See:
Wikipedia.
Events:
February 11 - Sweden and Prussia sign the (2nd Treaty of Stockholm) declaring peace.
February 29 -
Queen Ulrike Eleonora of Sweden resigns.
The Tuscarora fled North Carolina as a result of European colonisation.
Edmond Halley appointed Astronomer Royal.
The Academia Real da Historia is founded in Lisbon, Portugal.
Births:
January 4 -
Johann Friedrich Agricola, composer (+ 1774).
May 11 -
Karl Friedrich Hieronymus Freiherr von Münchhausen, officer and
adventurer (+ 1797).
December 25 -
Cornelis van den Houten.
December 31 -
Bonnie Prince Charlie of Great Britain, later leader of Jacobitism.
Emperor Sakuramachi of Japan.
Deaths:
(Buried July 7) -
Maria Barbara Bach, first wife of Johann Sebastian Bach.
Interred:
October 6 -
Maria Dirckse Cleijn.
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