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1698

January–March

 * January 1 – The Abenaki tribe and Massachusetts colonists sign a treaty, ending the conflict in New England.
 * January 4 – The Palace of Whitehall in London, England is destroyed by fire.
 * January 23 – George Louis becomes Elector of Hanover upon the death of his father, Ernest Augustus. Because the widow of Ernest Augustus, George's mother Sophia, was heiress presumptive as the cousin of Anne, Queen of Great Britain, and Anne's closest eligible heir, George will become King of Great Britain.
 * January 30 – William Kidd, who initially seized foreign ships under authority as a privateer for the British Empire before becoming a pirate, becomes an outlaw and uses his ship, the Adventure Galley, to capture an Indian ship, the valuable Quedagh Merchant, near India.
 * February 17 – The Maratha Empire fort at Gingee falls after a siege of almost nine years by the Mughal Empire as King Rajaram escapes to safety. General Swarup Singh Bundela, who led the scaling of the fortress walls and Gingee's capture, is rewarded by Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb with command of the area.
 * March 8 – The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, the oldest Anglican mission organization in the world, is founded by English clergyman Thomas Bray and four other people at Lincoln's Inn in London, along with Sir Humphrey Mackworth, Maynard Colchester, Lord Guilford and John Hooke.
 * March
 * English Bishop Jeremy Collier publishes his pamphlet A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage, accusing several contemporary playwrights of undermining public morality in their popular comedies by using profanity, blasphemy and indecency.
 * Samuel Cranston becomes the governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.

April–June

 * April 1 – Scottish pirate William Kidd and his crew arrive at Île Sainte-Marie off of the coast of Madagascar in Kidd's Adventure Galley bringing with them the cargo of the captured ships Quedagh Merchant and Rouparelle. Upon arrival, all but 13 of Kidd's crew desert to work for another pirate, Robert Culliford. The Adventure Galley, which is leaking and falling apart, sinks and the Rouparelle is sunk by the deserters. Kidd and his 13 henchmen depart on Quedah Merchant.
 * April 10 – A total solar eclipse is visible in central America.
 * May 1 – The Banishment Act of 1697 goes into effect for Roman Catholic church officials in Ireland, having been the deadline for all "popish archbishops, bishops, vicars general, deans, jesuits, monks, friars, and other regular popish clergy" to have reported to Irish ports for deportation. Re-entry to Ireland after May 4, 1698, is a criminal offense with a penalty of 12 months imprisonment and expulsion, while a second re-entry is punishable by death as treason.
 * May 4 – At the imperial capital at Inwa, Sanay Min of the Toungoo dynasty becomes the new King of Burma upon the death of his father, Minye Kyawhtin.
 * May 17 – The British Royal Navy ship HMS Hastings, a 32-gun fifth rate, is launched.
 * June 20 – An earthquake of magnitude 7.2–7.9 damages an extended region around Ambato, Ecuador, including the Tungurahua, Cotopaxi and Chimborazo provinces. Ambato and Latacunga are completely destroyed and several thousand casualties are reported.
 * June 21 – John Churchill, Earl of Marlborough is reinstated in the English Army, with readmission to the Privy Council by King William III. On July 26, he is selected as one of the Lords Justice.
 * June 22 – The executions of 57 leaders of the Streltsy uprising begin and continue until June 28.
 * June 24 – The Trade with Africa Act 1697 goes into effect in English overseas possessions, ending the monopoly of the Royal African Company (RAC) on the triangular trade by opening it to any English merchants who pay a 10 percent fee to the RAC.

July–September

 * July 7 – The English House of Commons is dissolved and new elections are held between July 19 and August 10 for a parliament to be summoned on August 24.
 * July 14 – Darien scheme: The first Scottish settlers leave for an ill-fated colony in Panama.
 * July 25 – English engineer Thomas Savery obtains a patent for a steam pump.
 * August 24 – King William III opens the newly elected House of Commons at Westminster.
 * August 25 – Peter the Great arrives back in Moscow; General Patrick Gordon has already crushed the Streltsy Uprising, with 341 rebels sentenced to be decapitated.
 * September 5
 * In an effort to move his people away from Asiatic customs, Tsar Peter I of Russia imposes a beard tax.
 * A charter is granted by King William III of England to the new East India Company of England, called "the New Company" or "the English Company" to break the monopoly that has existed in India since 1689 with the existing British East India Company.
 * September 8 – The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth defeats the Tatars in the Battle of Podhajce, the last battle between the Ottoman Empire and the Polish and Lithuanians.

October–December

 * October 11 – The Treaty of the Hague is signed between the Dutch Republic, England and France.
 * October 24 – Iberville and Bienville sail from Brest to the Gulf of Mexico, to defend the southern borders of New France.
 * November 2 – The Darien scheme Scottish settlers land in Panama and establish their ill-fated colony; 80% of them would die within the first year.
 * November 14
 * The first Eddystone Lighthouse, built off Plymouth, England, is illuminated.
 * The Spanish king Carlos names his grandson Jozef Ferdinand as his heir.
 * November 16 – A congress begins in Sremski Karlovci to discuss a treaty between the Ottoman Empire and the Holy League.
 * November – Tani Jinzan, astronomer and calendar scholar, observes a fire destroy Tosa (now Kōchi) in Japan at the same time as a Leonid meteor shower, taking it as evidence to reinforce belief in the "Theory of Areas".
 * December 8 – King William III of England issues a proclamation of "our most gracious pardon unto all such pirates in the East Indies, viz., all eastward of the Cape of Good Hope, who shall surrender themselves for piracies or robberies committed by them upon sea or land" before April 30, 1699 to Captain Thomas Warren, but specifically "excepting Henry Every, alias Bridgman, and William Kidd.
 * December 9 – Francis Nicholson becomes the new British colonial governor of Virginia, succeeding Sir Edmund Andros.
 * December 12 – Mombasa (referred to at the time as Fort Jesus, and now part of Kenya) falls under control of the Emirate of Oman, with Imam Sa'if ibn Sultan as the first Omani Governor.

Date unknown

 * Bucharest becomes the capital of Wallachia (part of modern-day Romania).
 * In Africa, Zanzibar is captured by Oman.
 * The Whigs sponsor Captain Kidd of New York as a privateer against French shipping.
 * Humphrey Hody is appointed regius professor of Greek at Oxford.
 * Shepherd Neame Brewery founded.
 * Ukraine suffers a great famine.

January–March

 * January 1 – Leonardo VII Tocco, Italian noble, the Prince of Montemiletto and the titular Prince of Achaea (d. 1776)
 * January 3 – Metastasio, (b. Pietro Antonio Domenico Trapassi), Italian poet and opera librettist (d. 1782)
 * January 7 – Thomas Southwell, 2nd Baron Southwell, Irish peer, politician and freemason (d. 1766)
 * January 21 – Auguste Louise of Württemberg-Oels, Duchess of Württemberg-Oels by birth and by marriage Duchess of Saxe-Weissenfels-Barby (d. 1739)
 * February 4 – Heinrich August de la Motte Fouqué, Prussian Lieutenant general and General der Infanterie and a confidant of King Frederick the Great (d. 1774)
 * February 5 – Germain-François Poullain de Saint-Foix, 18th-century French writer and playwright (d. 1776)
 * February 7 – Nicolas Sarrabat, French mathematician and scientist (d. 1739)
 * February 16
 * Pierre Bouguer, French mathematician, geophysicist, geodesist, and astronomer (d. 1758)
 * Johann Elias Ridinger, German painter (d. 1767)
 * February 19 – William FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Cleveland, English nobleman (d. 1774)
 * February 20
 * Gerard Arnout Hasselaer, burgomaster and counsellor of the city of Amsterdam (d. 1766)
 * Bernardo Tanucci, Italian statesman (d. 1783)
 * February 22 – Giovanni Battista de' Rossi, Italian Roman Catholic priest (d. 1764)
 * February 23 – Thomas Bladen, colonial governor in North America and British MP (d. 1780)
 * February 28 – Sigismund von Schrattenbach, Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg (d. 1771)
 * March 6 – Johannes Alberti, Dutch theologian (d. 1762)
 * March 17 – Lady Jane Douglas, Scottish noblewoman (d. 1753)
 * March 26 – Václav Prokop Diviš, Czech priest, scientist and inventor (d. 1765)

April–June

 * April 1 – Steven Hoogendijk, Rotterdam watch and instrument maker and physicist (d. 1788)
 * April 2 – Henry Edgar, Scottish Episcopal minister, Bishop of Fife from 1762 to 1765 (d. 1765)
 * April 5 – Anne Hamilton, 2nd Countess of Ruglen, Scottish noblewoman (d. 1748)
 * April 19 – Daniel Gerdes, German Calvinist theologian and historian (d. 1765)
 * April 28 – John Phillipson, British Navy administrator, commissioner, MP for over 20 years (d. 1756)
 * May 1 – Francesco Robba, Italian sculptor (d. 1757)
 * May 8 – Henry Baker, British naturalist (d. 1774)
 * May 10
 * Cuthbert Ellison, British Army officer and MP for Shaftesbury (d. 1785)
 * François Parfaict, 18th-century French theatre historian (d. 1753)
 * May 11 – Pierre Contant d'Ivry, French architect and designer (d. 1777)
 * May 17
 * Gio Nicola Buhagiar, Maltese painter (d. 1752)
 * Sir John Major, 1st Baronet, British merchant (d. 1781)
 * May 22 – Lord William Beauclerk, British army officer and politician (d. 1733)
 * May 24 – John, Count Palatine of Gelnhausen (d. 1780)
 * June 2 – Henry Miles, English Dissenting minister, scientific writer, Fellow of the Royal Society (d. 1763)
 * June 15 – George Browne, Irish soldier of fortune in Russian service (d. 1792)
 * June 19
 * Aoki Konyō, Confucian scholar (d. 1769)
 * Weliwita Sri Saranankara Thero, Last Sangharaja of Sri Lanka (d. 1778)
 * June 22 – Charles-Hugues Le Febvre de Saint-Marc, 18th-century French playwright and homme de lettres (d. 1769)
 * June 23 – Lord Nassau Powlett, English army officer and MP (d. 1741)

July–September

 * July 8 – Nicolò Maria Antonelli, Italian Cardinal in the Roman Catholic Church (d. 1767)
 * July 11
 * Jean-Michel Chevotet, French architect (d. 1772)
 * George Turnbull, Scottish philosopher (d. 1748)
 * July 17 – Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis, French mathematician (d. 1759)
 * July 19
 * Johann Jakob Bodmer, Swiss author (d. 1783)
 * John Clavering, English MP and Groom of the Bedchamber at the Court of George II (d. 1762)
 * July 24 – František Jiránek, Czech (Bohemian) Baroque composer (d. 1778)
 * August 18 – Samuel Klingenstierna, Swedish mathematician and scientist (d. 1765)
 * August 20 – Louis Fornel, Canadian merchant (d. 1745)
 * August 24 – Erik Pontoppidan, Danish author (d. 1764)
 * August 29
 * Richard Pearsall, English Congregationalist minister, friend of Philip Doddridge (d. 1762)
 * Jacob Vernet, prominent theologian in Geneva (d. 1789)
 * September 6 – Jean Thurel, French soldier (d. 1807)
 * September 8
 * François Francoeur, French composer and violinist (d. 1787)
 * Friederike Charlotte of Hesse-Darmstadt, princess of Hesse-Darmstadt and through her marriage a princess of Hesse-Kassel (d. 1777)
 * September 14 – Charles François de Cisternay du Fay, French chemist and superintendent of the Jardin du Roi (d. 1739)
 * September 15 – Pier Francesco Guala, Italian painter (d. 1757)
 * September 23 – Lewis Morris, colonial American judge (d. 1762)
 * September 26 – William Cavendish, 3rd Duke of Devonshire, British nobleman, Whig politician and MP (d. 1755)
 * September 28 – Joachim Christian von Tresckow, Prussian Lieutenant General (d. 1762)

