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Events
- December 10 - Isaac Newton's derivation of Kepler's laws from his theory of gravity, contained in the paper De motu corporum in gyrum, is read to the Royal Society by Edmund Halley.
- France under Louis XIV makes Truce of Ratisbon separately with the Holy Roman Empire (Habsburg) and Spain.
- Pope Innocent XI forms a Holy League with the Habsburg Empire, Venice and Poland to liberate Europe from the Ottoman Turkish rule.
- Japanese Chief Minister Hotta Masatoshi is assassinated, leaving Shogun Tsunayoshi without any adequate advisors, leading him to issue impractical edicts and create hardships for the Japanese people
- The Japanese poet Saikaku composes 23,500 verses in 24 hours at the Sumiyoshi Shrine at Osaka; the scribes cannot keep pace with his dictation and just count the verses
- The British East India Company receives Chinese permission to build a trading station at Canton. Tea sells in Europe for less than a shilling a pound, but the import duty of 5 shillings makes it too expensive for most English people to afford
- Smuggled tea is drunk much more than legally imported tea
- England has its coldest winter in living memory; the River Thames and the sea as far as 2 miles out from land freezes over
- John Bunyan writes The Pilgrim's Progress Part 2
- The Chipperfield's Circus dynasty begins when James Chipperfield introduces performing animals to England at the Frost Fair on the Thames.
Births
- January 1 - Arnold Drakenborch, Dutch classical scholar (d. 1748)
- January 14 - Jean-Baptiste van Loo, French painter (d. 1745)
- February 24 - Matthias Braun, Czech sculptor (d. 1738)
- March 15 - Francesco Durante, Italian composer (d. 1755)
- March 19 - Jean Astruc, French physician and scholar (d. 1766)
- April 15 - Catherine I of Russia (d. 1727)
- June 22 - Francesco Manfredini, Italian composer (d. 1762)
- September 18 - Johann Gottfried Walther, German music theorist, organist, and composer (d. 1748)
- October 10 - Antoine Watteau, French painter (d. 1721)
- October 26 - Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin, Prussian field marshal (d. 1757)
- December 3 - Ludvig Holberg, Norwegian historian and writer (d. 1754)
- Johann Jacob Dillenius, German botanist (d. 1747)
Deaths
- April 1 - Roger Williams, English theologian and colonist (b. 1603)
- April 5 - Lord William Brouncker, English mathematician
- May 4 - John Nevison, English highwayman (b. 1639)
- May 12 - Edme Mariotte, French physicist and priest
- July 2 - John Rogers, American President of Harvard University (b. 1630)
- July 6 - Peter Gunning, English royalist churchman (b. 1614)
- August 8 - George Booth, 1st Baron Delamer (b. 1622)
- October 1 - Pierre Corneille, French playwright (b. 1606)
- October 11 - James Tuchet, 3rd Earl of Castlehaven (b. 1617)
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