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Years:	1678 1679 1680 - 1681 - 1682 1683 1684

1681 in topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology - Architecture -

Art - Literature - Music - Science

Leaders:   State leaders - Colonial governors

Category: Establishments - Disestablishments

Births - Deaths - Works v • d • e

Year 1681 (MDCLXXXI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

Contents 1 Events of 1681 1.1 January - June 1.2 July - December 1.3 Undated 2 Births 3 Deaths

Events of 1681

January - June

• March 14 - Charles II of England grants a land charter to William Penn for the area that will later become Pennsylvania.

July - December

• October 28 - A London woman is publicly flogged for the crime of "involving herself in politics."
• August 31 - Titus Oates is told to leave his state apartments in the Whitehall; his fame begins to wane and he is soon arrested and imprisoned for sedition.
• August 12 - The Ahom King Gadadhar Singha or Gadapani, who took the Tai name Supaatphaa, ascends the throne.
• December - Wu Shifan, grandson of Chinese general Wu Sangui, commits suicide in Yunnan province, ending the 8-year conflict of the Revolt of the Three Feudatories against Qing Dynasty authority in China, then led by the Kangxi Emperor.

Undated

• France annexes the city of Strasbourg.
• The last dodo bird is killed.
• Collections are made in England for needy French refugees.

Births

1681 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1681 MDCLXXXI
Ab urbe condita	2434
Armenian calendar	1130 ԹՎ ՌՃԼ
Bahá'í calendar	-163 – -162
Berber calendar	2631
Buddhist calendar	2225
Burmese calendar	1043
Byzantine calendar	7189 – 7190
Chinese calendar	庚申年十一月十二日 (4317/4377-11-12) — to — 辛酉年十一月廿二日 (4318/4378-11-22)
Coptic calendar	1397 – 1398
Ethiopian calendar	1673 – 1674
Hebrew calendar	5441 – 5442
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1736 – 1737
- Shaka Samvat	1603 – 1604
- Kali Yuga	4782 – 4783
Holocene calendar	11681
Iranian calendar	1059 – 1060
Islamic calendar	1091 – 1092
Japanese calendar	Enpō 9Tenna 1 (天和元年)
Korean calendar	4014
Thai solar calendar	2224
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• March 14 - Georg Philipp Telemann, German composer (d. 1767)
• June 26 - Hedwig Sophia, duchess of Holstein-Gottorp, Swedish writer (d. 1708)
• September 11 - Johann Gottlieb Heineccius, German jurist (d. 1741)
• September 28 - Johann Mattheson, German composer (d. 1764)
• November 17 - Pierre François le Courayer, French theologian (d. 1776)
• November 28 - Jean Cavalier, French Protestant rebel leader (d. 1740)

See also Category: 1681 births.

Deaths

• January 28 - Richard Allestree, English royalist churchman (b. 1619)
• March 12 - Frans van Mieris, Sr., Dutch painter (b. 1635)
• May 25 - Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Spanish dramatist and poet (b. 1600)
• July 1 - Oliver Plunkett, Irish saint (b. 1629)
• July 25 - Urian Oakes, English-born President of Harvard University (b. 1631)
• August 22 - Philippe Delano, Dutch Plymouth Colony settler (b. 1602)
• December 22 - Richard Alleine, English Puritan clergyman (b. 1611)
• date unknown - Gerard ter Borch, Dutch painter (b. 1617)

See also Category: 1681 deaths.

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