1696

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  • 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
  • October 29 - Fuller Baptist Church founded in Kettering, England.
  • 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.
  • The Second Pueblo Revolt took place
  • Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville captured and destroyed St. John's, Newfoundland.

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