* 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 – 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

* 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 ).

* September 6 – Tsar Ivan V of Russia ( d. 1696 )

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 the 17th century, Voronezh gradually evolved into a sizable town, especially after Tsar Peter the Great built a dockyard in Voronezh where the Azov Flotilla was constructed for the Azov campaigns in 1695 and 1696.

As Azov's harbor wasn't convenient for the military fleet, the Tsar selected another more appropriate site on July 27, 1696 on the cape Tagan-Rog ( Taganrog ).

* Ivan V ( 1666 – 1696 )

* George V of Imereti ( reigned 1696 – 1698 )

* George V ( 1696 – 1698 )

During the early twentieth century they were popular in Russia with re-enactments of the Siege of Sevastopol ( 1854 – 1855 ) ( 1906 ), the Battle of Borodino ( 1812 ) in St Petersburg and the Taking of Azov ( 1696 ) in Voronezh in 1918.

In 1727, Wall accompanied the Duke of Liria, James Fitz-James Stuart, 2nd Duke of Berwick, ( 1696 – 1738 ), ( also of maternal Irish descent ) in his embassy to Russia.

Major-General Abram Petrovich Gannibal, also Hannibal or Ganibal or Ibrahim Hannibal or Abram Petrov (; 1696 – 14 May 1781, Suida, in present-day St. Petersburg ), was brought to Russia as a gift for Peter the Great and became major-general, military engineer, governor of Reval and nobleman of the Russian Empire.

In 1392 it was conquered by Timur, by the Ottoman Turks in 1471, by the Russians in 1696, again by the Turks in 1711 and by the Russian Empire in 1771.

On October 20, 1696 the Boyar Duma decreed the creation of the regular Imperial Russian Navy, this date is considered to be the birthday of the Russian Navy.

Aleksei Semyonovich Shein ( Алексей Семенович Шеин in Russian ) ( 1662 – February 12, 1700 ), Russian commander and statesman, the first Russian Generalissimus ( 1696 ), boyar, great-grandson of Mikhail Shein.

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.

During the war, the Russian army organized the Crimean campaigns of 1687 and 1689 and the Azov campaigns of 1695 and 1696.

Made a boyar in 1692, Trubetskoy commanded part of the Russian fleet during the Azov campaigns in 1696.

In 1696, Lefort together with Fedor Golovin and Prokopy Voznitsyn was put in charge of the Grand Embassy, a Russian diplomatic mission to Western Europe.

The Imperial Russian Navy was the navy of the Russian Empire, often dated from 1696 until the February Revolution of 1917.

* Vladimir Petrovich Dolgorukov ( 1696 – 1761 ), Russian General Governor of Livonia and Estonia