October–December

 * October 6 – François-Bernard Lépicié, 18th-century French engraver (d. 1755)
 * October 7 – Henry Madin, French composer at the Chapelle royale (d. 1748)
 * October 12 – Jean Paul Timoléon de Cossé-Brissac, Marshal of France (d. 1784)
 * October 13 – Giacomo Ceruti, Italian late Baroque painter (d. 1767)
 * October 23
 * Ange-Jacques Gabriel, principal architect of King Louis XV of France (d. 1782)
 * John Jortin, English church historian (d. 1770)
 * October 30
 * Peter Thompson, English merchant (d. 1770)
 * Paul Troger, Austrian painter (d. 1762)
 * November 4 – Caleb Fleming, English dissenting minister and Polemicist (d. 1779)
 * November 6 – Sir Alexander Lauder, 4th Baronet (d. 1730)
 * November 8 – Alberico Archinto, Italian cardinal and papal diplomat (d. 1758)
 * November 10 – Maria Taylor Byrd, colonial woman who managed her and her husband William Byrd II's Westover Plantation when he was absent (d. 1771)
 * November 22 – Pierre de Rigaud, marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnial, Canadian-born colonial governor of French Canada in North America (d. 1778)
 * November 23 – Jacob Johann Köhler, Estonian printer who published the first Estonian-language Bible in 1739 (d. 1757)
 * November 24 – Charles Douglas, 3rd Duke of Queensberry, Scottish nobleman, extensive landowner, Privy Counsellor, Vice Admiral of Scotland (d. 1778)
 * November 28 – Charlotta Frölich, Swedish agronomist (d. 1770)
 * December 2 – Oliver Legipont, German Benedictine bibliographer (d. 1758)
 * December 6 – Anthony Mooyart, acting Governor of Ceylon during the Dutch period in Ceylon (d. 1767)
 * December 9 – Mark Hiddesley, Anglican churchman (d. 1773)
 * December 20 – Paul Fourdrinier, English engraver (d. 1758)
 * December 21 – Philip Wharton, 1st Duke of Wharton, powerful Jacobite politician (d. 1731)
 * December 24 – William Warburton, English critic and Bishop of Gloucester (d. 1779)
 * December 25 – Jacobus Houbraken, Dutch engraver and the son of the artist and biographer Arnold Houbraken (d. 1780)
 * December 26 – Filippo della Valle, Italian late-Baroque or early Neoclassic sculptor (d. 1768)
 * December 27 – Vlaho Kabužić, Ragusan nobleman and diplomat (d. 1750)

 * date unknown
 * Bernard Forest de Bélidor, French engineer (d. 1761)
 * William Moraley, English-American indentured servant and autobiographer, a primary source for life in the Province of Pennsylvania (d. 1762)
 * Baal Shem Tov, Polish rabbi and founder of the Hasidic movement of Judaism.

January–March

 * January 10 – Louis-Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont, French ecclesiastical historian (b. 1637)
 * January 15
 * Girolamo Borghese, Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Pienza (1668–1698) (b. 1616)
 * Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Burlington, Anglo-Irish nobleman, Lord High Treasurer of Ireland, Cavalier (b. 1612)
 * January 17 – Moyse Charas, apothecary in France during the reign of Louis XIV (b. 1619)
 * January 20 – Giannicolò Conti, Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1617)
 * January 22 – Frederick Casimir Kettler, Duke of Courland and Semigallia (b. 1650)
 * January 23 – Ernest Augustus, Elector of Brunswick-Lüneburg (b. 1629)
 * February 9 – Francis Bernard, English apothecary (b. 1628)
 * February 16 – Sir James Rushout, 1st Baronet, English politician (b. 1644)
 * February 21 – Rowland Thomas, English colonist of Springfield, Massachusetts, selectman, stonemason, surveyor, and proprietor (b. 1621)
 * March 2 – Jacques Quétif, French Dominican and noted bibliographer (b. 1618)
 * March 6 – Philip Sidney, 3rd Earl of Leicester, English politician (b. 1619)
 * March 14 – Claes Rålamb, Swedish statesman (b. 1622)
 * March 16 – Leonora Christina Ulfeldt, Danish countess (b. 1621)

April–June

 * April 6 – Mechtilde of the Blessed Sacrament, French nun (b. 1614)
 * April 9 – Charles d'Albert d'Ailly, French diplomat (b. 1625)
 * April 11 – Charles Morton, Cornish nonconformist minister (b. 1627)
 * April 15 – Jacob ben Aaron Sasportas, Rabbi, Kabbalist, anti-Shabbethaian (b. 1610)
 * April 29 – Charles Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis, First Lord of the British Admiralty (b. 1655)
 * May 4 – Minye Kyawhtin, king of Toungoo dynasty of Burma (Myanmar) (b. 1651)
 * May 15 – Marie Champmeslé, French actress (b. 1642)
 * May 19 – Vere Fane, 5th Earl of Westmorland (b. 1678)
 * May 24 – William Blundell of Crosby, English Royalist landowner and topographer (b. 1620)
 * June 5
 * Elizabeth Maitland, Duchess of Lauderdale, influential British noblewoman (b. 1626)
 * Domenico Minio, Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Caorle (1684–1698) (b. 1628)
 * June 10 – Gerrit Berckheyde, Dutch Golden Age painter (b. 1638)
 * June 11 – Balthasar Bekker, Dutch minister and author of philosophical and theological works (b. 1634)
 * June 29 – Paluzzo Paluzzi Altieri degli Albertoni, Italian Catholic Cardinal and Cardinal-Nephew to Pope Clement X (b. 1623)
 * June 30 – Charles Cheyne, 1st Viscount Newhaven, English Member of Parliament (b. 1625)

July–September

 * July 11 – Antonio Molinari, Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Lettere-Gragnano (1676–1698) (b. 1626)
 * July 13 – Charles Somerset, Marquess of Worcester, English nobleman and politician (b. 1660)
 * July 18 – Johann Heinrich Heidegger, Swiss theologian (b. 1633)
 * July 29 – Bartolomeo Gradenigo, Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Brescia (1682–1698) (b. 1636)
 * August 14 – Francisco de Aguiar y Seijas, Spanish cleric and bishop (b. 1632)
 * August 25 – Fleetwood Sheppard, English poet (b. 1634)
 * August 31 – Miguel Jerónimo de Molina, Spanish prelate and bishop (b. 1638)
 * September 23 – Jai Singh of Mewar, Maharana of Mewar from 1680–1698 (b. 1653)

October–December

 * October 11 – William Molyneux, Irish philosopher and writer (b. 1656)
 * October 23 – David Klöcker Ehrenstrahl, German artist (b. 1628)
 * October 24 – Daniel de Rémy de Courcelle, Canadian politician (b. 1626)
 * November 4 – Rasmus Bartholin, Danish physician and grammarian (b. 1625)
 * November 10 – John George II, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach (b. 1665)
 * November 13 – Johann, Count of Leiningen-Dagsburg-Falkenburg, German nobleman (b. 1662)
 * November 20 – Giovanni Battista De Pace, Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Capaccio (1684–1698) (b. 1627)
 * November 23 – César-Pierre Richelet, French grammarian and lexicographer (b. 1626)
 * November 28 – Louis de Buade de Frontenac, Governor of New France (b. 1622)
 * December 1 – Ferdinand Joseph, Prince of Dietrichstein, German prince (b. 1636)
 * December 7 – Andrea Guarneri, Italian luthier (b. 1626)
 * December 9 – José González Blázquez, Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Plasencia (1695–1698) (b. 1630)
 * December 16 – Simone Pignoni, Italian painter (b. 1611)
 * December 26 – Wolfgang Julius, Count of Hohenlohe-Neuenstein, German field marshal and the last count of Hohenlohe-Neuenstein (b. 1622)

 * date unknown
 * Nicholas Barbon, English economist (b. c. 1640)
 * Franciscus Mercurius van Helmont, Flemish alchemist (b. 1614)
 * in fiction – Mircalla Karnstein, Countess of Karnstein (b. 1680)

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1699

January–March

 * January 5 – A violent earthquake damages the city of Batavia on the Indonesian island of Java, killing at least 28 people.
 * January 20 – The Parliament of England (under Tory dominance) limits the size of the country's standing army to 7,000 'native born' men; hence, King William III's Dutch Blue Guards cannot serve in the line. By an Act of February 1, it also requires disbandment of foreign troops in Ireland.
 * January 26 – The Republic of Venice, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and Holy Roman Empire sign the Treaty of Karlowitz with the Ottoman Empire, marking an end to the major phase of the Ottoman–Habsburg wars. The treaty marks a major geopolitical shift, as the Ottoman Empire subsequently abandons its expansionism and adopts a defensive posture while the Habsburg monarchy expands its influence.
 * February 4 – A group of 350 rebels in the Streltsy Uprising are executed in Moscow.
 * March 2 – The Edinburgh Gazette is first published in Scotland.
 * March 4 – Jews are expelled from Lübeck, Germany.
 * March 26 – The first performance of Amadis de Grèce, an opera by French composer André Cardinal Destouches, takes place at the Académie Royale de Musique, Paris.
 * March 31 – A total solar eclipse is visible across the southern Indian Ocean.

April–June

 * April 13 – The 10th Sikh guru, Guru Gobind Singh, creates the Khalsa at Anandpur Sahib.
 * May 1 – Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville founds the first European settlement in the Mississippi River Valley, at Fort Maurepas (Ocean Springs, Mississippi).
 * May 10 – Billingsgate Fish Market in London is sanctioned as a permanent institution by an Act of Parliament, with the provision "that after the tenth of May, 1699, Billingsgate Market should be, every day in the week except Sunday, a free and open market for all sorts of fish, and that it should be lawful for any person to buy or sell any sort of fish without disturbance."
 * June 11 – England, France and the Dutch Republic agree on the terms of the Treaty of London (1700) (Second Partition Treaty) for Spain.
 * June 14 – Thomas Savery demonstrates his first steam pump to the Royal Society of London.

July–September

 * July 6 – Pirate Captain William Kidd is arrested and imprisoned in Boston, Province of Massachusetts Bay, after being tricked by New York Governor Richard Coote, 1st Earl of Bellomont
 * July 26 – William Dampier's expedition to New Holland (Australia), in HMS Roebuck, reaches Dirk Hartog Island, at the mouth of what he calls Shark Bay in Western Australia, and he begins producing the first known detailed record of Australian flora and fauna.
 * August 25 – Christian V, King of Denmark–Norway since 1670, dies and is succeeded by his son, Frederick IV (to 1730).
 * September 23 – A total solar eclipse is visible in the northern hemisphere across Europe, the Middle East and north India.

