January 19 » San Agustin Church in Manila is officially completed; it is the oldest church still standing in the Philippines.
January 30 » An estimated 200 square miles (51,800 ha) along the coasts of the Bristol Channel and Severn Estuary in England are destroyed by massive flooding, resulting in an estimated 2,000 deaths.
February 24 » L'Orfeo by Claudio Monteverdi, one of the first works recognized as an opera, receives its première performance.
April 25 » Eighty Years' War: The Dutch fleet destroys the anchored Spanish fleet at Gibraltar.
May 14 » Jamestown, Virginia is settled as an English colony.
September 14 » Flight of the Earls from Lough Swilly, Donegal, Ireland.
January 27 » Mustafa II becomes the Ottoman sultan and Caliph of Islam in Istanbul on the death of Ahmed II. Mustafa rules until his abdication in 1703.
August 15 » French forces end the bombardment of Brussels.
September 7 » Henry Every perpetrates one of the most profitable pirate raids in history with the capture of the Grand Mughal ship Ganj-i-Sawai. In response, Emperor Aurangzeb threatens to end all English trading in India.
November 20 » Zumbi, the last of the leaders of Quilombo dos Palmares in early Brazil, is executed by the forces of Portuguese bandeirante Domingos Jorge Velho - an event nowadays commemorated in Black Awareness Day.
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