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.[4]
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.
October 29 – The Great Storm changes the course of rivers and alters the coastline from Virginia to Long Island in America.[8]
November 7 –
King Charles II of Spain issues a royal edict providing sanctuary in Spanish Florida for escaped slaves from the English colony of South Carolina.[9][10]
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.[11]
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.[15]
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.
^Alejandra Dubcovsky, Informed Power: Communication in the Early American South (Harvard University Press, 2016)
^Ned Sublette and Constance Sublette, American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry (Chicago Review Press, 2015)
^Ramón A. Gutiérrez, When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, Sexuality, and Power in New Mexico, 1500–1846 (Stanford University Press, 1991) p. 145
^Nicolas Bacaër (February 2011). "Halley's life table (1693)". A Short History of Mathematical Population Dynamics. London: Springer.
ISBN978-0-85729-115-8.
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.[4]
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.
October 29 – The Great Storm changes the course of rivers and alters the coastline from Virginia to Long Island in America.[8]
November 7 –
King Charles II of Spain issues a royal edict providing sanctuary in Spanish Florida for escaped slaves from the English colony of South Carolina.[9][10]
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.[11]
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.[15]
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.
^Alejandra Dubcovsky, Informed Power: Communication in the Early American South (Harvard University Press, 2016)
^Ned Sublette and Constance Sublette, American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry (Chicago Review Press, 2015)
^Ramón A. Gutiérrez, When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, Sexuality, and Power in New Mexico, 1500–1846 (Stanford University Press, 1991) p. 145
^Nicolas Bacaër (February 2011). "Halley's life table (1693)". A Short History of Mathematical Population Dynamics. London: Springer.
ISBN978-0-85729-115-8.