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Events
January 21 – Highwayman Claude Duval is executed in Tyburn, Middlesex
April - Pope Clement X is elected.
May 2 - The Hudson's Bay Company is formed in England.
May 26 - In Dover, Charles II of England and Louis XIV of France secretly sign a treaty ending hostilities between their kingdoms
Phosphorus is discovered by Hennig Brand.
Blaise Pascal's Pensées is posthumously published.
England gains formal possession of Jamaica
Les Invalides constructed by Louis XIV of France
First French settlers in modern-day Senegal
Rebellion of Cossacks in Ukraine crushed
Henry Morgan captures Panama
Births
January 24 - William Congreve, English playwright.
May 12 - King Frederick Augustus I of Poland (+ 1733).
August 21 - James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick, illegitimate son of the Duke of York (the later James II of England) and later French military commander.
December 7 - John Aislabie, Director of the South Sea Company.
Deaths
February 19 - King Frederick III of Denmark
March 10 - Johann Glauber, German-Dutch alchemist and chemist
June 30 - Henrietta Anne Stuart, Princess of Scotland, England and Ireland, Duchess of Orléans.
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