* 1696 – Joseph Wenzel I, Prince of Liechtenstein ( d. 1772 )

* 1696 – Mahmud I, Ottoman Sultan ( d. 1754 )

* 1645 – Jean de La Bruyère, French writer ( d. 1696 )

* 1696 – Maurice Greene, English composer ( d. 1755 )

* 1696 – Empress Meishō, Japan ( b. 1624 )

* 1755 – Maurice Greene, English composer ( b. 1696 )

* 1635 – Mariana of Austria, second wife of king Philip IV of Spain ( d. 1696 )

* 1696 – James Oglethorpe, English general and founder of the state of Georgia ( d. 1785 )

* 1640 – Robert Plot, English naturalist ( d. 1696 )

* 1754 – Mahmud I, Ottoman Sultan ( b. 1696 )

* 1626 – Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné, French author ( d. 1696 )

# 1692 – 1696 Sir Stephen Evans

# 1696 – 1700 Sir William Trumbull

* 1696 – Tsar Ivan V of Russia, Russian tsar ( b. 1666 )

* 1644 – Simon Foucher, French philosopher ( d. 1696 )

* 1638 – Henry Capell, 1st Baron Capell, English first Lord of the British Admiralty ( d. 1696 )

* 1696 – Johann Caspar Vogler, German organist and composer ( d. 1763 )

Melilla was immediately threatened with reconquest and was besieged 1694 – 1696 and 1774 – 1775.

* 1770 – Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian artist ( b. 1696 )

* 1696 – Conrad Weiser, Pennsylvania's ambassador to the Native Americans ( d. 1760 )

* 1696 – John Hervey, 2nd Baron Hervey, English statesman and writer ( d. 1743 )

Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 263: 1689 – 1696.

A meaningful starting point, however, is 1688 – 9 when James II fled England and the Parliament of England confirmed William and Mary as joint constitutional monarchs, enacting legislation that limited their authority and that of their successors: the Bill of Rights ( 1689 ), the Mutiny Bill ( 1689 ), the Triennial Bill ( 1694 ), the Treason Act ( 1696 ) and the Act of Settlement ( 1701 ).

The Nichols Avenue portion in Trumbull was completed in 1696, making it the third oldest documented highway in Connecticut.

* Farm Highway 12 rods, or wide highway laid out to Trumbull, Connecticut December 7, 1696.

The third creation came in 1696 when the soldier Lord George Hamilton was made Lord Dechmont, Viscount of Kirkwall and Earl of Orkney in the Peerage of Scotland.

Winde ’ s employer was William, third Lord Powis ( c. 1626 – 1696 ), who was created Earl ( 1674 ) and then Marquess ( 1685 ) of Powis.

A third convent and church was re-constructed in 1696 on higher ground and farther away from the coast.

George Hamilton was created as the Earl of Orkney in the third creation of the title in 1696.

The oldest remaining homestead in the town is the Manning Manse, built in 1696, and later the residence of William Manning ( 1747 – 1814 ), the author of " The Key of Libberty ," a critique of Federalist policies.

Founded in 1696 as a preparatory school, King William's School, the school received a collegiate charter in 1784, making it one of the oldest institutions of higher learning in the United States.

The college is one of the oldest in the United States, after Harvard ( 1636 ), the College of William and Mary ( 1693 ), St. John's College in Annapolis ( 1696 ), Yale University ( 1701 ), and the University of Pennsylvania ( 1740 ).

The oldest Strudel recipe is from 1696, a handwritten recipe housed at the Wiener Stadtbibliothek.

This village is best known as birthplace of Montenegro's royal dynasty of Petrović, which ruled Montenegro from 1696 to 1918, as well as everyday office supreme temporal power in Montenegro, Gubernadur, from one of the oldest families in Njeguši-Radonjić, which ruled from Montenegro, first to the Supreme serdar Stano of 1520 and even earlier ( the days of the family Crnojevic ), as of a later gubernadurs from 1756 to 1832.

