General
Population: 614 Million*
- Entertainment: Writers include Dryden (allegorical poem), Gerard Langbaine (catalog of English plays), William Winstanley (English poets),
Fenelon (education), Samuel von Pufendorf (religious liberty), John Wallis (logic)
Art includes Kneller "The Chinese Convent"
- Science: Isaac Newton publishes Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (Principa Mathematica)
Sir Hans Sloane begins botanical collection on visit to Jamaica
Edmund Halley publishes Newton's work at his own expense
- Deaths: Philosopher Henry More, Composer Jean Baptiste, Actress Nell Gwyn (mistress of Charles II),
Composer Jean-Baptiste Lully dies of gangrene from conductor baton poke in foot
First Huguenots settle at Cape of Good Hope,
Africa
- Arguin Guinea established as colony by Brandenburg
Europe
- England: William Sancroft (0 and seven leaders of the Church of England sign protest against King of England – Bishops prosecuted –
public protests by treating these prisoners as heroes – jurors declare bishops “not guilty” condemning king
Papal nuncio received by James II
James II issues Declaration of Indulgence for Liberty of Conscience allowing freedom of worship to all religions
- Greece: Parthenon and Propylaea at the Acropolis & Athens badly damaged by Venetian bombardment - Parthenon used to store gunpowder and is nearly destroyed
- Holy Roman Empire: Battle of Mohács – defeat of Turks under Suleiman Pasha – Habsburgs keep Hungarian throne
- Hungary: Hungarian diet of Pressburg recognizes crown as hereditary possession of the male line of Hapsburgs
- Italian States: University of Bologna founded
- Spain: Leonardo de Figueroa creates Hospital de Venerables Sacerdotes in Seville
Middle East
- Ottoman Empire: Sultan Mohammed IV of Turkey deposed – succeeded by Suleiman III (II?)
Suleiman Pasha defeated at Battle of Mohács