The Ottoman sultan Mustapha II is dethroned September 3 ( His 30-year-old brother will reign until 1730 as Ahmed III.)

ENGLAND: Diarist Samuel Pepys dies at his native London May 26 at age 70. His diary will not be decoded for more than a century.

JAPAN: A Japanese earthquake and fire December 30 destroys Edo and kills some 30,000 people (200,000 by some estimates). [Answers.com]

ENGLAND: London's Christ Church is completed by Sir Christopher Wren, who has designed 52 London churches.

INDIA: The Mughal emperor Aurangzeb dies March 3 at age 88 while campaigning against the Mahrathas after a 49-year reign in which he has annexed Bijapur and Golconda to extend his autocratic sway over all of northern and central India up to the Himalayas, persecuting Hindus and Sikhs in his fanatical devotion to Islam. He is succeeded by his eldest surviving son Bahadur, 63, who serves as governor of Kabul in Afghanistan, but Bahadur's brother Azam challenges the succession. Bahadur has had Aurangzeb's two other sons killed in order to gain the throne. He quickly mobilizes an army, reaches Agra June 12 to secure the imperial treasury, and uses his superior artillery to defeat Azam that day in the Battle of Jajau on the Yamuna River a few miles south of the city. Many of Azam's supporters desert him in the face of extreme heat and a shortage of water. Azam and his son Bidar Bakht are both killed. Bahadur will reign until his death in 1712 as Bahadur Shah I, but the empire will quickly disintegrate as provincial governors gain virtual independence amidst wars of succession and foreign invasions.[Answers.com]

INDIA: Sikh leader Gobind Singh is killed at Nanded, Maharashtra, October 7 at age 42 by a Pashtun tribesman who takes vengeance for the killing of his father. Last of the 10 personal gurus, Gobind Singh has in his 33-year reign founded what will become the military brotherhood of Sikhs known as the Khalsa, but he has lost all four of his sons in one battle near Ambala (his wife and parents have also been killed in his struggle for religious freedom). Gobind Singh's disciple Banda Singh Bahadur succeeds to the leadership of the sect, but the Sikh guru henceforth will not be a person but rather the Adi Granth, a holy book. [Answers.com]

GERMANY: German organist Johann Sebastian Bach, 23, becomes court organist at the duke of Weimar's castle, where he will be made court concertmeister in 1714. [Answers.com]

Britain's Caribbean colonies import 20,000 slaves per year by official estimates, but many are for re-export to North and South America. [Answers.com]

JAPAN: The new Japanese shōgun Ienobu releases nearly 9,000 prisoners, most of them victims of Tsunayoshi's Buddhist laws against killing animals or eating fish or birds. [Answers.com]

ENGLAND: Completion of St. Paul’s Cathedral, London

ENGLAND: George Whitfield is born (He was a very influential figure in the establishment of Methodism. He was famous for his preaching in America which was a significant part of an 18th century movement of Christian revivals, sometimes called "The Great Awakening."

Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones depicts farm, city, and prison life at mid-century

Officiates at wedding of Charles Wesley and Sarah Gwynne. His friendship with Grace Murray

ENGLAND: Industrial Revolution begins (till 1900s)

Johann Sebastian Bach dies

ENGLAND: Britain produces c. 2% of the entire world's output of industrial goods and the Industrial Revolution begins.

EUROPE: Galley slavery is abolished in Europe

John marries Mrs. Vazeille. Preaches in Scotland for first time (first of 22 trips)

AMERICA: Benjamin Franklin invents lightning conductor (using a kite and a key)

Samuel Johnson’s A Dictionary of the English Language, a landmark of lexicography

AMERICA: French and Indian war begins in America

PORTUGAL: Great earthquake of Lisbon kills 30,000 people

FRANCE: Marie Antoinette born

Separation of John Wesley from his wife

Mozart born

SCOTLAND: First British school for deaf and dumb opened in Edinburgh

William Carey born - in Northamptonshire

Henry Shrapnel born - a British Army officer and inventor, most famously, of the "shrapnel shell".

Marie Tussaud born (famous wax modeller)

FRANCE: Twinkle Twinkle Little Star is published in France

GERMANY: Faber-Castell Company - founded by Kasper Faber, Nuremberg, Germany.

Jean Jacques Rousseau’s Social Contract revolutionizes political theory and later influences American Declaration of Independence and Constitution

Britain declares war on Spain and Naples.

INDIA: The Great Holocaust (1762) of the Sikhs is carried out by the forces of Ahmed Shah Abdali in Punjab. In all, over 500,000 men, women and children perish in this campaign of slaughter

RUSSIA: The Treaty of Saint Petersburg (1762) ends the war between Russia and Prussia.

FRANCE: French Revolution begins with the storming of the Bastille - The French Revolution was one of the most influential and significant events in world history; it continues to fascinate people two centuries after the people of France rebelled against their rulers. The French Revolution was not just a revolt against the regime of the Bourbon Kings; it embodied an entire new way of viewing the world and human society. Although the Revolution failed to live up to its own rallying cry, "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity", it spread these ideals far and wide.

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Joseph Smith ordained by John the Baptist according to Joseph Smith (Mormon church founder)

RUSSIA: Jews expelled from Nikolayev & Sevastopol Russia

Failed assassination attempt on Sim¢n Bol¡var

INDIA: Britain abolished suttee in India (widow burning herself to death on her husband's funeral pyre