis Constantin de Rohan, French prelate of the House of Rohan (d. 1779) ** Yunli, Manchu prince of the Qing dynasty (d. 1738) * March 30 ** Faustina Bordoni, Italian mezzo-soprano (d.

1781 Events January–March * January – William Pitt the Younger, later Prime Minister of Great Britain, enters Parliament of Great Britain, Parliament, aged 21. * January 1 – Industrial Revolution: The Iron Bridge opens ...

) ** Jan Baptist Xavery, Flemish sculptor principally active in the Dutch Republic (d. 1742)

April–June

April 2 Events Pre-1600 * 1513 – Having spotted land on March 27, Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León comes ashore on what is now the U.S. state of Florida, landing somewhere between the modern city of St. Augustine and the mouth of the St ...

** Gaetano Casanova, Italian actor and ballet dancer (d. 1733) ** Sauveur François Morand, French surgeon (d. 1773) * April 12 – Anton Pichler, Tyrolean goldsmith and artist of engraved gems (d. 1779) * April 16 – Johann Gottlieb Görner, German composer and organist (d.

) * April 23 – George Anson, 1st Baron Anson, British admiral (d. 1762) * April 26 – Adam Falckenhagen, German lutenist and composer (d. 1754) * May 2 – Michael Fabritius, Danish merchant (d. 1746) * May 5 – Henricus Boelen, American silversmith in New York City (d. 1755) *

May 10 Events Pre-1600 * 28 BC – A sunspot is observed by Han dynasty astronomers during the reign of Emperor Cheng of Han, one of the earliest dated sunspot observations in China. * 1291 – Scottish nobles recognize the authority of ...

– Jean-Marie Leclair, French violinist (d. 1764) * May 15 – Countess Palatine Ernestine of Sulzbach, wife of Landgrave William II (d. 1775) * May 16 – John Berkeley, 5th Baron Berkeley of Stratton, British politician (d. 1773) * May 20 – Francesco Scipione Maria Borghese, Italian cardinal from the Borghese family (d. 1759) * May 28 – Frederick Bernard, Count Palatine of Gelnhausen (d. 1739) * June 2 – Thomas Whincop, English compiler of theatrical history (d. 1730) * June 4 – Jacob Emden, German rabbi and talmudist who championed Orthodox Judaism (d. 1776) * June 9 – Augustus Louis, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen, German prince of the House of Ascania (d. 1755) * June 10 –

Johann Caspar Barthel Johann Caspar Barthel (10 June 1697 – 8 April 1771) was a German canon lawyer. Biography He was born at Kitzingen, Bavaria, the son of a fisherman, attended school in Kitzingen, and from 1709 to 1715 studied at the Jesuit College at Würz ...

, German canon lawyer (d. 1771) * June 11 – Francesco Antonio Vallotti, Italian composer (d. 1780) * June 24 – Heinrich Joseph Johann of Auersperg, fourth Prince of Auersperg (d. 1783)

July–September

* July 27 – Isaac Maddox, Anglican clergyman (d. 1759) * July 31 – Pietro Paolo Vasta, Italian painter (d. 1760) * August 4 – Susanna Wright, colonial English American poet (d. 1784) * August 6 ** Nicola Salvi, Italian architect (d. 1751) ** Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor from 1742 to 1745 (d. 1745) * August 10 – Alexander Kurakin, statesman and diplomat (d. 1749) * August 17 – Alexander Brodie, Scottish politician (d. 1754) * August 18 – Princess Benedetta d'Este, noblewoman and princess of the Duchy of Modena and Reggio (d. 1777) * August 19 – Richard Wingfield, 1st Viscount Powerscourt, Irish politician and peer (d. 1751) * August 26 – Giovanni Battista Tagliasacchi, Italian painter of the late-Baroque period (d. 1737) * August 28 – Armande de La Tour d'Auvergne, French noblewoman and Princess of Epinoy by marriage (d. 1717) * August 30 – Henry Flitcroft, major English architect in the second generation of Palladianism (d. 1769) *

September 2 Events Pre-1600 * 44 BC – Pharaoh Cleopatra VII of Egypt declares her son co-ruler as Ptolemy XV Caesarion. * 44 BC – Cicero launches the first of his '' Philippicae'' (oratorical attacks) on Mark Antony. He will make 14 of ...

