- 1696 in England
Events from the year
1696 in theKingdom of England .Incumbents
*Monarch -
William III of England Events
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27 January - the ship HMS "Royal Sovereign" (formerly "HMS Sovereign of the Seas " 1638) caught fire and burned at Chatham, after 57 years of service.
* March -Habeas Corpus suspended during a Jacobite invasion scare.cite book |last=Palmer |first=Alan & Veronica |year=1992 |title= The Chronology of British History|publisher= Century Ltd|location=London|pages= 200-201|isbn= 0-7126-5616-2]
* April -Window tax introduced.
* May - Shortage of silver coinage results in the guinea being officially revalued at 21 shillings, instead of 30.Undated
* Jacobites make an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate King William III.
*Board of Trade and Plantations established.cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|pages=287]Publications
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John Vanbrugh 's play "The Relapse ", first performed atDrury Lane theatre .Births
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27 June -William Pepperrell , colonial soldier (died 1759)
*14 July -William Oldys , antiquarian and bibliographer (died 1761)
*12 August - Maurice Greene, composer (died 1755)
*13 October -John Hervey, 2nd Baron Hervey , statesman and writer (died 1743)
*22 December -James Oglethorpe , general and founder of the state of Georgia (died 1785)Deaths
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18 March -Robert Charnock , conspirator (born c.1663)
*30 April -Robert Plot , naturalist (born 1640)
*30 May -Henry Capell, 1st Baron Capell , First Lord of the Admiralty (born 1638)References
ee also
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