Giuseppe Torelli, Italy, composer (Concert Grossi op 8)

Birth

Lord protector Cromwell disbands English parliament

Event

John Tradescant, traveller/gardener, dies

Death

Royal Society incorporates

Event

King Charles II sits in on English parliament

Event

Georg Stiernhielm, Swed scholar/author/poet (Hercules), dies at 73

Death

Netherlands and Munster sign peace treaty

Event

Battle of Etna - Neth/Spain vs France, M de Ruyter fatally wounded

Event

Battle at Catania: between French and Dutch fleet

Event

Wenzel E Frst von Lobkowitz, Austria chancellor (16..-74), dies at 68

Death

Willem I Kerricx the Young, Flemish architect/sculptor/painter

Birth

John Carteret, Earl Granville (C), English chief minister (1722-42)

Birth

Edward Bishop is jailed for proposong flogging as cure for witchcraft

Event

Hans A baron von Abschatz, Silesian poet, dies at 53

Death

Henry Fielding, England, novelist (Joseph Andrews, Tom Jones)

Birth

19 VOC "komplotteurs" in Batavia executed

Event

Pieter Erberfeld, German/Thais merchant on Java, dies

Death

Immanuel Kant, Konigsberg Germ, philosopher (Critique of Pure Reason)

Birth

Pierre de Marivaux' "Le Triomphe de Plutus," premieres in Paris

Event

Madame de Sta‰l, Swiss-French belle-lettrist (An Extraordinary Woman)

Birth

Madame du Barry becomes King Louis XV's "official" mistress

Event

Jean V baron de Rebecque, Swiss/Dutch army leader

Birth

Georg Hermes, German philosopher/theologist (Hermenianen)

Birth

Johann Adolph Scheibe, German music theroist/composer, dies at 67

Death

James Hargreaves, inventor (spinning jenny), dies

Death