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Historical Event(s)
– Charles II of England issues the Royal Declaration of Indulgence.
– Franco-Dutch War: Louis XIV of France invades the Netherlands.
– John Maitland becomes Duke of Lauderdale and Earl of March.
– Former Grand Pensionary Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis are brutally murdered by an angry mob in The Hague.
Who Were Born On ?
– Hugh Boulter, Irish Archbishop of Armagh (d. 1742)
– Antoine Houdar de la Motte, French writer (d. 1731)
– Étienne François Geoffroy, French chemist (d. 1731)
– Richard Steele, Irish writer and politician (d. 1729)
– Joseph Addison, English politician and writer (d. 1719)
– Tsar Peter I of Russia (d. 1725)
– Francesco Antonio Bonporti, Italian priest and composer (d. 1749)
– Anna Maria Franziska of Saxe-Lauenburg, Grand Duchess of Tuscany (d. 1741)
– Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Swiss scholar (d. 1733)
– Pylyp Orlyk, Ukrainian Zaporozhian Cossack starshina, diplomat (d. 1742)