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== Events ==
* [[January 4]] – [[Palace of Whitehall]] in [[London]] is destroyed by fire.
* [[June 19]] – Volcano of [[Carguarazon]] erupts in the [[Andes]] and causes a rain of fish
* [[August 25]] – [[Peter I of Russia|Peter the Great]] arrives back to [[Moscow]] – general [[Patrick Gordon]] has already crushed the [[streltsy]] rebellion – 341 rebels sentenced to be decapitated. Tradition holds that tsar Peter decapitated some of them himself
* [[September 5]] – In an effort to move his people away from [[Asia]]tic customs, Tsar [[Peter I of Russia]] imposes a [[tax]] on beards; All men except priests and peasants, are required to pay a tax of one hundred [[Russian ruble|rubles]] a year and the commoners had to pay one [[kopek]] each

* [[British Whig Party|Whigs]] sponsor [[Captain Kidd]] of [[New York (state)|New York]] as a [[privateer]] against French shipping
* [[Darien Scheme]] – First Scottish settlers leave for an ill-fated colony in [[Panama]]
* [[Isaac Newton]] calculates the [[speed of sound]]
* [[Tani Jinzan]], [[astronomer]] and [[calendar]] scholar, observes a fire destroy Tosa (now [[Kochi Prefecture|Kochi]]) in Japan at the same time as a [[Leonids|Leonid]] Meteor storm, taking it as evidence to reinforce belief in the "Theory of Areas".
* [[Thomas Savery]] patents an early [[steam engine]].
* A congress begins in [[Sremski Karlovci]] to discuss a treaty between the [[Ottoman Empire]] and the [[Great Turkish War|Holy League]].
* [[Humphrey Hody]] is appointed regius professor of [[Greek language|Greek]] at [[University of Oxford|Oxford]].
* [[Bucharest]] becomes capital of [[Wallachia]] (now part of [[Romania]]).
* [[Mombasa]] and [[Zanzibar]] are captured by [[Oman]].
* [[George I of Great Britain|George Louis]] (who would in [[1714]] become King George I of Great Britain) becomes [[Prince-elector|Elector]] of [[Hanover]].

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