– Thomas Deacon, English non-juror bishop (d. 1753) * September 6 – James Foster, English Baptist minister (d. 1753) * September 16 – St George Caulfeild, Lord Chief Justice of Ireland (d.

) * September 17 – John Gardner, American judge (d. 1764) * September 18 – Cornelius Heinrich Dretzel, German organist and composer (bapt. 1697–1775) (d. 1775) * September 19 – Alexander Monro, Scottish surgeon and anatomist (d. 1767) * September 25 – Francis Josias, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (d. 1764) * September 27 – Franz Ernst Brückmann, German mineralogist born at Mariental (d. 1753)

October–December

* October 6 – Sir Robert Austen, 4th Baronet, British politician (d. 1743) *

October 8 Events Pre-1600 * 316 – Constantine I Battle of Cibalae, defeats Roman Emperor Licinius, who loses his European territories. * 451 – The first session of the Council of Chalcedon begins. * 876 – Frankish forces led by Louis ...

** Augustine Françoise de Choiseul, French aristocrat (d. 1728) ** William Smith, American lawyer and jurist (d. 1769) * October 9 – Pierre Philibert de Blancheton, French politician and music patron and collector (d. 1756) * October 15 – Leopold Innocenty Nepomucen Polzer, Polish lawyer (d. 1753) * October 16 ** Nicholas Amhurst, English poet and political writer (d. 1742) ** Marie Anne de Bourbon, Superintendent of the Household to the French queen Marie Leszczyńska (d. 1741) * October 18 ** Canaletto, Italian painter from the Republic of Venice (d. 1768) ** Luigi Maria Torregiani, Italian Cardinal (d. 1777) * October 19 – Claude-Pierre Goujet, French abbé and ''littérateur'' (d. 1767) * October 22 – Mary Seymour, Duchess of Somerset (d. 1768) * October 25 – Bartolomeo Ruspoli, Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (d. 1741) * October 26 – John Peter Zenger, German printer and journalist in New York City (d. 1746) * October 28 – Johann Gottfried Auerbach, Austrian painter and etcher (d. 1753) * October 29 –

Georg Desmarées Georg Desmarées or Des Marées, (29 October 1697 – 3 October 1776) was a Swedish-born German portrait painter. Biography Desmarées was born in 1697 in Stockholm, Sweden. He was the son of immigrant parents Jean Desmarées and Sara Meijteris ...

, Swedish-born German portrait painter (d. 1776) * October 31 – Johann Christian Fiedler, German portrait painter (d. 1765) * November 2 – James Douglas, 3rd Marquess of Queensberry, Scottish noble (d. 1715) * November 6 – Euseby Isham, English academic administrator at the University of Oxford (d. 1755) * November 8 – Giovanni Lami, Italian jurist (d. 1770) * November 9 – August Aleksander Czartoryski, member of the Polish nobility (Lang-pl (d. 1782) * November 10 ** Louise Hippolyte, Princess of Monaco (d. 1731) ** William Hogarth, English artist (d. 1764) * November 13 – Lord William Manners, English nobleman, Whig politician and MP (d. 1772) * November 15 – Johann Baring, German merchant (d. 1748) * November 17 – René-Prosper Tassin, French historian (d. 1777) * November 21 – Mateša Antun Kuhačević, Croatian poet and politician from Senj (d. 1772) * November 23 – John Gill, English Baptist pastor (d. 1771) *

November 25 Events Pre-1600 *571 BC – Servius Tullius, king of Ancient Rome, Rome, celebrates the first of his three Roman triumph, triumphs for his victory over the Etruscans. *1034 – Máel Coluim II of Scotland, Máel Coluim mac Cináeda, Ki ...

** Maria Karolina Sobieska (d. 1740) ** Gerhard Tersteegen, German Reformed religious writer and hymnist (d. 1769) * November 30 – Johann Albrecht Korff, Russian diplomat (d.

1766 Events January–March * January 1 – Charles Edward Stuart ("Bonnie Prince Charlie") becomes the new House of Stuart, Stuart claimant to the throne of Great Britain, as King Charles III, and figurehead for Jacobitism. * Januar ...