The oldest Strudel recipe ( a Millirahmstrudel ) is from 1696, a handwritten recipe at the Viennese City Library, Wiener Stadtbibliothek.

For a long time a recipe from 1696 in the Vienna Stadt-und Landesbibliothek was the oldest one known.

The first turnpike road in England is reputed to have been created here at the end of the 17th century, Acts of Parliament were passed in 1696 and 1709, " For the repairing of the highway between Wymondham and Attleborough, in the County of Norfolk, and for including therein the road from Wymondham to Hethersett ".

In 1696 he ran a tile and brick factory in what is now Tilbury, Essex and living in the parish of Chadwell St Mary.

The rule is named after the 17th-century French mathematician Guillaume de l ' Hôpital, who published the rule in his book Analyse des Infiniment Petits pour l ' Intelligence des Lignes Courbes ( literal translation: Analysis of the Infinitely Small for the Understanding of Curved Lines ) ( 1696 ), the first textbook on differential calculus.

Despite the success of his masterwork Dido and Aeneas ( 1689 ), in which the action is furthered by the use of Italian-style recitative, much of Purcell's best work was not involved in the composing of typical opera, but instead he usually worked within the constraints of the semi-opera format, where isolated scenes and masques are contained within the structure of a spoken play, such as Shakespeare in Purcell's The Fairy-Queen ( 1692 ) and Beaumont and Fletcher in The Prophetess ( 1690 ) and Bonduca ( 1696 ).

It is generally agreed that creag was an early form of cricket ( see also History of cricket to 1696 ).

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* May 21 – John III Sobieski is elected by the nobility as King of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ( to 1696 ).

Much of what is known of Hooke's early life comes from an autobiography that he commenced in 1696, but was not completed.

Opposite the Jews ' Sally Port () in Valletta is the Auberge de Bavière built in 1696 ).

The majority of Bacup's culturally significant architecture is in the Victorian period, but there are older buildings of note are Fearns Hall ( 1696 ), Forest House ( 1815 ) and the 18th century Stubbylee Hall.

Dorchester county is named for its first settlement area, which was established by Congregationalists in 1696.

The village centre is quite small, consisting of just a single street, a village green, The Swan Inn pub ( built early 19th century but dates back to 1696 ), a few shops and restaurants and a riverbank adjacent to the River Bure.

* Conrad Weiser, 1696 – 1760, built his homestead just outside what is now the borough limits.

* The mace of the Cork guilds, made by Robert Goble of Cork in 1696 for the associated guilds of which he had been master, is in the Victoria and Albert Museum.

While the swearing of some sort of oath goes back to the earliest records of organised masonry, the first recorded ritual is not until 1696, in the Edinburgh Register House manuscript.

The Relapse, or, Virtue in Danger is a Restoration comedy from 1696 written by John Vanbrugh.

The second work in which Biber explored scordatura techniques is Harmonia artificioso-ariosa ( 1696 ), his last known published collection of instrumental music.

In 1696 a London bailiff, who attempted to serve process on a debtor who had taken refuge within the precincts of the Savoy, was tarred and feathered and taken in a wheelbarrow to the Strand, where he was tied to a maypole that stood by what is now Somerset House, as an improvised pillory.

* Christianity Not Mysterious: A Treatise Shewing, That there is nothing in the Gospel Contrary to Reason, Nor Above It: And that no Christian Doctrine can be properly called A Mystery ( 1696 )

L ' Hôspital authored the first textbook on infinitesimal calculus, " Analyse des Infiniment Petits pour l ' Intelligence des Lignes Courbes " in 1696, which mainly consisted of the work of Bernoulli, including what is now known as L ' Hôpital's rule.

An example of the so-called Frenchified fop is Sir Novelty Fashion in Colley Cibber's Love's Last Shift ( 1696 ).

Maryland's earliest known recorded appearance is on a map of Essex published by J. Oliver in 1696, where it is marked as ' Maryland Point '.