January 13 – Captain
Thomas Pound, after being captured with his crew the previous month, is tried in Boston and found guilty of piracy although he is later reprieved.[1]
April 16 – An estimated
8.0 magnitude earthquake strikes in the Caribbean Sea less than 10 miles (16 km) from
Barbuda and also affects St. Kitts and Nevis, as well as Antigua.[5]
June – An earthquake in Brazil of estimated magnitude 7, with
epicenter on the left bank of the
Amazon River about 45 km downstream from
Manaus, spreads
seismic waves through the forest and is felt up to 1000 km away.[6]
July–September
July 10 (June 30 O.S.) –
Battle of Beachy Head: the Anglo-Dutch navy is defeated by the French, giving rise to fears of a
Jacobite invasion of England.
July 11 (July 1 O.S.) –
Battle of the Boyne in Ireland: King
William III of England (William of Orange) defeats the deposed
James II, who returns to exile in
France.[7] The rebellion in Ireland continues for a further year until the Orange army gains full control.
July 26 – A French landing party raids and burns
Teignmouth in
Devon, England. However, with the loss of James II's position in Ireland, any plans for a real invasion are soon shelved, and Teignmouth is the last French attack on England.
November 7 – The opera Énée et Lavinie (Aeneas and Lavinia) by the French composer
Pascal Collasse receives its first performance at the Académie Royale de Musique (the
Paris Opera).
November 17 –
Barclays, which will continue to be active into the 21st century as a multinational bank and lending institution, is founded in
London by John Freame and Thomas Gould as Freame & Gould. The bank changes its name in 1736 when James Barclay becomes a partner.
December 20 (December 10, 1690 O.S.) — The General Court of the
Province of Massachusetts Bay creates the first authorized paper money issued by any government in the
Western World as a substitute for coins.[16][17] The first money is printed on February 13, 1691 (N.S.) and is dated "Feb. 3, 1690" based on the British old style calendar in use at the time.[16]
French physicist
Denis Papin, while in
Leipzig and having observed the mechanical power of atmospheric pressure on his 'digester', builds a working model of a
reciprocatingsteam engine for pumping water, the first of its kind, though not efficient.
The construction of
Fort Longueuil, a stone
fort in
Longueuil, in
Quebec,
Canada, is completed. It is one of the only buildings in Canada that could ever be considered a castle (fortified residence for a noble), and out of those buildings it most resembles the castles of Europe.
The French dictionary and encyclopaedia Dictionnaire universel, contenant generalement tous les mots françois, compiled by
Antoine Furetière, is published posthumously.
Possible year of the disappearance of the western part of the island of
Buise, in
St. Peter's Flood.
January 6 – King
William III of England, who rules Scotland and Ireland as well as being the Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic, departs from
Margate to tend to the affairs of the Netherlands.[20]
January 14 – A fleet of ships carrying 827 Spanish Navy sailors and marines arrives at
Manzanillo Bay on the island of
Hispaniola in what is now the
Dominican Republic and joins 700 Spanish cavalry, then proceeds westward to invade the French side of the island in what is now
Haiti.[21]
January 15 – King Louis XIV of France issues an order specifically prohibiting play of games of chance, specifically naming
basset and similar games, on penalty of 1,000 livres for the first offence.[22]
January 23 – Spanish colonial administrator
Domingo Terán de los Ríos, most recently the governor of Sonora y Sinaloa on the east side of the
Gulf of California, is assigned by the Viceroy of New Spain to administer a new province that governs lands on both sides of the
Río Bravo del Norte, "Coahuila y Tejas", and effectively becomes the first
Governor of Texas.
August 27 – In Scotland, King William offers the Highland clans a pardon for their part in the
Jacobite rising of 1689 if they agree to pledge allegiance to him before New Year's Day.[30]
November 26 – In
Limerick, "A Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving to the Almighty God for the Preservation of Their Majesties, the Success of Their Forces in the reducing of Ireland, and for His Majesties Safe Return" is celebrated in all Anglican churches in Britain and Ireland by order of Archbishop Tillotson.[32]
December 6 – During the
Morean War, Captain Luca Dalla Rocca of Naples betrays Venice by surrendering the fortress of
Gramvousa, on the island of
Crete to the Ottoman Turks, in return for a large amount of money and sanctuary in Istanbul.[33]
December 22 –
Patrick Sarsfield and 19,000 troops of the Irish Army who had been supporters of the Jacobite Rebellion leave the country and relocate to France.
