Events

• June 30 - A high-powered conspiracy of notables, the "Immortal Seven", invite William and Mary to depose James II of England.
• October 27 - King James II of England fires minister Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland
• November 5 - Glorious Revolution begins: William of Orange lands at Brixham but James II of England is prevented from meeting him in battle because many of his officers and men desert to the other side.
• November 23 - A group of 1500 Old Believers immolated themselves to avoid capture when troops of the tsar laid siege to their monastery on Lake Onega.
• November - Hearing that William has landed in England, Louis XIV declares war on the Netherlands. Perhaps revealingly, he does not attack the Netherlands but instead strikes at the heart of the Holy Roman Empire with about 100,000 soldiers.
• December 11 - After a series of defeats King James II of England flees England for France.

Unknown dates

• Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor.
• The Nine Years War begins in Europe and America.
• Austria occupies Belgrade.
• Friedrich I of Prussia becomes Kurfürst (Elector) of Brandenburg.
• Francesco Morosini becomes Doge of Venice.
• James, Callinicus II, and Neophytus IV are Patriarchs of Constantinople.
• Gerasimus I succeeds Parthenius I as Patriarch of Alexandria.
• Jan Stanislaw Zbaski succeeds Mikolaj Stefan Radziejowski as bishop of Warmia.
• Peter Delanoy succeeds Stephanus Van Cortlandt as mayor of New York City.
• Asmus Bremer becomes mayor of Kiel.
• Fire destroys Bungay in England.
• Neuruppin becomes a Prussian garrison town.
• Etienne Baluze publishes Marca hispanica.
• David Abercromby publishes Ars explorandi medicas facultates plantarum ex solo sapore.
• Antonio Verrio begins work on the Heaven Room at Burghley House.
• William Dampier makes first recorded visit to Christmas Island.
• Janez Vajkard Valvasor becomes a member of the Royal Society.
• The Austrians incite a rebellion against the Ottomans in Bulgaria.
• General Phetracha stages a coup d'état and becomes king of Ayutthaya.

Births

• January 18 - Lionel Cranfield Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (d. 1765)
• January 29 - Emanuel Swedenborg Swedish scientist, philosopher, and theologian (d. 1772)
• February 2 - Queen Ulrike Eleonora of Sweden (d. 1741)
• February 4 - Pierre de Marivaux, French playwright (d. 1763)
• April 4 - Joseph-Nicolas Delisle, French astronomer (d. 1768)
• April 15 - Johann Friedrich Fasch, German composer (d. 1758)
• May 22 - Alexander Pope, English poet (d. 1744)
• June 10 - James Francis Edward Stuart, "The Old Pretender" (d. 1766)
• July 19 - Giuseppe Castiglione, Italian missionary to China (d. 1766)
• August 14 - King Frederick William I of Prussia (d. 1740)
• September 12 - Ferdinand Brokoff, Czech sculptor (d. 1731)
• October 17 - Domenico Zipoli, Italian composer (d. 1726)
• October 22 - Nadir Shah of Persia (d. 1747)
• William Burnet, British colonial administrator (d. 1729)
• Charles Rivington, English publisher (d. 1742)

Deaths

• January 7 - James Howard, 3rd Earl of Suffolk
• February 2 - Abraham Duquesne, French naval officer (b. 1610)
• April 29 - Friedrich Wilhelm I of Brandenburg (b. 1620)
• May 14 - Antoine Furetière, French writer (b. 1619)
• June 5 - Constantine Phaulkon, Greek adventurer (b. 1667)
• June 26 - Ralph Cudworth, English philosopher (b. 1617)
• July 11 - Narai of Thailand
• July 21 - James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde, Irish statesman (b. 1610)
• August 25 - Henry Morgan, Welsh privateer and Governor of Jamaica
• August 31 - John Bunyan, English writer (b. 1628)
• September 2 - Robert Viner, Lord Mayor of London (b. 1631)
• October 6 - Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle, English statesman (b. 1653)
• October 23 - Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange, French philologist (b. 1610)
• November 26 - Philippe Quinault, French dramatist (b. 1635)
• December 15 - Gaspar Fagel, Dutch statesman (b. 1634)

Publications

• John Locke has the first abstract of his seminal Essay concerning Human Understanding appear in Leclerc's Bibliotheque universelle
• Fourth (and illustrated) edition of John Milton's Paradise Lost
• The Bucharest Bible - Biblia de la Bucureşti, first complete translation of the Bible into Romanian
• Aphra Behn seminal female writer on slavery, Oroonoko The Royal Slave

• First printing of John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress

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