1696

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Year 1696 (MDCXCVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Wednesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

1 Events of 1696
2 Births
- 2.1 Unknown dates
3 Deaths
- 3.1 Unknown dates

The year 1696 had the earliest dates for equinoxes and solstices for 400 years in the Gregorian calendar, because this year was the last leap year of the century, and subsequent years (by skipping leap day, also in 1700) allowed the equinoxes to edge towards later dates. However, prior to the 1582 Gregorian reform, the equinoxes were even much earlier, by the extra 10-day shift. See 1903.

[edit] Events of 1696

January 27: HMS Sovereign of the Seas accidentally burns.

[edit] January - June

January 27 - In England, the ship HMS Royal Sovereign (formerly HMS Sovereign of the Seas 1638) caught fire and burned at Chatham, after 57 years of service.
January 29 - Peter the Great becomes sole tsar of Russia, upon the death of Tsar Ivan V (O.S. date).
January 31 - In the Netherlands, undertakers revolt after funeral reforms in Amsterdam.
January - In England, the Recoinage Act passed in Parliament.
January - Colley Cibber's play "Love's Last Shift" is performed at the Theatre Royal.
March 7 - English king Willem III departs from the Netherlands.
April - Fire destroys the Gra Bet (or Left Quarter) of Gondar, the capital of Ethiopia.
May 31 - John Salomonsz is elected chief of Saint-Eustatius.

[edit] July - December

July 18 - The fleet of Tsar Peter I of Russia occupies Azov at mouth of Don River.
July 29 - French king Louis XIV and Victor Amadeus van Savoye sign peace treaty.
August 13 - State of Drenthe announces Willem III as mayor.
August 22 - Forces of Venice and Turkish troops clash near Molino.
October 29 - Fuller Baptist Church is founded in Kettering, England.
November 21 - John Vanbrughes "Relapse or Virtue in Danger" premieres in London.
December 19 - Jean-Francois Regnard's "Le Joueur" premieres in Paris.
December 24 - The Inquisition burns a number of Marrano Jews in Evora, Portugal.

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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 occurred.
Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville captured and destroyed St. John's, Newfoundland.

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**1696 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	1696 MDCXCVI
Ab urbe condita	2449
Armenian calendar	1145 ԹՎ ՌՃԽԵ
Bahá'í calendar	-148 – -147
Buddhist calendar	2240
Chinese calendar	4332/4392-11-27 (乙亥年十一月廿七日) — to — 4333/4393-12-8 (丙子年十二月初八日)
Ethiopian calendar	1688 – 1689
Hebrew calendar	5456 – 5457
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1751 – 1752
- Shaka Samvat	1618 – 1619
- Kali Yuga	4797 – 4798
Holocene calendar	11696
Iranian calendar	1074 – 1075
Islamic calendar	1107 – 1108
Japanese calendar	Genroku 9 (元禄9年)
- Imperial Year	Kōki 2356 (皇紀2356年)
- Jōmon Era	11696
Julian calendar	1741
Korean calendar	4029
Thai solar calendar	2239
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