children are made slaves and distributed to the Spanish colonists. December 27 – The new 80-gun English Navy warship HMS Sussex departs Portsmouth on its maiden voyage, escorting a fleet of 48 warships and 166 merchant ships to the Mediterranean Sea. The fleet runs into a storm on February 27, 1694, and on March 1, Sussex and 12 other warships sink, along with a cargo of gold. Date unknown China concentrates all its foreign trade on Canton; European ships are forbidden to land anywhere else. A religious schism takes place in Switzerland, within a group of Swiss and Alsatian Anabaptists led by Jakob Ammann. Those who follow Ammann become the Mennonite Amish sect. The Knights of the Apocalypse are formed in Italy. The Academia Operosorum Labacensium is established in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Financier Richard Hoare relocates Hoare's Bank (founded 1672) from Cheapside to Fleet Street in London. Italian barber Giovanni Paolo Feminis creates a perfume water called Aqua Admirabilis, earliest known form of eau de Cologne. John Locke publishes his influential book Some Thoughts Concerning Education. William Penn publishes his proposal for European federation, Essay on the Present and Future Peace of Europe. English astronomer Edmond Halley studies records of births and deaths in Breslau (Poland), producing a life table consolidating year of birth and age at death. He uses this to work out the price of life annuities. Dimitrie Cantemir presents his Kitâbu 'İlmi'l-Mûsiki alâ Vechi'l-Hurûfât (The Book of the Science of Music through Letters) to Sultan Ahmed II, which deals with melodic and rhythmic structure and practice of Ottoman music, and contains the scores for around 350 works composed during and before his own time, in an alphabetical notation system he invented. Births January–March January 1 – Francesco Carlo Rusca, Swiss painter (d. 1769) January 3 Giovanni Bianchi, Italian physician and zoologist (d. 1775) Matthew Hutton, Archbishop of York and Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1758) January 12 – Queen Jeongseong, Queen Consort of Korea (d. 1757) January 16 – Francesco Campora, Italian painter (d. 1763) January 17 – Melchor de Navarrete, Spanish colonial governor of Florida and Mexico (d. 1761) January 19 Jonathan Rashleigh, politician (d. 1764) Hyacinthe Collin de Vermont, French painter (d. 1761) January 23 – Georg Bernhard Bilfinger, German mathematician (d. 1750) January 26 – William Robinson, deputy governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (d. 1751) January 28 Robert Sawyer Herbert, British