The book ran through six editions within a few years and the translation was largely drawn upon by Dr J. S. Hahn ( 1696 – 1773 ) of Silesia in a work published in 1738.

It was nevertheless an unhealthy place in which to live ; Daniel Defoe, who, in 1696, operated a tile and brick factory in the Tilbury marshes and lived in a nearby house, wrote about " the Essex ague ".

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

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

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.

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.

As late as AD 1696, a grant issued under the Seal of the King Siri Kula Ran Mani of the Maldives referred to him as Malikaddu Midhemedhu ekanuonna mi korhu anikaneh nethee korhu which meant " Sole Sovereign with no other over what lies between Maliku and Addu ".

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

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 ).

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 ).

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 ).

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.

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.

* 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.

* 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 )

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 '.

Willem de Vlamingh's ships, with black swans, at the entrance to the Swan River, Western Australia, coloured engraving ( 1726 ), derived from an earlier drawing ( now lost ) from the de Vlamingh expeditions of 1696 – 97.

Newman says that Groseilliers, now 65, retired in disgust to a small seigneury at Trois-Rivières and died in 1696.

Eighty years later in 1696 the Dutch explorer Willem de Vlamingh landed on the island and by chance found the plate, which now lay half-buried in sand.

Willem de Vlamingh's ships, with black swan | black swans, at the entrance to the Swan River, Western Australia, coloured engraving ( 1796 ), derived from an earlier drawing ( now lost ) from the de Vlamingh expeditions of 1696 – 97.

Willem de Vlamingh's ships, with black swans, at the entrance to the Swan River, Western Australia, coloured engraving ( 1796 ), derived from an earlier drawing ( now lost ) from the de Vlamingh expeditions of 1696 – 97.

At nearby Tarren Deusant is a spring with unusual petrosomatoglyph carvings of two faces, two saints ( 1696 ), but now six are present ( Sharp 1979 ).

Four years later, Church went on his forth expedition and carried out the Siege of Fort Nashwaak ( 1696 ) ( present day Fredericton, New Brunswick ) which was then Capital of Acadia, and the Raid on Chignecto ( 1696 ) in Acadia, now holding the rank of major.

By 1696 four fountains had been built: Fontaine des 9 canons, Fontaine " Moussue, Fontaine du Roi René and, to the west, " les Chevaux-Marins ", now vanished.

The end of press censorship in 1696 meant that cricket could now be reported in the newspapers and the first known report of a match appeared in 1697.

In 1696, much thanks to Leijoncrona, he was able to settle in the neighborhood of the Swedish Legation in the fashionable quarter of Leicester Field ( now Leicester Square ).

These included West India Docks ( 1802 ), East India Docks ( 1803, originating from the Brunswick Dock of 1790 ), London Docks ( 1805 ), Surrey Commercial Docks ( 1807, originating from the Howland Great Wet Dock of 1696 ), St Katharine Docks ( 1828 ), Royal Victoria Dock ( 1855 ), Millwall Dock ( 1868 ), Royal Albert Dock ( 1880 ), and Tilbury docks ( 1886 ).

He was born at Sheffield and educated at the Sheffield Grammar School ( where his father Thomas Balguy was headmaster until his death in 1696 ) and at St John's College, Cambridge, graduated BA in 1706, was ordained in 1710, and in 1711 obtained the small living of Lamesley and Tanfield in Durham.

He took orders, and obtained the living of Halsham in Holderness in 1696.

A legacy of the Reformation in Scotland was the aim of having a school in every parish, which was underlined by an act of the Scottish parliament in 1696 ( reinforced in 1801 ).

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.

Donald's attachment to the Episcopalian faith, and refusal to swear allegiance to William III after 1689 seems to have resulted in his being driven from his parish as a Non-juror and Jacobite some time after 1696.

In 1696, for a charter of King Charles II, became the parish seat.

However, in 1696 a new Act re-established the compulsory provision of a school in every parish with a system of fines, sequestration, and direct government implementation as a means of enforcement where required.

He made the most important changes in 1696 when the Augustinian monastery was restored and the new parish church and the chapel of Three Kings were built.