The year 1696 had the earliest equinoxes and solstices for 400 years in the Gregorian calendar, because this year is a leap year and the Gregorian calendar would have behaved like the Julian calendar since March 1500 had it have been in use that long. See 1903. Events January 11 - Eruption of Mt. ... Events February 6 - The colony Quilombo dos Palmares is destroyed. ... Events January 27 - Change of emperor of the Ottoman Empire from Ahmed II to Mustafa II (1695-1703) July 17 - The Bank of Scotland is founded by an Act of Parliament of the old Scottish Parliament. ... Events September 20 - The Treaty of Ryswick December 2 – St Pauls Cathedral opened in London Peter the Great travels in Europe officially incognito as artilleryman Pjotr Mikhailov Use of palanquins increases in Europe Christopher Polhem starts Swedens first technical school. ... Events January 4 - Palace of Whitehall in London is destroyed by fire. ... Events January 26 - Treaty of Karlowitz signed March 30 - the tenth Sikh Master, Guru Gobind Singh created the Khalsa. ... This is a list of decades which have articles with more information about them. ... Events and Trends Samuel Pepys begins his famous diary in 1660 and ends it, due to failing eyesight in 1669. ... Events and Trends Newton and Leibniz independently discover calculus. ... Events and Trends The Treaty of Ratisbon between France and England in 1684 ended the Age of Buccaneers. ... Events and Trends Thomas Neale designed Seven Dials The Salem Witchcraft Trials are held in Massachusetts Bay Colony (1692). ... Events and trends The Bonneville Slide blocks the Columbia River near the site of present-day Cascade Locks, Oregon with a land bridge 200 feet (60 m) high. ... Events and Trends World Leaders King Louis XIV of France (1643 - 1715) Philippe II of Orléans, Regent of France (1715 - 1723). ... Events and Trends Manufacture of the earliest surviving pianos. ... These pages contain the trends of millennia and centuries. ... (15th century - 16th century - 17th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 16th century was that century which lasted from 1501 to 1600. ... (16th century - 17th century - 18th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 17th century was that century which lasted from 1601-1700. ... (17th century - 18th century - 19th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 18th century refers to the century that lasted from 1701 through 1800. ... See also: 1695 in literature, other events of 1696, 1697 in literature, list of years in literature. ... See also: 1695 in music, other events of 1696, 1697 in music and the list of years in music. // Events Published popular music Classical music Henrico Albicastro - Il giardino armonico sacro-profano John Blow - Ode on the Death of Purcell Dietrich Buxtehude - Frische Klavierfrüchte Opera Giovanni Bononcini - Il Trionfo... The year 1696 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here. ... 1695 colonial governors - Events of 1696 - 1697 colonial governors - Colonial governors by year See also: List of state leaders in 1696 Portugal Angola - Henrique Jacques de Magalhães, Governor of Angola (1694-1697) Categories: 1696 | Lists of colonial governors by year ... 1695 state leaders - Events of 1696 - 1697 state leaders - State leaders by year See also: List of religious leaders in 1696 List of international organization leaders in 1696 List of colonial governors in 1696 Africa Dahomey - Akaba, King of Dahomey (1680-1708) Asia China (Qing Dynasty) - Kangxi, Emperor of China... An equinox in astronomy is the moment when the Sun passes over the equator. ... Diagram of the Earths seasons Solstice is an astronomical term regarding the position of the Sun in relation to the earths equator. ... Inscription on the tomb of Pope Gregory XIII celebrating the introduction of the Gregorian Calendar The Gregorian calendar is the calendar that is used nearly everywhere in the world. ... A leap year (or intercalary year) is a year containing an extra day or month in order to keep the calendar year in sync with an astronomical or seasonal year. ... Look up March in Wiktionary, the free dictionary March is the third month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... 1500 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1903 (MCMIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ...

Events

• April - Fire destroys the Gra Bet (or Left Quarter) of Gondar, the capital of Ethiopia.
• August 22 - Forces of Venice and Turkish troops clash near Molino
• October 29 - Fuller Baptist Church founded in Kettering, England.
• December 24 - Inquisition burns number of Marrano Jews in Evora, Portugal
• Peter the Great becomes sole tsar of Russia.
• Polish replaces Ruthenian as an official language of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
• A famine wipes out almost a third of the population of Finland.
• Abington, Pennsylvania, is settled.
• William Penn offers an elaborate plan for intercolonial cooperation largely in trade, defense, and criminal matters.
• The Second Pueblo Revolt took place
• Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville captured and destroyed St. John's, Newfoundland.

