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

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

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 ).

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

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

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.

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

* 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.

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.

* 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 )

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.

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 '.