Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century – 17th century – 18th century
Decades:	1650s  1660s  1670s  – 1680s –  1690s  1700s  1710s
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

[edit] Events of 1681

[edit] January–June

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

[edit] July–December

• October 28 – A London woman is publicly flogged for the crime of "involving herself in politics."
• August – Robert Knox escapes prison in Ceylon, and details his adventures across Kandy and life in the kingdoms of the Tamil country Vanni in his book An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon.
• 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.

[edit] Undated

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

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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.