access to the sea, Penn proposes a purchase of some of Maryland's territory. December 27 – Colonists from the German electorate of Brandenburg arrive at Akwidaa on the Brandenburger Gold Coast at what is now Ghana and, five days later, begin building a fort at what is now Princes Town. Date unknown Celia Fiennes, noblewoman and traveller, begins her journeys across Britain, in a venture that will prove to be her life's work. Her aim is to chronicle the towns, cities and great houses of the country. Her travels continue until at least 1712, and will take her to every county in England, though the main body of her journal is not written until the year 1702. The Richard Wall House, believed to be the longest continuously inhabited residence in the US, is built in Pennsylvania. Births February 25 – Giovanni Battista Morgagni, Italian anatomist (d. 1771) April 16 – John Hadley, English inventor (d. 1744) May 17 – Bartholomew Roberts, a.k.a. Black Bart, Welsh pirate (d. 1722) June 17 – King Charles XII of Sweden (d. 1718) July 10 – Roger Cotes, English mathematician (d. 1716) August 16 – Louis, duc de Bourgogne, heir to the throne of France (d. 1712) October 29 – Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix, French historian (d. 1761) date unknown – Margareta Capsia, Finnish artist (d. 1759) Deaths January 1 – Jacob Kettler, German noble (b. 1610) January 3 – Olaus Verelius, scholar of Old Norse and Scandinavian studies (b. 1618) February 2 – Jean Le Pautre, French designer and engraver (b. 1618) February 10 – Sir William Hickman, 2nd Baronet, Member of the House of Commons of England (b. 1629) February 15 Claude de la Colombière, French Jesuit priest and saint (b. 1641) Gu Yanwu, Chinese philologist and geographer (b. 1613) February 18 – Pierre Dupuis, French painter (b. 1610) February 19 – Frederick of Hesse-Darmstadt, German Catholic cardinal (b. 1616) February 25 Robert Packer, English politician (b. 1614) Alessandro Stradella, Italian composer (b. 1639) March 13 – Dorothea Augusta of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp, German duchess (b. 1602) March 14 – Jacob Isaakszoon van Ruisdael, Dutch painter (b. c. 1628) March 24 – Frederick, Duke of Württemberg-Neuenstadt, German duke (b. 1615) March 31 – John Frescheville, 1st Baron Frescheville, English politician (b. 1607) April 1 – Franz Egon of Fürstenberg, German politician and Archbishop of Strasbourg (b. 1625) April 3 – Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Spanish