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1693

January–March

 * January 11 – The Mount Etna volcano erupts in Italy, causing a devastating earthquake that kills 60,000 people in Sicily and Malta.
 * January 22 – A total lunar eclipse is visible across North and South America.
 * February 8 – The College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia is granted a Royal charter.
 * February 27 – The publication of the first women's magazine, titled The Ladies' Mercury, takes place in London. It is published by the Athenian Society.
 * March 27 – Bozoklu Mustafa Pasha becomes the new Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire, after Sultan Ahmed II appoints him as the successor of Çalık Ali Pasha.

April–June

 * April 4 – Anne Palles becomes the last accused witch to be executed for witchcraft in Denmark, after having been convicted of using powers of sorcery. King Christian V accepts her plea not to be burned alive, and she is beheaded before her body is set afire.
 * April 5 – The Order of Saint Louis, the first medal to be awarded in France to military personnel who are not members of nobility, is created by order of King Louis XIV, and named after his ancestor, King Louis IX.
 * April 28 – The 90-gun English Royal Navy warship HMS Windsor Castle is wrecked beyond repair on the Goodwin Sands.
 * April – Tituba, a slave who had been convicted at the Salem witch trials of practicing witchcraft after making a confession, is released from jail in Boston after 13 months when an unknown purchaser pays her jail fees.
 * May 18 – Forces of Louis XIV of France attack Heidelberg, capital of the Electorate of the Palatinate.
 * May 22 – Heidelberg is taken by the invading French forces; on May 23 Heidelberg Castle is surrendered, after which the French blow up its towers using mines.
 * June 5 – The first performance of the opera Didon by French composer Henri Desmarets takes place at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal in Paris.
 * June 27 – Nine Years' War – Battle of Lagos off Portugal: The French fleet defeats the joint Dutch and English fleet.

July–September

 * July 17 – A total lunar eclipse is visible in New Zealand and across the Pacific Ocean.
 * July 29 – Nine Years' War – Battle of Landen: William III of England is defeated by the French (with Irish Jacobite mercenaries).
 * August 21 – The Indian Ocean port of Pondicherry, capital of French India is captured by a 17-ship fleet from the Netherlands and 1,600 men under the command of Laurens Pit the Younger.
 * September 9 – Francesco Invrea, King of Corsica, begins a two-year term as the Doge of the Republic of Genoa in Italy, succeeding Giovanni Battista Cattaneo Della Volta.
 * September 10 – France begins the siege of the Spanish Netherlands (now Belgium) fort of Charleroi.
 * September 14 – King Louis XIV of France sends a letter to Pope Innocent XII announcing the rescission of the Declaration of the Clergy of France issued in 1682.
 * September 23 – Manuel Afonso Nzinga a Nlenke, ruling as King Manuel I of the Kingdom of Kongo (in present-day northern Angola) is executed on orders of the new king, Álvaro X.

October–December

 * October – William Congreve's comedy The Double-Dealer is first performed in London.
 * October 4 – Battle of Marsaglia near Turin in the Duchy of Savoy: A French force under the command of General Nicolas Catinat defeats the Savoyard forces, leaving 10,000 dead or wounded, while sustaining only 1,000 casualties.
 * October 11 – Charleroi falls to French forces.
 * October 29 – The Great Storm changes the course of rivers and alters the coastline from Virginia to Long Island in America.
 * November 7 – King Charles II of Spain issues a royal edict providing sanctuary in Spanish Florida for escaped slaves from the English colony of South Carolina.
 * November 14 – General Santaji Ghorpade of the Maratha Empire in India is defeated by General Himmat Khan of the Mughal Empire near Vikramhalli, and retreats. A week later, after regrouping his troops, Santaji defeats Himmat at their next encounter.
 * November 21 – The 46-gun Royal Navy frigate HMS Mordaunt founders off of the coast of Cuba.
 * November 29 – A fleet of 30 English and Dutch ships captures the French port of Saint-Malo
 * December 16 – Diego de Vargas, Spanish colonial governor of Santa Fe de Nuevo México (now the area around the capital of the U.S. state of New Mexico, returns to the walled city of Santa Fe and requests the Pueblo people to accept the authority of the colonial government. Negotiations fail and a siege begins on December 29. The Pueblo defenders surrender the next day and the 70 rebels are executed soon after. The 400 civilian women and children are made slaves and distributed to the Spanish colonists.
 * December 27 – The new 80-gun English Navy warship HMS Sussex departs Portsmouth on its maiden voyage, escorting a fleet of 48 warships and 166 merchant ships to the Mediterranean Sea. The fleet runs into a storm on February 27, 1694, and on March 1, Sussex and 12 other warships sink, along with a cargo of gold.

Date unknown

 * China concentrates all its foreign trade on Canton; European ships are forbidden to land anywhere else.
 * A religious schism takes place in Switzerland, within a group of Swiss and Alsatian Anabaptists led by Jakob Ammann. Those who follow Ammann become the Mennonite Amish sect.
 * The Knights of the Apocalypse are formed in Italy.
 * The Academia Operosorum Labacensium is established in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
 * Financier Richard Hoare relocates Hoare's Bank (founded 1672) from Cheapside to Fleet Street in London.
 * Italian barber Giovanni Paolo Feminis creates a perfume water called Aqua Admirabilis, earliest known form of eau de Cologne.
 * John Locke publishes his influential book Some Thoughts Concerning Education.
 * William Penn publishes his proposal for European federation, Essay on the Present and Future Peace of Europe.
 * English astronomer Edmond Halley studies records of births and deaths in Breslau (Poland), producing a life table consolidating year of birth and age at death. He uses this to work out the price of life annuities.
 * Dimitrie Cantemir presents his Kitâbu 'İlmi'l-Mûsiki alâ Vechi'l-Hurûfât (The Book of the Science of Music through Letters) to Sultan Ahmed II, which deals with melodic and rhythmic structure and practice of Ottoman music, and contains the scores for around 350 works composed during and before his own time, in an alphabetical notation system he invented.

Births

January–March

 * January 1 – Francesco Carlo Rusca, Swiss painter (d. 1769)
 * January 3
 * Giovanni Bianchi, Italian physician and zoologist (d. 1775)
 * Matthew Hutton, Archbishop of York and Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1758)
 * January 12 – Queen Jeongseong, Queen Consort of Korea (d. 1757)
 * January 16 – Francesco Campora, Italian painter (d. 1763)
 * January 17 – Melchor de Navarrete, Spanish colonial governor of Florida and Mexico (d. 1761)
 * January 19
 * Jonathan Rashleigh, politician (d. 1764)
 * Hyacinthe Collin de Vermont, French painter (d. 1761)
 * January 23 – Georg Bernhard Bilfinger, German mathematician (d. 1750)
 * January 26 – William Robinson, deputy governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (d. 1751)
 * January 28
 * Robert Sawyer Herbert, British Member of Parliament (d. 1769)
 * Empress Anna of Russia, Empress of Russia (d. 1740)
 * Gregor Werner, Austrian composer (d. 1766)
 * January 29 – Henry Herbert, 9th Earl of Pembroke, English peer and architect (d. 1750)
 * January 30 – Countess Palatine Maria Anna of Neuburg, Countess Palatine of Neuburg by birth, Duchess of Bavaria (d. 1751)
 * February 12 – Avdotya Chernysheva, Russian lady-in-waiting (d. 1747)
 * February 13 – José del Campillo, Spanish politician (d. 1743)
 * February 15 – Peter Schenk the Younger, German engraver and map publisher (d. 1775)
 * February 24
 * James Quin, English actor (d. 1766)
 * Johann Jacob Rambach, German theologian (d. 1735)
 * March 2 – Sir Thomas Wheate, 2nd Baronet, English politician (d. 1746)
 * March 5 – Johann Jakob Wettstein, Swiss theologian (d. 1754)
 * March 6 – Edward Willes, English Anglican bishop and cryptanalyst (d. 1773)
 * March 7 – Pope Clement XIII, pope of the Catholic Church (d. 1769)
 * March 15 – Sir William Heathcote, 1st Baronet, British politician (d. 1751)
 * March 16 – Malhar Rao Holkar, Indian nobleman (d. 1766)
 * March 17 – Countess Palatine Elisabeth Auguste Sofie of Neuburg, Grandmother of Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria (d. 1728)

April–June

 * April 1 – Melusina von der Schulenburg, Countess of Walsingham, British Countess (d. 1778)
 * April 3
 * George Edwards, English naturalist (d. 1773)
 * John Harrison, English clockmaker, horologist and inventor of the marine chronometer (d. 1776)
 * April 4 – John West, 1st Earl De La Warr, British general (d. 1766)
 * April 13 – Johann Georg Keyßler, German polymath (d. 1743)
 * April 16
 * Mary Alexander, British American merchant (d. 1760)
 * Anne Sophie Reventlow, Danish royal consort, Queen of Denmark-Norway (d. 1743)
 * April 20 – Daniel Brodhead II, American justice of the peace (d. 1755)
 * April 25 – Sir Charles Hotham, 5th Baronet, British diplomat (d. 1738)
 * April 26 – William Wollaston, British politician (d. 1757)
 * April 29 – Asmus Ehrenreich von Bredow (d. 1756)
 * April 30 – Giuseppe Maria Feroni, Italian cardinal (d. 1767)
 * May 4 – Thomas Gent, Irish printer and writer (d. 1778)
 * May 9 – Charles Howard, 7th Earl of Suffolk, English Earl (d. 1722)
 * May 10
 * John Fox, English biographer (d. 1763)
 * Henry Hare, 3rd Baron Coleraine, Irish peer and politician (d. 1749)
 * May 15 – Henry Winder, English chronologist (d. 1752)
 * May 24 – Georg Rafael Donner, Austrian sculptor (d. 1741)
 * May 31 – Bartolomeo Nazari, Italian painter (d. 1758)
 * June 1
 * Alexey Bestuzhev-Ryumin, Russian diplomat, chancellor of the Russian Empire (d. 1768)
 * Johann Dietrich von Hülsen, German canon (d. 1767)
 * June 17
 * Prince Charles William of Hesse-Darmstadt, Prince of Hesse-Darmstadt and Obrist (d. 1707)
 * Diego de Torres Villarroel, Spanish writer (d. 1770)
 * Johann Georg Walch, German theologian (d. 1775)
 * June 19 – Christian August Hausen, German mathematician and physicist (d. 1743)
 * June 20 – Wilhelmina Maria Frederica of Rochlitz, Polish noble (d. 1729)
 * June 29 – Juan Bautista de Anza I, Spanish militar and explorer (d. 1740)

July–September

 * July 7 – Gilles-François de Beauvais, French Jesuit (d. 1773)
 * July 12 – Jean-Baptiste de Brancas, Roman Catholic archbishop (d. 1770)
 * July 16 – Cecilia Rosa de Jesús Talangpaz, Servant of God (d. 1731)
 * July 17 – Gerard Melder, miniature and watercolor painter from the Northern Netherlands (d. 1754)
 * July 21 – Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle, Prime Minister of Great Britain (d. 1768)
 * July 26 – Alexandre Le Riche de La Poupelinière, Patron of music and literature (d. 1762)
 * August 1 – Hugh Hughes, Welsh poet (d. 1776)
 * August 7
 * Sir Edmund Bacon, 5th Baronet, British politician (d. 1738)
 * Charles, Prince of Rochefort, French noble (d. 1763)
 * August 8 – Laurent Belissen, French composer (d. 1762)
 * August 9
 * Anne Cecil, Countess of Salisbury, British noble (d. 1757)
 * Princess Sophia Wilhelmina of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Princess of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld by birth and by marriage Princess of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (d. 1727)
 * August 11 – Francisco de Merlo, Spanish noblemen, military and notary (d. 1758)
 * August 13 – Gustavus Handcock, Irish politician (d. 1751)
 * September 3 – Charles Radclyffe, Titular 5th Earl of Derwentwater (d. 1746)
 * September 7 – Victor I, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym (d. 1772)
 * September 9 – Quinault-Dufresne, French actor (d. 1767)
 * September 10 – James MacSparran, Church of England clergyman in America (d. 1757)
 * September 13 – Joseph Emanuel Fischer von Erlach, Austrian architect (d. 1742)
 * September 19 – Louis Charles Armand Fouquet, French general and diplomat (d. 1747)
 * September 21 – Thomas Secker, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1768)
 * September 22 – Simon Nikolaus Euseb von Montjoye-Hirsingen, Prince Bishop of Basel (d. 1775)

