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Historical Events for the Year 1691

  • 7th October » The English royal charter for the Province of Massachusetts Bay is issued.

Famous Birthdays in 1691

  • 16th January » Peter Scheemakers, Flemish sculptor (d. 1781)
  • 9th April » Johann Matthias Gesner, German scholar (d. 1761)
  • 14th June » Jan Francisci, Slovak organist and composer (d. 1758)
  • 17th June » Giovanni Paolo Panini, Italian painter and architect (d. 1765)
  • 28th August » Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (d. 1750)
  • 29th September » Richard Challoner, English bishop (d. 1781)
  • 1st October » Arthur Onslow, English politician, Speaker of the House of Commons (United Kingdom) named Speaker of the House of Commons for the United Kingdom (d. 1768)

Famous Deaths in History for 1691

  • 13th January » George Fox, English religious leader, founded the Religious Society of Friends (b. 1624)
  • 1st February » Pope Alexander VIII (b. 1610)
  • 3rd April » Jean Petitot, French-Swiss painter (b. 1608)
  • 8th April » Carlo Rainaldi, Italian architect, designed the Santa Maria dei Miracoli and Santa Maria in Montesanto (b. 1611)
  • 10th May » John Birch (soldier) or John Birch, English soldier and politician (b. 1615)
  • 16th May » Jacob Leisler, German-American politician, 8th List of colonial governors of New York known as Colonial Governor of New York (b. 1640)
  • 23rd May » Adrien Auzout, French astronomer (b. 1622)
  • 29th May » Cornelis Tromp, Dutch admiral (b. 1629)
  • 16th July » François-Michel le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois, French politician, Minister of Defence (France) called French Secretary of State for War (b. 1641)
  • 30th July » Daniel Georg Morhof, German scholar and academic (b. 1639)
  • 14th August » Richard Talbot, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell, Irish soldier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1630)
  • 9th October » William Sacheverell, English politician (b. 1638)
  • 10th October » Isaac de Benserade, French poet (b. 1613)
  • 14th November » Tosa Mitsuoki, Japanese painter (b. 1617)
  • 15th November » Aelbert Cuyp, Dutch painter (b. 1620)
  • 8th December » Richard Baxter, English minister, poet, and hymn-writer(b. 1615)
  • 31st December » Robert Boyle, Irish chemist and physicist (b. 1627)
  • 31st December » Dudley North (economist) or Dudley North, English merchant and economist (b. 1641)