| | LT : | John Dryden: Marriage à la Mode and The Assignation, or Love in a Nunnery | | DL : | Stop of Eng. exchequer; cash payments suspended for 12 months | | PH : | Declaration of Indulgence issued by Charles II (withdrawn in 1673) | | PH : | Britain declares war on the Dutch | | PH : | France declares war on the Dutch | | ED : | Clarendon Press, official printers of Oxford University, founded | | ED : | Elias Ashmore: Institutions, Laws, Ceremonies of the Order of the Garter | | RP : | William Cave: Primitive Christianity | | RP : | Confessions of faith of the Greek Orthodox Church revived by the Synod of Jerusalem | | ED : | William Tempel: Observations upon the United Provinces of the Netherlands | | DL : | Fulham Pottery, London, founded | | M : | First public concert at Whitefriars, London | | ST : | Root ipecacuanha introduced for medicinal purposes in Europe | | ST : | Flexible hose for use in fighting fires introduced | | ST : | John Josselym: New England's Rarities Discovered, on local flora and fauna | | DL : | Charter granted to the Royal African Company | | PH : | Start of third Anglo-Dutch war | | LT : | Anne Bradstreet dies 16 September | | M : | Heinrich Schütz dies 6 November |
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| | LT : | Thomas Traherne: Roman Forgeries | | LT : | John Dryden: Amboyna | | M : | Marc-Antoine Charpentier : Incidental music
to Molière's play Le Malade imaginaire ('The Hypochondriac')
| | PH : | Test Act excludes Roman Catholics from office in England | | PH : | After preliminary peace between Brandenburg and France the "Great Elector" promises, in Treaty of Vossen, not to support any enemies of Louis XIV | | PH : | Emperor Leopold I declares war on France | | PH : | King Michael of Poland dies | | PH : | Fr. expedition against Ceylon | | ED : | Robert Clave; Catalogue of All the Books Printed in England Since the Dreadful Fire of London in 1666 | | LT : | Archpriest Petrovich Avvakum writes his Zhitie, first Russ. autobiography | | M : | Mathew Locke: The Present Practice of Music Vindicated | | ED : | University of Innsbruck founded | | ST : | Stalactic grotto of Antiparos (Aegean Sea) discovered | | DL : | Financier Richard Hoare founds Hoare's Bank, London | | DL : | Mitsui family's trading and banking house in Japan founded |
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| | LT : | Thomas Traherne dies | | LT : | John Dryden: The State of Innocence | | PH : | Jan Sobieski elected as Jan III, King of Poland | | PH : | Sivaji Bhonsla declares himself independent of the Mogul Emperor Aurangzeb; founds Mahratta state and is crowned at Raigarh | | PH : | Office of Stadholder of the United Provinces becomes hereditary in the House of Orange | | LT : | Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London, rebuilt after the fire and reopened | | ED : | Anthony à Wood: Historia et antiquitates universitatis Oxoniensis | | RP : | Nicolas Malebranch: De la recherche de la vérité | | ED : | Louis Moreri: Le Grand Dictionnaire historique, first encyclopedic reference work on history | | ST : | John Mayow: Tractatus quinque medico-physici, on the nature of combustion | | ST : | Thomas Willis: Pharmaceutice rationalis | | LT : | Robert Herrick dies in October |
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| | VA : | Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini born | | VA : | Sir James Thornhill born | | LT : | Thomas Traherne: Christian Ethicks | | PH : | Alliance between France and Poland | | PH : | War between Sweden and Denmark | | PH : | Charles II of England receives 500,000 crowns from Louis XIV and is able to prorogue Eng. Parliament for 15 months | | PH : | King Charles II of Spain attains majority | | LT : | Poems of Basho (pseudonym of Matsuo Munefusa) help popularise Jap. haiku poetry | | RP : | Jacques Savary: Le Parfait Négociant | | RP : | Philipp Jacob Spener: Pia desideria | | RP : | Spinoza finishes his Ethics | | RP : | Thomas Traherne: Christian Ethics (posth.) | | ST : | Greenwich Observatory established | | ST : | Leibniz invents differential and integral calculus | | ST : | Isaac Newton: Opticks | | ST : | Finite velocity of light established by Olaus Romer | | VA : | Johannes Vermeer dies |
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| | LT : | John Dryden: Aurengzebe | | PH : | Czar Alexis of Russia dies; succeeded by his son Feodor III | | PH : | Ahmed Kiuprili dies; succeeded as grand Vizier of Turkey by his brother-in-law Kara Mustafa | | RP : | "Declaration of the People of Virginia" by Nathaniel Bacon gains support for rebellion against authorities | | RP : | Pope Clement X dies; Benedetto Odescalchi becomes Pope Innocent XI | | RP : | Benjamin Thompson; New England's Crisis | | RP : | Roger Williams: George Fox Digg'd Out of His Burrowes, anti-Quaker tract | | ST : | Thomas Sydenham: Obervationes medicae | | DL : | Influenza epidemic in England | | RP : | Legal protection of Sabbath observance in England |