October–December

 * October 3 – Conway Blennerhassett, Irish politician (d. 1724)
 * October 5 – Johann Christian Buxbaum, German physician, botanist and traveller (d. 1730)
 * October 6 – Marie-Madeleine de Parabère, French aristocrat (d. 1755)
 * October 9 – Johann Lorenz von Mosheim, German church historian (d. 1755)
 * October 11
 * Frederick Charles, Prince of Stolberg-Gedern (d. 1767)
 * John Hobart, 1st Earl of Buckinghamshire, British politician (d. 1756)
 * October 14 – Daniel Maichel, German philosopher (d. 1752)
 * October 15 – Sir Edward Wilmot, 1st Baronet, Royal surgeon (d. 1786)
 * October 18
 * John Chandler, American judge and sheriff (d. 1762)
 * John Gilbert, Archbishop of York (d. 1761)
 * Jeremiah Markland, British classical scholar (d. 1776)
 * October 20 – Gideon Wanton, Rhode Island colonial governor (d. 1767)
 * October 21
 * Adriaan van der Burg, painter from the Northern Netherlands (d. 1733)
 * Frederik Nannestad, Norwegian bishop (d. 1774)
 * October 22 – Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron, American planter (d. 1781)
 * October 25 – Antoine Ferrein, French anatomist (d. 1769)
 * October 28 – Šimon Brixi, Czech composer (d. 1735)
 * October 30 – Samuel Chew, American judge (d. 1743)
 * November 5 – Ivan Neplyuyev, Russian noble (d. 1773)
 * November 9 – Countess Henriette Charlotte of Nassau-Idstein, German princess (d. 1734)
 * November 10 – Roland-Michel Barrin de La Galissonière, French admiral (d. 1756)
 * November 13 – Thomas Watson-Wentworth, 1st Marquess of Rockingham, British politician (d. 1750)
 * November 22
 * Louise Élisabeth de Bourbon, daughter of Louis (d. 1775)
 * Zheng Xie, Chinese painter (d. 1766)
 * November 28 – Anthonie van der Heim, Dutch politician, urban magistrate and judge in Rotterdam, Grand Pensionary of Holland (d. 1746)
 * November 30 – Christoph Förster, German composer (d. 1745)
 * December 9 – Nathaniel Appleton, Congregational minister (d. 1784)
 * December 29 – Pierre Joseph Céloron de Blainville, French explorer (d. 1759)
 * date unknown – Heyat Mahmud, Bengali poet (d. 1760)

January–March

 * January 1 – Theodor Undereyck, German theologian (b. 1635)
 * January 4 – Thomas Hanford, first minister in Norwalk, Connecticut (b. 1621)
 * January 6
 * Mehmed IV, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1648 to 1687 (b. 1642)
 * Marguerite de la Sablière, French salonist and polymath (b. 1640)
 * January 7
 * Marco Antonio Tomati, roman-catholic bishop (b. 1583)
 * Federico Visconti, Cardinal Archbishop of Milan (b. 1617)
 * January 8 – Jan Andrzej Morsztyn, Polish poet (b. 1621)
 * January 21 – Honda Toshinaga, daimyo (b. 1635)
 * January 27 – Anthony Lowther, English politician (b. 1641)
 * January 31
 * Ahasuerus Fromanteel, English clockmaker (b. 1607)
 * Baptist Levinz, English bishop (b. 1644)
 * February 4 – John de Britto, Portuguese Jesuit missionary and martyr (b. 1647)
 * February 7 – Paul Pellisson, French writer (b. 1624)
 * February 9 – William Turner, English Sheriff, Lord Mayor and M.P. of London (b. 1615)
 * February 11 – John de Brito, Portuguese Jesuit missionary and martyr (b. 1647)
 * February 13 – Johann Caspar Kerll, German composer and organist (b. 1627)
 * February 18 – Elias Tillandz, Swedish physician, botanist, professor of medicine and university rector (Royal Academy of Turku) (b. 1640)
 * February 21 – Pierre-Joseph-Marie Chaumonot, French missionary (b. 1611)
 * February 22 – Henrik Horn, Swedish military leader and noble (b. 1618)
 * February 24 – Filippo Alferio Ossorio, Catholic Bishop of Fondi (b. 1634)
 * March 3 – William Stockdale, Member of Parliament (b. 1634)
 * March 6 – Antonio Caraffa, Austrian Military commander (b. 1646)
 * March 8 – Countess Palatine Leopoldine Eleonora of Neuburg (b. 1679)
 * March 10 – Carlo Cesare Malvasia, Italian art historian (b. 1616)
 * March 13 – John Rashleigh, English politician (b. 1619)
 * March 17 – Richard Whithed, English politician (b. 1660)
 * March 21 – Walter Chetwynd, English antiquary, politician (b. 1633)
 * March 24 – Constantin Cantemir, Ruler of Moldavia (b. 1612)
 * March 27 – Sylvanus Morgan, English painter (b. 1620)
 * March 31 – Adriaantje Hollaer, Dutch painter (b. 1610)

April–June

 * April 4
 * Isaac Aboab da Fonseca, Portuguese Sephardic rabbi (b. 1605)
 * Anne Palles, Danish witch (b. 1619)
 * April 5
 * Philip William August, Count Palatine of Neuburg, Eighth son of Elector Palatine Philip William (b. 1668)
 * Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans, Duchess of Montpensier, French writer (b. 1627)
 * George Louis I, Count of Erbach-Erbach (b. 1643)
 * Christian Scriver, German hymnwriter (b. 1629)
 * April 9 – Roger de Rabutin, comte de Bussy, French writer (b. 1618)
 * April 15
 * Pierre Cureau de La Chambre, French priest (b. 1640)
 * Sir John Cutler, 1st Baronet, English merchant and financier (b. 1608)
 * April 17 – Rutger von Ascheberg, Courland-born soldier in Swedish service (b. 1621)
 * April 20 – Claudio Coello, Spanish Baroque painter (b. 1642)
 * May 2 – Ernest, Landgrave of Hesse-Rheinfels and later of Hessen-Rheinfels-Rotenburg (b. 1623)
 * May 3 – Claude de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, French courtier (b. 1607)
 * May 6
 * François Tallemant the Elder, French translator (b. 1620)
 * William Yardley, Quaker minister (b. 1632)
 * May 8 – Jan Verkolje, painter from the Northern Netherlands (b. 1650)
 * May 13 – Thomas Jervoise, English politician (b. 1616)
 * May 15
 * Jacques Du Frische, theologian (b. 1640)
 * John Hamilton, 2nd Lord Bargany, Scottish peer accused of treason and cleared of charges (b. 1640)
 * May 16 – Philippe Couplet, Flemish Jesuit missionary (b. 1623)
 * May 18 – Giacomo Altoviti, Italian religious (b. 1604)
 * May 21 – Henry Erskine, 3rd Lord Cardross, Scottish nobleman and covenanter (b. 1650)
 * May 25
 * Al-Hurr al-Amili, Muslim cleric and scholar (b. 1624)
 * Madame de La Fayette, French writer (b. 1634)
 * May 27
 * Asano Mitsuakira (b. 1617)
 * John Spencer, English clergyman, scholar, Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (b. 1630)
 * June 3 – Camille de Neufville de Villeroy, Archbishop of Lyon (b. 1606)
 * June 4 – John Wildman, English soldier and politician (b. 1621)
 * June 6 – Dirck Ferreris, Dutch painter (b. 1634)
 * June 7 – Miklós Erdődy, Ban of Croatia (b. 1630)
 * June 12
 * John Ashby, Royal Navy admiral (b. 1646)
 * Christen Jensen Lodberg, Danish bishop (b. 1625)
 * June 17 – Francisco Marcos de Velasco, Spanish military governor, commander of Antwerp Citadel (b. 1633)
 * June 18 – Johann Heinrich von Anethan, German vicar general and canon (b. 1628)
 * June 20 – Juliana of Hesse-Eschwege, German noblewoman (b. 1652)
 * June 22 – Wolfgang Leinberer, German astronomer, philosopher, mathematician, professor, priest in the Society of Jesus (b. 1635)
 * June 23 – Sir John Wittewrong, 1st Baronet, English parliamentarian (b. 1618)
 * June 24
 * Sir Henry Lyttelton, 2nd Baronet, English politician (b. 1624)
 * Pavel Josef Vejvanovský, Czech composer (b. 1633)
 * Isaac Willaerts, painter from the Northern Netherlands (b. c. 1620)
 * June 26 – John Philip II, Wild- and Rhinegrave of Salm-Dhaun (b. 1645)
 * June 30 – Christina zu Mecklenburg, princess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (b. 1639)

July–September

 * July 4 – Ermanno Stroiffi, Italian painter (b. 1616)
 * July 8 – François Duchesne, French historian (b. 1616)
 * July 12
 * John Ashby, English admiral (b. c. 1640)
 * Johan Hadorph, Swedish director-general of the Central Board of National Antiquities (b. 1630)
 * July 13
 * Cataldo Amodei, Sicilian composer (b. 1649)
 * Michiel Nouts, Dutch painter (b. 1628)
 * Johann Konrad von Roggenbach, Prince-Bishop of Basle (b. 1618)
 * July 19 – Hendrik Trajectinus, Count of Solms, Dutch lieutenant-general (b. 1638)
 * July 22 – John Davies, Welsh translator and writer (b. 1625)
 * July 26 – Ulrika Eleonora of Denmark, Queen consort of Sweden (b. 1656)
 * July 31 – Willem Kalf, painter from the Northern Netherlands (b. 1619)
 * August 7 – John George II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (b. 1627)
 * August 12 – Mark Sension, Connecticut settler (b. 1630)
 * August 15 – Gregorio María de Silva y Mendoza, 9th Duke of the Infantado (b. 1649)
 * August 21 – Patrick Sarsfield, 1st Earl of Lucan, Irish Jacobite peer (b. 1655)
 * August 23 – Johann Daniel Major, German professor of theoretical medicine (b. 1634)
 * August 27 – Edward Rawson, American settler (b. 1615)
 * August 28
 * Johann Christoph Bach, German composer (b. 1645)
 * Jane Howard, Duchess of Norfolk, British noble (b. 1640)
 * August 30 – Laurent Cassegrain, French priest, astronomer and physicist (b. 1629)
 * September 1 – Nicolas Potier de Novion, French politician (b. 1618)
 * September 5 – Otto Grote zu Schauen, German politician (b. 1636)
 * September 6 – Odoardo Farnese, Hereditary Prince of Parma (b. 1666)
 * September 9 – Ihara Saikaku, Japanese writer (b. 1642)
 * September 12
 * Elisabeth Baulacre, Genevan industrialist (b. 1613)
 * Lionel Copley, Colonial governor of Maryland (b. 1648)
 * Gabrielle de Rochechouart de Mortemart, French noble (b. 1633)
 * September 13
 * Lazar Baranovych, Ukrainian bishop (b. 1616)
 * Flavio Chigi, Italian cardinal and librarian (b. 1631)
 * September 14 – Aert Jansse van Nes, Dutch admiral (b. 1626)
 * September 16 – Giovanni Battista de Belli, Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Telese o Cerreto Sannita (b. 1630)
 * September 19 – Johann Weikhard von Valvasor, Slovenian nobleman and polymath (b. 1641)
 * September 24 – Henri Justel, French scholar, royal administrator, bibliophile and librarian (b. 1620)
 * September 25 – William Bassett, English landowner and politician (b. 1628)
 * September 27 – John Lovelace, 3rd Baron Lovelace, English politician (b. 1640)
 * September 28
 * Pietro Antonio d'Alessandro, Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1628)
 * Thomas Knyvett, 7th Baron Berners, English politician (b. 1656)
 * September 30 – Bankei Yōtaku, Japanese Zen buddhist monk (b. 1622)

