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* China concentrates all its foreign trade on [[Guangzhou|Canton]]; European ships are forbidden to land anywhere else.
* A religious [[schism]] takes place in Switzerland, within a group of Swiss and [[Alsace|Alsatian]] [[Anabaptists]] led by [[Jakob Ammann]]. Those who follow Ammann become the Mennonite [[Amish]] sect.<ref>{{cite book|last=Kraybill|first=Donald B.|author-link=Donald Kraybill|title=Anabaptist World USA|publisher=Herald Press|year=2001|isbn=0-8361-9163-3|pages=7–8}}</ref> 
* The [[Knights of the Apocalypse]] are formed in Italy.
* The ''[[Academia Operosorum Labacensium]]'' is established in Ljubljana, [[Slovenia]].
* Financier [[Richard Hoare (banker)|Richard Hoare]] relocates [[Hoare's Bank]] (founded [[1672]]) from [[Cheapside]] to [[Fleet Street]] in London.
* Italian barber Giovanni Paolo Feminis creates a perfume water called Aqua Admirabilis, earliest known form of [[eau de Cologne]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Pepe|first1=Tracy|title=So, What's All the Sniff About?|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dZYVMRG0PMAC|year=2000|page=46|publisher=So Whats all the Sniff about |isbn=9780968707609|access-date=July 11, 2015}}</ref>
* [[John Locke]] publishes his influential book ''[[Some Thoughts Concerning Education]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|first=Hugh|last=Cunningham|title=Re-inventing childhood|url=http://www.open2.net/theinventionofchildhood/childhood_inventions.html|work=open2.net|publisher=Open University|access-date=June 16, 2010}}</ref>
* [[William Penn]] publishes his proposal for [[Federal Europe|European federation]], ''Essay on the Present and Future Peace of Europe''.<ref name="CBH198200"/>
* English astronomer [[Edmond Halley]] studies records of births and deaths in Breslau (Poland), producing a life table consolidating year of birth and age at death. He uses this to work out the price of life annuities.<ref name="Halley">{{cite book|title=A Short History of Mathematical Population Dynamics|chapter=Halley's life table (1693)|author=Nicolas Bacaër|date=February 2011 |publisher=Springer|isbn=978-0-85729-115-8|location=London}}</ref>
* [[Dimitrie Cantemir]] presents his ''Kitâbu 'İlmi'l-Mûsiki alâ Vechi'l-Hurûfât (The Book of the Science of Music through Letters)'' to Sultan [[Ahmed II]], which deals with melodic and rhythmic structure and practice of [[Ottoman classical music|Ottoman music]], and contains the scores for around 350 works composed during and before his own time, in an alphabetical notation system he invented.</onlyinclude>