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| Years: 1681 1682 1683 - 1684 - 1685 1686 1687 | |
| Decades: 1650s 1660s 1670s - 1680s - 1690s 1700s 1710s | |
| Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century | |
Events
- France under Louis XIV makes Truce of Ratisbon separately with the Empire and Spain.
- Pope Innocent XI forms a Holy League with the Habsburg Empire, Venice and Poland to liberate Europe from the Ottoman Turkish rule.
- Japanese Chief Minister Hotta Masatoshi is assassinated, leaving Shogun Sunayoshi without any adequate advisors, leading him to issue impractical edicts and create hardships for the Japanese people
- The Japanese poet Saikaku composes 23,500 verses in 24 hours at the Sumiyoshi Shrine at Osaka; the scribes cannot keep pace with his dictation and just count the verses
- The British East India Company receives Chinese permission to build a trading station at Canton. Tea sells in Europe for less than a shilling a pound, but the import duty of 5 shillings makes it too expensive for most English people to afford
- Smuggled tea is drunk much more than legally imported tea
- England has its coldest winter in living memory; the River Thames and the sea as far as 2 miles out from land freezes over
- John Bunyan writes The Pilgrim's Progress Part 2
Births
- March 19 - Jean Astruc, French physician and scholar (d. 1766)
- April 15 - Catherine I of Russia (d. 1727)
- June 22 - Francesco Manfredini, Italian composer (d. 1762)
- October 10 - Antoine Watteau, French painter (d. 1721)
- December 3 - Ludvig Holberg, Norwegian historian and writer (d. 1754)
- Johann Jacob Dillenius, German botanist (d. 1747)
Deaths
- April 5 - Lord William Brouncker, English mathematician
- October 1 - Pierre Corneille, French playwright (b. 1606)
- Chief Minister Hotta Masatoshi (assassinated)af:1684
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