October–December

 * October 1 – Pedro Abarca, Spanish theologian (b. 1619)
 * October 4 – Thomas Clayton, English politician (b. 1612)
 * October 5 – George Lawton, American settler (b. 1607)
 * October 8 – Thomas Bampfield, English politician (b. 1623)
 * October 9
 * Marquard Sebastian Schenk von Stauffenberg, Prince-Bishop of Bamberg (b. 1644)
 * Unshō, Japanese Buddhist scriptural commentator (b. 1604)
 * October 10 – Charles Patin, French physician (b. 1633)
 * October 12 – Sir Christopher Conyers, 2nd Baronet, Conyers baronets and Lord Lieutenant of Durham (b. 1621)
 * October 14 – Philipp Kilian, German engraver (b. 1628)
 * October 17 – Charles Schomberg, 2nd Duke of Schomberg, English general (b. 1645)
 * October 25 – Theodor von Strattman, Austrian diplomat (b. 1637)
 * October 26
 * Coenraad van Beuningen, Dutch diplomat (b. 1622)
 * Kyprian Zochovskyj, Metropolitan of Kyiv (b. 1635)
 * November 2 – Theodor Kerckring, Dutch anatomist (b. 1638)
 * November 9 – Samuel Hale, Connecticut settler and politician (b. 1615)
 * November 12 – Maria van Oosterwijck, Dutch Golden Age painter (b. 1623)
 * November 13 – Francesco Fortezza, Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1621)
 * November 16 – Francis Marsh, Irish bishop (b. 1626)
 * November 23 – Job Adriaenszoon Berckheyde, Dutch painter (b. 1630)
 * November 24 – William Sancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1617)
 * November 30 – Francesco Lorenzo Brancati di Lauria, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1612)
 * December 5 – Levinus Bennet, English politician (b. 1631)
 * December 12 – Countess Palatine Anna Magdalena of Birkenfeld-Bischweiler, Countess of Hanau-Lichtenberg (b. 1640)
 * December 13
 * Dosoftei, Moldavian Metropolitan (b. 1624)
 * Willem van de Velde the Elder, Dutch painter (b. c. 1611)
 * December 14 – Giuseppe Felice Tosi, Italian composer (b. 1619)
 * December 16 – Jacques Rousseau, painter from France (b. 1630)
 * December 21 – Hendrick Mommers, Dutch painter (b. 1623)
 * December 22 – Elisabeth Hevelius, Danzig astronomer (b. 1647)
 * December 24 – Nicolaes Maes, Dutch painter (b. 1634)
 * December 27 – Henri de Villars, French prelate (b. 1621)
 * December 29 – Vere Fane, 4th Earl of Westmorland, English Earl (b. 1644)
 * date unknown – Lars Nilsson, Sami shaman in Sweden

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1692

January–March

 * January 24 – At least 75 residents of what is now York, Maine are killed in the Candlemas Massacre, carried out by French soldiers led by missionary Louis-Pierre Thury, along with a larger force of Abenaki and Penobscot Indians under the command of Penobscot Chief Madockawando during King William's War, between the French colonists and their indigenous allies, against the English colonists.
 * January 30 – English Army General John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, a close adviser to King William III of England, is fired from all of his jobs by the English Secretary of State, the Earl of Nottingham, on orders of Mary II of England.
 * February 13 – Massacre of Glencoe: The forces of Robert Campbell slaughter around 40 members of the Clan MacDonald of Glencoe in Scotland (from whom they have previously accepted hospitality), for delaying to sign an oath of allegiance to King William III of England.
 * February 17 – An annular solar eclipse is visible across Russia, western Mongolia, Xinjiang, Iran, Afghanistan and Iran.
 * March 1 – The Salem witch trials begin in Salem Village, Massachusetts Bay Colony, with the charging of 3 women with witchcraft. Tituba, a slave owned by Samuel Parris, is the first to be arrested, and she implicates Sarah Good and Sarah Osborne, who are arrested later in the day.
 * March 22 – The Kangxi Emperor of the Qing dynasty issues the Edict of Toleration, recognizing all the members of the Roman Catholic Church, not just the Jesuits, and legalizing missions and their conversion of Chinese people to the Christian Faith.

April–June

 * April 18 – Giles Corey, Mary Warren, Abigail Hobbs and Bridget Bishop, all residents of Salem, Massachusetts, are arrested and charged with the practice of witchcraft.
 * May 2 – The first performance of the semi-opera The Fairy-Queen by Henry Purcell, based on William Shakespeare's comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream, takes place at the Queen's Theatre, Dorset Garden in London.
 * May 29 (May 19 O.S.) – Nine Years' War: Battle of Barfleur – The Anglo-Dutch fleet breaks the French line off the Cotentin Peninsula, foiling the French plan to invade England.
 * June 13–14 (June 3–4 O.S.) – Nine Years' War: Battle of La Hogue – The action begun at Barfleur ends with further destruction of the French fleet.
 * June 7 – Jamaica earthquake: An earthquake and related tsunami destroy Port Royal, capital of Jamaica, and submerge a major part of it; an estimated 2,000 are immediately killed, 2,300 injured, and a probable additional 2,000 die from the diseases which ravage the island in the following months.
 * June 8 – During a famine in Mexico City, an angry mob torches the Viceroy's palace and ignites the archives; most of the documents and some paintings are saved by royal geographer Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora.
 * June 10 – The Salem witch trials' first victim, Bridget Bishop, is hanged for witchcraft.

July–September

 * July 1 – The siege of the Belgian city of Namur in the Spanish Netherlands ends as Dutch General Menno van Coehoorn capitulates to King Louis XIV of France after five weeks. The siege, a battle in the ongoing Nine Years War, had begun on May 24.
 * July 5 – Wine shop owner Antoine Savetier and his wife are murdered by thieves in the French city of Lyon, and a peasant named Jacques Aymar-Vernay is called in as a detective to solve the case. Aymar finds one of the perpetrators, Joseph Arnoul, who confesses to the crime and implicates two accomplices who manage to escape. Arnoul is executed by being "broken on the wheel" on August 30.
 * August 12
 * The city of Ponce is founded in Puerto Rico.
 * A total solar eclipse is visible in the South Atlantic Ocean.
 * September 8 – An earthquake in Brabant of scale 5.8 is felt across the Low Countries, Germany and England.
 * September 14 – Diego de Vargas leads Spanish colonists in retaking the city of Santa Fe, after a 12-year exile, following the Pueblo Revolt of 1680.
 * September 19 – Giles Corey is pressed to death in an attempt to coerce a confession from him of witchcraft during the Salem witch trials.
 * September 22 – The last of those convicted of witchcraft in the Salem witch trials are hanged. By the end of September, 14 women and 5 men have been executed by hanging. The remainder of those convicted are all eventually released.
 * September 27 – The trial for sorcery of Anne Palles of Denmark begins, and she gives a long confession of giving her body and soul to Satan. The court finds her guilty on November 2 and sentences her to death.

October–December

 * October 21 – In Barbados, a slave revolt is crushed.
 * October 30 – The King of Spain donates the lands that become the municipalities of San Francisco and Mapulaca in Honduras.
 * November 5 – Mohamed bin Hajj Ali Thukkala becomes the new Sultan of the Maldives as Muhammad Ali IV.
 * November 8 – William Mountfort's play Henry The Second, King Of England; With The Death Of Rosamond is given its first performance, premiering at the Drury Lane Theatre.
 * December 5 – John Goldsborough arrives in Madras as the new administrator of the British East India Company.
 * December 14 – Maratha Empire General Santaji Ghorpade defeats Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb's General Alimardan Khan, captures him and brings him back to fort Jinjee near Madras.
 * December 23 – Nahum Tate is named as the new Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom and serves for 22 years until his death.
 * December 24 – The French ship Soleil Royal, a three-decker First Rank ship with 104 guns, is launched at Brest Dockyard.

January–March

 * January 6 – Francesco Maria Zanotti, Italian philosopher (d. 1777)
 * January 7 – Petrus Wesseling, German librarian, law librarian and writer (d. 1764)
 * January 12 – Ferdinand Maximilian II of Isenburg-Wächtersbach, count of Isenburg-Wächtersbach (d. 1755)
 * January 13 – Gunnila Grubb, Swedish spiritual poet (d. 1729)
 * January 24 – Paweł Giżycki, Polish painter and architect (d. 1762)
 * January 27 – Ivan Cherkasov, Russian statesman, privy councillor, and cabinet secretary (d. 1758)
 * January 30 – William Granville, 3rd Earl of Bath, English peer (d. 1711)
 * January 31 – John Conybeare, British bishop (d. 1755)
 * February 13 – Louis, Prince of Lambesc, French prince (d. 1743)
 * February 14 – Pierre-Claude Nivelle de La Chaussée, French playwright (d. 1754)
 * February 16 – Giovanni Domenico Mansi, Roman Catholic archbishop (d. 1769)
 * February 17 – Christian David, German religious servant, missionary and carpenter (d. 1751)
 * February 18 – Johann Michael Fischer, German architect (d. 1766)
 * February 25
 * John Hawkins, Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge (d. 1733)
 * Karl Ludwig von Pöllnitz, German soldier, adventurer and writer (d. 1775)
 * February 29 – John Byrom, poet, inventor of a shorthand system (d. 1763)
 * March 5 – Sir John Shelley, 4th Baronet, English politician (d. 1771)
 * March 14 – Pieter van Musschenbroek, Dutch naturalist (d. 1761)
 * March 25 – Tokugawa Tsugutomo, daimyo (d. 1731)
 * March 26 – Jean II Restout, French painter (d. 1768)

April–June

 * April 1 – William, Landgrave of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld (d. 1761)
 * April 4
 * James Carnegie, 5th Earl of Southesk, Scottish earl (d. 1730)
 * André Souste, Royal Notary in Canada (d. 1776)
 * April 5
 * Jean Calmette, French jesuit and indologist (d. 1740)
 * Adrienne Lecouvreur, French actress (d. 1730)
 * April 7 – Pietro Marchesini, Italian painter (d. 1757)
 * April 8 – Giuseppe Tartini, Italian composer and violinist (d. 1770)
 * April 22 – James Stirling, Scottish mathematician (d. 1770)
 * April 29 – Jean Armand de Lestocq, French adventurer (d. 1767)
 * May 3 – Jan Jacob Mauricius, Dutch diplomat (d. 1768)
 * May 9 – Giuseppe Agostino Orsi, Catholic cardinal (d. 1761)
 * May 10 – John Brailsford the elder, English poet (d. 1739)
 * May 11 – Sir Thomas Sebright, 4th Baronet, English politician, 1692–1736 (d. 1736)
 * May 16 – Dolly Pentreath, last known native speaker of the Cornish language prior to its revival in 1904 (d. 1777)
 * May 17 – Edward Lisle, British Member of Parliament (d. 1753)
 * May 18
 * Joseph Butler, English bishop, philosopher (d. 1752)
 * (O.S) Joseph Butler, English bishop and philosopher (d. 1752)
 * May 25 – Archibald Douglas, 2nd Earl of Forfar, Scottish earl (d. 1715)
 * May 28
 * Geminiano Giacomelli, Italian composer (d. 1740)
 * Karl von Haimhausen, German missionary (d. 1767)
 * June 13 – Joseph Highmore, British artist (d. 1780)
 * June 15
 * Giovanni Domenico Ferretti, Italian painter (d. 1768)
 * Ōkubo Tadamasa, daimyo (d. 1732)
 * June 28 – Louisa Maria Stuart, British princess (d. 1712)
 * June 29 – Jean-François Du Bellay du Resnel, French Roman Catholic priest (d. 1761)

July–September

 * July 1 – Antonio Sandini, Italian ecclesiastical historian (d. 1751)
 * July 7 – Edward Montagu, Viscount Hinchingbrooke, British politician and noble (d. 1722)
 * July 16 – Antoine Thiout, clockmaker (d. 1767)
 * July 19 – Frederick William, Duke of Courland (d. 1711)
 * July 24 – Sir James Dalrymple, 2nd Baronet, British politician (d. 1751)
 * August 3 – John Henley, English clergyman (d. 1756)
 * August 6 – Peter Burrell, politician (d. 1756)
 * August 8 – Juan Manuel de la Puente, Spanish composer (d. 1753)
 * August 14 – Frederick Anton, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (d. 1744)
 * August 18
 * Jacob Folkema, Dutch engraver (d. 1767)
 * Louis Henri, Duke of Bourbon, French politician and prince (d. 1740)
 * August 27 – Jacob Christiaan Pielat, Dutch colonial governor (d. 1740)
 * August 29 – Nicolas Grozelier, French writer (d. 1778)
 * September 1 – Egid Quirin Asam, German sculptor (d. 1750)
 * September 11 – Ingela Gathenhielm, Swedish privateer (d. 1729)
 * September 12 – Christine Eleonore of Stolberg-Gedern (d. 1745)
 * September 15 – Anselm Franz von Ritter zu Groenesteyn, German architect (d. 1765)
 * September 16 – Johanna Elisabeth Döbricht, German soprano (d. 1786)
 * September 25 – Franz Albert Schultz, German academic (d. 1763)
 * September 26
 * Ernst von Steinberg, Hanoverian minister and head of the German Chancery in London (d. 1759)
 * Pietro Antonio Trezzini, Russian architect (d. 1760)
 * September 27 – Georg Heinrich Zincke, German academic (d. 1769)