October–December

 * October 3 – The Liverpool Merchant, the first slave ship to depart from the Port of Liverpool, sets sail for West Africa where it embarks hundreds of African slaves and sails for Barbados, arriving there on September 18, 1700 with 220 slaves onboard.
 * October 11 – The opera Marthésie, première reine des Amazones (Marthesia, First Queen of the Amazons), composed by André Cardinal Destouches, is performed for the first time, premiering at Fontainebleau near Paris.
 * October – An edict by King Louis XIV establishes an office of police magistrate in almost every village in France, with the title of lieutenant general de police created.
 * November 22 – The Treaty of Preobrazhenskoye, negotiated by Johann Patkul, is signed at a palace of the Tsar of Russia Peter the Great, and representatives of Augustus the Strong, Elector of Saxony, King of Poland and Elector of Saxony to provide for the partition of Swedish Empire between Saxony, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Kingdoms of Denmark-Norway and the Russian Empire. The attack on Sweden, which takes place on February 22, starts the Great Northern War.
 * December 3 – Baron Jacob Hop is appointed as the treasurer-general of The Hague.
 * December 10 – A major ice storm shuts down the city of Boston for a week and freezing rain brings down many tree branches and causes severe damage to orchards.
 * December 20 – Peter the Great orders the Russian New Year changed, from September 1 (the start of the Byzantine year) to January 1.

January–March

 * January 2 – FitzRoy Henry Lee, British officer of the Royal Navy, Commodore Governor of the Colony of Newfoundland (d. 1750)
 * January 9
 * Christian Tobias Damm, renowned German Classical philologist (d. 1778)
 * Robert Joseph Pothier, French jurist (d. 1772)
 * January 11 – Friedrich Wilhelm Quirin von Forcade de Biaix, Royal Prussian Lieutenant General (d. 1765)
 * January 14 – Jakob Adlung, German organist, teacher, instrument maker, music historian, composer and music theorist (d. 1762)
 * January 16 – Franz Christoph Anton, Count of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, member of the House of Hohenzollern (d. 1767)
 * January 20 – Thomas Hervey, politician (d. 1775)
 * January 30 – Infanta Francisca Josefa of Portugal, Portuguese princess, the last of eight children of King Peter II of Portugal (d. 1736)
 * January 31 – Mathias Haydn, father of two famous composers (d. 1763)
 * February 2 – Hugh MacDonald, Roman Catholic bishop, Vicar Apostolic of the Highland District of Scotland 1731–1773 (d. 1773)
 * February 9 – Étienne Jeaurat, French painter (d. 1789)
 * February 10 – George Bowman, 18th-century American pioneer (d. 1768)
 * February 11
 * Bertrand-François Mahé de La Bourdonnais, French naval officer and colonial administrator (d. 1753)
 * Samuel Heathcote, British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1740 to 1747 (d. 1775)
 * February 14 – Odet-Joseph Giry, French clergyman (d. 1761)
 * February 15 – Giovanni Maria Morlaiter, Italian sculptor of the Rococo or late-Baroque (d. 1782)
 * February 17 – Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff, painter and architect in Prussia (d. 1753)
 * February 24 – Giuseppe Pascaletti, Italian painter (d. 1757)
 * March 3 – Georg Detlev von Flemming, General in Polish-Saxon service (d. 1771)
 * March 7 – António Nunes Ribeiro Sanches, 18th-century Portuguese physician (d. 1783)
 * March 8 – Johan Friederich Wewer, Danish merchant and ship-owner (d. 1759)
 * March 13 – Jacob Faggot, Swedish scientist, civil servant and surveyor (d. 1777)
 * March 17
 * Radu Cantacuzino, 18th-century Romanian prince (d. 1761)
 * Charles O'Brien, 6th Viscount Clare, Irish military officer in French service (d. 1761)
 * March 23 – John Bartram, American botanist (d. 1777)
 * March 24
 * David Renaud Boullier, Dutch Huguenot theologian (d. 1759)
 * Paul Gottlieb Werlhof, German physician and poet who was a native of Helmstedt (d. 1767)
 * March 25
 * James Calthorpe, Yeoman of the Removing Wardrobe (d. 1784)
 * Johann Adolph Hasse, German composer (d. 1783)
 * March 26 – Hubert-François Gravelot, French engraver (d. 1773)
 * March 30 – Edward Stradling, Welsh politician (d. 1726)
 * March 31 – Françoise-Louise de Warens, benefactress and mistress of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (d. 1762)

April–June

 * April 3 – Jean-Baptiste Forqueray, player of the viol and a composer (d. 1782)
 * April 10 – Catharina Sperling-Heckel, German miniature painter (d. 1741)
 * April 13 – Alexander Ross, Scottish poet (d. 1784)
 * April 14 – Frederick III, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (d. 1772)
 * April 17 – Robert Blair, Scottish poet and cleric (d. 1746)
 * April 19 – Valentin Metzinger, French-born Austrian-Slovenian painter (d. 1759)
 * April 20 – Sir Thomas Lowther, 2nd Baronet, English landowner (d. 1745)
 * April 25 – Johann Gottlieb Siegel, German legal scholar (d. 1755)
 * April 27
 * Thomas Belasyse, 1st Earl Fauconberg, British peer (d. 1774)
 * Jacopo Stellini, Italian abbot (d. 1770)
 * Albert Wolfgang, Count of Schaumburg-Lippe, ruler of the County of Schaumburg-Lippe (d. 1748)
 * April 28 – Joseph Spence, historian (d. 1768)
 * May 2 – Daniel Betts Jr., member of the Connecticut House of Representatives from Norwalk (d. 1783)
 * May 13 – Marquis of Pombal, Prime Minister of Portugal (d. 1782)
 * May 14
 * Ryk Tulbagh, Governor of the Dutch Cape Colony (d. 1771)
 * Hans Joachim von Zieten, Prussian field marshal (d. 1786)
 * May 15 – Sampson Lloyd, English iron manufacturer and banker, who co-founded Lloyds Bank (d. 1779)
 * May 23 – William Parks, 18th-century printer and journalist in England and Colonial America (d. 1750)
 * May 24 – Adam Ignacy Komorowski, Polish Roman Catholic archbishop (d. 1759)
 * May 25
 * Pattee Byng, 2nd Viscount Torrington, British Army officer and politician (d. 1747)
 * Anna Leszczyńska, eldest child of Stanisław Leszczyński and Catherine Opalińska (d. 1717)
 * May 26 – Nikita Trubetskoy, Russian statesman, Field Marshal, minister of defense of Russia (d. 1767)
 * May 28 – Laurent Cars, French designer and engraver (d. 1771)
 * May 29 – Pierre Rémond de Sainte-Albine, 18th-century French historian and playwright (d. 1778)
 * May 31 – Alexander Cruden, Scottish author of an early concordance to the Bible (d. 1770)
 * June 4 – William Moore, Banbury MP (d. 1746)
 * June 6
 * Johann Georg Estor, German theorist of public law (d. 1773)
 * Alamgir II, the fifteenth Mughal Emperor of India (d. 1759)
 * June 17 – François-Alexandre Aubert de La Chesnaye Des Bois, French writer, genealogist and compiler (d. 1784)
 * June 20 – William Gustav of Anhalt-Dessau, German prince of the House of Ascania, heir to the principality of Anhalt-Dessau (d. 1737)
 * June 26 – Marie Thérèse Rodet Geoffrin, French salon holder (d. 1777)

July–September

 * July 14
 * Vere Beauclerk, 1st Baron Vere, Royal Navy officer, British peer and MP (d. 1781)
 * Philipp Ludwig von Sinzendorf, Austrian cardinal of the Catholic Church (d. 1747)
 * July 15
 * Richard Crowle, Yorkshire lawyer and a Member of Parliament for Kingston upon Hull (d. 1757)
 * Henrietta Knight, Lady Luxborough, English poet and letter writer, now mainly remembered as a gardener (d. 1756)
 * July 18 – Barthélemy Hus-Desforges, 18th-century French comedian and troupe leader (d. 1786)
 * July 21 – Heinrich XXIX, Count of Reuss-Ebersdorf, member of the House of Reuss Younger Line, Count Ebersdorf from 1711 until his death (d. 1747)
 * July 25 – Charles Beckingham, English poet and dramatist (d. 1731)
 * July 28
 * John Coutts, British merchant and banker who became Lord Provost of Edinburgh in 1742 (d. 1750)
 * Princess Amalia d'Este (d. 1778)
 * August 5 – Ferdinand Maria Innocenz of Bavaria, Bavarian prince and an Imperial Field marshal (d. 1738)
 * August 10 – Christoph Gottlieb Schröter, German composer and organist (d. 1782)
 * August 25 – Charles Étienne Louis Camus, French mathematician and mechanician born at Crécy-en-Brie (d. 1768)
 * August 29 – Mastani, daughter of Chhatrasal and Ruhani Bai Begum (d. 1740)
 * August 30 – James Wemyss, 5th Earl of Wemyss, son of David Wemyss (d. 1756)
 * September 1 – George Benson, English Presbyterian pastor and theologian (d. 1762)
 * September 2 – Elizabeth Younger, actress and dancer (d. 1762)
 * September 11 – Anna Maria of Liechtenstein, princess consort of Liechtenstein (d. 1753)
 * September 12 – John Martyn, English botanist (d. 1768)
 * September 28 – Johann Friedrich Ruhe, German composer (d. 1776)
 * September 29 – Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore, British nobleman and Proprietary Governor of the Province of Maryland (d. 1751)

October–December

 * October 2 – Ferdinande Henriette, Countess of Stolberg-Gedern (d. 1750)
 * October 4 – Vieira Lusitano, Portuguese court painter (d. 1783)
 * October 10 – William Prentis, merchant in Williamsburg, Virginia (d. 1765)
 * October 13 – Jeanne Quinault, French actress and playwright (d. 1783)
 * October 21 – Hans Christoph Friedrich Graf von Hacke, Prussian General and Commandant of Berlin (d. 1754)
 * October 23 – John Verney, British barrister, judge, Tory and then Whig politician and MP (d. 1741)
 * October 27 – Thomas Fonnereau, British merchant and politician (d. 1779)
 * November 2 – Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, French painter (d. 1779)
 * November 5 – Merrik Burrell, British politician (d. 1787)
 * November 8 – Sir Erasmus Philipps, 5th Baronet (d. 1743)
 * November 9 – Sir Robert Kemp, 4th Baronet, British landowner, Tory politician and MP (d. 1752)
 * November 11
 * Ferdinando Fuga, Italian architect (d. 1782)
 * Sulaiman Badrul Alam Shah of Johor, 12th Sultan and Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Johor and Pahang and their dependencies who reigned from 1722 to 1760 (d. 1760)
 * Natalia Lopukhina, Russian noble (d. 1763)
 * November 18 – Gerrit Braamcamp, successful Roman Catholic distiller (d. 1771)
 * November 20 – Antun Kanižlić, Croatian Jesuit and poet (d. 1777)
 * November 22 – François de Chennevières, French poet and librettist (d. 1779)
 * November 25 – Pierre Subleyras, French painter (d. 1749)
 * November 30 – King Christian VI of Denmark (d. 1746)
 * December 2 – John White, English politician who sat in the House of Commons (d. 1769)
 * December 11 – Sarah Chapone, English legal theorist, pamphleteer, and prolific letter writer (d. 1764)
 * December 17 – Charles-Louis Mion, French composer (d. 1775)
 * December 19 – William Bowyer, English printer (d. 1777)
 * December 29 – Friedrich Ludwig Abresch, Dutch philologist of German origins (d. 1782)

