March 8 » John Casor becomes the first legally-recognized slave in England's North American colonies where a crime was not committed.
March 25 » Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is discovered by Christiaan Huygens.
April 23 » The Siege of Santo Domingo begins during the Anglo-Spanish War, and fails seven days later.
September 8 » Warsaw falls without resistance to a small force under the command of Charles X Gustav of Sweden during The Deluge, making it the first time the city is captured by a foreign army.
December 18 » The Whitehall Conference ends with the determination that there was no law preventing Jews from re-entering England after the Edict of Expulsion of 1290.
December 27 » Second Northern War/the Deluge: Monks at the Jasna Góra Monastery in Częstochowa are successful in fending off a month-long siege.
February 12 » The Convention Parliament declares that the flight to France in 1688 by James II, the last Roman Catholic British monarch, constitutes an abdication.
March 16 » The 23rd Regiment of Foot, or Royal Welch Fusiliers, is founded.
April 18 » Bostonians rise up in rebellion against Sir Edmund Andros.
April 20 » Deposed monarch James II of England lays siege to Derry.
August 21 » The Battle of Dunkeld in Scotland.
August 27 » The Treaty of Nerchinsk is signed by Russia and the Qing Empire (Julian calendar).
January 30 » The Forty-seven rōnin, under the command of Ōishi Kuranosuke, avenge the death of their master, by killing Kira Yoshinaka.
May 21 » Daniel Defoe is imprisoned on charges of seditious libel.
May 27 » Tsar Peter the Great founds the city of Saint Petersburg.
July 26 » During the Bavarian Rummel the rural population of Tyrol drove the Bavarian Prince-Elector Maximilian II Emanuel out of North Tyrol with a victory at the Pontlatzer Bridge and thus prevented the Bavarian Army, which was allied with France, from marching as planned on Vienna during the War of the Spanish Succession.
August 23 » Edirne event: Sultan Mustafa II of the Ottoman Empire is dethroned.
December 27 » Portugal and England sign the Methuen Treaty which gives preference to Portuguese imported wines into England.
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