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Events
August 10
-
Treaty of Nijmegen
ends the
Dutch War
.
September 6
-
Titus Oates
begins to present allegations of the "
Popish Plot
", a Catholic conspiracy to assassinate king
Charles II of England
October 17
- British politician Sir
Edmund Berry Godfrey
is found murdered in Greenberry Hill ,
London
About 1200 Irish families sail from
Barbados
to
Virginia
and the
Carolinas
First chrysantemums in Europe
John Bunyan
publishes his novel,
The Pilgrim's Progress
.
Births
March 4
-
Antonio Vivaldi
,
Italian
music
composer
(died
1741
)
May 16
- Andreas Silbermann ,
organ
builder (died
1734
)
July 26
-
Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor
(died
1711
)
Deaths
August 16
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Andrew Marvell
, English metaphysical poet and satirist (born
1621
)
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