Events

• February 13 - Massacre of Glencoe
• March 1 - The Salem witch trials begin in Salem Village, Massachusetts Bay Colony with the charging of three women with witchcraft.
• June 10 - Salem Witch Trials: three women hanged for witchcraft.
• August 19 - Salem Witch Trials: three women and four men are hanged for witchcraft.
• September 19 - Salem Witch Trials: a man is pressed to death in an attempt to torture him into entering a plea.
• September 22 - Salem Witch Trials: six women and two men are hanged for witchcraft!

Births

• April 5 - Adrienne Lecouvreur, French actress (d. 1730)
• April 8 - Giuseppe Tartini, Italian composer and violinist (d. 1770)
• April 22 - James Stirling, Scottish mathematician (d. 1770)
• May 18 - Joseph Butler, English priest and theologian (d. 1752)
• Eusebius Amort, German Catholic theologian (d. 1775)

Deaths

• November 19 - Thomas Shadwell, English poet and playwright