Incumbents

• Monarch - William III of England

Events

• January - Czar Peter I of Russia visits England where he stays for four months studying the theory of shipbuilding.
• 4 January - The Palace of Whitehall is destroyed by fire.
• July to August - General election results in victory for the New Country Tories.
• 2 July - Thomas Savery patents a steam engine capable of pumping water from mines.
• 11 October - Treaty of Den Haag signed between France, England and Holland.

Undated

• Reverend Thomas Bray founds the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.

Births

• 8 May - Henry Baker, naturalist (died 1774)
• 26 September - William Cavendish, 3rd Duke of Devonshire (died 1755)
• 24 December - William Warburton, critic and Bishop of Gloucester (died 1779)

Deaths

• 24 January - William Holder, music theorist (born 1616)
• 29 April - Charles Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis, First Lord of the British Admiralty (born 1655)

Unknown dates

• Nicholas Barbon, economist (born c.1640)

References

See also