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* Yusuf Bey is replaced as ''[[sanjak-bey]]'' of [[Lajjun Sanjak]] by an Ottoman officer, ending the power of the [[Turabay dynasty]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Sharon|first=Moshe|author-link=Moshe Sharon|editor-last=Ma'oz|editor-first=Moshe|title=Studies on Palestine During the Ottoman Period|date=1975|location=Jerusalem|publisher=Magnes Press|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DoJtAAAAMAAJ|chapter=The Political Role of the Bedouins in Palestine in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries|isbn=978-965-223-589-3|oclc=2298443}}</ref>
* The [[1689 Baptist Confession of Faith|Second London Baptist Confession of Faith]] is written (published in [[1689]]).
* [[Baruch Spinoza|Spinoza]]'s ''[[Ethics (Spinoza)|Ethics]]'' (''Ethica, ordine geometrico demonstrata'') is published as part of his ''[[Opera Posthuma]]'' in [[Amsterdam]].
* [[Robert Plot]] publishes ''The Natural History of Oxford-shire, Being an Essay Toward the Natural History of England'', in which he describes the fossilised femur of a human giant, now known to be from the [[dinosaur]] ''[[Megalosaurus]]''.
* [[Elias Ashmole]] gifts the collection that begins the [[Ashmolean Museum]] to the [[University of Oxford]] in England.
* [[Jules Hardouin Mansart]] begins ''la place Vendôme'' in [[Paris]] (it is completed in [[1698]]).
* [[Francis Aungier, 1st Earl of Longford|Francis Aungier, 3rd Baron Aungier of Longford]], is created 1st [[Earl of Longford]] in the [[Peerage of Ireland]].
* [[The John Roan School]] is established in [[Greenwich]], London.
* [[Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz]] gives a complete solution to the [[tangent problem]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Kreyszig|first=Erwin|title=Differential Geometry|isbn=978-0-486-66721-8|date=June 1991|publisher=Courier Corporation }}</ref>
* [[Antonie van Leeuwenhoek]] observes [[spermatozoa]] under the [[microscope]].
* The use of [[Erectile dysfunction#History|male impotence]] is ended as a factor in French divorce proceedings.
* [[Ice cream]] becomes popular in Paris.<ref>{{cite book|last=Grun|first=Bernard|title=The Timetables of History: A Horizontal Linkage of People and Events|location=New York|publisher=Simon and Schuster|date=1991|pages=308–309|quote=Ice cream becomes popular as dessert in Paris.|ol=1756160M}}</ref>
* The population of [[Paris]] first exceeds 500,000.</onlyinclude>