January–March

 * January 3 – Mattia Preti, Italian Baroque artist who worked in Italy and Malta (b. 1613)
 * January 14 – Federico Caccia, Cardinal Archbishop of Milan (b. 1635)
 * January 21 – Obadiah Walker, English writer (b. 1616)
 * January 23 – Kinoshita Jun'an, Japanese philosopher and Confucian scholar (b. 1621)
 * January 27 – Sir William Temple, 1st Baronet, English statesman and essayist (b. 1628)
 * February 1
 * Thomas Chicheley, English politician (b. 1614)
 * Manuel Fernández de Santa Cruz, Spanish religious writer, Catholic prelate and bishop (b. 1637)
 * Countess Charlotte Johanna of Waldeck-Wildungen, daughter of Count Josias II (b. 1664)
 * February 6 – Joseph Ferdinand of Bavaria, son of Maximilian II Emanuel (b. 1692)
 * February 18 – Giovanni Giacomo Cavallerini, Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1639)
 * February 20 – Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer, Franco-Flemish painter who specialised in flower pieces (b. 1636)
 * February 25 – Lambert Darchis, arts patron from Liège (b. 1625)
 * March 12
 * Peder Griffenfeld, Danish statesman (b. 1635)
 * Matsudaira Tsunamasa (b. 1661)
 * March 17 – Serafina of God, founder of seven Carmelite monasteries of nuns in southern Italy (b. 1621)
 * March 20
 * Charles Montecatini, Roman Catholic prelate who served as Titular Archbishop of Chalcedon (1690–1699) (b. 1615)
 * Erhard Weigel, German mathematician, astronomer and philosopher (b. 1625)
 * March 22 – William Chaloner (b. 1650)
 * March 27 – Edward Stillingfleet, British theologian and scholar (b. 1635)

April–June

 * April 1 – Peter Pett, English lawyer and author (b. 1630)
 * April 7 – Simon Ford, English divine (b. 1619)
 * April 13 – Hans Rosing, Norwegian clergyman (b. 1625)
 * April 19 – Jacques-Nompar II de Caumont, duc de La Force, French nobleman and peer (b. 1632)
 * April 21 – Jean Racine, French classic dramatist (b. 1639)
 * April 22
 * Hans Erasmus Aßmann, Freiherr von Abschatz, German statesman and poet (b. 1646)
 * François-Marie Renaud d'Avène des Meloizes (b. 1655)
 * May 12 – Lucas Achtschellinck, Flemish painter (b. 1626)
 * May 15 – Sir Edward Petre, 3rd Baronet, English Jesuit, privy councillor (b. 1631)
 * May 16 – Christine Charlotte of Württemberg, princess consort of East Frisia by marriage to George Christian (b. 1645)
 * May 22 – James Bertie, 1st Earl of Abingdon, English nobleman (b. 1653)
 * May 25 – Bussy Mansell, Welsh Member of the English Parliament (b. 1623)
 * June 1 – George II, Duke of Württemberg-Montbéliard, (1662–1699) (b. 1626)
 * June 2 – Henry Frederick, Count of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, youngest child of Count Philip Ernest (b. 1625)
 * June 13 – Juan Tomás de Rocaberti, Catalan theologian (b. 1627)
 * June 16 – Constantin Marselis, Danish baron (b. 1647)
 * June 22
 * Josiah Child, English Governor of the East India Company (b. 1630)
 * Fernando de Meneses, 2nd Count of Ericeira, Portuguese nobleman and military man (b. 1614)

July–September

 * July 1
 * Lodewijck Huygens, Dutch diplomat (b. 1631)
 * Tokugawa Tsunanari, Japanese daimyō (b. 1652)
 * July 2 – Hortense Mancini, favourite Italian niece of Cardinal Mazarin (b. 1646)
 * July 3 – Johann Just Winckelmann, German writer and historian (b. 1620)
 * July 10 – Pier Martire Armani, Italian painter (b. 1613)
 * July 19 – Giovanni Delfino, cardinal (b. 1617)
 * August 4 – Maria Sophia of Neuburg, Queen consort of Portugal (b. 1666)
 * August 6 – Albert V, Duke of Saxe-Coburg, duke of Saxe-Coburg (b. 1648)
 * August 11 – Friedrich von Canitz, German poet and diplomat (b. 1654)
 * August 13 – Marco d'Aviano, Italian Capuchin friar (b. 1631)
 * August 19 – José Saenz d'Aguirre, Spanish Catholic cardinal (b. 1630)
 * August 24 – Lucrezia Barberini, Italian noblewoman and (b. 1628)
 * August 25 – Christian V of Denmark, King of Denmark and Norway (b. 1646)
 * August 28 – Joseph Barret, English businessman and theological writer (b. 1665)
 * September 8 – Gottfried Wilhelm Sacer, German jurist (b. 1635)
 * September 13 – James Fraser of Brea, Covenanter (b. 1639)
 * September 17 – Augustus, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön-Norburg (b. 1635)
 * September 26 – Simon Arnauld de Pomponne, French diplomat and minister (b. 1618)

October–December

 * October 3 – Edward Ayscough, English politician (b. 1650)
 * October 4 – George Evelyn, English politician (b. 1617)
 * October 8 – Mary Beale, English portrait painter (b. 1633)
 * November 2 – Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 2nd Earl of Shaftesbury, English politician (b. 1652)
 * November 15 – Kosa Pan, Siamese diplomat and minister who led the second Siamese embassy to France sent by King Narai in 1686 (b. 1633)
 * November 23 – Joseph Beaumont, British academic and poet (b. 1616)
 * November 28 – Mary Allerton, Dutch settler of Plymouth Colony in what is now Massachusetts (b. 1616)
 * November 29 – Patrick Gordon, general and rear admiral in Russia (b. 1635)
 * December 7 – Sigmund von Erlach, Swiss politician (b. 1614)
 * December 17 – John Francis Desideratus, Prince of Nassau-Siegen, (1652–1699) (b. 1627)
 * December 22 – Michelangelo Mattei, Roman Catholic prelate, Titular Patriarch of Antioch, Titular Archbishop of Hadrianopolis in Haemimonto (b. 1628)
 * December 31 – Giulio Dalla Rosa, Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Borgo San Donnino (1698–1699) (b. 1642)

Date unknown

 * Henry Every, English pirate (b. 1659)

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1696

January–March

 * January 21 – The Recoinage Act, passed by the Parliament of England to pull counterfeit silver coins out of circulation, becomes law.
 * January 27 – In England, the ship HMS Royal Sovereign (formerly HMS Sovereign of the Seas, 1638) catches fire and burns at Chatham, after 57 years of service.
 * January 31 – In the Netherlands, undertakers revolt after funeral reforms in Amsterdam.
 * January – Colley Cibber's play Love's Last Shift is first performed in London.
 * February 8 (January 29 old style) – Peter the Great who had jointly reigned since 1682 with his mentally-ill older half-brother, Tsar Ivan V, becomes the sole Tsar of Russia when Ivan dies at the age of 29.
 * February 15 – A plot to ambush and assassinate King William III of England in order to restore King James and the House of Stuart to the throne is foiled when the King cancels his usual plan to return from a hunting trip by way of the road between Turnham Green and Brentford. The King's guard is alerted by the Earl of Portland, William Bentinck, who had been approached on February 13 by Sir Thomas Prendergast.
 * February 23 – A royal proclamation is issued to arrest suspected Jacobite conspirators who had plotted the assassination of King William III, including gunman Robert Charnock and organizers George Barclay, and Sir John Fenwick. Barclay eludes capture, but Charnock and Fenwick are executed.
 * March 7 – King William III of England departs from the Netherlands.
 * March 9 – Spanish missionaries in the province of Santa Fe de Nuevo México in North America first learn of plans for a revolt among the Pueblo Indians and send warnings to the Governor, asking for Spanish troops. The uprising begins on June 4.
 * March 16 – The Dutch bombard Givet during the Nine Years' War.
 * March 18 – Robert Charnock, who had been arrested for the Jacobite plot to kill King William is hanged at the Tower of London.

April–June

 * April 23 – Russo-Turkish War (1686–1700): Russia begins the second of the Azov campaigns (1695–96).
 * April – A fire destroys the Gra Bet (Left Quarter) of Gondar, the capital of Ethiopia. The fire starts "in the house of a prostitute" and destroys many buildings, including the churches of St. George, Takla Haymanot and Iyasu.
 * May 1 – A partial solar eclipse is visible in western Canada and Greenland.
 * May 16 – A total lunar eclipse is visible in western Europe and Africa.
 * May 31 – John Salomonsz is elected chief of Sint Eustatius in the Caribbean Netherlands.
 * June 4 – A second Pueblo Revolt occurs in Santa Fe de Nuevo México. The Tiwas of Taos and Picuris, the Tewas of San Ildefonso and Nambe, the Tanos of Jemez and San Cristobal, and the Keres of Santo Domingo and Cochiti attack during the full moon and kill 21 Spanish civilians and five priests.
 * June 12 – China's Kangxi Emperor leads troops in the Battle of Jao Modo (about 37 mi from the modern Mongolian capital, Ulan Bator, and defeats 5,000 Mongolian troops of the Dzungar Khanate, under the command of Galdan Boshugtu Khan.
 * June 17
 * The throne of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth becomes vacant with the death of Jan Sobieski, prompting a competition between Friedrich Augustus, Elector of Saxony and Prince François Louis of France to compete under the Commonwealth's "Golden Liberty" system for an elective monarchy of the new King by the nobility. Jerzy Albrecht Denhoff, the Grand Chancellor, remains the head of the Polish-Lithuanian government during the vacancy of the ceremonial throne.
 * The Battle of Dogger Bank in which seven French ships attack five Dutch ships escorting a Dutch convoy of 112 merchant ships.

July–September

 * July 18 – Azov campaign: The Russian fleet occupies Azov at the mouth of the river Don.
 * August 13 – The Dutch state of Drenthe makes William III of Orange its Stadtholder.
 * August 22 – Forces of the Republic of Venice and the Ottoman Empire clash near Andros.
 * August 29 – King Louis XIV of France and Victor Amadeus, Duke of Savoy, sign the Treaty of Turin, ending Savoy's involvement in the Nine Years' War.
 * September 8 – The Parliament of Scotland passes the Education Act 1696, providing for locally funded, Church-supervised schools to be established in every parish in Scotland.
 * September 11 – England's Royal Navy scuttles and deliberately sinks its 32-gun battleship HMS Sapphire in Bay Bulls Harbour in Newfoundland, rather than let it be captured by the French Navy following a disastrous battle.
 * September 17 – On Canada's Hudson Bay, the English Navy recaptures the York Factory from France, three years after the French had captured it, and renamed the site "Fort Bourbon".

October–December

 * October 7 – The Convention of Vigevano is signed, bringing a general ceasefire in Italy and an end to the Nine Years' War between France and the remaining members of the Grand Alliance.
 * October 20 – The Imperial Russian Navy is founded on the recommendation of Tsar Peter the Great and approval by the Russian Duma.
 * November 9 – A total lunar eclipse is visible in North and South America.
 * November 12 – Hand in Hand Fire & Life Insurance Society, as predecessor to Aviva, is founded in England.
 * November 21 – John Vanbrugh's play The Relapse is first performed in London.
 * November 25 – In England, the House of Commons approves the bill of attainder to convict Sir John Fenwick of high treason for plotting to lead the assassination of and coup d'état against King William III, on its third and final reading, voting 187 to 161 in favor of conviction. The measure then moves to the House of Lords.
 * November 30 – Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville captures and destroys St. John's, Newfoundland after a three-day siege.
 * December 7 – Connecticut Route 108, one of Connecticut's oldest highways is laid-out to Trumbull.
 * December 19 – Jean-François Regnard's verse comedy Le Joueur ("The Gamester") premieres in Paris.
 * December 23 – By a vote of 66 to 60, the English House of Lords approves the bill of attainder for the conviction of Sir John Fenwick for high treason. Fenwick is beheaded on January 28, 1697.
 * December 24 – The Inquisition in Portugal carries out the sentence of burning at the stake against several Marrano Jews in Évora.