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| | RP : | William Cave: History of Martyrdoms | | ED : | Johann Jacob Hofmann: Lexicon Universale, on science and arts | | RP : | John Houghton: England's Great Happiness, or A Dialogue between Content and Complaint | | RP : | Increase Mather: The Troubles That Have Happened in New England | | DL : | Ice cream becomes popular as dessert in Paris |
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| | LT : | Henry Vaughan: Thalia Rediviva | | LT : | John Dryden: All for Love and Limberham | | LT : | Anne Bradstreet: Several Poems Compiled with Great Variety of Wit and Learning (posth.) | | PH : | Peace of Nijmegen between France and the Dutch and France and Spain | | PH : | "Popish Plot" in England revealed; trials of many leading Roman Catholics | | PH : | Roman Catholics in England excluded from both Houses of Parliament | | PH : | Hungarian rebellion against Hapsburgs under Emeric Tökölyi | | PH : | Outbreak of war between Russia and Sweden | | RP : | John Bunyan: The Pilgrim's Progress, part I | | RP : | Ralph Cudworth: The True Intellectual System of the Universe | | M : | Thomas Britton, Eng. patron of music, introduces weekly concerts in Clerkenwell, London | | M : | First Ger. opera house opens in Hamburg | | ST : | Ital. mathematician Giovanni Ceva states the geometrical theorem on the nature of concurrency | | ST : | Christian Huygens records his discovery of the polarisation of light | | ST : | Robert de La Salle explores the Great Lakes | | ST : | Thomas Thatcher: A Brief Rule in Small Pocks or Measles, first medical treatise published in America | | DL : | First chrysanthemums arrive in Holland from Japan | | DL : | Import of all Fr. goods to England prohibited | | PH : | End of third Anglo-Dutch war | | M : | Antonio Vivaldi born 4 March | | LT : | Andrew Marvell dies 18 August |
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| | M : | Alessandro Scarlatti : Opera, Gli equivoci nel sembiante
| | PH : | Peace of Nijmegen between Louis XIV and Leopold I | | PH : | Habeas Corpus Amendment Act in England | | PH : | Peace of St. Germain-en-Laye between Sweden and Brandenburg | | PH : | Peace Treaty of Lund between Denmark and Sweden | | RP : | Gilbert Burnet: History of the Reformation of the Church of England, vol I | | RP : | Sir William Petty: A Treatise on Taxes and Contributions | | RP : | Abraham a Sancta Clara: Merk's Wien!, sermons against corruption of morals in Vienna | | ST : | Elias Ashmole founds Ashmolean Museum at Oxford | | ST : | Edmund Halley: Catalogus stellarum australium | | ST : | Fr. Jesuit Louis Hannepin discovers Niagara Falls | | DL : | Edict against duelling in France | | DL : | First German coffeehouses in Hamburg | | VA : | Jean-François de Troy born 27 January |
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| | PH : | Absolutism in Sweden under King Charles XI | | PH : | Maximilian II Emanuel becomes Elector of Bavaria | | PH : | Tsunayoshi becomes Shogun of Japan | | LT : | Comédie Français formed by merging Théâtre Guénéguad Paris, with Théâtre de'Hôtel de Bourgogne | | RP : | Robert Filmer: Patriarche, or The Natural Power of Kings | | ED : | César-Pierre Richelet: Dictionnaire François | | RP : | Sir William Temple: An Essay on Government | | M : | First ballets arrive in Germany from France | | M : | Stradivari makes his earliest known cello | | ST : | First Brandenburgian expedition to W. Africa | | DL : | Dodo, flightless bird of the Raphidae family, extinct | | DL : | Penny post established in London | | PH : | Start of fourth Anglo-Dutch war | | VA : | Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini dies |
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| | LT : | John Dryden: Spanish Friar | | M : | Marc-Antoine Charpentier : Divertissement, Les Plaisirs de Versailles
('The Pleasures of Versailles')
| | PH : | Defensive alliances between Brandenburg and France and between Brandenburg and Sweden | | PH : | European Congress meets at Frankfurt | | ED : | Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet: Discours sur l'histoire universelle | | ED : | Jean Mabillon: De re diplomatica, study of historical documents as foundation of historical criticism | | RP : | James Dalrymple of Stair: Institutions of the Law of Scotland | | M : | Female professional dancers appear for first time at the Paris Opéra | | ED : | Academy of Sciences, Moscow, founded | | ST : | Canal du Midi, joining Bay of Biscay to the Mediterranean, finished | | DL : | Founding of the Chelsea Hospital, London, for wounded and discharged soldiers | | DL : | First checks in England | | M : | Johann Mattheson born 28 September | | VA : | Gerard Ter Borch dies |
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| | LT : | John Dryden: Absalom and Achitophel, The Medal and Religio Laici | | PH : | Czar Feodor III of Russia dies; his sister Sophia becomes Regent for her infant brothers, Ivan and Peter | | PH : | Emeric Tökölyi proclaimed King of Hungary by Turks | | ST : | Pierre Bayle: Thoughts on the Comet of 1680, against superstitions on comets | | RP : | John Bunyan: The Holy War | | ED : | François Eudes de Mézeray: De l'origine des Français | | RP : | 58,000 Fr. Huguenots forced to conversion | | ED : | Sir George MacKenzie founds Advocates' Library, Edinburgh, later to becomes Scot. national library | | RP : | Sir William Petty: Essay Concerning Multiplications of Mankind | | ED : | Acta eruditorum, first learned periodical appears (in Latin) in Leipzig | | DL : | Versailles becomes royal residence | | DL : | Weaving mill with 100 looms established in Amsterdam | | VA : | Giovanni Batista Piazetta born 13 February |
