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Historical Event(s)
– Henry Morgan captures Panama.
– King Charles II of England grants a permanent charter to the Hudson’s Bay Company to open up the fur trade in North America.
– In Dover, England, Charles II of Great Britain and Louis XIV of France sign the secret treaty of Dover, which will force England into the Third Anglo-Dutch War.
Who Were Born On ?
– William Congreve, English playwright (d. 1729)
– Benjamin Wadsworth, American President of Harvard University (d. 1737)
– Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans, English soldier (d. 1726)
– King Augustus II of Poland (d. 1733)
– Countess Palatine Dorothea Sophie of Neuburg, German-born Duchess of Parma (d. 1748)
– Giovanni Bononcini, Italian composer (d. 1747)
– Richard Leveridge, English bass and composer (d. 1758)
– James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick, French military leader (d. 1734)
– John Toland, Irish philosopher (d. 1722)
– John Aislabie, English politician (d. 1742)