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* [[Peter the Great]] plots to overthrow his half-sister [[Sophia Alekseyevna of Russia|Sophia]] as [[regent]] of Russia.
* Supporters of [[William III of England|William of Orange]] seize [[Liverpool Castle]] in the north west of England.<ref>{{cite web|title=Liverpool Castle|url=http://www.btinternet.com/~m.royden/mrlhp/local/castle/castle.htm|work=Mike Royden's Local History Pages|access-date=July 16, 2012|archive-date=July 19, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120719011814/http://www.btinternet.com/~m.royden/mrlhp/local/castle/castle.htm }}</ref>
* The English [[East India Company]] expands its influence, and a Committee of the [[House of Commons of the United Kingdom|House of Commons]] is formed to deal with the concerns of the Company.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Bohun|first=James|date=February 19, 2008|title=Protecting Prerogative: William III and the East India Trade Debate, 1689-1698|url=https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/pi/index.php/pi/article/view/1363|journal=Past Imperfect|volume=2|pages=66|doi=10.21971/P74S3M|issn=1718-4487|doi-access=free|access-date=October 27, 2022}}</ref>
* [[Johann Weikhard von Valvasor|Valvasor]]'s ''[[The Glory of the Duchy of Carniola]]'' is printed in [[Nuremberg]].
* The first documented performance of the opera ''[[Dido and Aeneas]]'' by [[Henry Purcell]] takes place at [[Josias Priest]]'s girls' school in [[Chelsea, London]], with a libretto based on [[Virgil]]'s ''[[Aeneid]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://study.com/academy/lesson/henry-purcells-dido-aeneas-summary-myth-analysis.html|title=Dido & Aeneas by Henry Purcell – Myth, Summary & Analysis|website=Study.com|access-date=2022-10-27}}</ref>
* [[Boston]] suffers a [[smallpox]] epidemic.<ref name="Umich1:11">{{cite book|url=https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/evans/N27531.0001.001/1:11?rgn=div1;view=fulltext|title=A brief history of epidemic and pestilential diseases; with the principal phenomena of the physical world, which precede and accompany them, and observations deduced from the facts stated |first=Noah|last= Webster|volume=I |date=September 2008 |access-date=October 27, 2022}}</ref></onlyinclude>