Date unknown

 * The Great Famine of 1695–1697 wipes out almost a third of the population of Finland, while the Great Famine of Estonia (1695–97) takes out a fifth of the population of Estonia; and the "seven ill years" of famine in Scotland are ongoing.
 * Polish replaces Ruthenian as an official language of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
 * Abington, Pennsylvania, is settled.
 * William Penn offers an elaborate plan for intercolonial cooperation largely in trade, defense, and criminal matters.
 * Edward Lloyd (coffeehouse owner) probably begins publication of Lloyd's News, a predecessor of Lloyd's List, in London.
 * Window tax was introduced in England and Wales and remained in force until 1851.
 * A New Theory of the Earth, a book by William Whiston, is published and is well received by intellectuals of the day.
 * The Bank of Scotland becomes the first bank in Europe to successfully issue paper currency.

January–March

 * January 5 – Giuseppe Galli Bibiena, Italian artist (d. 1757)
 * January 8 – Étienne Parrocel, French painter (d. 1775)
 * January 11 – Frederick William, Prince of Solms-Braunfels (d. 1761)
 * January 14
 * Troiano Acquaviva d'Aragona, Italian cardinal (d. 1747)
 * John Hippisley, English actor and theatre manager (1696-1748) (d. 1748)
 * January 17
 * Jean de Beaurain, French geographer (d. 1771)
 * Laurent Delvaux, Flemish sculptor (d. 1778)
 * Ambrose Madison, American planter and politician (d. 1732)
 * January 18
 * Ludovico Calini, Italian cardinal (d. 1782)
 * Sebastian Klotz, German violin maker (d. 1775)
 * January 22 – Johann Jakob Brucker, German historian of philosophy (d. 1770)
 * January 31 – John Wigan, British physician and author (1696-1739) (d. 1739)
 * February 2 – Juan José Eguiara y Eguren, Mexican bishop (d. 1763)
 * February 3 – Caspar Wistar, American glassmaker (d. 1752)
 * February 4 – Marco Foscarini, 117th Doge of Venice (d. 1763)
 * February 10 – Johann Melchior Molter, German composer (d. 1765)
 * February 17 – Ernst Gottlieb Baron, German composer (d. 1760)
 * February 22 – Henrietta Polyxena of Vasaborg, Swedish countess (d. 1777)
 * February 25 – Jean-Philippe-René de La Bléterie, French historian and translator (d. 1772)
 * February 29 – Esprit Antoine Blanchard, French baroque composer (d. 1770)
 * March 5 – Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian painter (d. 1770)
 * March 6 – Joseph Anton Feuchtmayer, German sculptor (d. 1770)
 * March 10 – John Campbell, 3rd Earl of Breadalbane and Holland, Scottish nobleman, diplomat and politician (d. 1782)
 * March 13 – Armand de Vignerot du Plessis, French diplomat (d. 1788)
 * March 15 – François-Arnoul Poisson de Roinville, French actor (d. 1753)
 * March 17 – Lajos Batthyány, Hungarian palatine (d. 1765)
 * March 18 – Domenico Maria Fratta, Italian painter and draughtsman (d. 1763)
 * March 21 – Pierre Février, French composer, organist, and harpsichordist (d. 1760)
 * March 23 – Johann Erhard Kapp, German author and historian (d. 1756)
 * March 27
 * Antoine Court, French Huguenot minister (d. 1760)
 * Charles Ingram, British army officer (d. 1748)
 * March 30
 * Ayşe Sultan, daughter of Ottoman Sultan Mustafa II (d. 1752)
 * John Worsley, scholar (d. 1767)

April–June

 * April 2 – Francesca Cuzzoni, Italian operatic soprano (d. 1778)
 * April 3 – Diego Bernardo de Peredo y Navarrete, Mexican Roman Catholic clergyman, bishop of Yucatán (d. 1774)
 * April 6
 * Charles Beauclerk, 2nd Duke of St Albans, British politician (d. 1751)
 * Richard Grey, priest (d. 1771)
 * April 8 – Wichmann Lastrop, Hamburg merchant and grand burgher (d. 1747)
 * April 10 – Esther Wheelwright, Ursuline nun (d. 1780)
 * April 12 – Joseph Atwell, English cleric (d. 1768)
 * April 14 – Princess Antoinette of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, German duchess (d. 1762)
 * April 15 – François Morellon la Cave, French engraver (d. 1768)
 * April 19 – Burchard Mauchart, German anatomist and surgeon (d. 1751)
 * April 20 – Curtis Barnett, Royal Navy officer (d. 1746)
 * April 21 – Francesco de Mura, Italian painter (d. 1782)
 * April 26 – Michał Fryderyk Czartoryski, Polish noble (d. 1775)
 * April 27 – John Lyon, 5th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, Scottish Earl (d. 1715)
 * May 2 – Thomas Chester, British Member of Parliament (d. 1763)
 * May 4 – Louis de Cormontaigne, French engineer (d. 1752)
 * May 7 – Eleonore Wilhelmine of Anhalt-Köthen, German noblewoman (d. 1726)
 * May 11 – George Crowle, British Whig MP (d. 1754)
 * May 16 – Countess Palatine Franziska Christine of Sulzbach, Abess of Thorn and Abbess of Essen (d. 1776)
 * May 22 – William Rathbone II, British businessman (d. 1746)
 * May 23 – Johann Caspar Vogler, German composer (d. 1763)
 * May 28 – Giovanni Lorenzo Berti, Italian theologian (d. 1766)
 * June 5 – Peregrine Hopson, British Army general (d. 1759)
 * June 6 – Peter Spaak, Swedish Protestant reformer (d. 1759)
 * June 9 – Shivaji II, Ruler of Maratha Empire (d. 1726)
 * June 11 – James Francis Edward Keith, Scottish soldier and Prussian field marshal (d. 1758)
 * June 14 – Al-Mansur al-Husayn II, imam (d. 1748)
 * June 18 – Friedrich August von Harrach-Rohrau, plenipotentiary minister of the Austrian Netherlands (d. 1749)
 * June 21 – John Gibbes, English military officer in the Province of Carolina (d. 1764)
 * June 27 – William Pepperrell, English colonial soldier (d. 1759)

July–September

 * July 14
 * Buenaventura Blanco y Elguero, Roman Catholic bishop (d. 1764)
 * William Oldys, English antiquarian and bibliographer, Norroy king-at-arms (d. 1761)
 * July 22 – Eric Julius Biörner, state official and a scholar of ancient history (d. 1750)
 * July 24 – Benning Wentworth, Colonial governor of New Hampshire (d. 1770)
 * July 27 – Samuel Whittemore, American farmer and oldest known colonial combatant of the American Revolution (d. 1793)
 * July 28 – Élisabeth Bégon, French writer (d. 1755)
 * July 31 – Dumont de Montigny, French colonial officer, farmer, and author (d. 1760)
 * August 2 – Mahmud I, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1730 to 1754 (d. 1754)
 * August 4 – Christian August I, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (d. 1754)
 * August 6 – Johann Gregor Herold, German painter (d. 1775)
 * August 7 – Samuel Waldo, American businessman, land speculator, and militia general (d. 1759)
 * August 8 – Jean Girard, Canadian musician (d. 1765)
 * August 9 – Joseph Wenzel I, Prince of Liechtenstein, Austrian marshall (d. 1772)
 * August 11 – Giuseppe Pozzobonelli, Archbishop of Milan (d. 1783)
 * August 12 – Maurice Greene, English composer and organist (d. 1755)
 * August 16 – Marc-Pierre de Voyer de Paulmy d'Argenson, French politician (d. 1764)
 * August 17 – John Thomas, Bishop of Winchester, of Salisbury and of Peterborough (d. 1781)
 * September 7 – Christoph Friedrich von Lattorf, German military personnel (d. 1762)
 * September 8 – Basil Hamilton, British Member of Parliament (d. 1742)
 * September 13
 * Johann Caspar Bagnato, German architect (d. 1757)
 * Christoph Ludwig von Stille, Prussian Major General (d. 1752)
 * September 14 – Batty Langley, British garden designer (d. 1751)
 * September 17 – Eunice Kanenstenhawi Williams, Native American captive (d. 1785)
 * September 18 – Thomas Hunt, English academic, Oxford Laudian Professor of Arabic (d. 1774)
 * September 20 – Charles Gray, British politician (d. 1782)
 * September 25
 * Sir Archibald Grant, 2nd Baronet, Scottish politician (d. 1778)
 * Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand, French salon-holder (d. 1780)
 * September 27
 * Sir John St Aubyn, 3rd Baronet, British politician (d. 1744)
 * Hendrik Carré II, Dutch painter (d. 1775)
 * Alphonsus Liguori, Italian founder of the Redemptorist Order (d. 1787)
 * September 30 – Jean-François de La Clue-Sabran, French admiral of the Seven Years' War (d. 1764)

October–December

 * October 2
 * John Blackwood, British Member of Parliament (d. 1777)
 * Ann Smith Franklin, American colonial newspaper printer and publisher (d. 1763)
 * October 10 – Chen Hongmou, Chinese official and philosopher (d. 1771)
 * October 13 – John Hervey, 2nd Baron Hervey, English courtier, political writer and memoirist (d. 1743)
 * October 14 – Samuel Johnson, President of Columbia University (d. 1772)
 * October 17 – Augustus III of Poland, King of Poland, Elector of Saxony (d. 1763)
 * October 20 – Ludwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Count and later Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (d. 1765)
 * October 21
 * Charles Louis, Count of Marsan, French noble (d. 1755)
 * John Manners, 3rd Duke of Rutland, English nobleman (d. 1779)
 * James Fitz-James Stuart, 2nd Duke of Berwick, Jacobite and Spanish general and noble (d. 1738)
 * October 28 – Maurice de Saxe, Marshal General of France (d. 1750)
 * October 31 – Giulia Crostarosa, Italian catholic nun and foundress (d. 1755)
 * November 1 – Karl Ferdinand von Königsegg-Erps, Belgian politician (d. 1759)
 * November 2
 * Louise Adélaïde de Bourbon, French noble (d. 1750)
 * Conrad Weiser, Pennsylvania's interpreter and emissary to the Native Americans (d. 1760)
 * November 7 – Heinrich von Manteuffel, German military personnel (d. 1778)
 * November 11 – Andrea Zani, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1757)
 * November 12 – Theophilus Hastings, 9th Earl of Huntingdon, English noble (d. 1746)
 * November 17
 * Samuel Cluckston, Connecticut politician (d. 1751)
 * Zorawar Singh, Sikh martyr (d. 1705)
 * November 19 – Louis Tocqué, French painter (d. 1772)
 * November 22 – Tokugawa Muneharu, A daimyo in the mid-Edo period (d. 1764)
 * November 29 – Anne-Madeleine Remuzat, French nun recognized as venerable (d. 1730)
 * December 1 – Francis Burton, Irish politician (d. 1744)
 * December 2 – Daniel de Superville, founded University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (d. 1773)
 * December 13
 * Egid Verhelst the Elder, Flemish sculptor (d. 1749)
 * Safiye Sultan, daughter of Ottoman Sultan Mustafa II (d. 1778)
 * December 22 – James Oglethorpe, English general and founder of the state of Georgia as a colony (d. 1785)
 * December 25 – Prince Johann Ernst of Saxe-Weimar, composer (d. 1715)
 * December 31 – Thomas Winnington, British politician (d. 1746)
 * date unknown
 * William Beverley, American legislator, civil servant, planter, and landowner (d. 1756)
 * Christine Kirch, German astronomer (d. 1782)
 * Carlo Zimech, Maltese priest and painter (d. 1766)