Date unknown
HMNB Devonport, currently one of three operating bases in the United Kingdom for the Royal Navy and the largest naval base in Western Europe, opens.
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.[36]
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.
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.[37]
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.[38]
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.
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 –
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.[44]
May 22 – Heidelberg is taken by the invading
French forces; on
May 23Heidelberg Castle is surrendered, after which the French blow up its towers using mines.
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.
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 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.[51]
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.
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.[55]
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.
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 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.
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.
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
privateerEntreprenant 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.
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 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.
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.[61]
January 7 (December 28, 1694 O.S.) – The United Kingdom's last joint monarchy, the reign of husband-and-wife
King William III and
Queen Mary II comes to an end with the death of Queen Mary, at the age of 32. Princess Mary had been installed as the monarch along with her husband and cousin, Willem Hendrik von Oranje,
Stadtholder of the
Dutch Republic, in 1689 after
King James II was deposed by Willem during the "
Glorious Revolution".
January 14 (January 4 O.S.) – The Royal Navy warship
HMS Nonsuch is captured near England's
Isles of Scilly by the 48-gun French privateer Le Francois. Nonsuch is then sold to the French Navy and renamed Le Sans Pareil.[68][69]
January 27 – A flotilla of six Royal Navy warships under the command of Commodore James Killegrew aboard
HMS Plymouth captures two French warships, the Content and the Trident, the day after the French ships had mistaken the English fleet to be a group of merchant ships to attack.
March 10 – Almost all French Army soldiers in a column of 1,300 troops, commanded by Brigadier General Urbain Le Clerc de Juigné, are killed or captured in the
Battle of Sant Esteve d'en Bas against a smaller Spanish Empire force led by Ramon de Sala i Saçala during the
War of the Grand Alliance.
March 14 –
Paul Foley is elected as the new Speaker of the House after the expulsion of John Trevor.
March 26 –
John Hungerford is expelled from the English House of Commons when members vote to find him guilty of accepting a bribe in return for using his committee chairmanship to promote the pending Orphans Bill.
April–June
April 17 – The
House of Commons of England decides not to renew the
Licensing Order of 1643, and states its reasoning, beginning with "Because it revives, and re-enacts, a Law which in no-wise answered the End for which it was made".[70] The lifting of censorship creates a more open society, and an explosion of print results. Within 30 years, the number of printing houses in England increases from 20 to 103.[71][47]
April 22 –
Sürmeli Ali Pasha is fired from his position as
Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire, after coming into a disagreement with the new Sultan, Mustafa II. Sürmeli is initially sent into exile, but executed on the Sultan's orders on May 29.
September 7 –
EnglishpirateHenry Every perpetrates one of the most profitable raids in history, with the capture of the Grand Mughal ship Ganj-i-Sawai. In response, Emperor
Aurangzeb threatens to put an end to all English trading in India.
September 24 – All but eight of the remaining 305 crew of the
Royal Navy ship
HMS Winchester (1693) are killed when the ship founders in the
Florida Keys. According to the ship's logbook, an epidemic of
yellow fever began on August 1 and had killed 45 people before the hurricane struck, and left all but seven crew members too ill to walk.[77][78]
October 25 – The 48-gun English Navy ship HMS Berkeley Castle is captured by the French Navy.
November 22 – The
new Parliament, with 513 members of the House of Commons is opened by King William III. Commons is composed of 257 Whigs (who hold a majority of one), 203 Tories and 53 members of other parties or independents.
December 6 – A total eclipse of the sun is visible across the Middle East and western Asia.[79]
Johanne Nielsdatter is executed for witchcraft, the last such confirmed execution in Norway.
