1696

align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1693 1694 1695 - 1696 - 1697 1698 1699

align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1660s 1670s 1680s - 1690s - 1700s 1710s 1720s

align="center" | Centuries:
16th century - 17th century - 18th century

The year 1696 had the earliest equinoxes and solstices for 400 years in the Gregorian calendar, because this year is a leap year and the Gregorian calendar would have behaved like the Julian calendar since March 1500 had it have been in use that long. See 1903.

Events

Peter the Great becomes sole tsar of Russia.
Polish replaces Ruthenian as an official language of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
A famine wipes out almost a third of the population of Finland.
Abington, Pennsylvania, is settled.

Births

March 5 - Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, painter (+ 1770)
Henry Pelham, English Whig politician, prime minister 1743-54 (died 1754)

Deaths

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