Events

• Building of the Student's Monument in Aiud, Romania.
• February 29 - Quebecois and Native Americans sack Deerfield, Massachusetts
• August 13 - War of the Spanish Succession: Battle of Blenheim
• The Sultanate of Brunei cedes its north-east territories to the Sultanate of Sulu.
• The lower three counties of the Province of Pennsylvania become the colony of Delaware.
• Earthquake strikes Gondar in Ethiopia

Births

• June 22 - John Taylor - English Classical Scholar (died 1766)

Deaths

• February 2 - Guillaume François Antoine, Marquis de l'Hôpital, French mathematician (born 1661)
• February 23 - Georg Muffat, German composer (born 1645)
• February 24 - Marc-Antoine Charpentier, French composer (probably born 1643)
• May 3 - Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber, Austrian composer (born 1644)
• June 18 - Tom Brown, English satirist (born 1662)
• October 28 - John Locke, philosopher (born 1632)