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| | M : | Henry Purcell : Ode for St. Cecelia's Day
(2 composed in this year, 2 more later)
| | M : | Marc-Antoine Charpentier : Dramatic oratorio, La Descente d'Orphée aux enfers
('The Descent of Orpheus into the Underworld')
| | PH : | Pol.-Aust. alliance against Turks | | PH : | Rye House Plot to assassinate Charles II discovered | | PH : | Turks begins siege of Vienna | | PH : | Spain declares war on France | | PH : | Alfonso VI, King of Portugal, dies; succeeded by his brother Peter II | | PH : | Dutch traders admitted to Canton | | PH : | League of The Hague: the Emperor Leopold I and Charles II of Spain join Dutch-Swed. alliance against France | | PH : | Manchus conquer Formosa | | PH : | Peace treaty between William Penn and N. American Indians | | RP : | Mathew Hale: A Discourse Touching Provision for the Poor | | ED : | William Penn: A General Description of Pennsylvania | | ED : | Sir William Petty: The Growth of the City of London | | ST : | Eng. navigator William Dampier begins voyage around the world | | ST : | Newton explains mathematical theory on tides under gravitational attraction of sun, moon, and earth | | DL : | First coffeehouses in Vienna | | DL : | Wild boars become extinct in Great Britain |
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| | PH : | The Emperor, Poland and Venice conclude Holy League of Linz against Turks | | PH : | Bermudas become crown colony | | PH : | The "Great Elector" offers Fr. Huguenots refuge in Brandenburg | | LT : | Nouvelles de la République des Lettres, literary review, published | | LT : | Takemoto Gidayu begins puppet theatre "Joruri" in Tokyo | | RP : | 93 Jewish families expelled from Bordeaux | | RP : | Increase Mather: Remarkable Providences | | ST : | Giovanni Cassini: Les Éléments de l'astronomie vérifiés | | ST : | Ger. explorer Engelbert Kämpfer travels to Persian Gulf, Java, and Japan | | DL : | First attempts in London to light the streets | | PH : | Siamese embassy arrives at court of Louis XIV at Versailles | | PH : | End of fourth Anglo-Dutch war | | VA : | Jean-Antoine Watteau born 10 October |
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| | M : | Henry Purcell : Rejoice in the Lord Alway
| | PH : | Charles II of England dies; succeeded by his brother James II | | PH : | Charles, the Elector Palatinates, dies; electorate claimed by Louis XIV for his sister-in-law Liselotte | | DL : | All Chin. ports opened to foreign trade | | ED : | César de Rochefort: Dictionnaire général et curieux | | RP : | Louis XIV revokes Edict of Nantes, exiles thousands of Fr. Protestants | | ST : | David Abercromby: De pulsis variatione | | DL : | Fr. Huguenots begin silk manufacture in Great Britain | | M : | George Frideric Handel born 23 February | | VA : | Jean-Marc Nattier born 17 March | | M : | Johann Sebastian Bach born 21 March |
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| | PH : | Russia declares war on Turkey | | PH : | Roman Catholics readmitted to Eng. army | | LT : | First Swed. theatre opens in Stockholm | | RP : | Ger. pietist and educator begins at Leipzig his Collegum Philobiblicum for the study of the Bible | | ST : | Halley draws first meteorological map | | ED : | Jean Le Clerc: Bibliothèque universelle et historique, 25 vols | | ST : | Francis Willughby: Historia piscium (posth.) | | DL : | Maison St. Cyr founded as convent school for daughters of poor gentlefolk | | VA : | Jean-Baptiste Oudry born 17 March |
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| | VA : | Giovanni Battista Pittoni born | | LT : | John Dryden: The Hind and the Panther | | M : | Marc-Antoine Charpentier : Divertissement, Idle sur le retour de la santé du roi
('Idyll on the King's Return to Health')
| | PH : | James II issues Declaration of Indulgence for liberty of conscience | | PH : | Papal nuncio received by James II | | PH : | Hungarian diet of Pressburg recognises the crown as hereditary possession of the male line of Hapsburgs | | PH : | Sultan Mohammed IV of Turkey deposed; succeeded by Suleiman III | | ED : | Fénelon: Traité de l'éducation des filles | | RP : | Samuel von Pufendorf: The Relation of Religious Liberty to Civilian Life | | RP : | John Wallis: Institutio logicae | | ST : | Isaac Newton: Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica | | ST : | Sir Hans Sloane begins his botanical collection on a visit to Jamaica | | ED : | University of Bologna founded | | M : | Jean-Baptiste Lully dies 22 March |
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| | VA : | François Le Moyne born | | M : | Henry Purcell : Song
'Evening Hymn'
