five Roman Catholic members of the House of Lords, Viscount Stafford, the Marquess of Powis, Baron Arundell, Baron Petre and Baron Belasyse accused by Protestant members as participating in a "Popish Plot". Viscount Stafford is convicted and executed, while the other four are imprisoned in the Tower of London for more than five years. November 25 – The Kediri campaign is successfully concluded in Indonesia as Anthonio Hurdt and Sultan Amangkurat II capture Kediri and force the rebel Prince Trunajaya to flee. November 26 – William Staley, an English banker and a Roman Catholic, becomes the first person to be executed in connection with the Popish Plot arrests. December 3 – The Test Act provides that members of both the House of Lords and House of Commons of England must swear an anti-Catholic oath, before taking office. Date unknown Rebellion breaks out in southern China. About 1,200 Irish families sail from Barbados, to Virginia and the Carolinas. In Ireland, the vacant Bishopric of Leighlin is given to the Bishop of Kildare, to form the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kildare and Leighlin. Births March 4 – Antonio Vivaldi, Italian composer (d. 1741) March 7 – Filippo Juvarra, Italian architect (d. 1736) April 14 – Abraham Darby I, one of the English fathers of the Industrial Revolution (d. 1717) May 3 – Amaro Pargo, Spanish corsair (d. 1747) May 16 – Andreas Silbermann, German organ builder (d. 1734) July 26 – Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1711) September 16 – Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, English statesman and philosopher (d. 1751) September 29 – Adrien-Maurice, 3rd duc de Noailles, French soldier (d. 1766) October 10 – John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll, Scottish soldier (d. 1743) October 16 – Anna Waser, Swiss painter (d. 1714) November 26 – Jean Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan, French geophysicist (d. 1771) December 8 – Horatio Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole of Wolterton, English diplomat (d. 1757) December 13 – Yongzheng Emperor of China (d. 1735) December 14 – Daniel Neal, English historian (d. 1743) December 30 – William Croft, English composer (d. 1727) date unknown George Farquhar, Irish dramatist (d. 1707) Maria Faxell, Swedish vicar's wife and war heroine (d. 1738) Joachim Ludwig Schultheiss von Unfriedt, German architect (d. 1753) Pierre Fauchard, French physician and author, considered The father of modern dentistry (d. 1761) John Senex, British geographer (d. 1740) Deaths January 11 – Ferrante