In
Amsterdam, the bank Wed. Jean Deutz & Sn. floats the first sovereign bonds on the local market. The scheme is designed to fund a 1.5 million guilder loan to the
Holy Roman Emperor. From this date on, European leaders commonly take advantage of the low interest rates available in the
Dutch Republic, and borrow several hundred millions on the Dutch capital market.[80]
A large unidentified tropical volcanic eruption causes colder temperatures, crop failure, food shortage and mortality in north-western Europe.[81]
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.
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.[87]
May 1 – A partial solar eclipse is visible in western Canada and Greenland.[88]
May 16 – A total lunar eclipse is visible in western Europe and Africa.[89]
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.[90]
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.[92]
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.[95]
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.[97] Fenwick is beheaded on January 28, 1697.
March 22 –
Charles II of Spain issues a Royal Cedula extending to the indigenous nobles of the Spanish Crown colonies, as well as to their descendants, the preeminence and honors customarily attributed to the
Hidalgos of
Castile.
May 6 – General
Bernard Desjean, Baron de Pointis of
France carries out
an attack and pillaging of the Spanish South American fort of
Cartagena de Indias (now in
Colombia) with 1,200 soldiers and 650 pirate mercenaries. The French attackers overwhelm the city for the next 18 days. The Baron reneges on a contract to share the wealth with the pirates, who will come back to Cartagena a second time and makes a more violent attack. [102]
May 17 (May 7
Old Style) – The 13th century royal Tre Kronor ("Three Crowns") castle in
Stockholm burns to the ground, and a large portion of the royal library is destroyed.[103]
July 4 – A Byzantine icon, the
"Weeping Madonna of Pócs", arrives in
Vienna after a five-month journey following its forced removal from the Hungarian village of
Pócs by order of the
Holy Roman Emperor,
Leopold I. It has been housed for more than 320 years in St. Stephen's Cathedral.
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.
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.[109]
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 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.[110]
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.[111]
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.[113]
November – Tani Jinzan,
astronomer and
calendar scholar, observes a fire destroy Tosa (now
Kōchi) in Japan at the same time as a
Leonidmeteor 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.[118]
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.
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.
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."[123]
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 – 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.[127]
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.
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)
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)
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January 13 – Captain
Thomas Pound, after being captured with his crew the previous month, is tried in Boston and found guilty of piracy although he is later reprieved.[1]
April 16 – An estimated
8.0 magnitude earthquake strikes in the Caribbean Sea less than 10 miles (16 km) from
Barbuda and also affects St. Kitts and Nevis, as well as Antigua.[5]
June – An earthquake in Brazil of estimated magnitude 7, with
epicenter on the left bank of the
Amazon River about 45 km downstream from
Manaus, spreads
seismic waves through the forest and is felt up to 1000 km away.[6]
July–September
July 10 (June 30 O.S.) –
Battle of Beachy Head: the Anglo-Dutch navy is defeated by the French, giving rise to fears of a
Jacobite invasion of England.
July 11 (July 1 O.S.) –
Battle of the Boyne in Ireland: King
William III of England (William of Orange) defeats the deposed
James II, who returns to exile in
France.[7] The rebellion in Ireland continues for a further year until the Orange army gains full control.
July 26 – A French landing party raids and burns
Teignmouth in
Devon, England. However, with the loss of James II's position in Ireland, any plans for a real invasion are soon shelved, and Teignmouth is the last French attack on England.
November 7 – The opera Énée et Lavinie (Aeneas and Lavinia) by the French composer
Pascal Collasse receives its first performance at the Académie Royale de Musique (the
Paris Opera).
November 17 –
Barclays, which will continue to be active into the 21st century as a multinational bank and lending institution, is founded in
London by John Freame and Thomas Gould as Freame & Gould. The bank changes its name in 1736 when James Barclay becomes a partner.
December 20 (December 10, 1690 O.S.) — The General Court of the
Province of Massachusetts Bay creates the first authorized paper money issued by any government in the
Western World as a substitute for coins.[16][17] The first money is printed on February 13, 1691 (N.S.) and is dated "Feb. 3, 1690" based on the British old style calendar in use at the time.[16]
French physicist
Denis Papin, while in
Leipzig and having observed the mechanical power of atmospheric pressure on his 'digester', builds a working model of a
reciprocatingsteam engine for pumping water, the first of its kind, though not efficient.
