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| align="center" colspan=2 | '''Years:'''
1693 1694 1695 - 1696 - 1697 1698 1699 |- | align="center" colspan=2 | '''Decades:'''
1660s 1670s 1680s - '''1690s''' - 1700s 1710s 1720s |- | align="center" | '''Centuries:'''
16th_century - '''17th_century''' - 18th_century
{{C17YearInTopic}} |} The year '''1696''' had the earliest Equinoxes and Solstices for 400 years in the Gregorian_calendar, because this year is a Leap_year and the Gregorian calendar would have behaved like the Julian calendar since March 1500 had it have been in use that long. See 1903. ==Events== * April - Fire destroys the Gra Bet (or Left Quarter) of Gondar, the capital of Ethiopia. * August_22 - Forces of Venice and Turkish troops clash near Molino * December_24 - Inquisition burns number of Marrano Jews in Evora, Portugal * Peter the Great becomes sole Tsar of Russia. * 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. * Abington,_Pennsylvania, is settled. * William_Penn offers an elaborate plan for intercolonial cooperation largely in trade, defense, and criminal matters. ==Births== *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 Redemptionist order (d. 1787) *October_13 - John_Hervey,_Lord_Hervey, English statesman and writer (b. 1743) *December_22 - James_Oglethorpe, English general and founder of the state of Georgia (d. 1785) ==Deaths== *January_11 - Charles_Albanel, French missionary explorer in Canada (b. 1616) *February_8 - Tsar Ivan_V_of_Russia (b. 1666) *March_14 - Jean_Domat, French jurist (b. 1625) *March_18 - Robert_Charnock, English conspirator *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_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 - Empress_Meisho_of_Japan (b. 1624) *Daibhidh_O_Duibhghennain Category:1696 Af:1696 Ast:1696 Bg:1696 Bs:1696 Ca:1696 Cv:1696 Cs:1696 Cy:1696 Da:1696 De:1696 Et:1696 El:1696 Es:1696 Eo:1696 Eu:1696 Fr:1696 Ko:1696년 Hr:1696 Io:1696 Is:1696 It:1696 He:1696 Lb:1696 Hu:1696 Mk:1696 Nl:1696 No:1696 Nn:1696 Os:1696 Pl:1696 Pt:1696 Ro:1696 Ru:1696 Sk:1696 Sl:1696 Sr:1696 Fi:1696 Sv:1696 Tt:1696 Tr:1696 Uk:1696 Zh:1696年
1693 1694 1695 - 1696 - 1697 1698 1699 |- | align="center" colspan=2 | '''Decades:'''
1660s 1670s 1680s - '''1690s''' - 1700s 1710s 1720s |- | align="center" | '''Centuries:'''
16th_century - '''17th_century''' - 18th_century
{{C17YearInTopic}} |} The year '''1696''' had the earliest Equinoxes and Solstices for 400 years in the Gregorian_calendar, because this year is a Leap_year and the Gregorian calendar would have behaved like the Julian calendar since March 1500 had it have been in use that long. See 1903. ==Events== * April - Fire destroys the Gra Bet (or Left Quarter) of Gondar, the capital of Ethiopia. * August_22 - Forces of Venice and Turkish troops clash near Molino * December_24 - Inquisition burns number of Marrano Jews in Evora, Portugal * Peter the Great becomes sole Tsar of Russia. * 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. * Abington,_Pennsylvania, is settled. * William_Penn offers an elaborate plan for intercolonial cooperation largely in trade, defense, and criminal matters. ==Births== *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 Redemptionist order (d. 1787) *October_13 - John_Hervey,_Lord_Hervey, English statesman and writer (b. 1743) *December_22 - James_Oglethorpe, English general and founder of the state of Georgia (d. 1785) ==Deaths== *January_11 - Charles_Albanel, French missionary explorer in Canada (b. 1616) *February_8 - Tsar Ivan_V_of_Russia (b. 1666) *March_14 - Jean_Domat, French jurist (b. 1625) *March_18 - Robert_Charnock, English conspirator *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_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 - Empress_Meisho_of_Japan (b. 1624) *Daibhidh_O_Duibhghennain Category:1696 Af:1696 Ast:1696 Bg:1696 Bs:1696 Ca:1696 Cv:1696 Cs:1696 Cy:1696 Da:1696 De:1696 Et:1696 El:1696 Es:1696 Eo:1696 Eu:1696 Fr:1696 Ko:1696년 Hr:1696 Io:1696 Is:1696 It:1696 He:1696 Lb:1696 Hu:1696 Mk:1696 Nl:1696 No:1696 Nn:1696 Os:1696 Pl:1696 Pt:1696 Ro:1696 Ru:1696 Sk:1696 Sl:1696 Sr:1696 Fi:1696 Sv:1696 Tt:1696 Tr:1696 Uk:1696 Zh:1696年