1681

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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).

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Events of 1681

January - June

July - December

Undated

Births

Deaths

Events of 1681

January - June

★ March 4 - Charles II of England grants a land charter to William Penn for the area that will later become Pennsylvania.

July - December

★ October 12 - 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 - Ahom King Gadadhar Singha or Gadapani, who took the Tai name Supaatphaa, ascends the throne.

Undated

★ France annexes the city of Strasbourg.

★ The last dodo bird is killed.

★ Collections are made in England for needy French refugees.

Births

★ March 14 - Georg Philipp Telemann, German composer (died 1767)

★ June 26 - Hedwig Sophia, duchess of Holstein-Gottorp, Swedish writer (died 1708)

★ September 11 - Johann Gottlieb Heineccius, German jurist (died 1741)

★ September 28 - Johann Mattheson, German composer (died 1764)

★ November 17 - Pierre François le Courayer, French theologian (died 1776)

★ November 28 - Jean Cavalier, French Protestant rebel leader (died 1740)
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Deaths

★ January 28 - Richard Allestree, English royalist churchman (born 1619)

★ March 12 - Frans van Mieris, Sr., Dutch painter (born 1635)

★ May 25 - Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Spanish dramatist and poet (born 1600)

★ July 1 - Oliver Plunkett, Irish saint (born 1629)

★ July 25 - Urian Oakes, English-born President of Harvard University (born 1631)

★ August 22 - Philippe Delano, Dutch Plymouth Colony settler (born 1602)

★ December 22 - Richard Alleine, English Puritan clergyman (born 1611)

★ ''date unknown'' - Gerard ter Borch, Dutch painter (born 1617)
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