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

Events

• January 6 - Joseph, son of Emperor Leopold I becomes King of the Romans
• January 14 - The clarinet is invented in Nuremberg, Germany
• 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.

Years