1696
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- 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.