- 1681
Year 1681 (MDCLXXXI) was a
common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of theGregorian calendar (or acommon year starting on Saturday of the 10-day slowerJulian calendar ).Events of 1681
January - June
*March 14 -Charles II of England grants a land charter toWilliam Penn for the area that will later becomePennsylvania .July - December
*October 28 - ALondon woman is publicly flogged for the crime of "involving herself in politics."
*August 31 -Titus Oates is told to leave his state apartments in the Whitehall; his fame begins to wane and he is soon arrested and imprisoned forsedition .
*August 12 - TheAhom KingGadadhar Singha or Gadapani, who took the Tai nameSupaatphaa , ascends the throne.
*December - Wu Shifan, grandson of Chinese generalWu Sangui , commits suicide inYunnan province, ending the 8-year conflict of theRevolt of the Three Feudatories againstQing Dynasty authority inChina , then led by theKangxi Emperor .Undated
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France annexes the city ofStrasbourg .
* The lastdodo bird is killed.
* Collections are made inEngland for needy French refugees.Births
*March 14 -Georg Philipp Telemann , German composer (d.1767 )
*June 26 -Hedwig Sophia, duchess of Holstein-Gottorp , Swedish writer (d.1708 )
*September 11 -Johann Gottlieb Heineccius , German jurist (d.1741 )
*September 28 -Johann Mattheson , German composer (d.1764 )
*November 17 -Pierre François le Courayer , French theologian (d.1776 )
*November 28 -Jean Cavalier , French Protestant rebel leader (d.1740 ): "See also ."
Deaths
*January 28 -Richard Allestree , English royalist churchman (b.1619 )
*March 12 -Frans van Mieris, Sr. , Dutch painter (b.1635 )
*May 25 -Pedro Calderón de la Barca , Spanish dramatist and poet (b.1600 )
*July 1 -Oliver Plunkett , Irish saint (b.1629 )
*July 25 -Urian Oakes , English-born President of Harvard University (b.1631 )
*August 22 -Philippe Delano , Dutch Plymouth Colony settler (b.1602 )
*December 22 -Richard Alleine , English Puritan clergyman (b.1611 )
*"date unknown" -Gerard ter Borch , Dutch painter (b.1617 ): "See also ."
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