1691 in England
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Events from the year 1691 in England.
Incumbents
[edit]- Monarchs – William III and Mary II
Events
[edit]- April – John Tillotson enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury.
- 9 April – a fire at the Palace of Whitehall in London destroys its Stone Gallery.
- June – first performance of the semi-opera King Arthur with a libretto by John Dryden and music by Henry Purcell.[1]
- 3 September – HMS Coronation and HMS Harwich are lost in a storm while making for shelter in Plymouth Sound with 900 killed.[2]
- 18 September – War of the Grand Alliance: English and Dutch forces defeated by the French at the Battle of Leuze.
- 3 October – the Treaty of Limerick ends the Williamite War in Ireland. The Flight of the Wild Geese – the departure of the Jacobite army – follows.
Births
[edit]- 27 February – Edward Cave, editor and publisher (died 1754)
- 29 September – Richard Challoner, Catholic prelate (died 1781)
- 1 October – Arthur Onslow, politician (died 1768)
Deaths
[edit]- 13 January – George Fox, founder of the Quakers (born 1624)
- 17 January – Richard Lower, physician (born 1631)
- 11 May – John Birch, soldier (born 1615)
- 3 June – Tom Cox, "The Handsome Highwayman" (born c. 1666; hanged)
- 10 September – Edward Pococke, Orientalist and biblical scholar (born 1604)
- 9 October – William Sacheverell, statesman (born 1638)
- 8 December – Richard Baxter, clergyman (born 1615)[3]
- probable – Elizabeth Polwheele, playwright (born c. 1651)
References
[edit]- ^ Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 285. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
- ^ "Harwich – Historic England Research Records". Heritage Gateway. Retrieved 2021-05-15.
- ^ Louth, Andrew (17 February 2022). The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. Oxford University Press. p. 786. ISBN 978-0-19-263815-1.