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| align="center" colspan=2 | 1660s 1670s - 1680s ''' - 1690s 1700s 1710s
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| align="center" | - 17th Century ''' - 18th Century
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Events
Births
- Furrukhsiyar , Mughal Emperor
- February 28 - René Antoine Ferchault De Réaumur , French scientist (d. 1757 )
- March 1 - Caroline Of Ansbach , queen of George II Of Great Britain (d. 1737 )
- April 3 - Mark Catesby , English naturalist (d. 1749 )
- June 23 - Etienne Fourmont , French orientalist (d. 1745 )
- September 25 - Jean-Philippe Rameau , French composer (d. 1764 )
- October 25 - Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke Of Grafton , British politician (d. 1757 )
- November 10 - King George II Of Great Britain (d. 1760 )
- November 30 - Ludwig Andreas Graf Khevenhüller , Austrian field marshal (d. 1744 )
- December 19 - King Philip V Of Spain (d. 1746 )
- December 27 - Conyers Middleton , English minister (d. 1750 )
Deaths
- January 21 - Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 1st Earl Of Shaftesbury , British politician (b. 1621 )
- February 18 - Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem , Dutch painter (b. 1620 )
- March 19 - Thomas Killigrew , English dramatist (b. 1612 )
- July 10 - François-Eudes De Mézeray , French historian (b. 1610 )
- July 13 - Arthur Capell, 1st Earl Of Essex , English statesman (b. 1631 )
- July 30 - Queen Marie-Thérèse , first wife of Louis XIV Of France (b. 1638 )
- August 18 - Chalres Hart , English actor (b. 1625 )
- August 24 - John Owen , English non-conformist theologian (b. 1616 )
- September 6 - Jean-Baptiste Colbert , French minister of finance (b. 1619 )
- September 12 - King Afonso VI Of Portugal (b. 1643 )
- October 25 - William Scroggs , lord chief justice of England
- December 7 - John Oldham , English poet (smallpox) (b. 1653 )
- December 7 - Algernon Sydney , English politician (b. 1623 )
- December 15 - Izaak Walton , English writer (b. 1593 )
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