January–March

 * January 11 – Charles Albanel, French missionary explorer in Canada (b. 1616)
 * January 13 – Giovanni Cosimo Bonomo, Italian physician (b. 1666)
 * January 15 – Bartholomäus Kilian, German engraver (b. 1630)
 * January 21 – Inés de Benigánim, Spanish religious (b. 1625)
 * February – Ahom King Supaatphaa or Gadadhar Singha
 * February 1 – Molly Verney, British artist (b. 1675)
 * February 4 – Philip Wharton, 4th Baron Wharton, English soldier (b. 1613)
 * February 8 – Tsar Ivan V of Russia, Tsar of Russia from 1682 to 1696 (b. 1666)
 * February 12 – George Bradbury, English judge (b. 1643)
 * February 19 – Giovanni Pietro Bellori, Italian painter and biographer (b. 1613)
 * March 6 – Mary Knatchbull, Knatchbull, Mary, abbess of the Convent of the Immaculate Conception, Ghent (b. 1610)
 * March 8 – Thomas Street, English judge and politician (b. 1625)
 * March 9 – Jean de la Vallée, Swedish architect (b. 1620)
 * March 14 – Jean Domat, French jurist (b. 1625)
 * March 16 – Louis Laneau, French bishop active in the kingdom of Siam (b. 1637)
 * March 17 – Élisabeth Marguerite d'Orléans, French noble (b. 1646)
 * March 18 – Bonaventure Baron, Irish Friar Minor and scholar (b. 1610)
 * March 24
 * Jacqueline Bouette de Blémur, French Benedictine nun and writer (b. 1618)
 * Marie de Miramion, French woman known for her piety (b. 1629)
 * March 25 – Henry Casimir II, Prince of Nassau-Dietz, Stadholder of Friesland and Groningen (b. 1657)

April–June

 * April 10 – Springett Penn, Member of the Penn family (b. 1674)
 * April 12 – George Corwin, High Sheriff during Salem Witch trials (b. 1666)
 * April 14 – Isaac de l'Ostal de Saint-Martin, French botanist (b. 1629)
 * April 17 – Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné, French writer (b. 1626)
 * April 27 – Simon Foucher, French philosopher (b. 1644)
 * April 30 – Robert Plot, British naturalist (b. 1640)
 * May 11 – Jean de La Bruyère, French writer and philosopher (b. 1645)
 * May 15 – Samuel Appleton, military leader (b. 1625)
 * May 16 – Mariana of Austria, Queen consort of Spain (b. 1634)
 * May 17 – Antoine d'Aquin, physician (b. 1629)
 * May 26 – Countess Albertine Agnes of Nassau, Regent of Friesland, Groningen and Drenthe (1664–1679) (b. 1634)
 * May 28 – William Gregory, British judge and politician (b. 1625)
 * May 30 – Henry Capell, 1st Baron Capell, First Lord of the British Admiralty (b. 1638)
 * May 31 – Heinrich Schwemmer, German music teacher and composer (b. 1621)
 * June – Greta Duréel, Swedish noblewoman and bank fraud
 * June 2 – William Herbert, 1st Marquess of Powis, English marquess (b. 1626)
 * June 9 – Antoine Varillas, French historian (b. 1624)
 * June 10 – Charles de Courbon de Blénac, French colonial administrator (b. 1622)
 * June 12 – Queen Anu, Mongolian noble (b. 1653)
 * June 17
 * Jørgen Bjelke, Officer, nobleman (b. 1621)
 * John III Sobieski, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania (b. 1629)
 * Emilio Taruffi, Italian painter (b. 1633)
 * June 22 – Jacobus Tollius, Dutch classicist (b. 1633)
 * June 24 – Philip Henry, English Nonconformist clergyman and diarist (b. 1631)
 * June 26 – Alonso Xuárez, Spanish Baroque composer (b. 1640)
 * June 28 – Eiler Holck, Danish military officer (b. 1627)
 * June 29 – Michel Lambert, French singing master, theorbist and composer (b. 1610)

July–September

 * July 4 – Inaba Masanori, daimyo (b. 1623)
 * July 6 – Hector d'Andigné de Grandfontaine, Governor of Acadia from 1670 to 1673 (b. 1627)
 * July 7 – Raugravine Caroline Elisabeth (b. 1659)
 * July 11 – William Godolphin, English diplomat for Charles II and Member of Parliament (b. 1635)
 * July 22 – Hendrik van Minderhout, Flemish painter (b. 1632)
 * July 25 – Clamor Heinrich Abel, German Baroque composer, violinist and organist (b. 1634)
 * July 28
 * Charles Colbert, marquis de Croissy, French politician and diplomat (b. 1629)
 * Sir Bourchier Wrey, 4th Baronet, English politician (b. 1653)
 * August 2 – Robert Campbell of Glenlyon, Scottish military commander at the Massacre of Glencoe (b. 1630)
 * August 9 – Wacław Potocki, Polish noble (b. 1621)
 * August 14 – Sir John Barker, 4th Baronet, English politician, born 1655 (b. 1655)
 * August 22 – Robert Austen, politician (b. 1642)
 * August 28 – Hans Adam von Schöning, German general (b. 1641)
 * September 1 – Donat John, Count Heissler of Heitersheim, Austrian general (b. 1648)
 * September 4 – Celestino Sfondrati, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1644)
 * September 5 – Henry Albin, English minister (b. 1624)
 * September 7 – John Powell, Welsh judge; (b. 1633)
 * September 9 – Princess Eleonore Erdmuthe of Saxe-Eisenach, Margravine of Brandenburg-Ansbach and Electress of Saxony (b. 1662)
 * September 13 – Caleb Banks, English politician (b. 1659)
 * September 17 – Daniel Danielis, Belgian composer (b. 1635)
 * September 21 – Charles de Montsaulnin, Comte de Montal, 17th century French military officer and noble (b. 1619)
 * September 23 – Dionysius IV of Constantinople, Ecumenical Patriarch (b. 1620)
 * September 24 – Sir Ralph Verney, 1st Baronet, of Middle Claydon, English Baronet (b. 1613)
 * September 28 – Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria, Austrian archduchess, daughter of Leopold I (b. 1684)
 * September 29 – Íñigo Melchor de Velasco, 7th Duke of Frías, Spanish governor of The Netherlands (b. 1629)

October–December

 * October 3 – Prospero Intorcetta, Italian Jesuit missionary (b. 1625)
 * October 9 – Charles La Tourasse, French colonial Governor (b. 1630)
 * October 14 – Dionysius III of Constantinople, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople (b. 1615)
 * October 17 – Giovanni Battista Boccabadati (b. 1635)
 * October 22 – James Ramsay, Minister of the Church of Scotland, Bishop of Dunblane, Bishop of Ross (b. 1624)
 * October 30 – Andrea de Rossi, Roman Catholic archbishop (b. 1644)
 * November 26
 * Sir Richard Atkins, 2nd Baronet, English politician (b. 1654)
 * Gregório de Matos, Brazilian poet and lawyer (b. 1636)
 * December 4 – Empress Meishō, empress of Japan (b. 1624)
 * December 8 – Charles Porter, Irish politician (b. 1631)
 * December 12
 * Johan Caspar von Cicignon, Danish/Luxembourgian military officer (b. 1625)
 * John Hampden, English politician, died 1696 (b. 1653)
 * December 13 – Georg Matthäus Vischer, Austrian cartographer (b. 1628)
 * December 15 – Sir John Knatchbull, 2nd Baronet, English politician (b. 1634)
 * December 21 – Louise Moillon, French painter (b. 1610)
 * December 23 – Sir William Williams, 6th Baronet, Welsh politician and landowner (c. 1668–96) (b. 1660)
 * December 28 – Miguel de Molinos, Spanish priest, apostle of Quietism (b. 1628)
 * December 31 – Samuel Annesley, Puritan/nonconformist pastor (b. 1620)
 * date unknown – Daibhidh Ó Duibhgheannáin (b. 1651)

title: 1696


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1694

January–March

 * January 16 – Francesco Morosini, the Doge of Venice since 1688, dies after ruling the Republic for more than five years and a few months after an unsuccessful attempt to capture the island of Negropont from the Ottoman Empire during the Morean War.
 * January 18 – Sir James Montgomery of Scotland, who had been arrested on January 11 for conspiracy to restore King James to the throne, escapes and flees to France.
 * January 21 (January 11 O.S.) – The Kiev Academy, now the national university of Ukraine, receives official recognition by Tsar Ivan V of Russia.
 * January 28 – Pirro e Demetrio, an opera by Alessandro Scarlatti, is given its first performance, debuting at the Teatro San Bartolomeo in Naples. The opera is adapted in 1708 in London as Pyrrhus and Demetrius and becomes the second most popular opera in 18th century London.
 * January 29 – French missionary Jean-Baptiste Labat arrives in the "New World", landing at the Caribbean island of Martinique.
 * February 5 – The ship Ridderschap van Holland is lost at sea, having departed the Cape of Good Hope with a crew of 300, with a destination of Batavia (now Jakarta in Indonesia), normally a voyage of two months. It never arrives and is never seen again.
 * February 6 – The colony of Quilombo dos Palmares, created by rebel African slaves in Brazil, is destroyed by the bandeirantes, colonial troops under the command of Domingos Jorge Velho. After a successful attack on its capital, Cerca do Macaco, the last King of Dos Palmares, Zumbi, flees after a reign of more than 13 years, but is later captured and executed.
 * February 26 – Silvestro Valier is elected as the new Doge of Venice to replace the late Francesco Morosini
 * March 1 – The HMS Sussex treasure fleet of thirteen ships is wrecked in the Mediterranean off Gibraltar, with the loss of approximately 1,200 lives.
 * March 8 – The Casa da Moeda do Brasil is formed by Peter II of Portugal.

April–June

 * April 2 – Sheikh Yusuf, exiled by the administrators of the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia), arrives at the Dutch Cape Colony on the ship De Voetboog, at what is now Cape Town, South Africa, along with two wives, two concubines and 12 children. Resettled by the colonial government at a farm in Zandvliet, the Sheikh introduces Islam to South Africa.
 * April 7 – The English Navy's 40-gun warship, HMS Ruby, captures the French privateer Entreprenant in battle. The confiscated ship is renamed HMS Ruby Prize.
 * April 12 – The French ship Diligente, commanded by René Duguay-Trouin, covers the escape of a convoy of ships that he is escorting, but then is surrounded and attacked by six Royal Navy ships led by David Mitchell. Most of the Diligente crew is lost in the battle, and Duguay-Trouin is captured.
 * April 13 – The largest volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius since 1631 takes place, with lava flows towards both San Giorgio a Cremano and Torre del Greco, after explosions in the crater that began April 5. Around April 20, ash falls are experienced as far away as Calabria.
 * April 27 – Frederick Augustus of Wettin, later known as "Augustus the Strong" and the future King of Poland, becomes the new Elector of Saxony upon the death of his 25-year-old older brother, John George IV
 * May 27 – Taking advantage of a fog, the French Army, with 24,000 troops, fights the Battle of Torroella against an equally large Spanish Army force on the banks of the Ter in Spain, near the city of Girona during the Nine Years' War. The Spaniards suffer 3,000 casualties, while the French sustain 500.
 * June 22 – An annular solar eclipse is visible across North America and the Atlantic Ocean.
 * June 24 – The Tunisian–Algerian War begins as Algerian troops cross into Tunisia.
 * June 29 – The Battle of Texel is fought near the Dutch island of Texel, one of the West Frisian Islands. The French Navy force of 8 ships, commanded by Jean Bart, locates and rescues three French ships that had been captured by the Dutch Republic in late May. Bart fights a larger force commanded by Hidde Sjoerds de Vries, who dies of his wounds after being captured.

