Major Events
- Jan 31 Revolt by undertakers after funeral reforms (Amsterdam)
- Feb 27 English/Welsh nobles lay down Oath of Association
- Feb 29 English ex-premier Earl Danby accused of corruption
- Mar 7 English King William III departs Netherlands
- May 31 John Salomonsz elected chief of Saint-Eustatius
- Jul 19 Russian Tsar Peter I's fleet occupies the southern mouth of the Don River and gains access to the Sea of Azov, after the surrender of the Ottoman Azov garrison
- Jul 28 De Croissy succeeds Le Plectia as French minister of Finance
- Aug 29 King Louis XIV of France and Victor Amadeus II, Duke of Savoy sign Peace of Turin, a turning point in the War of the League of Augsburg
- Nov 21 J Vanbrughe's "Relapse or Virtue in Danger" premieres in London
- Dec 7 Connecticut Route 108, one of the oldest highways in the U.S. is completed to Trumbull.
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Born in 1696
- Jan 5 Giuseppe Galli-Bibiena, Italian architect and painter, born in Parma, Duchy of Parma and Piacenza (now Italy) (d. 1757)
- Feb 10 Johann Melchior Molter, German composer, born in Tiefenort, Thuringia, Duchy of Saxe-Weimar (d. 1765)
- Feb 17 Ernst Gottlieb Baron, German lutenist and composer, born in Breslau, Silesia (d. 1760)
- Feb 29 Esprit Antoine Blanchard, French composer, born in Pernes (d. 1770)
- Mar 5 Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian Venetian Rococo painter (Isaac's Sacrifice), born in Venice, Venetian Republic (d. 1770)
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Who Died in 1696
- Jan 8 Michael de Ronghe, composer, dies at 75
- Jan 11 Charles Albanel, French missionary explorer in Canada (1st to reach Hudson Bay overland), dies (b. 1613 or 1616)
- Jan 29 Ivan V, disabled co-Tsar of Russia (1682-89), dies at 29 (O.S.)
- Mar 14 Jean Domat, French jurist, dies at 70
- Mar 18 Robert Charnock, English conspirator
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