| | PH : | Frederick William, the "Great Elector" dies; succeeded by his son Frederick III | | PH : | Transylvania becomes province under King of Hungary | | PH : | Seven Eng. lords invite William of Orange to England (the "Glorious Revolution") | | PH : | War between France and the Empire | | RP : | Jacques- Bénigne Boussuet: Histoires des variations des églises protestantes | | DL : | Joseph de la Vega: Confusion de confusiones, description of transactions on Amsterdam Exchange | | DL : | London underwriters begin meeting regularly at Lloyd's Coffee House | | ST : | Plate glass being cast for first time | | DL : | Smyrna destroyed by earthquake | | LT : | Alexander Pope born 21 May |
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| | M : | Henry Purcell : Musik's Handmaid
for harpsichord (including a version of 'Lilliburlero')
| | M : | Henry Purcell : Opera, Dido and Aeneas
| | PH : | Parliament confirms abdication of James II | | PH : | Declaration of Rights in England, William and Mary proclaimed King and Queen for life (also in Scotland) | | PH : | Louis XIV declares war on Great Britain | | PH : | Peter the Great becomes Czar of Russia | | PH : | Ger. diet declares war on France | | RP : | Pope Innocent XI dies; Pietro Ottoboni becomes Pope Alexander VIII | | ED : | John, Lord Somers: A Brief History of the Succession to the Crown of England | | RP : | William Sherlock: A Practical Discourse Concerning Death | | DL : | William III establishes Devonport Naval Dockyards | | DL : | First modern trade fair held in Leiden, Holland |
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| | LT : | John Dryden: Don Sebastian and Amphitryon | | M : | François Couperin : Pièces d'orgue consistantes en deux messes, l'une à l'usage ordinaire des paroisses, l'autre propre pour les couvents de religieux et religieuses
| | M : | Marc-Antoine Charpentier :
Setting of the Te Deum
| | PH : | Joseph I elected King of the Romans | | PH : | Act of Grace passed in England | | PH : | Spain joins Great Alliance against France | | RP : | John Locke: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding | | RP : | Sir William Petty: Political Arithmetics | | DL : | Calcutta founded by Eng. colonial administrator Job Charnock | | ST : | Huyghens publishes his theory of the undulation of light | | ST : | Fr. engineer Denis Papin devises pump with piston, raised by steam | | ED : | Academia dell' arcadia founded in Rome | | DL : | Calico printing introduced to Great Britain from France | | VA : | Nicolas Lancret born 22 January |
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| | LT : | John Dryden: King Arthur | | M : | Johann Pachelbel : Six Suites
for two violins
| | M : | Henry Purcell :
Incidental music to King Arthur, play by John Dryden
| | PH : | Hapsburgs recognised as rulers of Transylvania | | DL : | New East India Company formed in London | | PH : | Sultan Suleiman III of Turkey dies; succeeded by Ahmad II | | PH : | Treaty of Limerick ends Irish rebellion | | RP : | Pope Alexander VIII dies; Antonio Pignatelli becomes Pope Innocent XII | | RP : | Christian Faith Society for West Indies founded in London | | RP : | Claude Fleury: Histoire ecclésiastique begun (20 vols, completed in 1720) | | RP : | Kaspar Stieler: Teutsche Sprachschatz | | RP : | Henry Wharton: Anglia sacra | | ED : | Anthony à Wood: Athenae Oxonienses | | ST : | Leibniz: Protagaea, on geology | | DL : | First directory of addresses published in Paris | | VA : | Aelbert Cuyp dies |
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| | LT : | John Dryden: Cleomenes | | M : | Henry Purcell : Songs
'Music for a While' and 'Nymphs and Shepherds'
| | M : | Henry Purcell : Masque or 'semi opera', The Fairy Queen
| | VA : | Antoine Coypel : Democritus | | PH : | Massacre of Clan Macdonald at Glencoe | | PH : | Duke Ernst August of Hanover becomes 9th Elector of the Holy Roman Empire | | LT : | Nahum Tate made poet laureate | | RP : | Edict of Toleration for Christians in China | | ED : | William and Mary College founded in Virginia | | ED : | Johann Konrad Amman: Der redende Stumme, manual of language for deaf-mutes | | DL : | The Bank, later becomes banking house of Coutts and Co., opened in Strand, London | | DL : | Earthquake in Jamaica | | DL : | Queen Mary II founds Greenwich Hospital for wounded sailors and pensioners |
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| | LT : | John Dryden: A Discourse concerning the Original and Progress of Satire | | M : | Johann Pachelbel : Chorale Preludes
for organ
| | M : | Marc-Antoine Charpentier : Opera, Médée
| | PH : | Louis XIV begins his peace policy, reconciliation with the Vatican | | DL : | National Debt begins in England | | RP : | Edmund Halley: The Degrees of Mortality of Mankind | | RP : | Secret society, Knights of the Apocalypse, founded in Italy to defend the church against the antichrist | | ED : | Leibniz: Codex Juris gentium diplomaticus | | ED : | John Locke: Thoughts Concerning Education, on learning foreign languages | | RP : | Cotton Mather: Wonders of the Invisible World | | RP : | William Penn: An Essay on the Present and Future Peace of Europe | | DL : | Kingston, Jamaica, founded |
