Company receives Chinese permission to build a trading station at Canton. Tea sells in Europe for less than a shilling a pound, but the import duty of 5 shillings makes it too expensive for most English people to afford; hence smuggled tea is drunk much more than legally imported tea. John Bunyan publishes the second part of The Pilgrim's Progress. Births January 1 – Arnold Drakenborch, Dutch classical scholar (d. 1748) January 4 Henry Coote, 5th Earl of Mountrath, British politician (d. 1720) Henry Grove, English nonconformist minister (d. 1738) January 14 Johann Matthias Hase, German astronomer, mathematician and cartographer (d. 1742) Jean-Baptiste van Loo, French subject and portrait painter (d. 1745) January 18 – Johann David Köhler, German historian (d. 1755) January 23 – Christian Rantzau, Danish noble (d. 1771) February 16 – Bohuslav Matěj Černohorský, Czech composer (d. 1742) February 19 – George Duckett, English Member of Parliament (d. 1732) February 20 – Edward Bayly, Irish politician (d. 1741) February 21 – Justus van Effen, Dutch author (d. 1735) February 22 – Charles, Count of Armagnac, French noble (d. 1751) February 24 – Matthias Braun, Czech sculptor (d. 1738) March 2 – Christopher Wandesford, 2nd Viscount Castlecomer, Anglo-Irish Member of Parliament (d. 1719) March 15 – Francesco Durante, Italian composer (d. 1755) March 19 – Jean Astruc, French physician and scholar (d. 1766) March 21 – Oley Douglas, English Member of Parliament (d. 1719) March 22 Matthias Bel, Hungarian pastor, polymath (d. 1749) William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath, English noble (d. 1764) March 24 – Samuel von Schmettau, Prussian field marshal (d. 1751) March 28 – Tekle Haymanot I, Emperor of Ethiopia (d. 1708) March 31 – Francesco Durante, Neapolitan composer (d. 1755) April 2 – Henry Somerset, 2nd Duke of Beaufort, English noble (d. 1714) April 10 – Joseph Paris Duverney, French banker (d. 1770) April 15 – Catherine I of Russia, empress consort (d. 1727) April 25 – Marco Benefial, Italian painter (d. 1764) May 2 – William Henry, Prince of Nassau-Usingen, Prince of Nassau-Usingen (1702–1718) (d. 1718) May 5 – Françoise Charlotte d'Aubigné, French noble (d. 1739) May 23 – Hachisuka Muneteru, Japanese daimyō of the Edo period (d. 1743) May 24 – Charles Alexander, Duke of Württemberg, regent of the Kingdom of Serbia (1720–1733) (d. 1737) May 27 – Wilhelm Reinhard von Neipperg, Austrian field marshal (d. 1774) May 31 Timothy Cutler, American