) * December 4 – Nicolas-Charles-Joseph Trublet, French churchman (canon of Saint-Malo) and moralist (d. 1770) * December 6 – Carlo Arrigoni, Italian composer and musician active in several countries (d. 1744) * December 7 – Peter August, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck (d. 1775) * December 11 ** Sakaki Hyakusen, Japanese painter in the nanga style (d. 1752) ** Pyotr Saltykov (d. 1772) * December 14 – Soloman Sprecher von Bernegg, Austrian military commander (d. 1758) * December 18 – Marcantonio Dal Re, Italian engraver and publisher (d.

) * December 21 ** Charles Bennet, 2nd Earl of Tankerville, British peer and politician (d. 1753) ** Georg Erhard Hamberger, German professor of medicine (d. 1755) * December 27 – Sollom Emlyn, Irish legal writer (d. 1754)

Deaths

January–March

February 16 Events Pre-1600 * 1249 – Andrew of Longjumeau is dispatched by Louis IX of France as his ambassador to meet with the Khagan of the Mongol Empire. * 1270 – The Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeats the Livonian Order in the Battl ...

– Jan Six van Chandelier, Dutch Golden Age poet from Amsterdam (b. 1620) *

March 15 Events Pre-1600 * 474 BC – Roman consul Aulus Manlius Vulso celebrates an ovation for concluding the war against Veii and securing a forty years truce. * 44 BC – The assassination of Julius Caesar, the dictator of the Roman R ...

– William Wentworth, follower of John Wheelwright (b. 1616) *

– Thomas Aikenhead, Scottish student (hanged) (b. c. 1678) *

** John Bradstreet, accused "witch" during the Salem Witch Trials (b. 1652) ** Daniele Giustiniani, Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Bergamo (1664–1697) (b. 1615) *

January 12 Events Pre-1600 * 475 – List of Byzantine emperors, Byzantine Emperor Zeno (emperor), Zeno is forced to flee his capital at Constantinople, and his general, Basiliscus gains control of the empire. *1528 – Gustav I of Sweden is crow ...

– Andrzej Stech, Polish painter (b. 1635) *

– Fortunato Ilario Carafa della Spina, Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1630) *

– Georg Mohr, Danish mathematician (b. 1640) *

January 28 Events Pre-1600 *AD 98, 98 – On the death of Nerva, Trajan is declared Roman emperor in Cologne, the seat of his government in lower Germany. * 814 – The death of Charlemagne, the first Holy Roman Emperor, brings about the accessi ...

– John Fenwick, English conspirator (b. c. 1645) *

January 31 Events Pre-1600 * 314 – Pope Sylvester I is consecrated, as successor to the late Pope Miltiades. * 1208 – The Battle of Lena takes place between King Sverker II of Sweden and his rival, Prince Eric, whose victory puts him on th ...

–

Anthony Horneck Anthony Horneck (; 1641–1697) was a German Protestant clergyman and scholar who made his career in England. He became an influential Evangelicalism, evangelical figure in London from the later 1670s, in partnership with Richard Smithies, cura ...

, German clergyman and scholar (b.

1641 Events January–March * January 4 – The stratovolcano Mount Parker (Philippines), Mount Parker in the Philippines has a major eruption. * January 14 – Battle of Malacca (1641), The Battle of Malacca concludes with the D ...

) *

– Adrien de Wignacourt, 63rd Prince and Grand Master of the Order of Malta from 1690 to 1697 (b. 1618) *

– Esaias Fleischer, Danish priest (b. 1633) *

February 11 Events Pre-1600 * 660 BC – Traditional date for the foundation of Japan by Emperor Jimmu. * 55 – The death under mysterious circumstances of Tiberius Claudius Caesar Britannicus, heir to the Roman Empire, on the eve of his comin ...

– Georg Händel, German musician (b. 1622) *

– Bernardino Plastina, Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Oppido Mamertina (b. 1645) * February 17 – Francis Dane, American colonial priest (b. 1615) *

March 1 Events Pre-1600 * 509 BC – Publius Valerius Publicola celebrates the first triumph of the Roman Republic after his victory over the deposed king Lucius Tarquinius Superbus at the Battle of Silva Arsia. * 293 – Emperor Diocleti ...

