Incumbents

Events

8 February – the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, is granted a Royal charter from King William III and Queen Mary II of England.
March – William Congreve's first play, the comedy The Old Bachelor, is performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.^[1]
17 June (27 June New Style) – Nine Years' War: The French fleet defeats the joint Dutch and English fleet at the Battle of Lagos off Portugal.
19 July (29 July New Style) – Nine Years' War: The Dutch-English army led personally by King William III of England is defeated by the French (with Irish Jacobite mercenaries) at the Battle of Landen near Neerwinden in Flemish Brabant.
October – Congreve's comedy The Double Dealer is first performed at Drury Lane.^[1]^[2]

27 February – 17 March – John Dunton publishes The Ladies' Mercury, the first periodical specifically for women.
John Locke's Some Thoughts Concerning Education.^[2]^[3]
William Penn's proposal for European federation Essay on the Present and Future Peace of Europe.^[2]
Vertue Rewarded – anonymous Irish novel, printed in London

4 February – George Lillo, playwright (died 1739)
24 February – James Quin, actor (died 1766)
24 March – John Harrison, clockmaker (died 1776)
3 April – George Edwards, naturalist (died 1773)
21 July – Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Prime Minister of Great Britain (died 1768)
21 September – Thomas Secker, Archbishop of Canterbury (died 1768)

^ ^a ^b Hochman, Stanley. McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama. Vol. 4. p. 542.
^ ^a ^b ^c Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 198–200. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
^ Cunningham, Hugh. "Re-inventing childhood". open2.net. Open University. Retrieved 16 June 2010.

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