1696
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Gregorian calendar | 1696 MDCXCVI |
Ab urbe condita | 2449 |
Armenian calendar | 1145 ԹՎ ՌՃԽԵ |
Chinese calendar | 4332/4392-11-27 (乙亥年十一月廿七日) — to —
4333/4393-12-8(丙子年十二月初八日) |
Ethiopian calendar | 1688 – 1689 |
Hebrew calendar | 5456 – 5457 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1751 – 1752 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1618 – 1619 |
- Kali Yuga | 4797 – 4798 |
Iranian calendar | 1074 – 1075 |
Islamic calendar | 1108 – 1109 |
Japanese calendar | Genroku 9 (元禄9年) |
- Imperial Year | Kōki 2356 (皇紀2356年) |
- Jōmon Era | 11696 |
Thai solar calendar | 2239 |
1696 (MDCXCVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Wednesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar). The year 1696 had the earliest equinoxes and solstices for 400 years in the Gregorian calendar, because this year is a leap year and the Gregorian calendar would have behaved like the Julian calendar since March 1500 had it have been in use that long. See 1903.
[edit] Events
- April - Fire destroys the Gra Bet (or Left Quarter) of Gondar, the capital of Ethiopia.
- August 22 - Forces of Venice and Turkish troops clash near Molino
- October 29 - Fuller Baptist Church founded in Kettering, England.
- December 24 - Inquisition burns number of Marrano Jews in Evora, Portugal
- Peter the Great becomes sole tsar of Russia.
- Polish replaces Ruthenian as an official language of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
- A famine wipes out almost a third of the population of Finland.
- Abington, Pennsylvania, is settled.
- William Penn offers an elaborate plan for intercolonial cooperation largely in trade, defense, and criminal matters.
- The Second Pueblo Revolt took place
- Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville captured and destroyed St. John's, Newfoundland.
[edit] Births
- January 5 - Giuseppe Galli-Bibiena, Italian architect/painter (died 1757)
- March 27 - Antoine Court, French Huguenot minister (died 1760)
- March 5 - Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian painter (died 1770)
- June 11 - Francis Edward James Keith, Scottish soldier and Prussian field marshal (died 1758)
- June 27 - William Pepperrell, English colonial soldier (died 1759)
- July 14 - William Oldys, English antiquarian and bibliographer (died 1761)
- August 2 - Mahmud I, Ottoman Sultan (died 1754)
- August 12 - Maurice Greene, English composer (died 1755)
- September 27 - Alphonsus Liguori, Italian founder of the Redemptionist order (died 1787)
- October 13 - John Hervey, Lord Hervey, English statesman and writer (died 1743)
- November 2 - Conrad Weiser, Pennsylvania's ambassador to the Iroquois Confederacy (died 1760)
- December 22 - James Oglethorpe, English general and founder of the state of Georgia (died 1785)
- Benning Wentworth, colonial governor of New Hampshire (died 1770)
[edit] Deaths
- January 11 - Charles Albanel, French missionary explorer in Canada (born 1616)
- February 8 - Tsar Ivan V of Russia (born 1666)
- February, Ahom King Supaatphaa or Gadadhar Singha
- March 14 - Jean Domat, French jurist (born 1625)
- March 18 - Robert Charnock, English conspirator (born c.1663)
- April 17 - Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné, French writer (born 1626)
- April 30 - Robert Plot, British naturalist (born 1640)
- May 10 - Jean de La Bruyère, French writer (born 1645)
- May 30 - Henry Capell, 1st Baron Capell, First Lord of the British Admiralty (born 1638)
- June 17 - John III of Poland (born 1629)
- August 2 - Robert Campbell of Glenlyon, Scottish military commander at the Massacre of Glencoe (born 1630)
- September 17 - John III Sobieski, King of Poland (born 1629)
- December 4 - Empress Meisho of Japan (born 1624)
- Daibhidh Ó Duibhgheannáin (born 1651)