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| | VA : | Corrado Giaquinto born | | VA : | Charles-Antoine Coypel born | | LT : | John Dryden: Love Triumphant | | M : | Alessandro Scarlatti : Opera, Il Pirro e Demetrio
| | M : | Henry Purcell : Ode
'Come Ye Sons of Art' (including aria, 'Sound the Trumpet')
| | M : | Tomaso Albinoni : Opera, Zenobia
| | M : | Tomaso Albinoni :
12 Trio Sonatas
| | DL : | Founding of the Bank of England | | PH : | Triennial Bill providing for new Parliamentary election every third year | | PH : | Augustus the Strong, Elector of Saxony | | PH : | Hussain becomes Shah of Persia | | ED : | Dictionnaire de l'Académie française, first edition, 2 vols. | | ST : | Rudolf Camerarius: De sexu plantarum epistola | | ED : | University of Halle founded | | DL : | Salt tax doubled in England |
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| | M : | Johann Pachelbel : Magnificat Fugues
for organ
| | M : | Henry Purcell : Semi opera, The Indian Queen
| | M : | Henry Purcell :
'The Golden Sonata' for 2 violins, viola de gamba, and keyboard
| | M : | Henry Purcell : Queen Mary's Funeral Music
| | PH : | Ahmad II, Sultan of Turkey, dies; succeeded by Mustafa II | | DL : | End of government press censorship in England | | RP : | John Locke: The Reasonableness of Christianity | | ST : | Pendant barometer invented | | ED : | University of Berlin founded | | ST : | Magnesium sulfate isolated (epsom salts) | | ST : | John Woodward: Essay Toward a Natural History of the Earth and Terrestrial Bodies | | DL : | Royal Bank of Scotland founded | | DL : | Window tax in England | | LT : | Henry Vaughan dies 23 April | | M : | Henry Purcell dies 21 November | | VA : | Jean-Baptiste Joseph Pater born 29 December |
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| | VA : | Louis Tocqué born | | DL : | New coinage in England carried out by John Locke and Isaac Newton | | PH : | Eng. Habeas Corpus Act suspended | | ED : | Nicolas Antonio: Bibliotheca Hispana vetus, Span. bibliography | | ED : | William Nicolson: The English Historical Library, 3 vols. | | VA : | Kunstakademie, Berlin, founded | | ED : | John Bellers: Proposals for Raising a College of Industry, on the education of children | | DL : | Board of Trade and Plantations founded in England | | DL : | First Eng. property insurance company founded | | VA : | Giambattista Tiepolo born 5 March |
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| | M : | Alessandro Scarlatti : Opera, and La caduta dei Decemviri
| | PH : | Peter the Great, calling himself Peter Michailoff, sets out on a year-and-a-half journey to Prussia, Holland, England and Vienna to study European ways of life | | PH : | Charles XI, King of Sweden, dies; succeeded by Charles XII | | PH : | Augustus, Elector of Saxony, converted to Roman Catholicism, elected King of Poland in succession to Jan III | | PH : | In Treaty of Ryswick: France recognises William III as King of England | | PH : | China conquers western Mongolia | | ED : | Pierre Bayle: Dictionnaire historique et critique, 2 vols | | ED : | William Wotton: Reflections on Ancient and Modern Learning | | DL : | Last remains of Maya civilisation destroyed by Spanish in Yucatan | | RP : | Daniel Defoe: An Essay Upon Projects, recommending income tax | | DL : | Sedan chair a popular means of transportation | | DL : | Court of Versailles becomes model for European courts | | DL : | Whitehall Palace, London, burns down | | VA : | Giovanni Antonio Canal born 18 October | | VA : | William Hogarth born 10 November |
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| | PH : | Rebellion of Czar Peter's praetorian guard in Moscow; leaders executed | | PH : | Elector Ernest August of Hanover dies; his eldest son George Louis, future King George I of England, becomes electoral prince | | DL : | Leopold of Anhalt-Dessau introduces goose-stepping and iron ramrods in Prussian army | | RP : | Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (SPCK) founded | | ED : | Bibliotheca Casanatense founded in Rome | | RP : | Algernon Sidney: Discourses Concerning Government (posth.) | | DL : | The General Society (New East India Trading Company) founded in London | | DL : | Paper manufacturing begins in N. America | | DL : | Tax on beards in Russia | | DL : | Mrs. White's Chocolate House opens in London, soon to become headquarters of Tory Party |
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| | LT : | John Dryden: Fables | | M : | Johann Pachelbel : Hexachordum Apollinis
six arias with variations for organ or harpsichord
| | VA : | Alexandre Francois Desportes : Self-Portrait as a Huntsman | | PH : | Peace of Karlowitz signed by Austria, Russia, Poland and Venice with Turkey | | PH : | Denmark and Russia sign mutual defence pact | | PH : | Treaty of Preobrazhenskoe signed by Denmark, Russia, Poland, and Saxony for partition of Swed. empire | | PH : | Christian V, King of Denmark, dies; succeeded by Frederick IV | | RP : | Richard Bentley: Dissertation Upon the Epistles of Phalaris | | RP : | Gilbert Burnet: Exposition of the Thirty-Nine Articles | | ST : | William Dampier explores northwest coast of Australia | | ST : | Pierre Lemoyne founds first European settlement in Louisianna, at Fort Maurepas | | DL : | Billingsgate, London, becomes a market | | DL : | Peter the Great decrees that New Year in Russia will begin on January 1 instead of September 1 | | VA : | Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin born 2 November |
