March 6 » The first joint Secretary of the Royal Society, Henry Oldenburg, publishes the first issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, the world's longest-running scientific journal.
June 12 » Thomas Willett is appointed the first mayor of New York City.
June 17 » Battle of Montes Claros: Portugal definitively secured independence from Spain in the last battle of the Portuguese Restoration War.
October 5 » The University of Kiel is founded.
October 29 » Portuguese forces defeat the Kingdom of Kongo and decapitate King António I of Kongo, also known as Nvita a Nkanga.
December 10 » The Royal Netherlands Marine Corps is founded by Michiel de Ruyter
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.
February 13 » William and Mary are proclaimed co-rulers of England.
March 12 » James II of England landed at Kinsale, starting the Williamite War in Ireland.
April 18 » Bostonians rise up in rebellion against Sir Edmund Andros.
July 27 » Glorious Revolution: The Battle of Killiecrankie is a victory for the Jacobites.
October 26 » General Piccolomini of Austria burns down Skopje to prevent the spread of cholera; he died of the disease himself soon after.
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