for control of the city. The strike ignites a stock of gunpowder that the Ottomans had stored inside the 2,200-year-old temple, which had been completed in 438 BC as a shrine to the goddess Athena. During the fighting September 23 and September 29 for control of the Acropolis in the Morean War, the Temple of Athena Nike is demolished and the Propylaea suffers damage. October–December October 20 – An estimated 8.7 magnitude earthquake strikes off of the coast of Peru and kills at least 5,000 people, primarily from a tsunami that washes away the city of Pisco and causes severe damage to the Spanish colonial cities of Lima, Callao and Ica. October 31 – The legend of the Charter Oak begins as a successful attempt to hide the 1662 Royal Charter of the British colony (and now a U.S. state) of Connecticut after Edmund Andros, the Governor of the Dominion of New England, makes a mission of attempting to confiscate the founding documents for the seven colonies that make up the new administrative area. After Governor Andros arrives in Hartford and comes to the tavern of Zachariah Sanford to demand the Connecticut Colony charter, Captain Joseph Wadsworth spirits the parchment away from the and hides the Charter in a hollowed out portion of a white oak tree on Wyllys Hyll until Andros is recalled to London. November 8 – Suleiman II succeeds the deposed Mehmed IV, as Ottoman Emperor. December 31 – In response to the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, a group of Huguenots set sail from France, and settle in the recently established Dutch colony at the Cape of Good Hope, where, using their native skills, they establish the first South African vineyards. Births January 27 – Johann Balthasar Neumann, German architect (d. 1753) February 4 – Joseph Effner, German architect (d. 1745) March 7 – Jean Lebeuf, French historian (d. 1760) March 16 – Sophia Dorothea of Hanover, queen consort of Frederick William I (d. 1757) May 12 – Johann Heinrich Schulze, German professor and polymath (d. 1744) June 24 – Johann Albrecht Bengel, German scholar (d. 1752) September 7 – Durastante Natalucci, Italian historian (d. 1772) October 4 – Robert Simson, Scottish mathematician (d. 1768) October 5 – Maria Maddalena Martinengo, Italian nun (d. 1737) October 21 – Nicolaus I Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (d. 1759) November 7 – William Stukeley, English archaeologist (d.