1696
The year 1696 had the earliest equinoxes and solstices for 400 years in the Gregorian calendar, because this year is a leap year and the Gregorian calendar would have behaved like the Julian calendar since March 1500 had it have been in use that long. See 1903.
Events 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.
Births March 5 - Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, painter (+ 1770) Henry Pelham, English Whig politician, prime minister 1743-54 (died 1754)
DeathsJune 17 - John III of PolandDecember 4 - Empress Meisho of Japan
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