Events

• February 6 - The colony Quilombo dos Palmares is destroyed.
• July 27 - A Royal Charter is granted to the Bank of England.
• December 22 - The Triennial Bill became law.
• December 28 - Queen Mary II of England dies; King William III of England, Scotland and Ireland is now sole ruler after his co-ruler's death.
• Much of the town of Warwick, England destroyed by fire.

Births

• November 21 - François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire, French philosopher
• December 22 - Hermann Samuel Reimarus, German philosopher and writer (b. 1768)
• Ralph Allen

Deaths

• November 22 - John Tillotson, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1630)
• December 28 - Queen Mary II of England, Scotland and Ireland