July–September

 * July 27 – The Bank of England is founded through Royal charter by the Whig-dominated Parliament of England, following a proposal by Scottish merchant William Paterson to raise capital, by offering safe and steady returns of interest guaranteed by future taxes. A total of £1.2 million is raised for the war effort against Louis XIV of France by the end of the year, to establish the first-ever government debt.
 * August 6 – The coronation of Sultan Husayn of the Safavid dynasty as the Shah of Persia takes place in Isfahan, eight days after the death of his father Suleiman I.
 * August 24 – The Dictionnaire de l'Académie française, the first official dictionary of the French language, is presented by Jacques de Tourreil and Academy members on behalf of the Académie française to King Louis XIV.
 * September 5 – The Great Fire of Warwick breaks out in England and destroys half the town. Donors raise £110,000 toward disaster relief, with Queen Anne contributing £1,000.
 * September 8 – The 1694 Irpinia–Basilicata earthquake causes widespread severe damage and over 6,000 deaths in the Kingdom of Naples.
 * September 27 – A hurricane hits Carlisle Bay, Barbados, sinking 27 British ships and resulting in 3,000 casualties.

October–December

 * October 19 – A major windstorm begins and continues for several days, spreading the Culbin Sands over a large area of farmland in the Scottish Highlands in the County of Moray and burying the now-abandoned village of Culbin.
 * October 23 – British/American colonial forces, led by Sir William Phips, fail to seize Quebec from the French.
 * October 25 – Queen Mary II of England founds the Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich.
 * November 12 – The Army of Algeria captures Tunis, the capital of Tunisia, after a siege of three months, bringing an end to the Tunisian–Algerian War. Mohamed Bey El Mouradi, the Bey of Tunis, flees southward while Prince Muhammad ben Cheker of Tunisia becomes the new Dey on behalf of the Dey of Algiers, Hadj Ahmed.
 * December 3 – The Parliament of England passes the Triennial Act, requiring general elections every three years.
 * December 6 – Thomas Tenison is appointed Archbishop of Canterbury.
 * December 16 – A total solar eclipse is visible across South America.

Date unknown

 * The Lao empire of Lan Xang unofficially ends.
 * The notorious voyage of the English slave ship Hannibal (part of the Atlantic slave trade out of Benin) ends with the death of nearly half of the 692 slaves aboard.
 * Rascians establish the settlement which will become Novi Sad on the Danube.
 * The Parker Tavern is built in Reading, Massachusetts.

January–March

 * January 1 – Abdallah of Morocco, Sultan of Morocco (d. 1757)
 * January 3 – Paul of the Cross, Italian mystic (d. 1775)
 * January 5 – Theophilus Siegfried Bayer, German sinologst (d. 1738)
 * January 6 – Melchor Chyliński, Polish presbyter (d. 1741)
 * January 12
 * Oluf Blach, Danish merchant (d. 1767)
 * Johann Heinrich Callenberg, German theologian (d. 1760)
 * January 25 – Simon Henry Adolph, Count of Lippe-Detmold (d. 1734)
 * January 28 – Peter Collinson, botanist (d. 1768)
 * February 1 – Giuseppe Spinelli, Catholic cardinal (d. 1763)
 * February 4 – Georg Gottlob Richter, German philosopher and physician (d. 1773)
 * February 11 – Henrietta Harley, Countess of Oxford and Countess Mortimer, English noblewoman (d. 1755)
 * February 18 – Johann Christoph Handke, Czech painter (d. 1774)
 * February 21 – Richard Waldron, Colonial New Hampshire businessman and politician (d. 1753)
 * February 24 – Bartolomeo Altomonte, Austrian artist (d. 1783)
 * March 11 – Elizabeth Tollet, British poet (d. 1754)
 * March 15 – Friedrich Michael Ziegenhagen, English clergyman with German connection (d. 1776)
 * March 21 – Daniel Scott, British lexicographer (d. 1759)
 * March 24
 * Giuseppe Bernardi, Italian sculptor (d. 1774)
 * Thomas Bullock, Anglican dean (d. 1760)
 * March 25 – Christian Otto of Limburg, Reigning count of Limburg-Styrum-Styrum (d. 1749)

April–June

 * April 3 – George Edwards, English naturalist and ornithologist (d. 1773)
 * April 14 – Maximilien-Henri de Horion (d. 1759)
 * April 25 – Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington, English architect (d. 1753)
 * April 30 – William Pitkin, Governor of the Connecticut Colony (d. 1769)
 * May 7 – Pierre-Jean Mariette, French art historian (d. 1774)
 * May 8 – Étienne Lauréault de Foncemagne, French writer (d. 1779)
 * May 10 – Michael Harvey, British Member of Parliament (d. 1748)
 * May 11
 * Princess Maria Theresia of Liechtenstein, Czech noblewoman (d. 1772)
 * Hieronymus Florentinus Quehl, German composer (d. 1739)
 * May 22 – Daniel Gran, Austrian painter (d. 1757)
 * June 3 – Scawen Kenrick, English clergyman (d. 1753)
 * June 4 – François Quesnay, French economist (d. 1774)
 * June 6 – Francis Wollaston, English scientist (d. 1774)
 * June 9 – Price Devereux, 10th Viscount Hereford, British politician (d. 1748)
 * June 11 – Thomas Willoughby, British politician (d. 1742)
 * June 18 – Karl Heinrich von Hoym, German diplomat, statesman and politician (d. 1736)
 * June 19 – Jean-André Peyssonnel, French physician (d. 1759)
 * June 20 – Hans Adolph Brorson, Danish bishop (d. 1764)
 * June 23 – Stamp Brooksbank, MP and Governor of the Bank of England (d. 1756)
 * June 24 – Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui, Genevan legal and political theorist (d. 1748)
 * June 26 – Georg Brandt, Swedish chemist and mineralogist (d. 1768)
 * June 27 – John Michael Rysbrack, Flemish sculptor (d. 1770)
 * June 29 – Maria Josepha of Dietrichstein, German noblewoman, member of the House of Dietrichstein; by marriage Countess and later Princess Kinsky of Wchinitz und Tettau (d. 1758)

July–September

 * July 4
 * Claudio Francesco Beaumont, Italian painter (d. 1766)
 * Louis-Claude Daquin, French composer (d. 1772)
 * July 11 – Charles-Antoine Coypel, French painter, art commentator, and playwright (d. 1752)
 * July 12 – Duchess Gustave Caroline of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, German noble (d. 1748)
 * July 16 – Marcus Beresford, 1st Earl of Tyrone, Irish politician (d. 1763)
 * July 18
 * Alexander Buturlin, Russian general and courtier (d. 1767)
 * Margarete von Leiningen-Westerburg-Neuleiningen (d. 1761)
 * August 1 – Michael Davies, priest (d. 1779)
 * August 3 – Marc-Antoine-Nicolas de Croismare, French dilettante (d. 1772)
 * August 4 – Étienne-François Avisse, French playwright (d. 1747)
 * August 5 – Leonardo Leo, Italian composer (d. 1744)
 * August 8 – Francis Hutcheson, Scottish philosopher (d. 1746)
 * August 10 – John Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Gower, British politician (d. 1754)
 * August 11 – Giorgio Baffo, Venetian senator and poet (d. 1768)
 * August 14
 * James Hamilton, 1st Earl of Clanbrassil, Member of the Parliament of Great Britain (d. 1758)
 * Henry Howard, 4th Earl of Carlisle, English noble and politician (d. 1758)
 * August 16 – Réginald Outhier, French astronomer and priest (d. 1774)
 * August 19 – Elizabeth Compton, Countess of Northampton, British noble (d. 1741)
 * August 20
 * Stephanus Versluys, Dutch colonial governor (d. 1736)
 * Christiane Charlotte of Württemberg-Winnental, German noble (d. 1729)
 * August 23 – Johann Georg Schmidt, engraver from Germany (d. 1767)
 * August 25
 * Theodore of Corsica, German noble (d. 1756)
 * Hongxi, prince (d. 1742)
 * August 26 – Elisha Williams, American rector of Yale College (d. 1755)
 * August 27 – Henry Osborn, Royal Navy admiral (d. 1771)
 * August 28 – Charlotte Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Grand Duchess of Russia (d. 1715)
 * September 6 – Johann Daniel Schöpflin, German historian (d. 1771)
 * September 7 – Johan Ludvig Holstein, Danish politician (d. 1763)
 * September 9 – John Vanderbank, British artist (d. 1739)
 * September 12 – Johan von Mangelsen, Norwegian businessman and general (d. 1769)
 * September 13 – Yeongjo of Joseon, 21st King of Joseon Dynasty in Korean history (d. 1776)
 * September 18 – Jacques-Ignace de La Touche, painter (d. 1781)
 * September 22 – Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, British statesman and man of letters (d. 1773)
 * September 25 – Henry Pelham, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1754)
 * September 26 – Martin Schmid, Swiss composer and architect (d. 1772)

October–December

 * October 4
 * George Murray, Scottish Jacobite general (d. 1760)
 * Tsarevna Praskovya Ivanovna of Russia, daughter of Tsar Ivan V of Russia (d. 1731)
 * October 9 – Marquard Herrgott, German Benedictine historian and diplomat (d. 1762)
 * October 14 – Jacob Bouverie, 1st Viscount Folkestone, British politician (d. 1761)
 * October 15
 * Archibald Douglas, 1st Duke of Douglas, Scottish nobleman (d. 1761)
 * William Knollys, English politician from Oxfordshire (d. 1740)
 * October 18 – René Louis de Voyer de Paulmy d'Argenson, French statesman (d. 1757)
 * October 24 – Humphrey Sydenham, British politician (d. 1757)
 * October 26
 * Sir George Oxenden, 5th Baronet, English politician (d. 1775)
 * Johan Helmich Roman, Swedish Baroque composer (d. 1758)
 * October 27 – Simon Pelloutier, German historian (d. 1757)
 * November 2 – Count Palatine Joseph Charles of Sulzbach, Heir apparent of Neuburg, Sulzbach and the Palatinate (d. 1729)
 * November 3
 * John May, English shipwright (d. 1779)
 * William Mackworth Praed, British politician (d. 1752)
 * November 5 – Ricardo Wall, Irish-born soldier, diplomat and minister in the Spanish service (d. 1777)
 * November 12 – Augustine Washington, British-American planter, slave owner, and the father of George Washington (d. 1743)
 * November 16 – Isabella Simons, banker in the Austrian Netherlands (d. 1756)
 * November 21 – Voltaire, French writer, historian, and philosopher (d. 1778)
 * November 23 – Charlotte Daneau de Muy, Canadian historian (d. 1759)
 * November 26 – Louis de Boissy, French writer (d. 1758)
 * November 29 – Leopold, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen, German prince and ruler of the principality of Anhalt-Köthen (d. 1728)
 * December 2 – William Shirley, British governor of Massachusetts and then of the Bahamas (d. 1771)
 * December 10 – Vittorio Francesco, Marquis of Susa, Prince of Savoy (d. 1762)
 * December 11 – Johann Michael von Loën, German author (d. 1776)
 * December 20 – Andrew Johnston, American politician (d. 1762)
 * December 22 – Hermann Samuel Reimarus, German philosopher and writer (d. 1768)
 * December 24
 * Louisa Berkeley, Countess of Berkeley, British noble (d. 1716)
 * Christfried Kirch, German astronomer (d. 1740)

