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* [[Great Northern War]]: Russian troops under Tsar [[Peter the Great]] capture [[Tartu]] and [[Narva]].
* The [[Sultanate of Brunei]] cedes its north-east territories to the [[Sultanate of Sulu]].
* The lower three counties of the [[Province of Pennsylvania]] become the colony of [[Delaware]].
* An [[earthquake]] strikes [[Gondar]], [[Ethiopia]].
* [[Tenerife]]'s earliest recorded volcanic eruption takes place from three fissure emission centres: Siete Fuentes, [[Fasnia]] and [[Arafo]].
* ''[[A Tale of a Tub]]'', the first major satire by [[Jonathan Swift]] (written 1694–1697), is published in London, running through three editions this year.
* [[Isaac Newton]] publishes his ''[[Opticks]]''. He also predicts that the world will end in 2060.
* The Students' Monument is built in [[Aiud]], [[Romania]].
* [[Chinese Rites controversy]]: Rome decrees that Roman ceremonial practice in [[Latin]] (not in Chinese) is to be the law for Chinese missions.
* [[Nerchinsky Zavod]] is founded in the [[Nerchinsko-Zavodsky District]] of [[Zabaykalsky Krai]], [[Russia]] by Greek mining engineers.
* [[Thomas Darley]] purchases the bay [[Arabian horse]] [[Darley Arabian]] in [[Aleppo]], [[Syria]], and ships him to stud in England, where he becomes the most important [[foundation bloodstock|foundation sire]] of all modern [[thoroughbred]] [[horse racing|racing]] bloodstock.
* Giancomo Miraldi observes [[Martian polar ice caps]] as "white spots" at the Martian poles.
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