Major Events
- Feb 1 French King Louis XIV limits freedom of religion
- Mar 11 Mt Etna in Sicily erupts in its largest recorded eruption, killing 15,000
- Mar 25 Mount Etna in Sicily erupts, destroying Nicolosi, killing 20,000
- May 31 Citing poor eyesight, English civil servant Samuel Pepys records the last entry in his famous diary
- Jun 19 Polish parliament selects Litouwer Michael Wisniopwiecki as king
- Jul 6 LaSalle leaves Montreal to explore Ohio River
- Jul 21 John Locke's Constitution of English colony Carolina is approved
- Sep 6 The siege of Candia, on Crete, ends with the Venetian fortress surrendering to the Ottomans - second-longest siege in history (began 1648)
- Nov 16 French state funeral for Henrietta Maria, princess of France, widow of English King Charles I, at St Denis with famous oration by Bishop Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet
- Dec 20 1st jury trial in Delaware; Marcus Jacobson condemned for insurrection & sentenced to flogging, branding & slavery
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Citing poor eyesight, English civil servant Samuel Pepys records the last entry in his famous diary
Born in 1669
- Feb 1 Miguel Lopez, Spanish composer and organist, born in Villarroya de la Sierra, Aragon, Spain (d. 1723)
- Feb 2 Louis Marchand, French Baroque organist and composer, born in Lyon, France (d. 1732)
- May 26 Sébastien Vaillant, French botanist, born in Vigny, Île-de-France, France (d. 1722)
- Jun 24 François van Aerssen, Dutch vice-admiral (Suriname, Algeria), born in Paris (d. 1740)
- Jun 30 Mauritius Vogt, German composer, born in Königshofen, Bavaria (now Germany) (d. 1730)
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