October–December

 * October 3 – Pierre Grimod du Fort, French art collector (d. 1748)
 * October 4 – Francis Willoughby, 2nd Baron Middleton, British politician (d. 1758)
 * October 6 – Johann Heinrich Pott, German chemist (d. 1777)
 * October 8 – Antonio Palella, Italian composer (d. 1761)
 * October 15 – Alessandro Albani, collector of antiquities, Roman Catholic cardinal (d. 1779)
 * October 18 – Magnus Beronius, Swedish archbishop (d. 1775)
 * October 19 – Jehu Curtis, American judge (d. 1753)
 * October 24 – Albert Brahms, German pioneer hydraulic engineer (d. 1758)
 * October 25 – Elisabeth Farnese, queen of Philip V of Spain (d. 1766)
 * October 28 – Joseph Ferdinand of Bavaria, Electoral Prince of Bavaria (d. 1699)
 * October 30 – Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer, Dutch noble, diplomat and composer (d. 1766)
 * October 31 – Anne Claude de Caylus, French antiquarian (d. 1765)
 * November 6 – Louis Racine, French poet of the Age of the Enlightenment (d. 1763)
 * November 7
 * Johann Gottfried Schnabel, German writer (d. 1750)
 * Giuseppe Zinanni, Italian scientist (d. 1753)
 * November 8 – Laurentius Blumentrost, Russian court physician and founder and first president of St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences (d. 1755)
 * November 11
 * Muhammad Hashim Thattvi, Islamic scholar, author, philanthropist, and spiritual leader (d. 1761)
 * Louis Guy Henri de Valori, French diplomat (d. 1774)
 * November 15 – Eusebius Amort, German Roman Catholic theologian (d. 1775)
 * November 17 – John Betts Jr., Connecticut politician (d. 1767)
 * November 21 – Carlo Innocenzo Frugoni, Italian poet (d. 1768)
 * November 28
 * Willoughby Bertie, 3rd Earl of Abingdon (d. 1760)
 * Esprit Pezenas, French astronomer (d. 1776)
 * November 30 – Livio Retti, Italian artist (d. 1751)
 * December 1 – Isaac Kimber, English journalist and minister (d. 1755)
 * December 4 – Ferdinand Leopold, Count of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, German nobleman; ruling Count of Hohenzollern-Haigerloch (d. 1750)
 * (baptised) December 27 – Francis Blake Delaval, British Royal Navy officer and Member of Parliament (d. 1752)
 * December 28 – Robert Shirley, Viscount Tamworth, English politician (d. 1714)
 * December 29
 * Thomas Angell, Norwegian merchant/estate/mine owner/philanthropist (d. 1767)
 * Franz Georg Hermann, German painter (d. 1768)
 * December 30 – Marie Christine Felizitas of Leiningen-Dagsburg-Falkenburg-Heidesheim (d. 1734)

January–March

 * January 3 – Roelant Roghman, painter and engraver from the Northern Netherlands (b. 1627)
 * January 4
 * Paul Colomiès, French librarian (b. 1638)
 * Jean Crasset, French theologian (b. 1618)
 * Thomas Hog, parish minister (b. 1628)
 * Rombaut Pauwels, Flemish sculptor (b. 1625)
 * January 7 – Fernando de Valenzuela, 1st Marquis of Villasierra, Spanish noble (b. 1636)
 * January 8 – Robert Lichton, Swedish count, lieutenant-general and statesman (b. 1631)
 * January 11 – Thomas Bilson, English Member of Parliament (b. 1655)
 * January 16
 * William O'Brien, 2nd Earl of Inchiquin, Irish nobleman (b. 1640)
 * Thomas Wynne, Welsh-American physician and politician (b. 1627)
 * January 19 – Jan Commelin, Dutch botanist (b. 1629)
 * January 22
 * Sir James Long, 2nd Baronet, English politician; (b. 1617)
 * Lewis Owen, Welsh politician (b. 1622)
 * January 23 – John Page, Virginian planter, merchant and politician (b. 1627)
 * January 25 – Shubael Dummer, American Congregational church minister (b. 1636)
 * January 27 – Thomas Grove, English politician (b. 1609)
 * January 28 – Henry Bull, English lawyer and politician (b. 1630)
 * February 3 – Jane Granville, Countess of Bath (b. 1630)
 * February 4 – Francesco Niccolini, apostolic nuncio (b. 1639)
 * February 5 – Joshua Brooksbank, Church of Ireland priest (b. 1642)
 * February 6 – George Durant, attorney in the Province of Carolina (b. 1632)
 * February 8 – Matthias Tanner, Czech baroque writer, religious writer and Roman Catholic priest (b. 1630)
 * February 9 – Sir Coplestone Bampfylde, 2nd Baronet, English politician (b. 1637)
 * February 11 – Anders Paulsen, Sami noaidi (b. 1600)
 * February 12 – Hendrick Hamel, Dutch journalist (b. 1630)
 * February 14 – Thomas Rosewell, English nonconformist minister convicted of treason (b. 1630)
 * February 15 – Thomas Mun, English politician, Member of Parliament (b. 1645)
 * February 16 – David Lloyd, Welsh biographer, born 1635 (b. 1635)
 * February 18 – Wang Fuzhi, Chinese essayist, historian and philosopher (b. 1619)
 * February 23 – Bartholomeus Eggers, Flemish sculptor (b. 1637)
 * February 24 – Antimo Liberati, Italian composer (b. 1617)
 * March 1 – La Grange, French actor (b. 1635)
 * March 3 – Countess Palatine Eleonora Catherine of Zweibrücken, sister of King Charles X of Sweden (b. 1626)
 * March 7 – Henry Muddiman, English journalist (b. 1629)
 * March 9 – Willem de Heusch, Dutch painter (b. 1625)
 * March 13 – Augustine Reding, Swiss abbot and theologian (b. 1625)

April–June

 * April 2 – Sir John Lauder, 1st Baronet, Scottish noble (b. 1595)
 * April 5 – Tomás Carbonell, Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1620)
 * April 6 – Emmanuel Schelstrate, Belgian theologian (b. 1649)
 * April 14 – Carlos de Aragón de Gurrea, 9th Duke of Villahermosa, Spanish nobleman, viceroy and governor (b. 1634)
 * April 17 – Abraham-César Lamoureux, French sculptor who worked mainly in Sweden and Denmark (b. 1640)
 * April 22
 * Tomás de la Cerda, 3rd Marquess of la Laguna de Camero Viejo, Spanish nobleman (b. 1638)
 * Jean Le Noir, theologian (b. 1622)
 * April 23
 * Giuseppe Eusanio, Roman Catholic prelate, Titular Bishop of Porphyreon (b. 1619)
 * Edward Howard, 2nd Earl of Carlisle, English politician (b. 1646)
 * Pieter Withoos, painter from the Northern Netherlands (b. 1655)
 * Johannes Zollikofer, Swiss vicar (b. 1633)
 * April 30 – Kim Man-jung, Korean novelist and politician (b. 1637)
 * May 3 – Edward Evelyn, British politician (b. 1626)
 * May 4 – Charles III, Duke of Elbeuf, French noble (b. 1620)
 * May 6 – Nathaniel Lee, English dramatist (b. 1653)
 * May 9 – Albrecht of Saxe-Weissenfels, German prince (b. 1659)
 * May 12 – Princess Luisa Cristina of Savoy, Princess of Savoy (b. 1629)
 * May 14 – Robert Kirk, Scottish folklorist, Bible translator, Gaelic scholar (b. 1644)
 * May 18 – Elias Ashmole, English antiquarian (b. 1617)
 * May 21 – John Jones, English merchant and politician (b. 1610)
 * May 31
 * Anthony Aucher, English politician (b. 1614)
 * Nicholas Dennys, English politician (b. 1616)
 * Michele Foscarini, Italian historian (b. 1632)
 * Thomas Jones, English politician and judge (b. 1614)
 * June 3 – Marie de Bourbon, Countess of Soissons, wife of Thomas Francis (b. 1606)
 * June 7 – Pierre Bailloquet, Jesuit missionary to the Canadian Indians (b. 1612)
 * June 8 – Henri Arnauld, French bishop (b. 1597)
 * June 9 – Rebecca Rawson, Massachusetts heroine of the 1849 book Leaves from Margaret Smith's Journal (b. 1656)
 * June 10 – Bridget Bishop, woman executed for witchcraft during Salem witch trials (b. 1632)
 * June 18 – Michelangelo Falvetti, Italian composer (b. 1642)
 * June 21 – Christian Louis I, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (b. 1623)
 * June 23 – Gerard Langbaine, English dramatic biographer and critic (b. 1656)

July–September

 * July 7 – Eusébio de Matos, Brazilian orator, religious and painter (b. 1629)
 * July 10 – Heinrich Bach, German organist and composer (b. 1615)
 * July 14 – Patrick Russell, Irish bishop (b. 1629)
 * July 19
 * Mercy Good, accused of witchcraft in the Salem witch trials (b. 1653)
 * Sarah Good, accused of witchcraft in the Salem witch trials (b. 1653)
 * Elizabeth Howe, one of the accused in the Salem witch trials (b. 1635)
 * Susannah Martin, woman executed for witchcraft (b. 1621)
 * Rebecca Nurse, convicted of witchcraft during the Salem witch trials (b. 1621)
 * Sarah Wildes, Salem "witch" (b. 1627)
 * July 22 – Pietro del Pò, Italian painter (b. 1616)
 * July 23 – Gilles Ménage, French scholar (b. 1613)
 * July 31 – William Harbord, British politician (b. 1635)
 * August 1 – Sir John Carew, 3rd Baronet, Member of Parliament of England (b. 1635)
 * August 3
 * James Douglas, Earl of Angus, Scottish nobleman and soldier (b. 1671)
 * Frederick, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, German nobleman (b. 1652)
 * August 4 – Jean-Michel-d'Astorg Aubarède, Vicar Capitular of Pamiers (b. 1639)
 * August 12 – Nathaniel Colburn, early settler and selectman in Dedham (b. 1611)
 * August 14 – Nicolas Chorier, French historian, lawyer and writer (b. 1612)
 * August 19
 * George Burroughs, American pastor convicted of witchcraft (b. 1652)
 * Martha Carrier, executed for withcraft (b. 1650)
 * George Jacobs, English Colonist during the Salem Witch Trials (b. 1609)
 * John Proctor, convicted of witchcraft during the Salem Witch Trials (b. 1632)
 * John Willard, Salem Witch (b. 1657)
 * August 23 – Randall Holden, colonial Rhode Island settler (b. 1612)
 * August 24 – William Stewart, 1st Viscount Mountjoy, Anglo-Irish peer and soldier (b. 1653)
 * August 25 – Aleijda Wolfsen, painter from the Northern Netherlands (b. 1648)
 * September 3 – David Ancillon, French Huguenot pastor and author (b. 1617)
 * September 4 – Claus Røyem, Dano-Norwegian civil servant and government official (b. 1638)
 * September 6 – Hartvig Asche von Schack (b. 1644)
 * September 15 – César Vichard de Saint-Réal, French polyglot (b. 1639)
 * September 19 – Giles Corey, Massachusetts farmer and accused wizard (b. 1611)
 * September 21 – Ermes di Colorêt, Italian poet, political figure (b. 1622)
 * September 22
 * Martha Corey, convicted of being a witch during the 1692 Salem witch trials (b. 1619)
 * Mary Eastey, woman executed in the Salem witch trials (b. 1634)
 * Mary Parker, Massachusetts colony member accused of witchcraft (b. 1637)
 * Margaret Scott, hanged as part of the Salem witch trials (b. 1615)
 * Samuel Wardwell, hanged as part of the Salem witch trials (b. 1643)
 * September 28 – Cornelis Bloemaert, Dutch painter (b. 1603)

