Events

• First Portuguese governor was appointed to Macau
• The Swedish city Karlskrona was founded as the Royal Swedish Navy relocated there.
• July 8 - The first confirmed tornado in America killed a servant at Cambridge, Massachusetts.
• August 21 - Pueblo Indians captured Santa Fe from Spanish during the Pueblo Revolt

Births

• January 23 - Joseph Ames, author
• September 22 - Barthold Heinrich Brockes, German poet (d. 1747)
• John Machin, English mathematician
• Blackbeard, pirate

Deaths

• February 17 - Jan Swammerdam, Dutch scientist (b. 1637)
• July 26 - John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, English poet (b. 1647)
• September 11 - Emperor Go-Mizunoo of Japan
• November 27 - Athanasius Kircher, German Jesuit scholar
• November 28 - Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Italian baroque sculptor (b. 1598)