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.[1]
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.[2]
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.[3]
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.[11]
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.[13]
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.[14]
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.
^Frederic Hervey, The Naval History of Great Britain: From the Earliest Times to the Rising of the Parliament in 1779 (William Adlard Publishing, 1779) p. 420
^"King William's War (1688–1697)", in Wars of the Americas: A Chronology of Armed Conflict in the New World, 1492 to the Present by David E. Marley (ABC-CLIO, 1998) p. 206
^"Jeu", in A Military Dictionary, or explanation of the several systems of discipline of different kinds of troops, by William Duane (William Duane, 1810) p. 288
^Andrew McFarland Davis, Currency and Banking in the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay, Volume 1, Issue 4 (American Economic Association, 1900) p.370
^"Fires, Great", in The Insurance Cyclopeadia: Being an Historical Treasury of Events and Circumstances Connected with the Origin and Progress of Insurance, Cornelius Walford, ed. (C. and E. Layton, 1876) p46
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.[1]
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.[2]
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.[3]
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.[11]
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.[13]
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.[14]
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.
^Frederic Hervey, The Naval History of Great Britain: From the Earliest Times to the Rising of the Parliament in 1779 (William Adlard Publishing, 1779) p. 420
^"King William's War (1688–1697)", in Wars of the Americas: A Chronology of Armed Conflict in the New World, 1492 to the Present by David E. Marley (ABC-CLIO, 1998) p. 206
^"Jeu", in A Military Dictionary, or explanation of the several systems of discipline of different kinds of troops, by William Duane (William Duane, 1810) p. 288
^Andrew McFarland Davis, Currency and Banking in the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay, Volume 1, Issue 4 (American Economic Association, 1900) p.370
^"Fires, Great", in The Insurance Cyclopeadia: Being an Historical Treasury of Events and Circumstances Connected with the Origin and Progress of Insurance, Cornelius Walford, ed. (C. and E. Layton, 1876) p46