outward-bound convoy of the United Provinces, escorted by 23 men-of-war and six fire ships, commanded by Vice-Commodore Michiel de Ruyter; the Dutch escape. September 11– The Guo Huaiyi Rebellion, a peasant revolt on the island of Taiwan against colonial rule in Dutch Formosa is suppressed after four days. October–December October 2 – The Great Fire of Oulu destroys almost all of the houses of the town’s bourgeoisie, the provision warehouses and the drawbridge of Oulu Castle, in the town of Oulu, Finland. October 8 – First Anglo-Dutch War: Battle of the Kentish Knock – In a battle fought near the shoal called the Kentish Knock in the North Sea, about from the mouth of the River Thames, the Dutch are forced to withdraw. November 30 – The Netherlands takes control of the English Channel after the Battle of Dungeness ends in a Dutch victory over the English Royal Navy. December 10 – First Anglo-Dutch War: Defeat at the Battle of Dungeness causes the Commonwealth of England to reform its navy. Births January 2 Sir Gilbert Heathcote, 1st Baronet, Lord Mayor of London (d. 1733) Michel Chamillart, French statesman (d. 1721) January 7 – Pavao Ritter Vitezović, Croatian historian (d. 1713) January 8 – Wilhelm Homberg, Dutch alchemist (d. 1715) January 11 – Eugen Alexander Franz, 1st Prince of Thurn and Taxis, Germany (d. 1714) January 13 – Henry Booth, 1st Earl of Warrington, English politician (d. 1694) January 16 – Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 2nd Earl of Shaftesbury, English politician (d. 1699) January 17 – Claude-Guy Hallé, French painter (d. 1736) February 6 – Francesco Pignatelli, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1734) February 13 Anton Domenico Gabbiani, Italian painter (d. 1726) August, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck (d. 1689) February 14 – Camille d'Hostun, duc de Tallard, Marshal of France (d. 1728) March 1 – Louis de Sabran, British theologian (d. 1732) March 3 – Thomas Otway, English dramatist (d. 1685) March 10 – Giacomo Serpotta, Italian artist (d. 1732) March 12 – Johann Heinrich Ernesti, German philosopher, theologian (d. 1729) March 14 – Benedicta Henrietta of the Palatinate, German princess (d. 1730) March 20 – Leon Bazyli Sapieha, Polish-Lithuanian politician (d. 1686) March 21 – Piers Butler, 3rd Viscount Galmoye, Anglo-Irish nobleman (d. 1740) March 28 – Samuel Sewall, English-born Massachusetts judge (d. 1730) April 7 – Pope Clement XII (d. 1740) April 9 Jean Le Fèvre (astronomer), French astronomer (d. 1706) Christian Ulrich