In September 1696, Kidd weighed anchor and set course for the Cape of Good Hope.

The Howland Great Dock in Rotherhithe ( built 1696 and later forming the core of the Surrey Commercial Docks ) was designed to address these problems, providing a large, secure and sheltered anchorage with room for 120 large vessels.

Abbadie had also written, at the request of the king, Histoire de la dernière Conspiration d ' Angleterre, 1696, a history of the conspiracy of 1696, which was reprinted in Holland and translated into English, and for which the Earl of Portland and Secretary Sir William Trumbull placed original documents at the author's disposal.

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.

* In England, Parliament decides against a renewal of the Licensing Act, putting an end to royal censorship of printing presses and so clearing the way for a free press on the Act's expiry in 1696.

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.

It remained in Westminster until the days of Queen Victoria, being preserved from 1696 onwards in the Chapter House, and only removed in special circumstances, such as when it was sent to Southampton for photozincographic reproduction.

Eleonore remained in Saxony for another two years, until her death in 1696.

In 1696 he established a system of intendants, based on the French model, responsible for collecting taxes and law enforcement.

Scotland was one of the first countries in the world to introduce compulsory education for all children in 1696, administered in each parish by the Kirk.

Also included were William Lowndes Secretary of the Treasury who had been significantly responsibility for re-minting the entire debased British coinage in 1696 and John Aislabie who represented the October Club, a group of around 200 MPs who had agreed to vote together.

:: Partita VII for two violas d ' amore and basso continuo, from Harmonia artificiosa-ariosa, 1696.

In 1696 he took out a patent for a machine for polishing glass or marble and another for " rowing of ships with greater ease and expedicion than hitherto beene done by any other " which involved paddle-wheels driven by a capstan and which was dismissed by the Admiralty following a negative report by the Surveyor of the Navy, Edmund Dummer.

In 1696, Hawksmoor was appointed surveyor to the Commissioners of Sewers for Westminster, but was dismissed in 1700, ' having neglected ' to attend the Court several days last past '.

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

In the summer of 1696, he asked his doctors for an opinion on the pain that had gotten continuously worse, but they had no viable cure or treatment for it.

In 1696 he accompanied his patron to Sweden ; and on his return to Hamburg, not long afterwards, he became a candidate for the chair of logic and philosophy.

), 1694 and 1700 ; odes, and the like, for the celebration of St Cecilia's Day for 1684, 1691, 1695 and 1700 ; for the coronation of James II, two anthems, Behold, O God, our Defender and God spake sometimes in visions ; some harpsichord pieces for the second part of Henry Playford's Musick's handmaid ( 1689 ); Epicedium for Queen Mary ( 1695 ) and Ode on the Death of Purcell ( 1696 ).

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.

In 1692 the provincial assembly passed a law enacting a new charter for the college, but the Board of Trade vetoed this law in 1696, again throwing the college's existence into jeopardy.

* August 17 – King John III Sobieski of Poland ( d. 1696 )

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

John III Sobieski (, ) ( 17 August 1629 – 17 June 1696 ) was one of the most notable monarchs of the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth, from 1674 until his death King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania.

King John III Sobieski died in Wilanów, Poland on 17 June 1696.

During King William's War ( 1689 to 1697 ) military conflicts in Acadia included: Battle of Port Royal ( 1690 ); a naval battle in the Bay of Fundy ( Action of July 14, 1696 ); and the Raid on Chignecto ( 1696 ).

During King William's War, there was the naval Action of July 14, 1696 off Saint John, New Brunswick and Major Benjamin Church arrived by sea from Boston and raided various Acadian communities around the Bay ( See Raid on Chignecto ( 1696 )).

They had a son, Frederick Augustus II ( 1696 – 1763 ), who succeeded his father as Elector of Saxony and King of Poland as Augustus III.

Augustus III (; 17 October 1696 5 October 1763 ) was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1734 until 1763, as well as Elector of Saxony in the Holy Roman Empire from 1733 until 1763 as Frederick Augustus II ().

His victories against the Duke of Savoy at the Battle of Staffarda in 1690, and the Battle of Marsaglia in 1693, were amongst his greatest achievements, ( the Duke of Savoy later abandoned the Allied coalition and concluded peace with King Louis by signing the Treaty of Turin on 29 August 1696 ).

St. John's College was founded as King William's School in 1696.

Later in the 1690s Hathorne followed in his father's military footsteps and became more involved in the colonial military activities of King William's War, leading forces in the 1696 Siege of Fort Nashwaak ( present-day Fredericton, New Brunswick ).

p. 5. n. 4 in 1696 under King William III and was designed to impose tax relative to the prosperity of the taxpayer, but without the controversy that then surrounded the idea of income tax.

In 1696, during King William's War, the French destroyed many English villages in the Avalon Peninsula Campaign.

A son of King Vakhtang VI of Kartli ( ruled 1716-1724 ), he was born in Tbilisi, 1696.

* John III Sobieski ( 1629 – 1696 ), King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania

In 1696, King William III appointed eight paid commissioners to promote trade in the American plantations and elsewhere.

His father was the son and heir of King Louis XV of France's favourite, Louis François Armand de Vignerot du Plessis, 3rd Duke of Richelieu ( 1696 – 1788 ).

Thereafter King William III granted the castle to the 1st Earl of Rochford in 1696.

The first person to request the creation of a university in Guadalajara was Father Felipe Galindo Chávez y Pineda, who asked King Charles II of Spain to elevate the Royal Council Seminary of San José to the rank of Royal University on July 12, 1696.

Mariana of Austria ( Maria Anna ; 24 December 1634 – 16 May 1696 ) was Queen consort of Spain as the second wife of King Philip IV, who was also her maternal uncle.

In King William's War, New England military officer Benjamin Church led the devastating Raid on Beaubassin ( 1696 ).

Marie Casimire Louise de La Grange d ' Arquien, in Polish: Maria Kazimiera, known also by the diminutive form " Marysieńka " ( June 28, 1641, Nevers – January 1, 1716, Blois ) was consort to King John III Sobieski, from 1674 to 1696.