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Year 1681 (''' MDCLXXXI ''') was a Common Year Starting On Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Year Starting On Saturday of the 10-day slower Julian Calendar ).

EVENTS OF 1681

January - June

March 4 - Charles II Of England grants a land charter to William Penn for the area that will later become Pennsylvania .

July - December

October 12 - A London woman is publicly flogged for the crime of "involving herself in politics."

August 31 - Titus Oates is told to leave his state apartments in the Whitehall - his fame begins to wane and he is soon arrested and imprisoned for Sedition .

August - Ahom King Gadadhar Singha or Gadapani, who took the Tai name Supaatphaa , ascends the throne.

Undated

France annexes the city of Strasbourg .

The last Dodo bird is killed.

Collections are made in England for needy French refugees.

BIRTHS

March 14 - Georg Philipp Telemann , German composer (died 1767 )

June 26 - Hedwig Sophia, Duchess Of Holstein-Gottorp , Swedish writer (died 1708 )

September 11 - Johann Gottlieb Heineccius , German jurist (died 1741 )

September 28 - Johann Mattheson , German composer (died 1764 )

November 17 - Pierre François Le Courayer , French theologian (died 1776 )

November 28 - Jean Cavalier , French Protestant rebel leader (died 1740 )

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DEATHS

January 28 - Richard Allestree , English royalist churchman (born 1619 )

March 12 - Frans Van Mieris, Sr. , Dutch painter (born 1635 )

May 25 - Pedro Calderón De La Barca , Spanish dramatist and poet (born 1600 )

July 1 - Oliver Plunkett , Irish saint (born 1629 )

July 25 - Urian Oakes , English-born President of Harvard University (born 1631 )

August 22 - Philippe Delano , Dutch Plymouth Colony settler (born 1602 )

December 22 - Richard Alleine , English Puritan clergyman (born 1611 )

''date unknown'' - Gerard Ter Borch , Dutch painter (born 1617 )

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