–

Francesco Redi Francesco Redi (18 February 1626 – 1 March 1697) was an Italians, Italian physician, naturalist, biologist, and poet. He is referred to as the "founder of experimental biology", and as the "father of modern parasitology". He was the first perso ...

, Italian physician (b. 1626) *

– Gaspar de la Cerda, 8th Count of Galve, viceroy of New Spain (b. 1653) * March 17 – Þórður Þorláksson, Icelandic bishop (b. 1637) *

March 19 Events Pre-1600 * 1277 – The Byzantine–Venetian treaty of 1277 is concluded, stipulating a two-year truce and renewing Venetian commercial privileges in the Byzantine Empire. * 1279 – A Mongol victory at the Battle of Yamen en ...

– Nicolaus Bruhns, German organist and composer (b. 1665) *

March 23 Events Pre-1600 * 1400 – The Trần dynasty of Vietnam is deposed, after one hundred and seventy-five years of rule, by Hồ Quý Ly, a court official. * 1540 – Waltham Abbey is surrendered to King Henry VIII of England; the las ...

– William Child, English composer and organist (b. 1606) *

– Godfrey McCulloch, Scottish politician and murderer (executed) (b. 1640) * March 27 –

Simon Bradstreet Simon Bradstreet (baptized March 18, 1603/4In the Julian calendar, then in use in England, the year began on March 25. To avoid confusion with dates in the Gregorian calendar, then in use in other parts of Europe, dates between January and Ma ...

, English colonial magistrate (b. 1604)

April–June

* April 1 – Giyesu, Chinese prince (b. 1646) * April 4 – Andrea Carlone, Italian painter (b. 1626) *

– King Charles XI of Sweden, King of Sweden from 1660 to 1697 (b. 1655) * April 8 – Niels Juel, Danish admiral (b. 1629) *

April 14 Events Pre-1600 * 43 BC – Legions loyal to the Roman Senate, commanded by Gaius Pansa, defeat the forces of Mark Antony in the Battle of Forum Gallorum. * 69 – Vitellius, commanding Rhine-based armies, defeats Roman emperor ...

– Custodio do Pinho, Roman Catholic prelate, Titular Bishop of ''Hierapolis in Isauria'' (b. 1638) * May 2 – Simon Henry, Count of Lippe, ruling Count of Lippe-Detmold (b.

1639 Events January–March * January 19 – Hämeenlinna () is granted privileges, after it separates from the Vanaja parish, as its own city in Tavastia. *c. January – The first printing press in British North America is ...

) * May 8 – Sir Richard Temple, 3rd Baronet, English Member of Parliament (b. 1634) * May 9 – Ildefonso Vargas y Abarca, Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Comayagua (b. 1633) *

May 12 Events Pre-1600 * 254 – Pope Stephen I succeeds Pope Lucius I, becoming the 23rd pope of the Catholic Church, and immediately takes a stand against Novatianism. * 907 – Zhu Wen forces Emperor Ai into abdicating, ending the ...

– Francesco Maria Moles, Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Nola (b. 1638) * May 22 – Louise Boyer, French courtier (b. 1632) *

May 24 Events Pre-1600 * 919 – The nobles of Franconia and Saxony elect Henry the Fowler at the Imperial Diet in Fritzlar as king of the East Frankish Kingdom. * 1218 – The Fifth Crusade leaves Acre for Egypt. * 1276 – Magnus ...

–

Johann Adolf I, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels Johann Adolf I, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels (2 November 1649, in Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, Halle – 24 May 1697, in Weissenfels), was a duke of Saxe-Weissenfels-Querfurt and member of the House of Wettin. He was the first son of Augustus, Duke of Sax ...

, German duke (b. 1649) * June 3 – Silvius II Frederick, Duke of Württemberg-Oels (b. 1651) * June 7 –

John Aubrey John Aubrey (12 March 1626 – 7 June 1697) was an English antiquary, natural philosopher and writer. He was a pioneer archaeologist, who recorded (often for the first time) numerous megalithic and other field monuments in southern England ...

