General
Population: 576 Million*
- Entertainment: Writers include Aphra Behn, Dryden (comedy), Sir George Etherege (comedy), La Fontaine (fables), Molière, Racine,
Joseph Glanvill (knowledge since Aristotle), Henry More Divine Dialogues, William Penn (questions trinity doctrine) Sandy Foundation Shaken,
Sir Josiah Child (money and interest), La Fontaine
Art includes Rembrandt "Return of the Prodigal Son", Gabriel van de Velde "Golfers on the Ice"
Music includes Thomas Tomkins (posthumous)
- Medicine: First accurate description of red corpuscles by Leeuwenhoek
- Science: Robert Hooke proposes earthquakes not flood causes mountaintop shell fossils
Isaac Newton constructs reflecting telescope
Redi disproves spontaneous generation
Swammerdam shows butterfly wings inside of a caterpillar with dissection
- Deaths: Scientist Johann Rudolf Glauber, Poet William Davenant, Artist Philips Wouwerman,
Oder – Spree Canal finished,
Africa
- Republic of Bou Regrev in Africa ends
Asia
- India: British East India Company obtains control of Bombay
Europe
- General: Alliance of the Hague signed by English and Dutch
Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle ends War of Devolution between France under Louis XIV and Spain under Leopold I – France gains part of Flanders
Triple Alliance of ENG NET and SWE against FRA
- France: Plague outbreak
- German States: Dietrich Buxtehude becomes organist of St. Mary's in Lubeck
- Poland: John II Casimir King of Poland for 20 years abdicates
- Portugal: Treaty of Lisbon – Spain recognizes independence of Portugal
- Spain: Split with Portugal recognized
Middle East
- Ottoman Empire: Earthquake in Turkey kills 8000 estimated as 8