January–March

 * January 2 – Henry Booth, 1st Earl of Warrington, English politician and Earl (b. 1652)
 * January 7 – Charles Gerard, 1st Earl of Macclesfield, English aristocrat and soldier (b. c. 1618)
 * January 8 – Thomas Strickland, English royalist soldier (b. 1621)
 * January 10 – Andrew Balfour, British doctor and botanist (b. 1630)
 * January 16
 * John Lamotte Honywood, English Member of Parliament (b. 1647)
 * Francesco Morosini, Doge of Venice from 1688 to 1694 (b. 1619)
 * January 17
 * Anselm de Guibours, Augustinian friar and genealogist (b. 1625)
 * Francis Sandford, English herald (b. 1630)
 * January 19 – François Marie, Prince of Lillebonne, French nobleman and member of the House of Lorraine (b. 1624)
 * January 25 – William Dolben, English judge (b. 1627)
 * January 31 – Henry Northleigh, English Member of Parliament (b. 1643)
 * February 1 – John Louis of Elderen, Bishop of Liege (b. 1620)
 * February 4
 * Leonhard Baldner, French naturalist (b. 1612)
 * Natalya Naryshkina, Tsaritsa of Russia (b. 1651)
 * February 8 – Domenico Santi, Italian painter (b. 1621)
 * February 9 – Anne-Marie Bigot de Cornuel, French salon-holder (b. 1605)
 * February 17 – Antoinette du Ligier de la Garde Deshoulières, French writer, poet (b. 1638)
 * February 19
 * Jerzy Franciszek Kulczycki, Polish noble (b. 1640)
 * Gennaro Sanfelice, Roman Catholic archbishop (b. 1622)
 * Francis Wheler, Royal Navy officer (b. 1656)
 * February 21 – Simon Abeles, Jewish youth in Prague whose father was accused of murdering him “out of hatred for the Christian faith” (b. 1682)
 * February 23 – Sir Thomas Samwell, 1st Baronet, English politician (b. 1650)
 * February 25 – Gilles Hallet, Flemish Baroque painter (b. 1620)
 * February 26 – Charles Scarborough, English physician and natural philosopher (b. 1615)
 * March 5 – Vittoria della Rovere, Italian noble (b. 1622)
 * March 10 – Paul Fréart de Chantelou, art collector (b. 1609)
 * March 11 – Jean-Nicolas Geoffroy, French harpsichordist and composer (b. 1633)
 * March 12 – John Conant, English theologian, clergyman, and academic administrator (b. 1608)
 * March 15 – Cresheld Draper, English politician (b. 1646)
 * March 24 – Peter Colleton, English politician (b. 1635)
 * March 25 – Greenvile Collins, English hydrographer (b. 1643)
 * March 26 – Arthur Stanhope, English politician (b. 1627)

April–June

 * April 5 – Diego Ibáñez de la Madrid y Bustamente, Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1649)
 * April 8 – Nicolás de Villacis, Spanish painter (b. 1616)
 * April 9 – Angelo Berardi, Italian composer and music theorist (b. 1630)
 * April 10 – Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg, Austrian writer and noble (b. 1633)
 * April 12 – John Swinfen, English politician (b. 1613)
 * April 13 – José de Jesús María Fajardo, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate; Bishop of Alghero (b. 1643)
 * April 14 – Magdalena Sibylla of Neidschutz, German countess (b. 1675)
 * April 16 – Claire-Clémence de Maillé-Brézé, French noblewoman (b. 1628)
 * April 17 – François IV de Beauharnais, French nobleman (b. 1636)
 * April 18 – William Hamilton, Duke of Hamilton in the Peerage of Scotland (b. 1634)
 * April 20
 * Giovanni Carlo Antonelli, Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Ferentino (b. 1612)
 * Johann Balthasar Lauterbach, German architect and mathematician (b. 1663)
 * April 27 – John George IV, Elector of Saxony, German noble (b. 1668)
 * May 1 – Maria Elisabeth Lämmerhirt, Mother of Johann Sebastian Bach (b. 1644)
 * May 2 – Martin Desjardins, French sculptor (b. 1637)
 * May 4 – Ludwig Anton von Pfalz-Neuburg, Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1660)
 * May 17 – Johann Michael Bach, German composer (b. 1648)
 * May 20 – Robert Spencer, 1st Viscount Teviot, Member of the Parliament of England (b. 1629)
 * May 24 – Anthony Cary, 5th Viscount Falkland, English politician (b. 1656)
 * May 27 – Thomas Hervey, politician of Ickworth, Suffolk (b. 1625)
 * June 2
 * Sir Thomas Skipwith, 1st Baronet, Member of the English Parliament (b. 1620)
 * Gaspar Téllez-Girón, 5th Duke de Osuna, Spanish duke (b. 1625)
 * June 8 – Pieter van der Willigen, Dutch painter (b. 1634)
 * June 17
 * Louis Chein, French composer (b. 1637)
 * Philip Howard, English Catholic Cardinal (b. 1629)
 * June 22 – Thomas Tollemache, English general (b. 1651)
 * June 27 – François Louis, Count of Harcourt, French count (b. 1627)
 * June 28 – Francisco Spinola, Roman Catholic clergyman (b. 1654)
 * June 30 – Pieter Claesen Wyckoff, American farmer and landowner (b. 1625)

July–September

 * July 1
 * Philippe Goibaut, French translator (b. 1626)
 * Justin McCarthy, Viscount Mountcashel, General in the Williamite War in Ireland (b. 1638)
 * Peter Christoffersen Tønder, Norwegian government official (b. 1641)
 * July 6 – Francesco Beretta, Italian composer (b. 1640)
 * July 11 – Philip Christoph von Königsmarck, Swedish count of Brandenburgian extraction and a soldier (b. 1665)
 * July 12 – Juan de Santiago y León Garabito, Spanish Catholic prelate, Bishop of Guadalajara and Bishop of Puerto Rico (b. 1641)
 * July 19 – René Ouvrard, French composer (b. 1624)
 * July 21 – Jacob Jensen Jersin, Danish-Norwegian theologian, priest, bishop of the Diocese of Christianssand (b. 1633)
 * July 25
 * Robert Fleming the elder, Scottish Presbyterian Minister, died 1694 (b. 1630)
 * Hishikawa Moronobu, Japanese painter and printmaker (b. 1618)
 * July 27 – George Pitt, English politician (b. 1625)
 * July 28 – William Lowther, English Member of Parliament (b. 1668)
 * July 29 – Suleiman I of Persia, Shah of Persia from 1666 to 1694 (b. 1647)
 * August 1
 * Jean-Claude Rambot, 17th century French sculptor and architect in Aix-en-Provence (b. 1618)
 * John Michael Wright, portrait painter (b. 1617)
 * August 5
 * Mareen Duvall, American settler (b. 1625)
 * Mogens Skeel, Danish playwright (b. 1651)
 * August 6 – Gabriel de la Corte, Spanish painter (b. 1648)
 * August 8 – Antoine Arnauld, French theologian, philosopher, mathematician (b. 1612)
 * August 21 – Tommaso Saladini, Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1647)
 * August 22
 * Samuel Aboab, rabbi (b. 1610)
 * Maria Sofia De la Gardie, Swedish countess and industrialist (b. 1627)
 * Bernard of Offida, Italian saint (b. 1604)
 * August 28 – Francesco Antonio Picchiatti, Italian architect (b. 1617)
 * August 29 – Sir Richard Everard, 2nd Baronet, English politician (b. 1625)
 * August 30 – Louis de Crevant, Duke of Humières, Marshal of France (b. 1628)
 * September 3 – Jean Barbier d'Aucour, French lawyer to the parliament of Paris, ardent Jansenist and satirist (b. 1641)
 * September 6 – Francesco II d'Este, Duke of Modena, Italian noble (b. 1660)
 * September 7 – Andrija Zmajević, Serbian poet (b. 1624)
 * September 10 – Thomas Lloyd, Lieutenant-governor of provincial Pennsylvania and Quaker preacher (b. 1640)
 * September 14
 * Princess Sophie Auguste of Anhalt-Zerbst (b. 1663)
 * Jonathan Cope, English politician; (b. 1664)
 * Thomas Savage, 3rd Earl Rivers, English Earl (b. 1628)
 * September 22 – Henry Neville, English politician (b. 1620)
 * September 24 – Jean Garet, French monk (b. 1627)
 * September 27 – Giuseppe Colombi, musician, composer (b. 1635)
 * September 28 – Gabriel Mouton, French abbot and scientist (b. 1619)
 * September 29
 * Leopold Louis, Count Palatine of Veldenz, German noble (b. 1625)
 * Katarzyna Sobieska, Polish noble (b. 1634)

October–December

 * October 6 – Sugiyama Waichi, Japanese acupuncturist (b. 1610)
 * October 9 – Jean-Louis Bergeret, French lawyer (b. 1641)
 * October 12
 * Charles Boyle, 3rd Viscount Dungarvan, British politician (b. 1639)
 * Delphin Strungk, German composer (b. 1601)
 * October 13 – Johann Christoph Pezel, German violinist, trumpeter and composer (b. 1639)
 * October 18 – Pierre Ango, French Catholic priest and scientist (b. 1640)
 * October 19 – Pierre Menault, French composer (b. 1642)
 * October 20 – Christian II, Duke of Saxe-Merseburg (b. 1653)
 * October 26 – Samuel von Pufendorf, German philosopher (b. 1632)
 * October 27 – Gevherhan Sultan, Daughter of Ottoman Sultan Ibrahim I (b. 1642)
 * October 30
 * Francis Fenwick, English monk (b. 1645)
 * Raimondo del Pozzo, Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Vieste (b. 1622)
 * November 7 – Jacques de Claeuw, painter from the Northern Netherlands (b. 1623)
 * November 14 – Christian III Maurice, Duke of Saxe-Merseburg, German duke (b. 1680)
 * November 16 – Jacques-Théodore de Bryas, clergyman from the Low Countries, bishop of Saint-Omer and archbishop of Cambrai (b. 1631)
 * November 22 – John Tillotson, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1630)
 * November 23
 * Vicente de Gonzaga y Doria, Viceroy of Valencia, 1663, Viceroy of Catalonia, 1664–1667 and Viceroy of Sicily 1679 (b. 1602)
 * Jean Talon, first Intendant of New France (b. 1626)
 * November 25 – Ismaël Bullialdus, French astronomer (b. 1605)
 * November 28 – Matsuo Bashō, Japanese poet (b. 1644)
 * November 29 – Marcello Malpighi, Italian physician (b. 1628)
 * December 2 – Pierre Puget, French painter, sculptor, architect and engineer (b. 1620)
 * December 4
 * Bernardin Gigault de Bellefonds, Marshal of France (b. 1630)
 * Jean-Baptiste Boisot, French abbot, bibliophile and scholar (b. 1638)
 * December 5 – William Beecher, English politician (b. 1628)
 * December 7 – Tiberio Fiorilli, Italian-born actor (b. 1608)
 * December 9 – Paolo Segneri, Italian Jesuit (b. 1624)
 * December 11 – Ranuccio II Farnese, Duke of Parma from 1646 until his death (b. 1630)
 * December 12 – Filippo Lauri, Italian painter (b. 1623)
 * December 20 – Erasmus Finx, German polymath (b. 1627)
 * December 24 – Giovanni Paolo Meniconi, Catholic bishop (b. 1629)
 * December 26 – Francis Cuffe, politician (b. 1654)
 * December 27 – Henrik Span, naval officer in the Dutch (b. 1634)
 * December 28
 * Henry Arundell, 3rd Baron Arundell of Wardour, English Baron (b. 1607)
 * Queen Mary II of England, Queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland (b. 1662)
 * date unknown – Hafız Post, Turkish musician (b. c. 1630)

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