Events

• January 6 - Joseph, son of Emperor Leopold I becomes King of the Romans.
• January 7 - The first recorded full peal was rung, at St Sepulchre-without-Newgate in the City of London, marking a new era in change ringing.
• January 14 - The clarinet is invented in Nuremberg, Germany.
• February 3 - The colony of Massachusetts issues the first paper money in America.
• May 20 - England passes Act of Grace, forgiving followers of James II.
• July 1 - The Battle of the Boyne, in Ireland.
• October 6-12 - Massachusetts Puritans led by Sir William Phips besiege the city of Quebec. The siege ends in failure.
• December 29 - earthquake in Anconer in Papal States, Italy.

• Earliest recorded sighting of the planet Uranus, by John Flamsteed, who mistakenly catalogues it as the star 34 Tauri.
• Giovanni Domenico Cassini observes differential rotation within Jupiter's atmosphere.
• The French invade the small town of Teignmouth in Southwest England, in their last attack on England.
• Hearth Tax abolished in Scotland, one year after abolition in England and Wales.

Births

• January 22 - Nicolas Lancret, French painter (d. 1743)
• February 1 - Francesco Maria Veracini, Italian composer (d. 1768)
• February 3 - Richard Rawlinson, English minister and antiquarian (d. 1755)
• March 18 - Christian Goldbach Prussian mathematician (d. 1764)
• April 22 - John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville, English statesman (d. 1763)
• September 12 - Peter Dens, Belgian Catholic theologian (d. 1775)
• October 29 - Martin Folkes, English antiquarian (d. 1754)
• November 24 - Charles Theodore Pachelbel, German composer (d. 1750)
• November 29 - Christian Augustus of Anhalt-Zerbst, father of Catherine II of Russia (d. 1747)
• December 1 - Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, Lord Chancellor of England (d. 1764)

Deaths

• January 3 - Hillel ben Naphtali Zevi, Lithuanian rabbi (b. 1615)
• February 7 - William Morice, English royalist statesman
• February 22 - Charles Le Brun, French artist (b. 1619)
• April 18 - Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine, general of the Holy Roman Empire (b. 1643)
• April 25 - David Teniers the Younger, Flemish artist (b. 1610)
• May 21 - John Eliot, English Puritan missionary (b. 1604)
• May 27 - Giovanni Legrenzi, Italian composer (b. 1626)
• July 1 - George Walker, Irish national hero (b. 1645)
• September 2 - Philipp Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (b. 1615)
• October 3 - Robert Barclay, Scottish writer
• November 17 - Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier, French soldier (b. 1610)

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