1681

Years: 1678 1679 1680 - 1681 - 1682 1683 1684

Decades: 1650s 1660s 1670s - 1680s - 1690s 1700s 1710s

Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century 1681 in literature 1681 in science 1681 state leaders

Events

• March 4 - Charles II of England grants a land charter to William Penn for the area that will later become Pennsylvania.
• October 12 - A London woman is publicly flogged for the crime of "involving herself in politics."
• August 31 - Titus Oates is told to leave his state apartments in the Whitehall - his fame begins to vane and he is soon arrested and imprisoned for sedition

• France annexes the city of Strasbourg
• The last Dodo is killed
• Collections made in England for needy French refugees

Births

• March 14 -Georg Philipp Telemann, German composer

Deaths

• May 25 - Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Spanish dramatist and poet
• August 22 - Philippe Delano, Pilgrim founder of the American House of Delano