October–December

 * October 1 – Diego de Aguilar, Spanish bishop (b. 1616)
 * October 2 – Ann Pudeator, woman executed in the Salem witch trials (b. 1621)
 * October 4 – Charles Fleetwood, English Parliamentarian soldier and politician, Lord Deputy of Ireland (b. 1618)
 * October 5
 * David Atwater, American colonist (b. 1615)
 * Alfonso Bernardo de los Ríos y Guzmán, archbishop of Granada (b. 1626)
 * October 12 – Giovanni Battista Vitali, Italian composer (b. 1632)
 * October 15 – Johannes Maximus Stainer von Pleinfelden, Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Passau (b. 1610)
 * October 16 – Christian Albert, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (b. 1675)
 * October 23 – Alexander von Spaen, German general (b. 1619)
 * October 25 – Jasper Schade van Westrum, Dutch representative to the States-General (b. 1623)
 * October 27 – Anna Mikhailovna of Russia (b. 1630)
 * October 29 – Melchisédech Thévenot, French scientist (b. 1620)
 * October 30 – William Bentney, English priest (b. 1609)
 * November 2 – Thomas Rudyard, American politician (b. 1640)
 * November 10 – Gédéon Tallemant des Réaux, French writer (b. 1619)
 * November 13
 * Mary Browne, courtier (b. 1593)
 * Joseph de la Vega, Jewish Hispano-Dutch merchant, poet, and philanthropist (b. 1650)
 * November 14 – Christoph Bernhard, German composer (b. 1628)
 * November 16 – Theodore Poulakis, Greek artist (b. 1622)
 * November 18
 * Robert Holmes, British Royal Navy Admiral (b. 1622)
 * Christopher Nevile, English politician (b. 1631)
 * November 19
 * Thomas Shadwell, English poet and playwright (b. 1642)
 * Prince Georg Friedrich of Waldeck, Dutch general and German field marshal (b. 1620)
 * November 21 – Henry Powle, English politician (b. 1630)
 * November 22 – Giovanni Battista Centurione, politician (b. 1603)
 * November 26
 * Sir John Fowell, 3rd Baronet, English politician (b. 1665)
 * Edmund Ludlow, English politician, soldier and regicide (1617–92) (b. 1617)
 * December 5
 * Jacques Bizard, Canadian politician (b. 1642)
 * Aldegonde Desmoulins, Belgian nun (b. 1611)
 * December 6 – John Tyrrell, Royal Navy officer (b. 1646)
 * December 7 – Richard Meggot, English churchman, Canon of Windsor and Dean of Winchester (b. 1632)
 * December 9 – William Mountfort, English actor and dramatist (b. c. 1664)
 * December 10 – John Russell, Anglo-American clergyman (b. 1626)
 * December 13
 * Conyers Darcy, 2nd Earl of Holderness, English politician (b. 1622)
 * Henry Mildmay, English politician (b. 1619)
 * December 15 – Georg Adam Struve, German judge (b. 1619)
 * December 16 – Antonio Carneo, Italian painter (b. 1637)
 * December 18 – Veit Ludwig von Seckendorff, German politician (b. 1626)
 * December 24 – Maria Antonia of Austria, Archduchess of Austria (b. 1669)

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1686

January–March

 * January 3 – In Madras (now Chennai) in India, local residents employed by the East India Company threatened to boycott their jobs after corporate administrator William Gyfford imposed a house tax on residences within the city walls. Gyfford places security forces at all entrances to the city and threatens to banish anyone who fails to pay their taxes, as well as to confiscate the goods of merchants who refuse to make sales.  A compromise is reached the next day on the amount of the taxes.
 * January 17 – King Louis XIV of France reports the success of the Edict of Fontainebleau, issued on October 22 against the Protestant Huguenots, and reports that after less than three months, the vast majority of the Huguenot population had left the country.
 * January 29 – In Guatemala, Spanish Army Captain Melchor Rodríguez Mazariegos leads a campaign to conquer the indigenous Maya people in the rain forests of Lacandona, departing from Huehuetenango to rendezvous with the colonial governor at San Mateo Ixtatán.
 * January 31 – In the wake of the success of France's campaign against Protestantism, Victor Amadeus II, the Duke of Savoy, issues an edict against the Valdesi, the Duchy's Protestant minority, setting a 15-day deadline for members of the Valdesi to publicly renounce their beliefs as erroneous, or face banishment or death. The February 15 deadline is ignored.
 * February 15 – After the Valdesi in the Duchy of Savoy decline to obey the edict to convert to Catholicism, Duke Victor Amadeus dispatches a force of 9,000 French and Piedmontese soldiers to enforce the edict.
 * February 22 – Sweden's Council of State endorses the reforms proposed by King Charles XI for the Swedish Church Law 1686, after having debated it in three sessions on February 18, 19 and 20. The law confirms and describes the rights of the Lutheran Church and confirms Sweden as a Lutheran state; all non-Lutherans are banned from immigration unless they convert to Lutheranism; the Romani people are to be incorporated to the Lutheran Church; the poor care law is regulated; and all parishes are forced by law to teach the children within them to read and write, in order to learn the scripture, which closely eradicates illiteracy in Sweden.
 * February 27 – Gabriel Milan, the controversial Governor of the Danish West Indies since 1684, is removed from office by order of King Frederick III and placed under arrest for treason. Three years later, after being found guilty in a trial after being brought back to Copenhagen, Milan is beheaded on March 26, 1689.
 * March 3 – A group of 107 French Canadian soldiers, under the command of Pierre de Troyes, begins the Hudson Bay expedition, departing from Montreal on an 800 mi journey to take control of the properties of British North American settlers of the Hudson's Bay Company. The group marches for 82 days and arrives at the first Hudson's Bay fort, at Moose Factory on June 19.

April–June

 * April 9 – As the Valdesi rebellion continues, the Duke of Savoy issues a second edict, giving the Protestant Valdesi eight days to lay down their arms and allows safe passage into exile for those who agree.
 * April 22 – In the wake of Savoy's newest repression of the Protestant Valdesi, a third war breaks out and Protestant pastor Henri Arnaud leads the resistance with 3,000 rebel soldiers against 8,500 Savoyard soldiers and mercenaries. The Valdesi are overwhelmed within one month.
 * May 4 – The Municipality of Ilagan is founded in the Philippines.
 * May 6 – The Treaty of Perpetual Peace (1686) is signed between the Tsardom of Russia and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, recognizing the former's possession of Left-bank Ukraine and the city of Kiev, as agreed upon in the earlier Treaty of Andrusovo in 1667. The treaty also brings the Tsardom of Russia into the Great Turkish War, on the side of the Holy League of 1684.
 * May 14 – Joseph Dudley formally begins his tenure, as President of the Council of the newly formed Dominion of New England.
 * May 25 – The third war against the Protestant Valdesi ends. Soon afterward, 2,000 of the Valdesi are massacred, 8,500 taken prisoner and about 3,000 surviving civilians forcibly resettled and converted to Catholicism.
 * June 20 – French Canadian soldiers on the Hudson Bay expedition capture the first of the British Hudson's Bay Company outposts, with the surrender the unarmed inhabitants of the fortress at Moose Factory, Ontario.

July–September

 * July 9 – The Grand Alliance (League of Augsburg) is founded, in response to claims made by Louis XIV of France on the Electorate of the Palatinate in western Germany. It comprises the Holy Roman Empire, the Netherlands, Sweden, Spain, the electors of Bavaria, Saxony and the Electorate of the Palatinate.
 * July 17 – King James II of England appoints four Roman Catholics to the Privy Council of England, in defiance of the Test Acts, which bar Catholics from public office. Suspicions about James's intentions lead to a group of conspirators meeting at Charborough House in Dorset, to plan his overthrow and replacement with the Protestant Dutch Stadtholder, William III of Orange-Nassau (James's son-in-law).
 * July 18 – An army of 3,000 Chinese troops demand Russian surrender of a Russian Empire fortress at Albazino on the Amur River. The fortress is manned by only 736 Russian soldiers and militia but is armed with cannons.  Over the next several weeks, the Chinese troops are joined by another 3,000 men in supply boats, but the Russians hold off the attacks for the next five months.  By December, only 24 Russians remain, and Albazino is ceded to China in 1689.
 * July 22 – Albany, New York, is granted a city charter by the colonial governor.
 * August 4 – Portuguese soldiers hired by the East India Company mutiny rather than follow orders to join the war in Bengal. The ringleaders are quickly arrested and executed, and the mutiny ends.
 * August 15 – Christina, who had ruled as the monarch of Sweden until her abdication in 1654 in favor of her cousin Charles, responds to the revocation in France of the Edict of Nantz and declares that Jews within Sweden will be under her protection.
 * August 16 – King James VII of Scotland dismisses the Parliament of Scotland after the members refuse to remove restrictions on Roman Catholics and on Protestants outside of the Church of Scotland and the Church of England. The Parliament does not meet again for more than two and a half years.
 * August 17 – Spanish troops attack and plunder the Scottish colony of Stuarts Town in the Province of Carolina (now Port Royal, South Carolina) and plunder the city. After three days, the Spaniards begin a march of over 75 mi toward the larger port city of Charles Town.
 * September 2 – Great Turkish War: Battle of Buda – Imperial forces of the Holy League of 1684 (Russia, Saxony, Brandenburg and Bavaria under Austrian leadership) liberate Buda (now part of Budapest) from Ottoman Turkish rule (leading to the end of Ottoman rule in Hungary during subsequent years).
 * September 4 – A hurricane saves Charleston, South Carolina from attack by Spanish vessels.
 * September 30 – The Ottoman fortress of Sinj in Dalmatia falls to the army of the Republic of Venice.

October–December

 * October 17 – As the Savoyard–Waldensian wars, draw to a close, the Duke of Savoy announces that the Protestant Valdisi defenders will be granted safe passage to Switzerland, and that children taken during the war will be allowed to return to their families. By January, a little more than 2,500 Valdisi take the offer.
 * October 22 – In the Great Turkish War, the Siege of Pécs ends when the Ottoman-held city, located across the Danube River from the recent liberated Buda, surrenders to Austrian troops of the Holy League, continuing the Austrian assumption of control of Hungary. Buda and Pécs are later combined to form the Hungarian city (and now capital) of Budapest.
 * October 23 – Szeged, now the second largest city in Hungary, is liberated from Turkish Ottoman rule.
 * October 31 – Anglurah Agung, the virtual leader of the island of Bali as king of the paramount state of Gelgel, is killed in battle fighting Batu Lepang (who also dies in the fighting), ending the unification of the island (now part of Indonesia) and causing Bali to split into several principalities.
 * November 26 – The Treaty of Whitehall, more formerly the Treaty of Neutrality for America, is signed at the Palace of Whitehall in Westminster between representatives of King Louis XIV of France and King James II of England, with both sides pledging that "though the two Countries might be at war in Europe their Colonies in America should continue in peace and Neutrality". The treaty is broken less than two years later when King William's War breaks out in what is now the U.S. state of Maine.
 * November 30 – Melchor Portocarrero, 3rd Count of Monclova becomes the new Viceroy of New Spain (encompassing what is now Mexico and much of the southwestern United States) as he arrives in Mexico City to take over at the end of the term of Tomás de la Cerda, 3rd Marquess of la Laguna.
 * December 20 – Edmund Andros arrives in Boston to become the British Governor of the newly created Dominion of New England, which includes most of the what are now the U.S. states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Vermont and much of the eastern portion of New York. The unpopular Andros, who reigns as a dictator after being appointed by King James II, is driven out of office in 1689 after the overthrow of James, and the Dominion of New England is broken up into its constituent colonies.
 * December 22 – Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg and Duke of Prussia, head of the House of Hohenzollern, enters into an alliance with the Holy Roman Empire.

