Major Events
- Feb 9 English reconquer NY from Netherlands
- Feb 19 Dutch Republic and England sign Treaty of Westminster, ending the Third Anglo-Dutch War; North American colony of New Netherland returned to British [OS date, 02-09 NS]
- Apr 22 Netherlands & Munster sign peace treaty
- May 11 Netherlands & Cologne sign peace treaty
- May 21 General John Sobieski chosen King of Poland
- Jul 1 Spain, France & Netherlands form Triple Alliance
- Jul 19 Court of Holland bans books of Hobbes, Spinoza and Meyer
- Aug 11 Battle of at Seneffe: French force led by Louis, Grand Condé fights a combined Dutch, Imperial and Spanish force under William of Orange, both sides suffer heavy casualties with neither gaining a clear advantage
- Aug 18 Jean Racine's dramatic tragedy "Iphigénie" premieres in Versailles
- Sep 20 2nd West Indies Company forms
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Born in 1674
- Jan 9 Reinhard Keiser, German opera conductor and composer, chiefly of operas and oratorios (Almira; Lukas-Passion), born in Teuchern, Electorate of Saxony (d. 1739)
- Jan 13 Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, French tragic poet and playwright (Rhadamiste et Zénobie), born in Dijon, France (d. 1762)
- Jan 24 Thomas Tanner, English bishop (d. 1735)
- Feb 21 Johann Augustin Kobelius, German Baroque composer, and kapellmeister, born in Wählitz, Electorate of Saxony, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1731)
- Mar 30 Jethro Tull, English agricultural writer, baptized in Basildon, England (d. 1741)
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