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| | PH : | The Great Northern War | | PH : | King Charles II of Spain dies, setting the stage for the War of the Spanish Succession | | M : | Alessandro Scarlatti : Opera, Lesbina e Adolfo
| | LT : | Development of the Kabuki Theatre in Japan | | RP : | Pope Innocent XII dies; Gian Francesco Albani becomes Pope Clement XI | | DL : | Unmarried women taxed in Berlin | | ED : | Berlin Academy of Science founded | | M : | Joseph Saveur measures and explains vibrations of musical tones | | LT : | John Dryden dies 30 April |
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| | PH : | Act of Settlement in Britain. This settlement establishes the Hanoverian Monarchy | | PH : | War of Spanish Succession | | PH : | Prince Elector Frederick III of Brandenburg crowns himself Frederick I "King of Prussia" | | ED : | University of Venice founded | | ED : | Yale College founded | | M : | Music publisher Henry Playford establishes a series of weekly concerts at Oxford | | RP : | Father Francisco Ximénes translates sacred national book of the Quiché Indians of Guatemala, Popul Vah | | RP : | Benjamin Whichcote: Several Discourses; Moral and Religious Aphorisms | | ED : | Jeremy Collier: The Great historical, Geographical, Genealogical, and Political Dictionary 2 vols. | | PH : | James II of England dies; Louis XIV recognises James Edward as King James III |
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| | VA : | Pietro Longhi born | | M : | Marc-Antoine Charpentier : Motet, Judicium Salomonis
('Solomon's Judgement')
| | M : | Marc-Antoine Charpentier : Mass, Assumpta est Maria
('The Assumption of Mary')
| | VA : | Antoine Coypel : Venus Imploring Jupiter in Favour of Aeneas | | DL : | Serfdom abolished in Denmark | | DL : | The Daily Courant, first daily newspaper issued in London | | ED : | Jesuit college founded in Breslau | | DL : | Asiento Guinea Company founded for slave trade between Africa and America | | VA : | Japanese painter Ogata Korin unites the two imperial schools of Japanese painting - Kano and Yamato | | RP : | Armenian Priest Mekhitar of Sebaste founds in Constantinople Order of the Mekhitarists, Roman Catholic Armenian monks | | RP : | Cotton Mather: Magnalia Christi Americana, ecclesiastical history of New England | | RP : | Daniel Defoe: The Shortest Way with Dissenters | | LT : | Edward Busshe: The Art of English Poetry | | PH : | Rebellion of Protestant peasants, "Camisards", in Cévennes | | LT : | Earliest form of English pantomime given at Drury Lane, London | | PH : | William III dies, succeeded by Queen Anne GO ! | | VA : | Francesco Zuccarelli born 15 August |
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| | PH : | Treaty of Methuen signed by Britain and Portugal | | DL : | Peter the Great lays foundations of St. Petersburg | | ST : | Isaac Newton elected President of the Royal Society | | PH : | Archduke Charles proclaimed King of Spain in Madrid | | ED : | Universal, Historical, Geographical, Chronological and Classical Dictionary | | VA : | Corrado Giaquinto born | | VA : | François Boucher born 29 September |
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| | DL : | Earliest subscription library in Berlin | | ST : | Isaac Newton: Optics, defence of the theory of light | | ST : | John Harris : Lexicon technicum, encyclopaedia of the sciences | | ED : | Dictionnaire de Trévoux, of terms used in arts and sciences, published by the Jesuits at Trévoux | | PH : | Augustus II of Poland deposed, Stanislas Leszczynski elected King Stanislas I | | M : | Marc-Antoine Charpentier dies 24 February | | VA : | Maurice Quentin de La Tour born 5 September |
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| | PH : | Turkish Authority overthrown in Tunis | | M : | Johann Sebastian Bach :
Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, for organ
| | ST : | Royal Observatory, Berlin, founded | | LT : | His Majesty's Theatre opens in London | | ST : | Edmund Halley correctly predicts the return in 1758 of the comet seen in 1682 | | PH : | The Emperor Leopold I dies; succeeded by his eldest son, Joseph I | | VA : | Charles-André van Loo born 15 February |
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| | M : | Tomaso Albinoni : Opera, Griselda
| | ST : | Olous Römer's catalogue of astronomical observations | | RP : | Mathew Tindal: Rights of the Christian Church | | PH : | Peace of Altrandstadt: Augustus renouces Polish throne, recognises King Stanislas I | | M : | Johann Pachelbel dies 7 March |