Date unknown

 * English historian and naturalist Robert Plot publishes The Natural History of Staffordshire, a collection of illustrations and texts detailing the history of the county. It is the first document known to mention crop circles and a double sunset.
 * The Café Procope, which remains in business in the 21st century, is opened in Paris by Procopio Cutò, as a coffeehouse.

Births

 * January 8 – William Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1703–1723) (d. 1723)
 * January 12 – Adam Christian Thebesius, German anatomist (d. 1732)
 * January 17 – Archibald Bower, Scottish historian (d. 1766)
 * January 23 – Moritz Georg Weidmann, German bookseller (d. 1743)
 * January 31 – Hans Egede, Norwegian Lutheran missionary who launched mission efforts to Greenland (d. 1758)
 * February 1 – Suzanne Henriette of Lorraine, French noblewoman, Duchess of Mantua and Montferrat (d. 1710)
 * February 2 – John Eames, English academic (d. 1744)
 * February 10 – Jan Frederik Gronovius, Dutch botanist notable as a patron of Linnaeus (d. 1762)
 * February 11 – William Bowles, British politician (d. 1748)
 * February 13 – John Churchill, Marquess of Blandford, British noble (d. 1703)
 * February 14 – Harry Pulteney, British politician (d. 1767)
 * February 16 – Eleonore of Löwenstein-Wertheim, German countess (d. 1753)
 * March 17 – Jean-Baptiste Oudry, French painter (d. 1755)
 * March 22 – James Hamilton, 7th Earl of Abercorn (d. 1744)
 * March 27 – Johann Jakob Quandt, Lutheran theologian, translated the Bible into Lithuanian (d. 1772)
 * April 1 – Jan Frans van Bredael, Flemish painter (d. 1750)
 * April 7 – François Victor Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, French nobleman (d. 1743)
 * April 8 – Stefano Felice Ficatelli, Italian painter of the late Baroque period (d. 1771)
 * April 9 – James Craggs the Younger, English politician (d. 1721)
 * April 19 – Vasily Tatishchev, Russian statesman, ethnographer (d. 1750)
 * April 28 – Michael Brokoff, Czech sculptor (d. 1721)
 * April 29 – Peregrine Bertie, 2nd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven (d. 1742)
 * May 19 – Samuel-Jacques Bernard, French billionaire (d. 1753)
 * May 24 – Gabriel Fahrenheit, German physicist, inventor of the Fahrenheit temperature scale (d. 1736)
 * May 25 – William Steuart (d. 1768)
 * May 31 – Antonina Houbraken, Dutch artist (d. 1736)
 * June 5
 * Edward Howard, 9th Duke of Norfolk, British peer (d. 1777)
 * Ignatius of Santhià, Italian Catholic priest (d. 1770)
 * June 6 – John Reading, Colonial Governor of New Jersey (d. 1767)
 * June 7
 * Adolphus Frederick III, Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1752)
 * Armand de La Richardie, French missionary (d. 1758)
 * June 9
 * Andrei Osterman, Russian statesman (d. 1747)
 * Andrew Michael Ramsay, Scottish writer (d. 1743)
 * June 24 – Domenico Montagnana, Italian luthier (d. 1750)
 * June 29 – Pietro Paolo Troisi, Maltese artist (d. 1743)
 * July 3 – Edward Watson, Viscount Sondes, Member of the Parliament of Great Britain (d. 1722)
 * July 5 – Jan Macaré, interim Dutch governor of Ceylon (d. 1742)
 * July 6 – Antoine de Jussieu, French naturalist (d. 1758)
 * July 9 – Philip Livingston, American politician (d. 1749)
 * July 24 – Benedetto Marcello, Italian composer (d. 1739)
 * July 25 – William Hardres, British politician (d. 1736)
 * July 27 – Mary Butterworth, American colonial counterfeiter (d. 1775)
 * July 31 – Charles, Duke of Berry, grandson of Louis XIV of France (d. 1714)
 * August 3 – Gervais Baudoin, Canadian physician (d. 1752)
 * August 10 – Johann Georg Christian, Prince of Lobkowicz, Austrian field marshal (d. 1755)
 * August 12
 * John Balguy, English divine and philosopher (d. 1748)
 * Bendix Grodtschilling the Youngest, Danish painter (d. 1737)
 * August 17 – Nicola Porpora, Neapolitan composer of Baroque operas and teacher of singing (d. 1768)
 * August 18 – Peter von Bemmel, German artist (d. 1754)
 * August 19 – Eustace Budgell, English writer and politician (d. 1737)
 * August 22 – Albert Schultens, Dutch philologist (d. 1750)
 * August 26 or August 27 – Agostino Cornacchini, Italian sculptor and painter of the Rococo period (d. 1754)
 * August 29 – Aloysius Centurione, Italian Jesuit (d. 1757)
 * September 5 – Antoine Touron, French historian (d. 1775)
 * September 29 – Cosmas Damian Asam, German painter and architect during the late Baroque period (d. 1739)
 * September 30 – John Alexander (d. 1743)
 * October 15 – Allan Ramsay, Scottish poet (or makar) (d. 1758)
 * October 17 – Jacques Hardion, French historian (d. 1766)
 * October 17 (bapt.) ? – John Machin, English mathematician (d. 1751)
 * October 19 – Peter van der Bosch, Jesuit hagiographer (d. 1736)
 * October 30 – Charles Jean-Baptiste Fleuriau, French politician (d. 1732)
 * October 31 – Senesino, Italian singer (d. 1758)
 * November 1
 * Colin Campbell, Scottish businessman (d. 1757)
 * Axel Löwen, Swedish duke (d. 1773)
 * November 13 – Eleonora Luisa Gonzaga, Tuscan princess (d. 1741)
 * November 15 – Claude Louis d'Espinchal, marquis de Massiac, French politician (d. 1770)
 * November 16 – Yinxiang, Manchu prince of the Qing Dynasty (d. 1730)
 * November 23 – Ignácio Barbosa-Machado, Portuguese historian (d. 1734)
 * November 30 – Richard Lumley, 2nd Earl of Scarbrough (d. 1740)
 * December 8 – John Dawnay, British politician (d. 1740)
 * December 15 – Jean-Joseph Fiocco, Flemish composer (d. 1746)
 * December 25 – Giovanni Battista Somis, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1763)
 * date unknown –
 * William Law, English cleric (d. 1761)
 * Netawatwees, Indigenous American (Lenape) leader (d. 1776)
 * approximate date – Queen Nanny of the Maroons, Jamaican national heroine (d. 1755)

Deaths

 * January 10 – Ana de los Angeles Monteagudo, Peruvian nun (b. 1602)
 * January 17 – Carlo Dolci, Italian painter (b. 1616)
 * January 19 – Simon Digby, 4th Baron Digby, English politician (b. 1657)
 * January 21 – François Blondel, French architect (b. 1618)
 * January 22 – Duchess Johanna Magdalena of Saxe-Altenburg (b. 1656)
 * January 31 – Jean Mairet, French dramatist (b. 1604)
 * February 6 (dubious) – Dorothy White, English Quaker and writer (b. 1630)
 * February 10 – William Dugdale, English antiquarian (b. 1605)
 * February 21 – Sibylle Christine of Anhalt-Dessau, Princess of Anhalt-Dessau (b. 1603)
 * March 17 – Elisabeth Marie, Duchess of Oels, Regent of Oels (b. 1625)
 * March 22 – John Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (b. 1654)
 * March 26 – Charlotte, Landgravine of Hesse-Kassel, German noble (b. 1627)
 * April 6 – Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey, English royalist statesman (b. 1614)
 * April 19 – Antonio de Solís y Ribadeneyra, Spanish writer (b. 1610)
 * April 23 – Henrietta Wentworth, 6th Baroness Wentworth of England (b. 1660)
 * April 26 – Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie, Swedish statesman and military man (b. 1622)
 * May 11 – Otto von Guericke, German physicist and inventor of the Magdeburg Hemispheres (b. 1602)
 * May 29 – Ove Juul, Governor-General of Norway (b. 1615)
 * May 31 – Nicholas Barré, French Minim friar, priest and founder (b. 1621)
 * June 23 – William Coventry, English statesman (b. c.1628)
 * July 10 – John Fell, English churchman (b. 1625)
 * July 16 – John Pearson, English theologian (b. 1612)
 * August 3 – Anna Margaret of Hesse-Homburg, Duchess consort of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Wiesenburg (b. 1629)
 * August 13 – Louis Maimbourg, French-born historian (b. 1610)
 * September 19 – John George I, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach, German duke (b. 1634)
 * October 26 – John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater, English politician (b. 1623)
 * November 1 – William Duckett, English politician (b. 1624)
 * November 25 – Nicolas Steno, Danish pioneer in anatomy and geology, bishop (b. 1638)
 * November 28 – Nicolas Letourneux, French preacher, ascetical writer (b. 1640)
 * December 6 – Eleonora Gonzaga, Queen consort of Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1630)
 * December 11 – Louis, Grand Condé, French general (b. 1621)
 * December 12 – Charles de Noyelle, French Jesuit Superior General (b. 1615)
 * December 24 – Philip Packer, British barrister and architect (b. 1618)
 * date unknown but before May 8 – Joseph Bridger, Colonial Governor of Virginia (b. 1631)

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January–March

 * January 5
 * King Charles II of England gives the title Duke of St Albans to Charles Beauclerk, his illegitimate son by Nell Gwyn.
 * The earliest form of what is now the University of Tokyo (formally chartered in 1877), the Temnongata, is established in Japan.
 * January 15 (January 5 O.S.) – To demonstrate that the River Thames, frozen solid during the Great Frost that started in December, is safe to walk upon, "a Coach and six horses drove over the Thames for a wager" and within three days "whole streets of Booths are built on the Thames and thousands of people are continually walking thereon." Sir Richard Newdigate, 2nd Baronet, records the events in his diary.
 * January 26 – Marcantonio Giustinian is elected Doge of Venice.
 * January – Edmond Halley, Christopher Wren and Robert Hooke have a conversation in which Hooke later claimed not only to have derived the inverse-square law, but also all the laws of planetary motion attributed to Sir Isaac Newton. Hooke's claim is that in a letter to Newton on 6 January 1680, he first stated the inverse-square law.
 * February 7 – Morocco retakes control of the city of Tangier from England, which had controlled the North African port since 1661. During the five months prior to evacuation of the English from the city, the Governor, Lord Dartmouth had ordered the destruction of the wall around the city, its fortifications and port facilities that had been built by the English during the occupation.
 * February 8 – Prince Dumitrașcu Cantacuzino returns to the throne of the principality of Moldavia for a third reign but is overthrown 14 months later on June 25. In 1859, Moldavia will unite with neighboring Wallachia to form the Kingdom of Romania.
 * February 15 (February 5 O.S.) – The Great Frost in Britain, during which the River Thames was frozen in London and the sea as far as 2 mi out from land and which started the previous December, ends as the Thames begins to thaw. William Maitland later writes that the Frost, which started in December 1683, "congealed the river Thames to that degree that another city, as it were, was erected thereon; where by the great number of streets and shops, with their rich furniture, it represented a great fair, with a variety of carriages, and diversions of all sorts." During the freeze, there had been great loss of beast and of wildlife, especially birds, and similar reports from across Northern Europe. The Chipperfield's Circus dynasty began during the freeze, with James Chipperfield introducing performing animals to the country at the Frost Fair on the Thames in London.
 * February 24 – A treaty is signed between European German colonists in Brandenburg-Prussia, and the African chiefs in what is now Ghana to permit the German colonists to build a second fort on the Brandenburger Gold Coast, and the fortress of Dorotheenschanze is built. The area is now the Ghanaian city of Akwida.
 * March 5 – Pope Innocent XI forms a Holy League with the Habsburg Empire, Venice and Poland, to end Ottoman Turkish rule in Europe.
 * March 19 – In Japan, the Tenna era ends on the 21st day of the 2nd month of the Chinese calendar of the 4th year of the Tenna era and the Jōkyō era begins as Japan's royal astronomer, Shibukawa Shunkai institutes the Jōkyō calendar to replace Chinese calendar which had been used in Japan since 859 AD, after calculating that the length of the solar year is 365.2417 days.

