• January 1 - Russia accepts Julian calendar.
• January 26 - Massive earthquake hits British Columbia.
• February 27 - The island of New Britain is discovered.
• November 20 - Swedes defeat Russians at the Battle of Narva.
• Vietnamese gain control of entire Indochina peninsula.

• The Great Northern War begins when Russia, Denmark and Saxony/Poland make a coordinated attack on Sweden (to 1721)
• Control of Spain passes from the Habsburgs to the Bourbons

Births

• February 9 - Daniel Bernoulli, mathematician
• May 26 - Nicolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf (+ 1760)
• Klemens August of Bavaria

Deaths

• John Dryden, English poet and playwright
• Charles II of Spain, last of the Spanish Habsburgs