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 ).

He wrote two argumentative and outspoken Restoration comedies, The Relapse ( 1696 ) and The Provoked Wife ( 1697 ), which have become enduring stage favourites but originally occasioned much controversy.

A one-act comedy, Le Café, failed in 1694, and he was not much happier with a more ambitious play, Le Flatteur ( 1696 ), or with the opera Venus et Adonis ( 1697 ).

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 ).

The Unitarian Old Chapel was founded in 1696 and is still very much in use ; it also has a small meeting room which is well used by the community.

He demonstrated his drinking problem at the première of Vanbrugh's Relapse in November 1696, being according to Vanbrugh so drunk as the seducer Worthy that he molested Amanda, the object of his attentions, in a much more physical way than the script provided for.

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.

By 1696 the deal was done, and Amadeus transferred his troops, and his loyalty, to the enemy.

However, when Baden was transferred west to fight the French in 1692 his successors, first Caprara, then from 1696, Frederick Augustus, the Elector of Saxony, proved incapable of delivering the final blow.

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 ).

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.

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

* Rebecca was born about 1640 and died between June 12, 1696 and October 5, 1722.

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

In 1696, the process of Pius's canonisation was started through the efforts of the Master of the Order of Preachers, Antonin Cloche.

In 1696 Corsini was appointed treasurer-general and governor of the Castel Sant ' Angelo.

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

Year 1696 ( MDCXCVI ) was a leap year starting on Sunday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Wednesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar.

By 1696 the currency had been seriously weakened by an increase in clipping during the Nine Years ' War to the extent that it was decided to recall and replace all hammered silver coinage in circulation.

A Jesuit mission, Mission of the Guardian Angel, was founded somewhere in the vicinity of Chicago in 1696, but was abandoned in around 1700.

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.

By 1696, it was up to fifty.

The peril was averted, however, and in 1696 a decree of Juan Tomás de Rocaberti, archbishop of Valencia and inquisitor-general of the Holy Office, forbade all further controversies between the Carmelites and Jesuits.

The old Gothic edifice was dismantled in 1696 and rebuilt along Baroque lines in 1736.

Captured by Nicolas Catinat in 1691, Nice was restored to Savoy in 1696 ; but it was again besieged by the French in 1705, and in the following year its citadel and ramparts were demolished.

and died single in 1638 ( not 1696 as is sometimes said-the Richard Field who died in 1696 was son of Field's son Nathaniel ).

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

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.

* 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.

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.

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 ).

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

* Santa Teresa dei Maschi, the main Baroque church in the city ( 1690 – 1696 ).

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

He became familiar with calculus through a correspondence with Gottfried Leibniz, then collaborated with his brother Johann on various applications, notably publishing papers on transcendental curves ( 1696 ) and isoperimetry ( 1700, 1701 ).

He was born in Augsburg, son of Johann Georg Mozart ( 1679 – 1736 ), a bookbinder, and his second wife Anna Maria Sulzer ( 1696 – 1766 ).

File: Olaus Rudbeck Sr ( portrait by Martin Mijtens Sr, 1696 ). jpg | Olaus Rudbeck in 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 ).

A few years later, defeated in the Siege of Pemaquid ( 1696 ), Captain March made an unsuccessful siege on the Capital of Acadia, Port Royal ( 1707 ).

* Maria Anna " Mariana ", Archduchess of Austria ( 22 December 1634 16 May 1696 ).

Protais ' writing about their travel was published by Melchisédech Thévenot ( Relations de divers voyages curieux, 1670s – 1696 editions ) and Johann Michael Vansleb ( The Present State of Egypt, 1678 ).

* In 1696 he struck another blow against the Dutch in the Battle of Dogger Bank ( 1696 ).

), 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 ).

The calculus of variations may be said to begin with the brachistochrone curve problem raised by Johann Bernoulli ( 1696 ).

The Restoration plays that have best retained the interest of producers and audiences today are the comedies, such as George Etherege's The Man of Mode ( 1676 ), William Wycherley's The Country Wife ( 1676 ), John Vanbrugh's The Relapse ( 1696 ), and William Congreve's The Way of the World ( 1700 ).

Perhaps the two most famous Canadien attacks against New England were the Siege of Pemaquid ( 1696 ) and the Raid on Deerfield ( 1704 ).

His other works included odes for the birthdays of William III ( in at least 1693, 1694 and 1696 ).

# James Francis Fitz-James Stuart, or Jacobo Francisco Fitz-James Stuart, 2nd Duke of Berwick, 2nd Duque de Liria, 2nd Duque de Xérica, ( 21 October 1696 – 2 June 1738, Naples, Italy ).

To cast Love's Last Shift in January 1696, the Patent Company had to make the best use of such actors as remained after the 1694 split ( see cast list right ).