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Events
- March 5 - French troops under Marshal Louis-Francois de Boufflers besiege the Spanish-held town of Mons
- March 20 - Leisler's Rebellion - New governor arrives in New York - Jacob Leisler surrenders after standoff of several hours
- March 29 - Siege of Mons ends to the city’s surrender
- May 6 - Spanish inquisition condemns and forcibly baptizes 219 Jews in Palma Majorca. When 37 try to escape the island, they are burned alive at the stake
- May 16 - Jacob Leisler is hanged for treason
- October 3 - Treaty of Limerick which guaranteed civil rights to Catholics was signed. (it was broken "before the ink was dry")
- Change of emperor of the Ottoman Empire from Suleiman II (1687-1691) to Ahmed II (1691-1695).
- Michel Rolle invents Rolle's theorem, an essential theorem of mathematics.
- In New England the two separate Colonies of Massachusetts Bay Colony and Plymouth Colony are united into a single entity by an act of the King and Queen of England.
Births
- February 27 - Edward Cave, English editor and publisher (d. 1754)
- April 9 - Johann Matthias Gesner, German classical scholar (d. 1761)
- June 17 - Giovanni Paolo Pannini, Italian painter and architect (d. 1765)
- September 29 - Richard Challoner, English Catholic prelate (d. 1781)
- October 1 - Arthur Onslow, English politician (d 1768)
- October 28 - Peder Tordenskjold, Norwegian naval hero (d. 1720)
Deaths
- Suleiman II, Sultan, Ottoman Empire (b. 1642)
- January 13 - George Fox, English founder of the Society of Friends (b. 1624)
- February 1 - Pope Alexander VIII (b. 1610)
- April 3 - Jean Petitot, Swiss enamel painter (b. 1608)
- May 11 - Colonel John Birch, English soldier (b. 1615)
- May 16 - Jacob Leisler, German-born American colonist (b. 1640)
- May 23 - Adrien Auzout, French astronomer (b. 1622)
- May 29 - Cornelis Tromp, Dutch admiral (b. 1629)
- July 16 - François-Michel le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois, French war minister (b. 1641)
- July 30 - Daniel Georg Morhof, German writer and scholar (b. 1639)
- August 14 - Richard Talbot, 1st Earl of Tyrconnel, Irish rebel (b. 1630)
- September 12 - John George III, Elector of Saxony (b. 1647)
- October 9 - William Sacheverell, English statesman (b. 1638)
- October 10 - Isaac de Benserade, French poet (b. 1613)
- November 14 - Tosa Mitsuoki, Japanese painter (b. 1617)
- November 15 - Aelbert Cuyp, Dutch painter (b. 1620)
- December 8 - Richard Baxter, English clergyman (b. 1615)
- December 30 - Robert Boyle, Irish chemist (b. 1627)
- December 30 - Dudley North, English economist (b. 1641)
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