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| | PH : | Act of Union, Scotland and England become one country | | PH : | Death of Aurangzeb leads to the disintegration of the Mughal Empire | | M : | Great German organ builder Gottfried Silbermann builds first organ at Frauenstein, Saxony | | ED : | Edward Lhuyd: Archeologica Britannica, on Celtic language | | RP : | Isaac Watts: Hymns and Spiritual Songs | | PH : | Aurangzeb, Mogul Emperor of Hindustan dies; succeeded by Bahadur Shah | | PH : | "Perpetual Alliance" signed between Prussia and Sweden | | PH : | King Peter II of Portugal dies; succeeded by John V | | M : | Dietrich Buxtehude dies 9 May |
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| | M : | Tomaso Albinoni : Opera, Vespetta e Pimpione
| | ED : | Professorship of poetry founded at Oxford University | | RP : | Jeremy Collier: The Ecclesiastical History of Great Britain | | ED : | Bernard de Montfaucon: Paleographia Graeca | | LT : | First German theatre opens in Vienna | | DL : | British East India Company and New East India Company merged | | PH : | Peter the Great divides Russia into eight government districts to ease administration | | VA : | Pompeo Girolamo Batoni born 25 January |
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| | LT : | Alexander Pope: Pastorals | | M : | George Frideric Handel : Opera, Agrippina
| | DL : | First Russian prisoners sent to Siberia | | DL : | First Copyright Act in Britain | | M : | Invention of the pianoforte | | RP : | John Strype: Annals of the Reformation | | PH : | Ienobe becomes Shogun in Japan | | PH : | 14,000 inhabitants of the Palatinate emigrate to North America | | PH : | Peace negotiations at The Hague |
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| | RP : | George Berkeley: A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge | | LT : | The Examiner, literary periodical, issued for first time | | VA : | Alexandre Francois Desportes : Still Life with Dog and Game | | VA : | Sir James Thornhill : The Apotheosis of Romulus | | RP : | William King: An Historical Account of the Heathen Gods and Heroes | | RP : | Leibniz: Théodicée (God Created the best of all possible worlds) | | RP : | Cotton Mather: Essays to Do Good | | DL : | English South Sea Company founded | | VA : | Jakob Christoph Le Blon invents three-colour printing | | DL : | Porcelain factory at Meissen, Saxony, founded |
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| | LT : | Alexander Pope: An Essay on Criticism | | VA : | Alexandre Francois Desportes : Still Life with Dead Hare and Fruit | | VA : | Alexandre Francois Desportes : Still Life (Summer) | | PH : | War between Russia and Turkey | | PH : | Joseph I dies is ultimately succeeded by his brother Charles VI, father of Maria Theresa | | RP : | Francis Atterbury: Representation of the State of Religion | | ED : | Berlin Academy started | | RP : | Anthony Ashley Cooper: Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, and Times | | ED : | Thomas Maddox: The History of Antiquities of the Exchequer | | RP : | William Whiston: Primitive Christianity Revived | | VA : | London Academy of Arts established under Geoffrey Kneller | | M : | Clarinet for first time in an orchestra (in J.A.Hasse's opera Croesus) | | M : | Tuning fork invented (supposedly by John Shore) |
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| | ST : | The First Industrial Revolution begins when Newcomen's Steam Engine
is installed at the Dudley Castle Coal Mine | | LT : | Alexander Pope: early version of The Rape of the Lock | | PH : | Peace congress opens at Utrecht | | PH : | Treaty of Aarau ends Swiss war | | PH : | War of Succession between Shah Bahadur's four sons in India | | ED : | Jonathan Swift: A Proposal for Correcting the English Language | | ED : | Académie des sciences, belles lettres et arts, Bordeaux, founded | | ED : | Biblioteca nacional, Madrid, founded | | ST : | Cotton Mather begins his Curiosa Americana | | RP : | Last execution for witchraft in England | | DL : | Slave revolts in New York | | VA : | Francesco Guardi born 5 October |
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| | PH : | The Pragmactic Sanction by Charles VI, allowing Maria Theresa to become the Monarch of Austria | | DL : | Asentio Treaty signed by Britain and Spain. This treaty begins the most active period of the British slave trade | | DL : | King Friedrich I dies and his son Friedrich Wilhelm becomes King of Prussia | | LT : | Alexander Pope: Windsor Forest | | M : | François Couperin : Pièces de Clavecin
Book I
| | M : | Johann Sebastian Bach : Canata
No.208 ('Where Sheep May Safely Graze)
| | PH : | King Frederick I of Prussia dies; succeeded by Frederick William I | | PH : | Peace of Adrianople between Turkey and Russia | | PH : | Pragmatic Sanction issued by the Emperor Charles VI states female right of succession in Hapsburg domains | | PH : | An infant, Ietsugu, becomes Shogun of Japan | | LT : | Scriblerus Club founded in London by Swift, Pope, Congreve, and others | | RP : | Arthur Collier: Clavis Universalis, or A New Inquiry After Truth | | RP : | Fénelon: Traité de l'existence et des attributs de Dieu | | RP : | Abbé Saint Pierre: Projet pour la paix perpétuelle | | ED : | Spanish Royal Academy, Madrid, founded | | M : | School of Dance established at Paris Opéra | | ST : | Board of Longitude in England | | ST : | Roger Cotes revises Newton's Principia | | DL : | Pigtails introduced in Prussian Army | | PH : | 11 April - The Treaty of Utrecht ends Queen Anne's War | | VA : | Allan Ramsay born 13 October |
