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Historical Event(s)
– Charles II of England grants John Clarke a Royal Charter to Rhode Island.
– The English Parliament passes the second Navigation Act requiring that all goods bound for the American colonies have to be sent in English ships from English ports.
Who Were Born On ?
– Mother Ignacia del Espiritu Santo, Filipino foundress of the Religious of the Virgin Mary (d. 1748)
– Cotton Mather, New England minister (d. 1728)
– Pierre Antoine Motteux, French-born English dramatist (d. 1718)
– Francis Atterbury, British man of letters (d. 1732)
– August Hermann Francke, German Protestant minister (d. 1727)
– William Bradford, British-born printer (d. 1752)
– Jean Baptiste Massillon, French churchman (d. 1742)
– Guillaume Amontons, French physicist and instrument maker (d. 1705)
– Prince Eugene of Savoy, French-born Austrian general (d. 1736)