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

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

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

* 1696 – Connecticut Route 108, third oldest highway in Connecticut, is laid out to Trumbull.

* 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 ).

* Joseph was born about 1628 and died in Bridgewater on February 8, 1696 / 7.

In November 1696, a subsequent claim was made to the island by Sir Peter van Bell, the agent of Sir Joseph Shepheard, a Rotterdam merchant, who claimed to have purchased Tortola on 21 June 1695, for 3, 500 guilders.

# Élisabeth Marguerite d ' Orléans ( 26 December 1646 – 17 March 1696 ) married Louis Joseph of Lorraine, Duke of Guise and had issue.

Her maternal grandparents were Joseph Ignace Somis ( c. 1710 – Marseille, 29 April 1750 ), son of Jean Louis Somis and his wife Françoise Bouchard, and wife ( m. in Marseille, 27 May 1736 ) Catherine Rose Soucheiron ( Marseille, 11 January 1696 – Marseille, 18 February 1776 ), daughter of François Soucheiron and his wife Anne Cautier.

Her triumph was a posthumously signed will in which her son, Charles II, decreed in September 1696 his nephew Joseph Ferdinand of Bavaria, the heir to the monarchy.

In the State Council of June 13, 1696, an intermediate position between the French and the imperial candidates for succession, in which Joseph Ferdinand was featured as the candidate best suited to the succession.

* Joseph II ( Chaldean Patriarch ) ( 1696 – 1713 )

* Joseph I ( Chaldean Patriarch ) ( reigned 1681 – 1696 )

He later personally instructed Joseph in architectural arts, so successfully that in 1696 the monarch elevated Johann Fischer to the nobility, as Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach.

Joseph Blake ( d. 1700 ), the nephew of British Admiral Robert Blake, was governor of colonial South Carolina in 1694 ( chosen by the council ), and from 1696 to his death 1700.

Solo violin repertoire was actively growing at the time: Heinrich Ignaz Biber's celebrated solo passacaglia appeared c. 1676, Westhoff's collections of solo violin music were published in 1682 and 1696, Johann Joseph Vilsmayr's Artificiosus Concentus pro Camera in 1715, and finally, Johann Georg Pisendel's solo violin sonata was composed around 1716.

Wenzel I Karl, Prince of Liechtenstein ( August 9, 1696 – February 10, 1772 ) was the Prince of Liechtenstein between 1712 and 1718, 1732 and 1745, and 1748 and 1772.

* Josef Wenzel, Prince of Liechtenstein ( 1696 – 1772 ), prince of Liechtenstein

* December 13 – Mahmud I, Ottoman Sultan ( b. 1696 )

The Old Clock Bells are the old 6th ( Abraham Rudhall II, 1725 ), the old 7th ( Abraham Rudhall I, 1696 ), the old 8th ( Abraham Rudhall I, 1696 ) and the old 11th ( Abraham Rudhall I, 1717 ).

* From 1696 to 1713, a Swiss Guard served at the court of Frederick I of Prussia.

Ivan V Alekseyevich ( Russian: Иван V Алексеевич, — ) was a joint Tsar of Russia ( with his younger half-brother Peter I ) who co-reigned between 1682 and 1696.

After Ivan's death on January 29, 1696 his half brother Peter I was left to become supreme ruler and Tsar of all of Russia.

In 1696, after dethroning Prince Michael II Apafi, Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor took the title " Prince of Transylvania ".

For the same theatre be composed La Lolta d ' Ercole con Achilleo in 1689, La Superbia d ' Alessandro in 1690, Orlando generoso in 1691, Le Rivali concordi in 1692, La Liberia contenta in 1693, I Trionfi del Job and I Baccanali in 1695, and Briseide in 1696.

The Akademie der Künste, Berlin was set up in 1696 by crown-prince Frederick III of Brandenburg, later king Frederick I of Prussia as an " Academy of Painterly, Sculptural and Architectural Art ", providing a model of the learned society for the " Prussian Royal Academy of Art and Mechanical Sciences " ( 1704 – 1790 ) and the " Royal Academy of Berlin for Fine Arts and Mechanical Sciences " ( 1790 – 1809 ).

During the Second Azov campaign in 1696, Shein was the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian land forces and was granted the title of Generalissimus by Peter I for his military achievements.

Master-founders at Aldbourne included Robert Cor ( active 1694 – 1724 ), William Cor ( active 1696 – 1722 ), Oliver Cor ( active 1725 – 27 ), John Cor ( active 1728 – 50 ), John Stares ( active 1744 – 46 ), Edward Read ( active 1751 – 57 ), Edne Witts ( active 1759 – 74 ), Robert I Wells ( active 1760 – 81 ), Robert II Wells ( active 1781 – 93 ), James Wells ( active 1792 – 1826 ).

In 1709, Pakubuwana I made another agreement with the VOC in which Mataram would pay annual tribute of wood, indigo and coffee ( planted since 1696 by VOC ’ s request ) in addition to rice.

Schönbrunn palace was built in 1696 by Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach for Emperor Leopold I ; empress Maria Theresa of Austria ordered the palace restyled in Rococo.