1696
| Years: 1693 1694 1695 – 1696 – 1697 1698 1699 | |
| Decades: 1660s 1670s 1680s – 1690s – 1700s 1710s 1720s | |
| Centuries: 16th century – 17th century – 18th century 1696 in topic: | |
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, Italian painter (d. 1770)
- September 25 – Henry Pelham, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1754)
Deaths
- June 17 – John III of Poland (b. 1629)
- December 4 – Empress Meisho of Japan (b. 1624)
Categories: 1696