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Events

September 11 - Battle Of Zenta , Prince Eugene Of Savoy crushed Ottoman army of Mustafa II

September 20 - The Treaty Of Ryswick

December 2 – St Paul's Cathedral opened in London

as "artilleryman Pjotr Mikhailov"

Use of Palanquin s increases in Europe

Christopher Polhem starts Sweden's first technical school.

The royal castle "Tre Kronor" in Stockholm burns to the ground. A large portion of the royal library is destroyed.

Karl XII of Sweden is crowned king at the age of 15.

Tayasal , capital of the Peten Itza Maya , the last independent Mesoamerican state, is conquered by Spain

The Manchu Empire conquers western Mongolia

Births

January 30 - Johann Joachim Quantz , German flutist and composer (d. 1773 )

March 9 - Friederike Caroline Neuber , actress (d. 1760 )

August 6 - Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1745 )

October 7 - Canaletto , Italian artist (d. 1768 )

November 10 - William Hogarth , English artist (d. 1764 )

Deaths

January 8 - Thomas Aikenhead (hanged)

January 26 - Georg Mohr , Danish mathematician (b. 1640 )

January 28 - John Fenwick , English conspirator

March 1 - Francesco Redi , Italian physician (b. 1626 )

March 19 - Nicolaus Bruhns , German organist and composer (b. 1665 )

March 26 - Godfrey McCulloch , Scottish politican and murderer (executed) (b. 1640 )

March 27 - Simon Bradstreet , English colonial magistrate (b. 1603 )

April 5 - King Charles XI Of Sweden (stomach cancer) (b. 1655 )

April 8 - Niels Juel , Danish admiral (b. 1629 )

November 22 - Libéral Bruant , French architect