Events in History
Event of Interest
Jul 19 Court of Holland bans books of Hobbes, Spinoza and Meyer

Thomas Hobbes
- Aug 11 1st Battle of at Seneffe (Louis II Condé vs Willem III)
Event of Interest
Aug 18 Jean Racine's "Iphigénie" premieres in Versailles

Jean Racine
- Sep 20 2nd West Indies Company forms
- Oct 11 Pierre Corneille's "Surena" premieres in Paris
- Oct 15 Torsåker witch trials begin, largest witch trials in Sweden, 71 beheaded and burned
- Oct 16 Emperor Leopold I fires chancellor Fürst Wenzel Lobkowitz
- Oct 26 Prince Willem III occupies Grave
- Nov 10 Dutch formally cede New Netherlands (New York) to the English
- Dec 4 Father Marquette builds first dwelling in what is now Chicago
Birthdays in History
- Jan 13 Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, French tragic poet and playwright (Rhadamiste et Zénobie), born in Dijon, France (d. 1762)
- Jan 24 Thomas Tanner, English bishop (d. 1735)
- Mar 30 Jethro Tull, agricultural writer (Basildon), baptised
- Jun 20 Nicholas Rowe, English poet and playwright (Tamerlane), Poet Laureate (1715-18), born in Little Barford, Bedfordshire (d. 1718)
- Jun 22 Jean Philippe Eugène de Mérode, Belgian marquis of Westerloo, born in Brussels (d. 1732)
- Aug 2 Philippe II, Duke of Orléans and Regent of France (1715-23), born in Château de Saint Cloud, France (d. 1723)
- Aug 9 František Maxmilián Kaňka, Czech architect and builder, born in Prague (d. 1766)
- Sep 7 Ernest Augustus, Duke of York and Albany, German soldier and served under Emperor Leopold I, born in Osnabrück, Germany (d. 1728)
- Dec 25 Thomas Halyburton, Scottish theologian (d. 1712)
Deaths in History
- Jan 10 Jacob de Witt, Dutch mayor (Dordrecht)/MP, dies at 84
- Feb 22 Jean Chapelain, French writer and poet (La Pucelle), dies at 78
- Mar 6 Johann Paul Schor, German baroque painter, dies at 58
- Mar 8 Charles Sorel, sieur de Souvigny, French writer (b. 1597)
- Apr 18 John Graunt, English statistician & founder of science of demography, dies at 53
- Jun 4 John Lievens, Dutch painter, etcher and wood carver, dies at 66
- Jun 11 Susanna van Baerle, Dutch poet/wife of Geeraert Burns, dies at 52
- Jun 14 Marin le Roy de Gomberville, French writer (b. 1600)
- Jul 2 Eberhard III, Duke of Württemberg (b. 1614)
- Aug 12 Philippe de Champaigne, French painter, dies at 72
- Aug 13 Lars Johnstown [Lasse Lucidor], Swedish poet, dies at 35
- Sep 12 Nicolaas Tulp, Mayor of Amsterdam (1654-71), dies at 80
- Sep 27 Robert Arnauld d'andilly, French literary figure, financier and translator, dies at 85
- Sep 27 Thomas Traherne, English poet and mystic (Roman Forgeries), dies
- Oct 15 Robert Herrick, English poet ('Gather ye rosebuds while ye may'), dies at 83
- Oct 22 Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, Dutch painter, dies at 53
- Oct 27 Hallgrímur Pétursson, Icelandic poet (b. 1614)
- Nov 4 Kano Tanjoe, Japanese painter (palaces, portraits), dies at 72
John Milton
Nov 8 John Milton, English poet and puritan (Paradise Lost), dies at 65

John Milton