Gondar (less commonly spelled Gonder) was the old imperial capital of Ethiopia and the historic Begemder province, now part of the Amhara region. ... August 22 is the 234th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (235th in leap years), with 131 days remaining. ... Venice (Italian: Venezia, Venetian: Venexia) , the city of canals, is the capital of the region of Veneto and of the province of Venice in Italy. ... October 29 is the 302nd day of the year (303rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 63 days remaining. ... Fuller Baptist Church is a Baptist church located in the town of Kettering in northern Northamptonshire, England. ... December 24 is the 358th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (359th in leap years). ... Representation of an Auto de fe, (1475). ... Marranos (Spanish and Portuguese, probably from the Arabic moharrama or muharram or meaning a forbidden thing), were Sephardic Jews (Jews from the Iberian peninsula) who were forced to adopt the identity of Christians, either through coercion as a consequence of the persecution of Jews by the Spanish Inquisition and Portuguese... Évora is both a town and a district in eastern Portugal. ... Portrait of Peter by Paul Delaroche Peter I (Russian: Пётр I Алексеевич or Pyotr I Alexeyevich) (Peter Alexeyevich Romanov) (9 June 1672–8 February 1725 [30 May 1672– 28 January 1725 O.S.] )Russia from 7 May (27 April O.S.) 1682 until his death. ... Look up Tsar in Wiktionary, the free dictionary For the US community of Czar, see Czar, West Virginia. ... Ruthenian was a historic East Slavic language, spoken in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and after 1569 in the East Slavic territories of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. ... An official language is a language that is given a privileged legal status in a state, or other legally-defined territory. ... The presumable banner of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania with the coat of arms, called Пагоня in Belarusian, Vytis in Lithuanian and PogoÅ„ in Polish Another version of the Lithuanian banner The Grand Duchy of Lithuania (Lithuanian: Lietuvos Didžioji KunigaikÅ¡tystÄ—, Belarusian: Вялі́кае Кня́ства Літо́ўскае (ВКЛ), Ukrainian: Велике Князівство Литовське (ВКЛ), Polish: Wielkie KsiÄ™stwo Litewskie) was an... A famine is a phenomenon in which a large percentage of the population of a region or country are so undernourished that death by starvation becomes increasingly common. ... Abington Township, Pennsylvania may refer to: North Abington Township, Pennsylvania West Abington Township, Pennsylvania South Abington Township, Pennsylvania This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... William Penn William Penn (October 14, 1644–July 30, 1718) founded the Province of Pennsylvania, the British North American colony that became the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. ... Pierre Le Moyne dIberville. ... St. ...

Births

• March 5 - Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian painter (d. 1770)
• June 11 - Francis Edward James Keith, Scottish soldier and Prussian field marshal (d. 1758)
• June 27 - William Pepperrell, English colonial soldier (d. 1759)
• July 14 - William Oldys, English antiquarian and bibliographer (d. 1761)
• August 2 - Mahmud I, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1754)
• August 12 - Maurice Greene, English composer (d. 1755)
• September 27 - Alphonsus Liguori, Italian founder of the Redemptionist order (d. 1787)
• October 13 - John Hervey, Lord Hervey, English statesman and writer (b. 1743)
• December 22 - James Oglethorpe, English general and founder of the state of Georgia (d. 1785)
• Benning Wentworth, colonial governor of New Hampshire (d. 1770)

March 5 is the 64th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (65th in leap years). ... The Death of Hyacinth Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (also known as Gianbattista or Giambattista Tiepolo) (March 5, 1696 - March 27, 1770) was a Venetian painter. ... 1770 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... June 11 is the 162nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (163rd in leap years), with 203 days remaining. ... Francis Edward James Keith (June 11, 1696 - October 14, 1758), Scottish soldier and Prussian field marshal, was the second son of William, 9th Earl Marischal of Scotland, and was born at the castle of Inverugie near Peterhead. ... 1758 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... June 27 is the 178th day of the year (179th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 187 days remaining. ... Sir William Pepperrell, 1746, by John Smybert Sir William Pepperrell, 1st Baronet (June 27, 1696 – July 6, 1759) was a British settler and soldier in Colonial Massachusetts. ... 1759 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... July 14 is the 195th day (196th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 170 days remaining. ... William Oldys (July 14, 1696 - April 15, 1761), was an English antiquarian and bibliographer. ... 1761 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... August 2 is the 214th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (215th in leap years), with 151 days remaining. ... Sultan Mahmud I Mahmud I (August 2, 1696 – December 13, 1754) was the sultan of the Ottoman empire from 1730 to 1754. ... The Osmanli Dynasty, also the House of Osman, ruled the Ottoman Empire from 1281 to 1923, beginning with Osman I (not counting his father, Ertuğrul), though the dynasty was not proclaimed until 1383 when Murad I declared himself sultan. ... 1754 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... August 12 is the 224th day of the year (225th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Maurice Greene (August 12, 1696 - December 1, 1755) was an English composer and organist. ... 1755 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... September 27 is the 270th day of the year (271st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 95 days remaining. ... Saint Alphonsus Liguori (27 September 1696 – 1 August 1787) founded the Roman Catholic order, the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer popularly known as the Redemptorists. ... 1787 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... October 13 is the 286th day of the year (287th in leap years). ... John Hervey, Lord Hervey (October 13, 1696 - August 5, 1743), English statesman and writer, was the eldest son of John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol, by his second marriage. ... // Events February 14 - Henry Pelham becomes British Prime Minister February 21 - - The premiere in London of George Frideric Handels oratorio, Samson. ... December 22 is the 356th day of the year (357th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... James Edward Oglethorpe (22 December 1696 - 30 June 1785) was an English general and philanthropist, a founder of the state of Georgia. ... 1785 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Benning Wentworth (1696–1770) was the colonial governor of New Hampshire from (1741-1766). ... 1770 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...

Deaths

• January 11 - Charles Albanel, French missionary explorer in Canada (b. 1616)
• February 8 - Tsar Ivan V of Russia (b. 1666)
• March 14 - Jean Domat, French jurist (b. 1625)
• March 18 - Robert Charnock, English conspirator
• April 17 - Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné, French writer (b. 1626)
• April 30 - Robert Plot, British naturalist (b. 1640)
• May 10 - Jean de La Bruyère, French writer (b. 1645)
• May 30 - Henry Capell, 1st Baron Capell, First Lord of the British Admiralty (b. 1638)
• June 17 - John III of Poland (b. 1629)
• August 2 - Robert Campbell of Glenlyon, Scottish military commander at the Massacre of Glencoe (b. 1630)
• September 17 - John III Sobieski, King of Poland (b. 1629)
• December 4 - Empress Meisho of Japan (b. 1624)
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