concluded after seven days, the Lords vote on whether to convict him of the articles of impeachment. The Lords vote, 55 to 31 to convict him and to impose the death sentence and Lord Stafford is beheaded on 29 December (8 January 1681 N.S.) Date unknown Chambers of Reunion (French courts under Louis XIV) decide on the complete annexation of Alsace. The first Portuguese governor is appointed to Macau. Johann Pachelbel writes his Canon in D Major Births January 23 – Joseph Ames, English author (d. 1759) February 14 – John Sidney, 6th Earl of Leicester, English privy councillor (d. 1737) February 23 – Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, French colonizer and Governor of Louisiana (d. 1767) April 9 – Philippe Néricault Destouches, French dramatist (d. 1754) April 23 – Anna Canalis di Cumiana, morganatic spouse of Victor Amadeus II of Savoy (d. 1769) June 22 – Ebenezer Erskine, Scottish religious dissenter (d. 1754) September 22 – Barthold Heinrich Brockes, German poet (d. 1747) October 19 – John Abernethy, Irish Protestant minister (d. 1740) date unknown – Bulleh Shah, Sufi poet (d. 1757) date unknown – Julianna Géczy, Hungarian heroine (d. 1714) approximate – Edward Teach (Blackbeard), English pirate (d. 1718) Deaths January–June January 2 John Jolliffe, English politician and businessman (b. 1613) Trunajaya, Maduran prince and rebel leader, murdered (b. 1649) January 18 – John Hervey, English courtier and politician (b. 1616) January 20 – Ann, Lady Fanshawe, English memoirist (b. 1625) January 23 – Capel Luckyn, English Member of Parliament (b. 1622) February – Ralph Davenant, English rector and founder of Davenant Foundation School February 11 – Elisabeth of the Palatinate, German princess, philosopher and Calvinist (b. 1618) February 17 Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles, English statesman and writer (b. 1599) Frans Post, Dutch painter (b. 1612) Jan Swammerdam, Dutch scientist (b. 1637) February 22 – Catherine Monvoisin, French fortune teller and poisoner (b. c. 1640) February 27 – Philippe Balthazar de Gand, French noble (b. 1616) March 14 – René Le Bossu, French critic (b. 1631) March 17 William Brereton, 3rd Baron Brereton, English politician (b. 1631) François de La Rochefoucauld, French writer (b. 1613) March 23 – Nicolas Fouquet, French statesman (b. 1615) April 1 – David Denicke, German jurist and hymnwriter (b. 1603) April 3 – Chhatrapati Shivaji Bhosale, founder of the Maratha Empire (b. 1630) April 19 – Marie Hedwig of Hesse-Darmstadt, Duchess consort