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December 10 - Isaac Newton 's derivation of Kepler's Laws from his theory of gravity, contained in the paper '' De Motu Corporum In Gyrum '', is read to the Royal Society by Edmund Halley .

France under Louis XIV makes Truce of Ratisbon separately with the Empire and Spain.

Pope Innocent XI forms a Holy League with the Habsburg Empire , Venice and Poland to liberate Europe from the Ottoman Turkish rule.

Japanese Chief Minister Hotta Masatoshi is Assassinated , leaving Shogun Tsunayoshi without any adequate advisors, leading him to issue impractical Edicts and create hardships for the Japanese people

The Japanese poet Saikaku composes 23,500 verses in 24 hours at the Sumiyoshi Shrine at Osaka ; the scribes cannot keep pace with his dictation and just ''count'' the verses

The British East India Company receives Chinese permission to build a trading station at Canton . Tea sells in Europe for less than a Shilling a pound, but the import duty of 5 shillings makes it too expensive for most English people to afford

Smuggled tea is drunk much more than legally imported tea

England has its coldest Winter in living memory; the River Thames and the sea as far as 2 miles out from land freezes over

John Bunyan writes The Pilgrim's Progress Part 2

BIRTHS

January 1 - Arnold Drakenborch , Dutch classical scholar (d. 1748 )

January 14 - Jean-Baptiste Van Loo , French painter (d. 1745 )

February 24 - Matthias Braun , Czech sculptor (d. 1738 )

March 15 - Francesco Durante , Italian composer (d. 1755 )

March 19 - Jean Astruc , French physician and scholar (d. 1766 )

April 15 - Catherine I Of Russia (d. 1727 )

June 22 - Francesco Manfredini , Italian composer (d. 1762 )

September 18 - Johann Gottfried Walther , German music theorist, organist, and composer (d. 1748 )

October 10 - Antoine Watteau , French painter (d. 1721 )

October 26 - Kurt Christoph Graf Von Schwerin , Prussian field marshal (d. 1757 )

December 3 - Ludvig Holberg , Norwegian historian and writer (d. 1754 )

Johann Jacob Dillenius , German botanist (d. 1747 )

DEATHS

April 1 - Roger Williams , English theologian and colonist (b. 1603 )

April 5 - Lord William Brouncker , English mathematician

May 4 - John Nevison , English highwayman (b. 1639 )

May 12 - Edme Mariotte , French physicist and priest

July 2 - John Rogers , American President of Harvard University (b. 1630 )

July 6 - Peter Gunning , English royalist churchman (b. 1614 )

August 8 - George Booth, 1st Baron Delamer (b. 1622 )

October 1 - Pierre Corneille , French playwright (b. 1606 )

October 11 - James Tuchet, 3rd Earl Of Castlehaven (b. 1617 )