April–June

 * April 25 – The Morean War begins as the Republic of Venice declares war on the Ottoman Empire for control of the Peloponnese area of Greece, a peninsula which includes Corinth and Sparta and has been referred to by the Ottomans as Morea.
 * May 18 – The French Navy begins a 10-day bombardment of the Italian city of Genoa in the course of the War of the Reunions between France and the Republic of Genoa. During the fight, the French fleet, commanded by Abraham Duquesne, fires almost 13,000 cannonballs, pausing only during a cease-fire on May 21 and May 22, and uses the new technology of explosive bombs.  When the bombardment ends on May 28, two-thirds of the city has been destroyed or damaged.
 * June 7 – After a siege of six weeks that began on April 27, Luxembourg City is taken by the French Army from control by Spain, and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, previously part of the Spanish Netherlands (now Belgium) is acquired by France.
 * June 27 – Francisco de Távora, the Viceroy of Portuguese India, a small colony located in southwestern India at Goa, issues an order prohibiting indigenous residents from speaking their native language, Konkani, and directs them to learn Portuguese within the next three years.

July–September

 * July 21–August 6 – Morean War: Siege of Santa Maura – The Republic of Venice captures the Ottoman island fortress of Santa Maura.
 * July 24 – René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle sails again from France, with a large expedition designed to establish a French colony on the Gulf of Mexico, at the mouth of the Mississippi River.
 * August – Edmond Halley goes to Cambridge to discuss the problem of planetary motion with Isaac Newton.
 * August 15
 * France under Louis XIV makes the Truce of Ratisbon separately with the Holy Roman Empire (Habsburg) and Spain.
 * Louis XIV decrees the foundation of the Maison royale de Saint-Louis, a boarding school for girls at Saint-Cyr, at the urging of Madame de Maintenon.
 * September 21 – Morean War: The Republic of Venice captures the fortress town of Preveza from the Ottoman Empire.

October–December

 * October 7 – Japanese Chief Minister Hotta Masatoshi is assassinated, leaving Shōgun Tokugawa Tsunayoshi without any adequate advisors, leading him to issue impractical edicts and create hardships for the Japanese people.
 * November 8 – James Renwick, a Scottish minister and one of the "Covenanters" challenging the attempt by Kings James VI and Charles I to take over churches in Scotland, posts his "Apologetical Declaration" on church doors and market crosses in and around Cambusnethan, Lanarkshire.
 * November 19 – Richard Keigwin, who had arrested the East India Company's Governor of Bombay in 1683, Josiah Child and had taken over as the unauthorized administrator of Bombay, turns control back to the company and its envoy, Sir Thomas Grantham, receiving a general pardon.
 * December 10 – Isaac Newton's derivation of Kepler's laws from his theory of gravity, contained in the paper De motu corporum in gyrum, is read to the Royal Society by Edmond Halley.
 * December 17 – The Tibet–Ladakh–Mughal War, which had been going on since 1679, ends with the signing of the Treaty at Tingmosgang between the 5th Dalai Lama (Desi Sangye Gyatso) and King Delek Namgyal of Ladakh. The Ladakh kingdom agrees to not invite foreign armies into the area (now part of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir) in return for a respect for its sovereignty.

Date unknown

 * Japanese poet Ihara Saikaku composes 23,500 verses in 24 hours at the Sumiyoshi-taisha (shrine) at Osaka; the scribes cannot keep pace with his dictation and just count the verses.
 * The British East India Company receives Chinese permission to build a trading station at Canton. Tea sells in Europe for less than a shilling a pound, but the import duty of 5 shillings makes it too expensive for most English people to afford; hence smuggled tea is drunk much more than legally imported tea.
 * John Bunyan publishes the second part of The Pilgrim's Progress.

Births

 * January 1 – Arnold Drakenborch, Dutch classical scholar (d. 1748)
 * January 4
 * Henry Coote, 5th Earl of Mountrath, British politician (d. 1720)
 * Henry Grove, English nonconformist minister (d. 1738)
 * January 14
 * Johann Matthias Hase, German astronomer, mathematician and cartographer (d. 1742)
 * Jean-Baptiste van Loo, French subject and portrait painter (d. 1745)
 * January 18 – Johann David Köhler, German historian (d. 1755)
 * January 23 – Christian Rantzau, Danish noble (d. 1771)
 * January 24 – Charles Alexander, Duke of Württemberg, regent of the Kingdom of Serbia (1720–1733) (d. 1737)
 * February 16 – Bohuslav Matěj Černohorský, Czech composer (d. 1742)
 * February 19 – George Duckett, English Member of Parliament (d. 1732)
 * February 20 – Edward Bayly, Irish politician (d. 1741)
 * February 21 – Justus van Effen, Dutch author (d. 1735)
 * February 22 – Charles, Count of Armagnac, French noble (d. 1751)
 * February 24 – Matthias Braun, Czech sculptor (d. 1738)
 * March 2 – Christopher Wandesford, 2nd Viscount Castlecomer, Anglo-Irish Member of Parliament (d. 1719)
 * March 19 – Jean Astruc, French physician and scholar (d. 1766)
 * March 21 – Oley Douglas, English Member of Parliament (d. 1719)
 * March 22
 * Matthias Bel, Hungarian pastor, polymath (d. 1749)
 * William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath, English noble (d. 1764)
 * March 24 – Samuel von Schmettau, Prussian field marshal (d. 1751)
 * March 28 – Tekle Haymanot I, Emperor of Ethiopia (d. 1708)
 * March 31 – Francesco Durante, Neapolitan composer (d. 1755)
 * April 2 – Henry Somerset, 2nd Duke of Beaufort, English noble (d. 1714)
 * April 10 – Joseph Paris Duverney, French banker (d. 1770)
 * April 15 – Catherine I of Russia, empress consort (d. 1727)
 * April 25 – Marco Benefial, Italian painter (d. 1764)
 * May 2 – William Henry, Prince of Nassau-Usingen, Prince of Nassau-Usingen (1702–1718) (d. 1718)
 * May 5 – Françoise Charlotte d'Aubigné, French noble (d. 1739)
 * May 23 – Hachisuka Muneteru, Japanese daimyō of the Edo period (d. 1743)
 * May 27 – Wilhelm Reinhard von Neipperg, Austrian field marshal (d. 1774)
 * May 31
 * Timothy Cutler, American Episcopal clergyman, rector of Yale College (d. 1765)
 * Georg Engelhard Schröder, Swedish artist (d. 1750)
 * June 4 – Louis Charles, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Franzhagen, German nobleman (d. 1707)
 * June 6 – Nathaniel Lardner, English theologian (d. 1768)
 * June 15 – Ernest Leopold, Landgrave of Hesse-Rotenburg, German noble (d. 1749)
 * June 22 – Francesco Manfredini, Italian Baroque composer (d. 1762)
 * July 3 – Jean-Baptiste Baudry, Canadian gunsmith (d. 1755)
 * August 22 – Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria (d. 1696)
 * August 24 – Sir Robert Munro, 6th Baronet, British politician (d. 1746)
 * August 30 – Marguerite de Launay, baronne de Staal, French author (d. 1750)
 * September 1 – Jaime Álvares Pereira de Melo, 3rd Duke of Cadaval, Portuguese noble and statesman (d. 1749)
 * September 17
 * Henry Cantrell, Anglican clergyman, writer (d. 1773)
 * Elizabeth Hanson, American captive of Native Americans and writer (d. 1737)
 * September 18 – Johann Gottfried Walther, German music theorist, organist and composer (d. 1748)
 * September 22 – Charles Louis Auguste Fouquet, duc de Belle-Isle, French general and statesman (d. 1761)
 * October 2 – Thomas Seaton, English religious writer (d. 1741)
 * October 8 – Karl Aigen, Austrian painter (d. 1762)
 * October 9 – Christopher of Baden-Durlach, German prince (d. 1723)
 * October 10 – Jean-Antoine Watteau, French painter (d. 1721)
 * October 16 – Peter Walkden, English Presbyterian minister and diarist (d. 1769)
 * October 26 – Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin, Prussian Generalfeldmarschall (d. 1757)
 * October 28 – Paul Alphéran de Bussan, French bishop (d. 1757)
 * November 1 – Mikhail Mikhailovich Golitsyn, Russian admiral (d. 1764)
 * November 11 – Algernon Seymour, 7th Duke of Somerset, English noble (d. 1750)
 * November 12 – Edward Vernon, English admiral (d. 1757)
 * November 16 – Allen Bathurst, 1st Earl Bathurst, English noble (d. 1775)
 * November 25 – Paul-Hippolyte de Beauvilliers, duke of Saint-Aignan, French diplomat and soldier (d. 1776)
 * December 3 – Ludvig Holberg, Norwegian historian and writer (d. 1754)
 * December 9 – Abraham Vater, German anatomist (d. 1751)
 * December 14 – Siwart Haverkamp, Dutch classical scholar (d. 1742)
 * December 15
 * James Jurin, British mathematician, doctor (d. 1750)
 * August Friedrich Müller, German legal scholar, logician (d. 1761)
 * December 16 – Samuel Clark of St Albans, English theologian (d. 1750)
 * December 21 – Ippolito Desideri, Italian Tibetologist (d. 1733)
 * December 31 – William Grimston, 1st Viscount Grimston, Irish noble (d. 1756)
 * Date unknown
 * Celia Grillo Borromeo, Genovese scientist and mathematician (d. 1777)
 * Jaime de la Té y Sagau, Spanish composer (d. 1736)

Deaths

 * January 4 – Louis-Isaac Lemaistre de Sacy, French Bible translator (b. 1613)
 * January 11 – Cornelis Speelman, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (b. 1628)
 * January 13 – Henry Howard, 6th Duke of Norfolk, English noble (b. 1628)
 * January 15 – Alvise Contarini, Doge of Venice (b. 1601)
 * January 21 – Queen Myeongseong, Korean royal consort (b. 1642)
 * January 29 – Angélique de Saint-Jean Arnauld d'Andilly, French Jansenist nun (b. 1624)
 * February 6 – Ernst Bogislaw von Croÿ, German Lutheran administrator (b. 1620)
 * February 11 – Sir Thomas Peyton, 2nd Baronet, English politician (b. 1613)
 * February 25 – Dorothy Spencer, Countess of Sunderland, English noblewoman (b. 1617)
 * March 24
 * Pieter de Hooch, Dutch painter (b. 1629)
 * Elizabeth Ridgeway, English poisoner (burned at the stake)
 * April 3 – Marc Restout, French painter (b. 1616)
 * April 5
 * Lord William Brouncker, English mathematician (b. 1602)
 * Karl Eusebius, Prince of Liechtenstein (b. 1611)
 * April 6 – Domenico Maria Canuti, Italian Baroque painter (b. 1625)
 * April 12 – Nicola Amati, Cremonese violin-maker (b. 1596)
 * April 13 – Nicolás Antonio, Spanish bibliographer (b. 1617)
 * April 24 – Johann Olearius, German hymnwriter (b. 1611)
 * May 4 – John Nevison, English highwayman (hanged) (b. 1639)
 * May 10 – Anne Carr, Countess of Bedford, English noble (b. 1615)
 * May 12 – Edme Mariotte, French physicist and priest (b. c. 1620)
 * June 24 – Sir Edward Dering, 2nd Baronet, Irish politician (b. 1625)
 * July 6 – Peter Gunning, English royalist churchman (b. 1614)
 * July 12 – John Rogers, American President of Harvard University (b. 1630)
 * July 26 – Elena Cornaro Piscopia, Venetian philosopher of noble descent (b. 1646)
 * August 8 – George Booth, 1st Baron Delamer, English royalist politician, soldier and landowner (b. 1622)
 * August 20 – Maria d'Este, Italian noble (b. 1644)
 * September 9 – Jakob Thomasius, German philosopher (b. 1622)
 * October 1 – Pierre Corneille, French playwright (b. 1606)
 * October 11 – James Tuchet, 3rd Earl of Castlehaven, Anglo-Irish noble and soldier (b. c. 1617)
 * October 12 – William Croone, English physician, an original Fellow of the Royal Society (b. 1633)
 * October 15
 * Géraud de Cordemoy, French historian, philosopher and lawyer (b. 1626)
 * Julius Siegmund, Duke of Württemberg-Juliusburg, German noble (b. 1653)
 * October 24 – Duchess Marie Elisabeth of Saxony (b. 1610)
 * October 25 – Dud Dudley, English ironmaster (b. 1600?)
 * November 20
 * Bartolomé Garcia de Escañuela, Spanish Catholic prelate and bishop (b. 1627)
 * Cornelius Van Steenwyk, American politician (b. 1626)
 * November 23 – William Cavendish, 3rd Earl of Devonshire, English noble (b. 1617)
 * December 10 – Sir Thomas Sclater, 1st Baronet, English politician (b. 1615)
 * December 22 – Francis Hawley, 1st Baron Hawley, English politician (b. 1608)
 * date unknown – Alexandra Mavrokordatou, Greek intellectual, salonist (b. 1605)

