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Historical Event(s)
– Feodor III becomes Tsar of Russia.
– Franco-Dutch War: France ensured the supremacy of its naval fleet for the remainder of the war with its victory in the Battle of Palermo.
– Praying Indian John Alderman shoots and kills Metacomet, the Wampanoag war chief, ending King Philip’s War.
– Jamestown is burned to the ground by the forces of Nathaniel Bacon during Bacon’s Rebellion.
– Battle of Lund: A Danish army under the command of King Christian V of Denmark engages the Swedish army commanded by Field Marshal Simon Grundel-Helmfelt.
Who Were Born On ?
– Thomas Boston, Scottish church leader (d. 1732)
– Francis II Rákóczi, Hungarian nationalist (d. 1735)
– King Frederick I of Sweden (d. 1751)
– Jacopo Riccati, Italian mathematician (d. 1754)
– Anthony Collins, English philosopher (d. 1729)
– Anthony Collins, English philosopher (d. 1729)
– Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Prussian field marshal (d. 1747)
– Caspar Abel, German theologian, historian and poet (d. 1763)
– Élisabeth Charlotte d'Orléans, Duchess of Lorraine (d. 1741)
– Eberhard Ludwig, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1733)