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| | PH : | George I of Hanover became King of England | | M : | Johann Sebastian Bach : The Little Organ Book
| | PH : | Peace of Rastatt between France and the Holy Roman Empire | | PH : | Queen Anne of England dies; succeeded by George Louis, elector of Hanover, as King George I | | PH : | Peace of Baden: France keeps Strasbourg and Alsace | | RP : | Gottfried Arnold: Unpartheyische Kirchen-und Ketzer-Historie | | ED : | Worcester College, Oxford, founded | | ST : | D.G. Fahrenheit constructs mercury thermometer with temperature scale | | RP : | Witch trials abolished in Prussia | | M : | C.P.E. Bach born 8 March | | VA : | Richard Wilson born 1 August | | VA : | Claude-Joseph Vernet born 14 August |
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| | PH : | The First Jacobite uprising | | VA : | Jean-Baptiste Perronneau born | | M : | François Couperin : Concerts Royaux
| | M : | François Couperin : Trois Leçons de ténèbres pour le Mercredi Saint
for voice and basso continuo
motets for voice and instruments, "dans le style de Charpentier"
| | VA : | Jean-Antoine Watteau : Jupiter & Antiope | | PH : | First Parliament of George I opens | | PH : | Louis XIV of France dies; succeeded by his great-grandson Louis XV (age 5) | | PH : | Jacobite rebellion in Scotland | | PH : | Mir Abdullah becomes ruler in Kandahar | | RP : | Isaac Watts: Divine Songs for Children | | VA : | Early beginnings of rococo | | LT : | Vaudevilles, popular musical comedies, appear in Paris | | ST : | British mathematician Brook Taylor invents the calculus of finite differences | | VA : | English painter and architect William Kent "frees the English garden from formality" |
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| | VA : | Joseph Marie Vien born | | VA : | Jean-Antoine Watteau : Portrait of Pater | | PH : | The Emperor Charles VI declares war on Turkey | | PH : | Treaty of Westminster between England and the Emperor | | PH : | Yoshimune becomes Shogun of Japan | | RP : | Christian religious teaching prohibited in China | | M : | Couperin: L'Art de toucher le clavecin | | DL : | Scot. economist John Law establishes the Banque générale in France | | DL : | Royal Regiment of Artillary founded |
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| | LT : | Alexander Pope: Collected works | | M : | François Couperin : Pièces de Clavecin
Book II
| | M : | George Frideric Handel :
Chandos Anthems
| | M : | George Frideric Handel : Instrumental, Water Music
| | VA : | Jean-Antoine Watteau : L'Assemblée dans un parc | | VA : | Jean-Marc Nattier : Portrait of Peter I | | PH : | Mongols occupy Lhasa | | RP : | Cardinal de Retz: Mémoires (posth.) | | ST : | Inoculation against smallpox introduced in England | | DL : | Mother Grand Lodge of Freemasons established in London | | DL : | School attendance in Prussia made compulsory | | M : | Johann Wenzel Anton Stamitz born 19 June |
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| | VA : | Jean-Antoine Watteau : Mezzetin | | M : | Alessandro Scarlatti : Opera, Il trionfo dell'onore ovvero Il dissoluto pentito
| | M : | George Frideric Handel : Pastoral Opera, Acis and Galatea
| | VA : | Jean-Antoine Watteau : Pilgrims Leaving
the Isle of Cythera | | VA : | Jean-Antoine Watteau : Gilles as Pierrot | | VA : | Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini : Apollo | | PH : | Peter the Great has his son and heir, Alexis, murdered | | PH : | Peace of Passarowitz ends war between the Empire and Turkey | | PH : | Quadruple Alliance signed by France, the Empire, England, and Holland | | PH : | England declares war on Spain | | ED : | Accademia dei Scienze, Lettere, ed Arti founded at Palermo | | ED : | Philibert-Joseph Le Roux: Dictionnaire comique, satryique, critque, burlesque, libre, et proverbial | | ED : | London Society of Antiquaries founded | | ST : | English inventor Sir Thomas Lombe patents machine which makes thrown silk | | ED : | Collegiate School of America transfers to new site in New Haven, and is renamed Yale University | | DL : | First bank notes in England |
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| | PH : | France declares war on Spain | | PH : | Liechtenstein becomes independent principalilty | | PH : | Peace of Stockholm between Sweden and Hanover | | PH : | Ireland declared inseparable from England | | PH : | Mohammed Shah, grandson of Bahadur Shah, becomes the Great Mogul | | RP : | Jesuits expelled from Russia | | M : | Dimitrie Cantemir writes first book on Turkish music, Tratat de musica Turcéasea | | DL : | The Boston Gazette founded | | DL : | Oriental Company founded in Vienna to trade in the East | | DL : | Westminster Hospital, London, founded | | DL : | First cricket match: "Londoners" vs. "Kentish Men" |
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