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

Contents Events of 1696 January - June July - December Undated Births Deaths

Events of 1696

January 27: HMS Sovereign of the Seas accidentally burns.

January - June

• January 27 - In England, the ship HMS Royal Sovereign (formerly HMS Sovereign of the Seas 1638) catches fire and burns at Chatham, after 57 years of service.
• January 29 (O.S.) - Peter the Great becomes sole tsar of Russia, upon the death of Tsar Ivan V.
• January 31 - In the Netherlands, undertakers revolt after funeral reforms in Amsterdam.
• January - In England, the Recoinage Act is passed in Parliament.
• January - Colley Cibber's play Love's Last Shift is performed at the Theatre Royal.
• March 7 - English king Willem III departs from the Netherlands.
• April - Fire destroys the Gra Bet (or Left Quarter) of Gondar, the capital of Ethiopia.
• May 31 - John Salomonsz is elected chief of Saint-Eustatius.

July - December

• July 18 - The fleet of Tsar Peter I of Russia occupies Azov at the mouth of the Don River.
• July 29 - French king Louis XIV and Victor Amadeus van Savoye sign a peace treaty.
• August 13 - The State of Drenthe announces Willem III as mayor.
• August 22 - Forces of Venice and Turkish troops clash near Molino.
• October 29 - Fuller Baptist Church is founded in Kettering, England.
• November 21 - John Vanbrugh's Relapse or Virtue in Danger premieres in London.
• December 7 - Connecticut Route 108, one of America's oldest highways, is completed to Trumbull.
• December 19 - Jean-Francois Regnard's "Le Joueur" premieres in Paris.
• December 24 - The Inquisition burns a number of Marrano Jews in Evora, Portugal.

Undated

• Polish replaces Ruthenian as an official language of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
• A famine wipes out almost a third of the population of Finland and a fifth of the population of Estonia.
• Abington, Pennsylvania is settled.
• William Penn offers an elaborate plan for intercolonial cooperation largely in trade, defense, and criminal matters.
• The Second Pueblo Revolt occurs.
• Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville captures and destroys St. John's, Newfoundland.

Births

• January 5 - Giuseppe Galli-Bibiena, Italian architect/painter (d. 1757)
• March 27 - Antoine Court, French Huguenot minister (d. 1760)
• March 5 - Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian painter (d. 1770)
• June 11 - Francis Edward James Keith, Scottish soldier and Prussian field marshal (d. 1758)
• June 27 - William Pepperrell, English colonial soldier (d. 1759)
• July 14 - William Oldys, English antiquarian and bibliographer (d. 1761)
• August 2 - Mahmud I, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1754)
• August 12 - Maurice Greene, English composer (d. 1755)
• September 27 - Alphonsus Liguori, Italian founder of the Redemptorist Order (d.1787)
• October 10 - Chen Hongmou, Chinese scholar and philosopher (d. 1771)
• October 13 - John Hervey, 2nd Baron Hervey, English statesman and writer (d. 1743)
• November 2 - Conrad Weiser, Pennsylvania's ambassador to the Iroquois Confederacy (d. 1760)
• December 22 - James Oglethorpe, English general and founder of the state of Georgia (d. 1785)
• date unknown - Benning Wentworth, colonial governor of New Hampshire (d. 1770)

See also Category: 1696 births.

Deaths

• January 11 - Charles Albanel, French missionary explorer in Canada (b. 1616)
• February 8 - Tsar Ivan V of Russia (b. 1666)
• February - Ahom King Supaatphaa or Gadadhar Singha
• March 14 - Jean Domat, French jurist (b. 1625)
• March 18 - Robert Charnock, English conspirator (b. c.1663)
• April 17 - Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné, French writer (b. 1626)
• April 30 - Robert Plot, British naturalist (b. 1640)
• May 10 - Jean de La Bruyère, French writer (b. 1645)
• May 26 - Albertine Agnes of Nassau, regent of Friesland, Groningen and Drenthe (b. 1634)
• May 30 - Henry Capell, 1st Baron Capell, First Lord of the British Admiralty (b. 1638)
• June 17 - John III of Poland (b. 1629)
• August 2 - Robert Campbell of Glenlyon, Scottish military commander at the Massacre of Glencoe (b. 1630)
• September 17 - John III Sobieski, King of Poland (b. 1629)
• December 4 - Meish?, empress of Japan (b. 1624)
• date unknown - Daibhidh Ó Duibhgheannáin (b. 1651)

See also Category: 1696 deaths.

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