The construction of
Fort Longueuil, a stone
fort in
Longueuil, in
Quebec,
Canada, is completed. It is one of the only buildings in Canada that could ever be considered a castle (fortified residence for a noble), and out of those buildings it most resembles the castles of Europe.
The French dictionary and encyclopaedia Dictionnaire universel, contenant generalement tous les mots françois, compiled by
Antoine Furetière, is published posthumously.
Possible year of the disappearance of the western part of the island of
Buise, in
St. Peter's Flood.
January 6 – King
William III of England, who rules Scotland and Ireland as well as being the Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic, departs from
Margate to tend to the affairs of the Netherlands.[20]
January 14 – A fleet of ships carrying 827 Spanish Navy sailors and marines arrives at
Manzanillo Bay on the island of
Hispaniola in what is now the
Dominican Republic and joins 700 Spanish cavalry, then proceeds westward to invade the French side of the island in what is now
Haiti.[21]
January 15 – King Louis XIV of France issues an order specifically prohibiting play of games of chance, specifically naming
basset and similar games, on penalty of 1,000 livres for the first offence.[22]
January 23 – Spanish colonial administrator
Domingo Terán de los Ríos, most recently the governor of Sonora y Sinaloa on the east side of the
Gulf of California, is assigned by the Viceroy of New Spain to administer a new province that governs lands on both sides of the
Río Bravo del Norte, "Coahuila y Tejas", and effectively becomes the first
Governor of Texas.
August 27 – In Scotland, King William offers the Highland clans a pardon for their part in the
Jacobite rising of 1689 if they agree to pledge allegiance to him before New Year's Day.[30]
November 26 – In
Limerick, "A Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving to the Almighty God for the Preservation of Their Majesties, the Success of Their Forces in the reducing of Ireland, and for His Majesties Safe Return" is celebrated in all Anglican churches in Britain and Ireland by order of Archbishop Tillotson.[32]
December 6 – During the
Morean War, Captain Luca Dalla Rocca of Naples betrays Venice by surrendering the fortress of
Gramvousa, on the island of
Crete to the Ottoman Turks, in return for a large amount of money and sanctuary in Istanbul.[33]
December 22 –
Patrick Sarsfield and 19,000 troops of the Irish Army who had been supporters of the Jacobite Rebellion leave the country and relocate to France.
Date unknown
HMNB Devonport, currently one of three operating bases in the United Kingdom for the Royal Navy and the largest naval base in Western Europe, opens.
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.[36]
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.
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.[37]
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.[38]
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.
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 –
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.[44]
May 22 – Heidelberg is taken by the invading
French forces; on
May 23Heidelberg Castle is surrendered, after which the French blow up its towers using mines.
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.
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 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.[51]
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.
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.[55]
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.
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 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.
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.
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
privateerEntreprenant 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.
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 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.
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.[61]
January 7 (December 28, 1694 O.S.) – The United Kingdom's last joint monarchy, the reign of husband-and-wife
King William III and
Queen Mary II comes to an end with the death of Queen Mary, at the age of 32. Princess Mary had been installed as the monarch along with her husband and cousin, Willem Hendrik von Oranje,
Stadtholder of the
Dutch Republic, in 1689 after
King James II was deposed by Willem during the "
Glorious Revolution".
January 14 (January 4 O.S.) – The Royal Navy warship
HMS Nonsuch is captured near England's
Isles of Scilly by the 48-gun French privateer Le Francois. Nonsuch is then sold to the French Navy and renamed Le Sans Pareil.[68][69]
January 27 – A flotilla of six Royal Navy warships under the command of Commodore James Killegrew aboard
HMS Plymouth captures two French warships, the Content and the Trident, the day after the French ships had mistaken the English fleet to be a group of merchant ships to attack.
March 10 – Almost all French Army soldiers in a column of 1,300 troops, commanded by Brigadier General Urbain Le Clerc de Juigné, are killed or captured in the
Battle of Sant Esteve d'en Bas against a smaller Spanish Empire force led by Ramon de Sala i Saçala during the
War of the Grand Alliance.
