Events

• January 22 - Impostor Mary Carleton is hanged in Newgate prison in England for multiple thefts and returning from penal transportation
• March 18 - John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton sells his part of New Jersey to the Quakers.
• May 17 - Trader Louis Joliet and Jesuit missionary-explorer Jacques Marquette begin exploring the Mississippi River and the Great Lakes.
• November 11- near Chocim (also spelled Khotinin the Ukraine, Lithuanian and Polish military units defeat the Turkish army. In this battle rockets of Kazimieras Simonavičius were successfully used.

• The English Test Act was passed. It disallowed Catholics from holding high public office.
• France begins its expedition against Ceylon.
• Christopher Wren knighted.
• French explorers Father Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet reach the headwaters of Mississippi River and descend to Arkansas
• Jean-Baptiste Lully writes his first opera, Cadmus et Hermione
• The Dutch retake New York
• Chelsea Physic Garden, second oldest botanic garden in England, founded by the Society of Apothecaries for the study of medicinal and other plants.
• William of Orange saves Amsterdam and the province of Holland from the French by opening the Sluice gates and flooding the country.
• Mitsui family's trading and banking house is founded in Japan.
• University of Innsbruck founded
• Stalactic grotto of Antiparos (Aegean Sea) discovered.
• Archpriest Petrovich Avvakum writes his "Zhitie" (Life) as the first Russian autobiography.

Births

• April 27 - Claude Gillot, French artist (d. 1722)
• July 20 - John Dalrymple, 2nd Earl of Stair, Scottish soldier and diplomat (d. 1747)
• August 8 - John Ker, Scottish spy (d. 1726)
• August 11 - Richard Mead, English physician (d. 1754)
• October 26 - Dimitrie Cantemir, Moldavian linguist and scholar (d. 1723)
• December 30 - Ahmed III, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1736)

Deaths

• February 17 - Molière, French writer and actor (b. 1622)
• March 15 - Salvator Rosa, Italian painter and poet (b. 1615)
• March 20 - Augustyn Kordecki, Polish prior (b. 1603)
• June 18 - Jeanne Mance, French Canadian settler (b. 1606)
• August 17 - Regnier de Graaf, Dutch physician and anatomist (b. 1641)
• August 21 - Henry Grey, 1st Earl of Stamford, English soldier
• October 13 - Kristoffer Gabel, Danish statesman (b. 1617)
• October 17 - Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, English statesman (b. 1630)
• November 10 - Michał Wiśniowiecki, King of Poland (b. 1640)
• December 15 - Margaret Cavendish, English writer (b. 1623)
• December 31 - Oliver St John, English statesman and judge

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