1696
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The year 1696 had the earliest equinoxes and solstices for 400 years in the Gregorian calendar, because this year is a leap year and the Gregorian calendar would have behaved like the Julian calendar since March 1500 had it have been in use that long. See 1903.
Events
- April - Fire destroys the Gra Bet (or Left Quarter) of Gondar, the capital of Ethiopia.
- August 22 - Forces of Venice and Turkish troops clash near Molino
- October 29 - Fuller Baptist Church founded in Kettering, England.
- December 24 - Inquisition burns number of Marrano Jews in Evora, Portugal
- Peter the Great becomes sole tsar of Russia.
- Polish replaces Ruthenian as an official language of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
- A famine wipes out almost a third of the population of Finland.
- Abington, Pennsylvania, is settled.
- William Penn offers an elaborate plan for intercolonial cooperation largely in trade, defense, and criminal matters.
- The Second Pueblo Revolt took place
- Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville captured and destroyed St. John's, Newfoundland.
Births
- March 27 - Antoine Court, French Huguenot minister (d. 1760)
- March 5 - Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian painter (d. 1770)
- June 11 - Francis Edward James Keith, Scottish soldier and Prussian field marshal (d. 1758)
- June 27 - William Pepperrell, English colonial soldier (d. 1759)
- July 14 - William Oldys, English antiquarian and bibliographer (d. 1761)
- August 2 - Mahmud I, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1754)
- August 12 - Maurice Greene, English composer (d. 1755)
- September 27 - Alphonsus Liguori, Italian founder of the Redemptionist order (d. 1787)
- October 13 - John Hervey, Lord Hervey, English statesman and writer (d. 1743)
- December 22 - James Oglethorpe, English general and founder of the state of Georgia (d. 1785)
- Benning Wentworth, colonial governor of New Hampshire (d. 1770)
Deaths
- January 11 - Charles Albanel, French missionary explorer in Canada (b. 1616)
- February 8 - Tsar Ivan V of Russia (b. 1666)
- March 14 - Jean Domat, French jurist (b. 1625)
- March 18 - Robert Charnock, English conspirator
- April 17 - Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné, French writer (b. 1626)
- April 30 - Robert Plot, British naturalist (b. 1640)
- May 10 - Jean de La Bruyère, French writer (b. 1645)
- May 30 - Henry Capell, 1st Baron Capell, First Lord of the British Admiralty (b. 1638)
- June 17 - John III of Poland (b. 1629)
- August 2 - Robert Campbell of Glenlyon, Scottish military commander at the Massacre of Glencoe (b. 1630)
- September 17 - John III Sobieski, King of Poland (b. 1629)
- December 4 - Empress Meisho of Japan (b. 1624)
- Daibhidh O Duibhghennain
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