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January–March

 * January 5 – The Brandenburger—African Company, of the German state of Brandenburg, signs a treaty with representatives of the Ahanta tribe (in what is now Ghana), to establish the fort and settlement of Groß Friedrichsburg, in honor of Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg. The location is later renamed Princes Town, also called Pokesu.
 * January 6 – The tragic opera Phaëton, written by Jean-Baptiste Lully and Philippe Quinault, is premiered at the Palace of Versailles.
 * January 27 – Gove's Rebellion breaks out in the Province of New Hampshire in North America as a revolt against the Royal Governor, Edward Cranfield. Most of the participants, and their leader Edward Gove, are arrested.  Gowe is convicted of treason but pardoned three years later.
 * February 7 – The opera Giustino by Giovanni Legrenzi and about the life of the Byzantine Emperor Justin, premieres in Venice.
 * March 14 – Ageng Tirtayasa, Sultan of Banten on the island of Java (now part of Indonesia), is captured by the soldiers hired by the Dutch East India Company.
 * March 17 – In a battle at Kalyan (near Bombay) between the Maratha Empire and the Mughal Empire in India, Maratha General Hambirrao Mohite defeats the local Mughal official, Ranamast Khan.
 * March 31 – Authorized representatives of King John III Sobieski of Poland and Emperor Leopold I of the Holy Roman Empire sign a military alliance treaty in Warsaw.

April–June

 * April 10 – Charles V, Duke of Lorraine is appointed commander of the Imperial Army of the Holy Roman Empire.
 * May 3 – Sultan Mehmed IV of the Ottoman Empire enters Belgrade.
 * May 24 – The Ashmolean Museum opens in Oxford (England), as the world's first university museum.
 * June 12 – The Rye House Plot to assassinate Charles II of England is discovered.

July–September

 * July 8 – Admiral Shi Lang of Qing dynasty China leads 300 ships with 20,000 troops out of Tongshan, Fujian, and sails towards the Kingdom of Tungning, in modern-day Taiwan and Penghu, in order to quell the kingdom in the name of the Qing.
 * July 14 – A 173,000-man Ottoman force arrives at Vienna, and starts to besiege the city.
 * July 16–17 – Battle of Penghu: Qing Chinese admiral Shi Lang defeats the naval forces of Zheng Keshuang decisively.
 * July 21 – The gruesome execution of Lord Russell, for his role in the 1683 Rye House Plot to assassinate King Charles II of England, is carried out by the royal executioner Jack Ketch, who wields his axe in a manner requiring multiple blows to make Russell suffer as much as possible during the beheading.
 * August 4 – Turhan, in the powerful role of the Valide sultan of the Ottoman Empire since 1648 as the mother of Sultan Mehmed IV, dies at the age of 56, bringing an end to the era in Ottoman history known as the "Sultanate of Women". Upon the overthrow of Mehmed IV four years later, the role of the mother of the Ottoman Sultan is less powerful.
 * August 18 – Francesco Maria Imperiale Lercari becomes the new Doge of the Republic of Genoa.
 * August 20 – Bahadur, son of the Emperor Aurangzeb of the Mughal Empire in India, is dispatched along with other Mughal nobles on an invasion of Konkan, the area on the southwestern Indian coast under the control of the Maratha Empire.
 * August 25 – The Earl of Limerick, Irishman Thomas Dongan, takes office as the new British Colonial Governor of the Province of New York and makes major reforms to restore public order and rescue the province from bankruptcy.
 * September 5 – Qing Chinese admiral Shi Lang receives the formal surrender of Zheng Keshuang, ushering in the collapse of the Kingdom of Tungning, which is then incorporated into the Qing Empire.
 * September 12
 * Battle of Vienna: The Ottoman siege of the city is broken with the arrival of a force of 70,000 Poles, Austrians and Germans under Polish–Lithuanian king Jan III Sobieski, whose cavalry turns their flank. The victory marks a turning point in the Ottoman Empire's fortunes and the end of the Turkish attempt to expand its control into Western Europe.
 * Pedro II becomes the King of Portugal after having served as regent since 1668 for his older brother Afonso VI.

October–December

 * October 3 – Shi Lang reaches Taiwan and occupies modern-day Kaohsiung.
 * October 6 – Germantown, Philadelphia is founded as the first permanent German settlement in North America (in 1983 U.S. President Ronald Reagan declares a 300th Year Celebration, and in 1987, it becomes an annual holiday, German-American Day).
 * October 9 (possible date) – Louis XIV of France makes a morganatic marriage with Madame de Maintenon in a secret ceremony following the death on July 30 of his queen consort, Maria Theresa of Spain.
 * November 1 – The English crown colony of the Province of New York is subdivided into 12 counties: Albany, Dutchess, Orange, Ulster, and Westchester (upstate); Kings, New York County, Queens, Richmond (within New York City); Suffolk (eastern Long Island), and two areas not in New York state, Dukes County (now in Massachusetts) and Cornwall County (now 11 counties in Maine).
 * December 7 – Algernon Sidney, opponent of King Charles II of England and author of the rebel tract Discourses Concerning Government is beheaded after having been arrested on June 25 and found guilty on November 7.
 * December 25
 * Kara Mustafa Pasha, Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire since 1676, is executed on orders of Sultan Mehmed IV after being blamed for the Ottoman loss of the Battle of Vienna on September 12. The execution is carried out in Belgrade as Kara Mustafa is strangled with a silk cord.  The Sultan appoints Bayburtlu Kara Ibrahim Pasha as the new Grand Vizier.
 * George Ducas, the Prince of Moldavia installed by the Ottomans in 1678, is arrested by Polish authorities while on his way back to Bucharest from the defeat by Poland in the Battle of Vienna. Ducas is replaced by Ștefan Petriceicu.
 * December 27 – Richard Keigwin leads a rebellion against the East India Company to take over as Governor of Bombay and most of the British territory in India, driving out Governor Sir John Child and arresting the Deputy Governor, Charles Ward. Keigwin surrenders the office less than a year later.
 * December – The River Thames in England freezes, allowing a frost fair to be held.

Date unknown

 * Wild boars are hunted to extinction in Britain.

Births

 * January 13 – Christoph Graupner, German composer (d. 1760)
 * January 29 – Juan de Galavís, Spanish Catholic Archbishop of Santo Domingo, Bogotá (d. 1739)
 * February 4 – Jean-Baptiste Bénard de la Harpe, French explorer of North America (d. 1765)
 * February 28 – René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, French scientist (d. 1757)
 * March 1 – Caroline of Ansbach, British queen and regent, wife of George II of Great Britain (d. 1737)
 * April 3 – Mark Catesby, English naturalist (d. 1749)
 * June 23 – Étienne Fourmont, French orientalist (d. 1745)
 * September 7 – Maria Anna of Austria, Archduchess of Austria and Queen consort of Portugal (d. 1754)
 * September 11 – Farrukhsiyar, Mughal Emperor (d. 1719)
 * September 25 – Jean-Philippe Rameau, French composer (d. 1764)
 * October 17 – Aixinjueluo Yuntang, born Aixinjueluo Yintang, Qing prince (d. 1726)
 * October 25 – Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton, British politician (d. 1757)
 * November 10 – King George II of Great Britain (d. 1760)
 * November 30 – Ludwig Andreas von Khevenhüller, Austrian field marshal (d. 1744)
 * December 19 – King Philip V of Spain (d. 1746)
 * December 27 – Conyers Middleton, English minister (d. 1750)
 * date unknown
 * Anna Maria Thelott, Swedish artist (d. 1710)
 * Benedicta Margareta von Löwendal, German industrialist (d. 1776)

Deaths

 * January 2 – Sir Thomas Twisden, 1st Baronet, English politician (b. 1602)
 * January 14 – Edward Thurland, English politician (b. 1607)
 * January 15 – Philip Warwick, English writer and politician (b. 1609)
 * January 21 – Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, British politician (b. 1621)
 * January 28 – Julian Maunoir, French Jesuit priest (b. 1606)
 * January 30 – Cesare Facchinetti, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1608)
 * February 18 – Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem, Dutch painter (b. 1620)
 * February 27 – Engel de Ruyter, Dutch admiral (b. 1649)
 * February 28 – Johann Paul Freiherr von Hocher, Austrian chancellor (b. 1616)
 * March 6 – Guarino Guarini, Italian architect of the Piedmontese Baroque (b. 1624)
 * March 8 – Robert Paston, 1st Earl of Yarmouth, English politician, earl (b. 1631)
 * March 11 – Giovanni Bernardo Carboni, Italian painter (b. 1614)
 * March 14 – Robert Montagu, 3rd Earl of Manchester, English politician (b. 1634)
 * March 16 – Henrik Bjelke, Norwegian military officer (b. 1615)
 * March 19 – Thomas Killigrew, English dramatist (b. 1612)
 * April 28 – Daniel Casper von Lohenstein, German writer, diplomat and lawyer (b. 1635)
 * March 29 – Yaoya Oshichi, young Japanese girl burned at the stake for arson (b. 1667)
 * May 2 – Stjepan Gradić, Croatian philosopher and scientist (b. 1613)
 * May 15 – John Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar (b. 1627)
 * June 4 – Wolfgang George Frederick von Pfalz-Neuburg, German bishop (b. 1659)
 * July 7 – Elisabeth Henriette of Hesse-Kassel, daughter of William VI (b. 1661)
 * July 10 – François Eudes de Mézeray, French historian (b. 1610)
 * July 13 – Arthur Capell, 1st Earl of Essex, English statesman (b. 1631)
 * July 21 – William Russell, Lord Russell, English politician (b. 1639)
 * July 26 – Jean Le Vacher, French Lazarist missionary and French consul (b. 1619)
 * July 30 – Maria Theresa of Spain, French queen, married to Louis XIV of France (b. 1638)
 * August 4 – Turhan Hatice Sultan, Ottoman Valide Sultan, married to Ibrahim and the mother of Sultan Mehmed IV (b. 1627)
 * August 18 – Charles Hart, English actor (b. 1625)
 * August 22 – Sir John Hobart, 3rd Baronet, English landowner and politician (b. 1628)
 * August 24 – John Owen, English non-conformist theologian (b. 1616)
 * September 6 – Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French minister of finance (b. 1619)
 * September 12 – King Afonso VI of Portugal (b. 1643)
 * September 17 – John Campanius, Swedish Lutheran minister in New Sweden (b. 1601)
 * October 1 – John Hull, colonial American merchant and politician (b. 1624)
 * October 8 – Philipp Friedrich Böddecker, German organist and composer (b. 1607)
 * October 9 – Francesco Caetani, 8th Duke of Sermoneta, Governor of the Duchy of Milan (b. 1613)
 * October 25 – William Scroggs, lord chief justice of England (b. c. 1623)
 * November 10
 * John Collins, English mathematician (b. 1625)
 * Robert Morison, Scottish botanist and taxonomist (b. 1620)
 * November 16 – Margareta Huitfeldt, Norwegian-Swedish noble (b. 1608)
 * November 29 – John Wright, British politician (b. 1615)
 * December 7
 * John Oldham, English poet (smallpox) (b. 1653)
 * Algernon Sidney, English politician (b. 1623)
 * December 13 – Anna Sophia II, Abbess of Quedlinburg, Abbesses of Quedlinburg (b. 1638)
 * December 15 – Izaak Walton, English writer (b. 1593)
 * December 16 – John Knight, Member of the Parliament of England (b. 1613)
 * December 25 – Samuel Clarke, English writer and priest (b. 1599)
 * December 27 – Maria Francisca of Savoy, Queen consort of Portugal (b. 1646)

Date unknown

 * Birgitta Durell, Swedish industrialist (b. 1616)
 * Roger Williams, English theologian and colonist (b. 1603)

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