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Gorgonzola
Sun Sep 16 2001 at 2:05:30
Born in 1681:
German
composer
Georg Phillip Telemann
.
Danish
explorer
Vitus Bering
.
German
librettist
Christian Friedrich Hunold
.
French
architect
Francois Antoine Vasse
.
Italian
composer
Francesco Bartolomeo Conti
.
French
writer
Claudine-Alexandrine Guerin de Tencin
.
English
painter
Peter Monamy
.
Died in 1681:
Spanish
dramatist
Pedro Calderón de la Barca
.
Anglican
writer
Richard Allestree
.
English
organ
builder
John Loosemore
.
English religious writer
William Walwyn
, a noted supporter of the
Levellers
.
English
astronomer
William Lilly
.
English
actor
and dramatist
John Lacy
.
Itlaian
composer
Francesco Corbetta
.
German painter and
composer
Georg Neumark
.
Dutch painter
Franz van Mieris
the Elder.
Dutch painter
Gerard Terborch
.
Dutch painter
Cornelis Saftleven
.
Dutch poet
Andries Pels
.
Dutch or German painter
Gerard Soest
.
St
.
Oliver Plunket
,
primate
of
Ireland
, drawn and quartered after being implicated in the fraudulent
1678
"
Popish Plot
".
Flemish painter
Justus Susterman
.
English clergyman
John Ward
,
vicar
of
Stratford-on-Avon
, and
Shakespeare
buff.
83,000 from the
plague
in
Prague
.
The
last
dodo
es
on
Mauritius
.
Events of 1681:
John Dryden
's play
Absalom and Achitophel
premieres.
Edward Ravenscfort's play
The London Cuckolds
premieres.
Thomas Otway
's play
The Soldier's Fortune
premieres.
Charles's former lover
Nell Gwyn
writes
about being jostled during the "Popish Plot".
Jonas Moore
shows that the Earth's surface is
more water than land
.
A student of
Matsuo Munefusa
plants a
banana
(or
Basho
) plant next to his teacher's
hut
. The
Tenwa Era
begins in
Japan
.
Charles II
grants
William Penn
a tract of land in North America in order to clear a debt incurred with Penn's father.
Pennsylvania
, as it is to be called, is the land between the 39th and 42nd parallels from Delaware River to five degrees west of it. Trouble is, Charles' father had given much of this land to
George Calvert
, the first
Lord Baltimore
, fifty years previously.
The
Scottish
Parliament
passes a
Test Act
much like the one in place in England.
The proprietors of
West Jersey
issue a "
Right of Government
" document providing for a legislature and religious toleration.
Qing Emperor
Kangxi
defeats three rebellious generals
(
Geng Jimao
,
Wu Sangui
, and the son of
Shang Kexi
) who had held control of southern China for the previous nine years.
Louis XIV
officially annexes
Alsace
, which he had occupied since
1679
, to
France
.
forms a
ballet
academy allowing women
Russia
concludes a peace treaty with the
Khanate of the Crimea
.
founds
an Academy of Sciences
.
1680
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1681
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1682
How They Were Made
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17th Century
1682
1680
Trillian
The Mower's Song
Georg Philipp Telemann
Pennsylvania
Khanate of the Crimea
Vitus Bering
Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans, duchesse de Montpensier
1641
1651
Saint Oliver Plunkett
How I made the Year Nodes
Levellers
To His Coy Mistress
Didine
William Penn
dodo
Prague
1981