of San Francisco and Mapulaca in Honduras. November 5 – Mohamed bin Hajj Ali Thukkala becomes the new Sultan of the Maldives as Muhammad Ali IV. November 8 – William Mountfort's play Henry The Second, King Of England; With The Death Of Rosamond is given its first performance, premiering at the Drury Lane Theatre. December 5 – John Goldsborough arrives in Madras as the new administrator of the British East India Company. December 14 – Maratha Empire General Santaji Ghorpade defeats Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb's General Alimardan Khan, captures him and brings him back to fort Jinjee near Madras. December 23 – Nahum Tate is named as the new Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom and serves for 22 years until his death. December 24 – The French ship Soleil Royal, a three-decker First Rank ship with 104 guns, is launched at Brest Dockyard. Births January–March January 6 – Francesco Maria Zanotti, Italian philosopher (d. 1777) January 7 – Petrus Wesseling, German librarian, law librarian and writer (d. 1764) January 12 – Ferdinand Maximilian II of Isenburg-Wächtersbach, count of Isenburg-Wächtersbach (d. 1755) January 13 – Gunnila Grubb, Swedish spiritual poet (d. 1729) January 24 – Paweł Giżycki, Polish painter and architect (d. 1762) January 27 – Ivan Cherkasov, Russian statesman, privy councillor, and cabinet secretary (d. 1758) January 30 – William Granville, 3rd Earl of Bath, English peer (d. 1711) January 31 – John Conybeare, British bishop (d. 1755) February 13 – Louis, Prince of Lambesc, French prince (d. 1743) February 14 – Pierre-Claude Nivelle de La Chaussée, French playwright (d. 1754) February 16 – Giovanni Domenico Mansi, Roman Catholic archbishop (d. 1769) February 17 – Christian David, German religious servant, missionary and carpenter (d. 1751) February 18 – Johann Michael Fischer, German architect (d. 1766) February 25 John Hawkins, Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge (d. 1733) Karl Ludwig von Pöllnitz, German soldier, adventurer and writer (d. 1775) February 29 – John Byrom, poet, inventor of a shorthand system (d. 1763) March 5 – Sir John Shelley, 4th Baronet, English politician (d. 1771) March 14 – Pieter van Musschenbroek, Dutch naturalist (d. 1761) March 25 – Tokugawa Tsugutomo, daimyo (d. 1731) March 26 – Jean II Restout, French painter (d. 1768) April–June April 1 – William, Landgrave of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld (d. 1761) April 4 James Carnegie, 5th Earl of Southesk, Scottish earl (d. 1730) André Souste, Royal Notary in Canada (d. 1776)