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Events
Giovanni Domenico Cassini observes differential rotation within Jupiter's atmosphere.
January 6 - Joseph, son of Emperor Leopold I becomes King of the Romans
January 14 - The clarinet is invented in Nuremberg, Germany
May 20 - England passes Act of Grace, forgiving followers of James II
July 1 - The Battle of the Boyne, in Ireland
Earliest recorded sighting of the planet Uranus, by John Flamsteed, who mistakenly catalogued it as the star 34 Tauri
October 6-12--Massachusetts Puritans led by Sir William Phips besiege the city of Quebec. The siege ends in failure.
Births
February 1 - Francesco Maria Veracini, composer
March 18 - Christian Goldbach (Prussian mathematician)
November 29 - Christian Augustus of Anhalt-Zerbst, father of Catherine II of Russia (d. 1747)
Deaths
1 July - George Walker Defender of Derry
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