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September 20 - The Treaty of Ryswick
December 2 – St Paul's Cathedral opened in London
Peter the Great travels in Europe officially incognito as "artilleryman Pjotr Mikhailov"
Use of palanquins increases in Europe
Christopher Polhem starts Sweden's first technical school.
The royal castle "Tre Kronor" in Stockholm burns to the ground. A large portion of the royal library is destroyed.
Karl XII of Sweden is crowned king at the age of 15.
Tayassal, capital of the Peten Itza Maya, the last independent Mesoamerican state, is conquered by Spain
The Manchu Empire conquers western Mongolia
Births
March 9 - Friederike Caroline Neuber, actress (+ 1760)
August 6 - Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor
October 7 - Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canale), Italian artist
November 10 - William Hogarth, English artist
Deaths
Karl XI of Sweden dies of stomach cancer.
March 1 - Francesco Redi, physician, refuted abiogenesis (b. 1626)
January 8 - Thomas Aikenhead hanged for blasphemy, near Edinburgh, Scotland.
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