Major Events
- Jan 14 Massachusetts holds day of fasting for wrongly persecuting "witches"
- Jan 26 Venice, Poland & Austria sign Treaty of Karlowitz with Ottoman Empire, ending the Great Turkish War (1683-97) - 1st time Ottomans concede significant territory
- Feb 4 350 rebellious Streltsi executed in Moscow
- Mar 2 French Canadian explorer Pierre Le Moyne d’Iberville is the first European to discover the mouth of the Mississippi river [1]
- Mar 4 Jews are expelled from residing in Lübeck, Germany
- Apr 14 Khalsa: Birth of Khalsa, the brotherhood of the Sikh religion, in Northern India in accordance with the Nanakshahi calendar
- Jun 11 England, France & Netherlands agree on 2nd Extermination Treaty of Spain
- Jul 6 Pirate Captain William Kidd is captured in Boston
- Aug 6 HMS Roebuck, captained by William Dampier, lands at Shark Bay, Western Australia on the first British scientific expedition to Australia
- Sep 22 People of Rotterdam strike over high cost of butter
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Born in 1699
- Jan 2 Osman III, sultan of Turkey (1754-57), born in Edirne Palace, Edirne (d. 1757)
- Jan 9 Robert Joseph Pothier, French lawyer (influential writer on French Law), born in Orléans, France (d. 1772)
- Feb 17 Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff, Prussian architect (Sanssouci) and painter, born in Kuckädel, Poland (d. 1753)
- Mar 23 John Bartram, naturalist and explorer, father of American botany, born near Darby, Pennsylvania (d. 1777)
- Mar 25 Johann Adolph Hasse, German composer (Antonio e Cleopatra), baptized in Bergedorf, GermanyHamberg, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1873)
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