Editing 1681 (section)

=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 1]] &ndash; Prince [[Muhammad Akbar (Mughal prince)|Muhammad Akbar]], son of the [[Mughal Empire|Mughal]] Emperor [[Aurangzeb]], initiates a civil war in India.  With the support of troops from the [[Rajput]] states, Akbar declares himself the new Mughal Emperor and prepares to fight his father, but is ultimately defeated.  
* [[January 3]] &ndash; The [[Treaty of Bakhchisarai]] is signed, between the [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] vassal [[Crimean Khanate]] and the [[Russian Empire]]. 
* [[January 18]] &ndash; The "[[Exclusion Bill Parliament]]", summoned by King Charles II of England in October, is dissolved after three months, with directions that new elections be held, and that a new parliament be convened in March in Oxford.
* [[February 2]] &ndash; In India, the [[Mughal Empire]] city of [[Burhanpur]] (now in the Indian state of [[Madhya Pradesh]]) is [[Sacking of Burhanpur (1681)|sacked and looted]] by troops of the [[Maratha Confederacy|Maratha Empire]] on orders of the Maratha emperor, the [[Chhatrapati]] [[Sambhaji]].  General [[Hambirrao Mohite]] began the pillaging three days earlier. 
* [[March 4]] &ndash; In order to settle a debt of £16,000, King [[Charles II of England]] grants a land charter to [[William Penn]], for territory west of [[Delaware River]] in America between [[40th parallel north|40° N]] and [[42nd parallel north|42° N]], later to be called [[Pennsylvania]].<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4rQBAAAAMAAJ |title=Pennsylvania Society of Colonial Governors, Volume 1 |year=1916 |editor-last=Pennsylvania Society of Colonial Governors |pages=180–181 |chapter=Samuel Carpenter}}</ref> 
* [[March 21]] &ndash; The "[[Oxford Parliament (1681)|Oxford Parliament]]" is summoned in England by King Charles II and meets in Oxford rather than in Westminster, but is dissolved seven days later.  No further sessions of parliament are held until after the death of Charles in 1685.