, English writer and antiquarian (b. 1626) * June 10 – Francis Pemberton, English judge, Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench (b. 1624) * June 12 – Ann Baynard, English natural philosopher (b. 1672) *

June 18 Events Pre-1600 * 618 – Li Yuan becomes Emperor Gaozu of Tang, initiating three centuries of Tang dynasty rule over China. * 656 – Ali becomes Caliph of the Rashidun Caliphate. * 860 – Siege of Constantinople (860), Byzantine� ...

– Gregorio Barbarigo, Italian Catholic saint (b. 1625) * June 19 – Henry Mordaunt, 2nd Earl of Peterborough, English diplomat (b. 1621) * June 21 – Joseph Anthelmi, French ecclesiastical historian (b. 1648)

July–September

* July 5 – Sebastijan Glavinić, Catholic bishop (b. 1630) * July 7 – John Eachard, English divine and satirist (b. 1636) * July 10 – Katherine Ross, née Collace (c.1635–1697), memoirist and schoolmistress (b. 1635) *

July 11 Events Pre-1600 * 813 – Byzantine emperor Michael I, under threat by conspiracies, abdicates in favor of his general Leo the Armenian, and becomes a monk (under the name Athanasius). * 911 – Signing of the Treaty of Saint-Clair ...

– Frances Ward, 6th Baroness Dudley, English baroness (b. 1611) * July 13 – James Draper, early settler of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (b. 1618) * July 16 – Sir John Brownlow, 3rd Baronet, English politician (b. 1659) * July 18 ** Thomas Dolman, English politician (b. 1622) ** António Vieira, Portuguese writer (b. 1608) * July 20 – Jan Kazimierz Denhoff, Polish cardinal from 1686 (b. 1649) * July 24 –

William Digges Colonel William Digges (24 July 1697) was a prominent planter, soldier and politician in the Colony of Virginia and Province of Maryland. The eldest son of Edward Digges (1620-1674/5), who sat on the Virginia Governor's Council for two decades but ...

, politician in the Colony of Virginia, councillor in the Province of Maryland (b. 1651) * July 25 – John Grout, military officer (b. 1643) * July 27 ** Tun Habib Abdul Majid, Grand Vizier of Johor (b. 1637) **

Dominik Mikołaj Radziwiłł Prince Dominik Mikołaj Radziwiłł (; 1643–1697) was a Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Polish–Lithuanian nobleman (szlachcic) and politician. He was son of Court and Grand Marshal Aleksander Ludwik Radziwiłł and Princess Lucrezia ...

, Polish–Lithuanian noble and politician (b. 1643) * July 30 – Lorentz Mortensen Angell, Norwegian merchant and landowner (b. 1626) * August 2 ** Giuseppe Bologna, Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Capua, Archbishop of Benevento (b. 1634) ** Sir William Frankland, 1st Baronet, English politician (b. 1640) * August 5 – Jean-Baptiste de Santeul, French poet who wrote in Latin (b. 1630) * August 11 – John Hay, 1st Marquess of Tweeddale, Scottish judge (b. 1625) * August 30 – Daigo Fuyumoto, Japanese noble (b. 1648) * September 11 ** Elmas Mehmed Pasha, Ottoman statesman, grand vizier from 1695 to 1697 (b. 1661) ** Agneta Rosenbröijer, Finland Swedish noblewoman (b. 1620)

October–December

* October 27 – Takehara An'i, bureaucrat of Ryukyu Kingdom (b. 1651) * October 30 – Thomas Lascelles, English politician (b. 1624) * November 8 – Samuel Enys, English politician (b. 1611) * November 22 – Libéral Bruant, French architect (b. c. 1635) * November 30 – Thomas Crew, 2nd Baron Crew, English politician (b. 1624) * December 17 – Eleonore of Austria, Queen of Poland (b. 1653) ** Pietro Leoni, Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Verona, Bishop of Ceneda (b. 1637) * December 20 ** Frederick Charles, Duke of Württemberg-Winnental (b. 1652) ** Sir Arthur Gore, 1st Baronet, Irish politician (b. 1640) * December 31 – Lucas Faydherbe, Belgian sculptor and architect (b. 1617) * ''date unknown'' – Karin Thomasdotter, Finnish official (b. 1610)

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