1681

Events of 1681

January - June

• March 14 - Charles II of England grants a land charter to William Penn for the area that will later become Pennsylvania.

July - December

• October 28 - A London woman is publicly flogged for the crime of "involving herself in politics."
• August 31 - Titus Oates is told to leave his state apartments in the Whitehall; his fame begins to wane and he is soon arrested and imprisoned for sedition.
• August 12 - The Ahom King Gadadhar Singha or Gadapani, who took the Tai name Supaatphaa, ascends the throne.
• December - Wu Shifan, grandson of Chinese general Wu Sangui, commits suicide in Yunnan province, ending the 8-year conflict of the Revolt of the Three Feudatories against Qing Dynasty authority in China, then led by the Kangxi Emperor.

Undated

• France annexes the city of Strasbourg.
• The last dodo bird is killed.
• Collections are made in England for needy French refugees.

Births

• March 14 - Georg Philipp Telemann, German composer (d. 1767)
• June 26 - Hedwig Sophia, duchess of Holstein-Gottorp, Swedish writer (d. 1708)
• September 11 - Johann Gottlieb Heineccius, German jurist (d. 1741)
• September 28 - Johann Mattheson, German composer (d. 1764)
• November 17 - Pierre François le Courayer, French theologian (d. 1776)
• November 28 - Jean Cavalier, French Protestant rebel leader (d. 1740)

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Deaths

• January 28 - Richard Allestree, English royalist churchman (b. 1619)
• March 12 - Frans van Mieris, Sr., Dutch painter (b. 1635)
• May 25 - Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Spanish dramatist and poet (b. 1600)
• July 1 - Oliver Plunkett, Irish saint (b. 1629)
• July 25 - Urian Oakes, English-born President of Harvard University (b. 1631)
• August 22 - Philippe Delano, Dutch Plymouth Colony settler (b. 1602)
• December 22 - Richard Alleine, English Puritan clergyman (b. 1611)
• date unknown - Gerard ter Borch, Dutch painter (b. 1617)

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