Events

• March 11 – Chelsea hospital for soldiers is founded in England
• May 6 - Louis XIV of France moves his court to Versailles.
• First black slaves arrive in Germany
• Halley's comet makes an appearance, and is observed by Edmond Halley himself
• In Russia, half-brothers Ivan V and Peter I named tsar - Peter's half-sister Sofia becomes regent

Births

• February 13 - Giovanni Battista Piazzetta , painter (died 1754)
• June 27 - Charles XII of Sweden, king of Sweden 1697-1718 (died 1718) (June 17 in Swedish calendar)

Deaths

• October 19 - Sir Thomas Browne English author, physician and philosopher
• November 23 - Claude Lorrain French landscape painter