March 14 –
Paul Foley is elected as the new Speaker of the House after the expulsion of John Trevor.
March 26 –
John Hungerford is expelled from the English House of Commons when members vote to find him guilty of accepting a bribe in return for using his committee chairmanship to promote the pending Orphans Bill.
April–June
April 17 – The
House of Commons of England decides not to renew the
Licensing Order of 1643, and states its reasoning, beginning with "Because it revives, and re-enacts, a Law which in no-wise answered the End for which it was made".[70] The lifting of censorship creates a more open society, and an explosion of print results. Within 30 years, the number of printing houses in England increases from 20 to 103.[71][47]
April 22 –
Sürmeli Ali Pasha is fired from his position as
Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire, after coming into a disagreement with the new Sultan, Mustafa II. Sürmeli is initially sent into exile, but executed on the Sultan's orders on May 29.
September 7 –
EnglishpirateHenry Every perpetrates one of the most profitable raids in history, with the capture of the Grand Mughal ship Ganj-i-Sawai. In response, Emperor
Aurangzeb threatens to put an end to all English trading in India.
September 24 – All but eight of the remaining 305 crew of the
Royal Navy ship
HMS Winchester (1693) are killed when the ship founders in the
Florida Keys. According to the ship's logbook, an epidemic of
yellow fever began on August 1 and had killed 45 people before the hurricane struck, and left all but seven crew members too ill to walk.[77][78]
October 25 – The 48-gun English Navy ship HMS Berkeley Castle is captured by the French Navy.
November 22 – The
new Parliament, with 513 members of the House of Commons is opened by King William III. Commons is composed of 257 Whigs (who hold a majority of one), 203 Tories and 53 members of other parties or independents.
December 6 – A total eclipse of the sun is visible across the Middle East and western Asia.[79]
Johanne Nielsdatter is executed for witchcraft, the last such confirmed execution in Norway.
In
Amsterdam, the bank Wed. Jean Deutz & Sn. floats the first sovereign bonds on the local market. The scheme is designed to fund a 1.5 million guilder loan to the
Holy Roman Emperor. From this date on, European leaders commonly take advantage of the low interest rates available in the
Dutch Republic, and borrow several hundred millions on the Dutch capital market.[80]
A large unidentified tropical volcanic eruption causes colder temperatures, crop failure, food shortage and mortality in north-western Europe.[81]
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.
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.[87]
May 1 – A partial solar eclipse is visible in western Canada and Greenland.[88]
May 16 – A total lunar eclipse is visible in western Europe and Africa.[89]
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.[90]
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.[92]
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.[95]
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.[97] Fenwick is beheaded on January 28, 1697.
March 22 –
Charles II of Spain issues a Royal Cedula extending to the indigenous nobles of the Spanish Crown colonies, as well as to their descendants, the preeminence and honors customarily attributed to the
Hidalgos of
Castile.
May 6 – General
Bernard Desjean, Baron de Pointis of
France carries out
an attack and pillaging of the Spanish South American fort of
Cartagena de Indias (now in
Colombia) with 1,200 soldiers and 650 pirate mercenaries. The French attackers overwhelm the city for the next 18 days. The Baron reneges on a contract to share the wealth with the pirates, who will come back to Cartagena a second time and makes a more violent attack. [102]
May 17 (May 7
Old Style) – The 13th century royal Tre Kronor ("Three Crowns") castle in
Stockholm burns to the ground, and a large portion of the royal library is destroyed.[103]
July 4 – A Byzantine icon, the
"Weeping Madonna of Pócs", arrives in
Vienna after a five-month journey following its forced removal from the Hungarian village of
Pócs by order of the
Holy Roman Emperor,
Leopold I. It has been housed for more than 320 years in St. Stephen's Cathedral.
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.
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.[109]
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 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.[110]
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.[111]
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.[113]
November – Tani Jinzan,
astronomer and
calendar scholar, observes a fire destroy Tosa (now
Kōchi) in Japan at the same time as a
Leonidmeteor 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.[118]
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.
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.
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."[123]
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 – 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.[127]
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.
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)
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)
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