1696

This page relates to the year 1696 Gregorian Calendrier.

Events

March 27th: the students of the Université of Mexico City burn the scaffold of Plaza de Armas at the time of a riot which the viceroy Juan Ortega there Montañés makes repress.

Pierre Moyne d' Iberville attacks strong Pemaquid (William Henry, Maine) which capitulates the August 15th.
November 30th: capitulation of Ferryland. Pierre LeMoyne d' Iberville conquers Newfoundland.

Frontenac, Callières and Ramezay, with the assistance of 2 000 soldiers, militiamans and Amerindians, destroy a village given up by Onontagués (Iroquois) and devastate all harvests of its inhabitants, close to Oswego.
Rene Lepage of Co.-Claire founds Rimouski.

Mars: establishment of the French company of the Senegal.
Nlaza Pedro IV is elected king (Manicongo) with the Congo (fine in 1718). It reconquers its capital São El Salvador in 1709.

the khan of Dzoungarie Galdan invades the country Khalkha. Kangxi intervenes in person with the head of the Chinese army.
June 12th: Galdan is overcome by the Mandchous of Fei-yang-kou and their artillery close to Ourga on the Tola and flees towards the west with the survivors of its army.
Tibet : The regent of the Dalaï LAMA, Sangyé Gyatso founds the medical Board of the Chakpori to Lhassa.

January 31st: Revolt Croquemort S with Amsterdam.
January: Recoinage Act ; passage of the standard money to the gold standard in England. The value of the sterling remains stable until in 1931, except for 1797 - 1816 and 1914 - 1925.

Fine of the reign of the king of Poland Jean III Sobieski.
Jean Bart meets a Dutch fleet coming from Baltique on the Dogger Bank. It takes five men-of-war to the boarding and captures 45 tradind ships.

June 26th: Secret treaty of Turin between Victor-Amédée Ier of Savoy and Louis XIV for the conquest of the Milanese.
July 18th: The tsar Pierre Large the takes the town of Azov to the Othoman . The city is populated Western Russians, sailors and craftsmen.
August 29th: treaty of Turin between the France and the Savoy. Louis XIV restores all his states with the duke of Savoy, which changes camp
October 7th: Treaty of Vigevano between the duke of Savoy and the allies. Armistice in Italy.

the Tsar Pierre Large the founds the Russian fleet. A fleet is built with Voronej, in the basin of the Don. 23 galères are put at flood for the catch of Azov.
England: The share of the Land tax in the taxes reaches 52% then declines to be maintained around 30% after 1730. The indirect taxes ( customs and excise ) take over.

Mars: Bearing edict ennoblement, realizing finances, of more than 500 people chosen among the most distinguished from the kingdom.
July 19th: Declaration that no one cannot exert the Médecine if it were not received doctor in some university.
July 28th: Died of Charles Colbert de Croissy. His/her son Torcy succeeds to him the Foreign affairs.
November:

Arrived at Versailles of the young person Marie-Adelaide of Savoy, intended to marry the duke of Burgundy.
Edict of creation of the general control of the armorial bearings

the pope creates the festival of the Virgin Mary.
the father Jesuit Louis Lecomte publishes new reports on the state of the China which carries the controversy on the Chinese rites.
Christianity not mysterious , of the Irishman converted with the Protestantism John Toland, which attacks the bases even Christianisme.
Noailles, archbishop of Paris, succeeds, thanks to the assistance of Bossuet, to dodge the reproaches which oppose to him the féneloniens and the Jésuites about its sympathies Jansénistes.

February 5th: The Marchioness of Sévigné (Marie of Rabutin-Chantal), French writer.
February 8th: Ivan V of Russia.
May 10th: Jean of the Heather, writer French.
May 17th: Antoine d' Aquin, former first doctor of the king and small son of a rabbi of Avignon.
June 17th: Jean III Sobieski, king of Poland (° August 17th 1629)
July 28th: Charles Colbert de Croissy.
December 28th: Miguel de Molinos, theologist Spanish quietist, in prison with Rome (1628 -1696).
Jean Richer, French astronomer.

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