1681

This article is about the year 1681.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century – 17th century – 18th century
Decades:	1650s  1660s  1670s  – 1680s –  1690s  1700s  1710s
Years:	1678 1679 1680 – 1681 – 1682 1683 1684

1681 by topic:

Arts and Science

Architecture - Art - Literature - Music - Science

Lists of leaders

Colonial governors - State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments - Disestablishments

Works category

Works

1681 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1681 MDCLXXXI
Ab urbe condita	2434
Armenian calendar	1130 ԹՎ ՌՃԼ
Assyrian calendar	6431
Bahá'í calendar	-163–-162
Bengali calendar	1088
Berber calendar	2631
English Regnal year	32 Cha. 2 – 33 Cha. 2
Buddhist calendar	2225
Burmese calendar	1043
Byzantine calendar	7189–7190
Chinese calendar	庚申年十一月十二日 (4317/4377-11-12) — to — 辛酉年十一月廿二日 (4318/4378-11-22)
Coptic calendar	1397–1398
Ethiopian calendar	1673–1674
Hebrew calendar	5441–5442
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1737–1738
- Shaka Samvat	1603–1604
- Kali Yuga	4782–4783
Holocene calendar	11681
Iranian calendar	1059–1060
Islamic calendar	1091–1092
Japanese calendar	Enpō 9Tenna 1 (天和元年)
Korean calendar	4014
Minguo calendar	231 before ROC 民前231年
Thai solar calendar	2224

Year 1681 (MDCLXXXI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar.

Events

January–June

• January 3 – Treaty of Bakhchisarai One side Ottoman (Turkish) Empire and vassal Crimean Khanate , the other side Russian Empire.
• March 14 – Charles II of England grants a land charter to William Penn for the area that will later become Pennsylvania.
• April – Following the death of its last count, the Palatinate-Landsberg passes to the King of Sweden.

July–December

• August – Robert Knox escapes prison in Ceylon, and details his adventures across Kandy and life in the kingdoms of the Tamil country Vanni in his book An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon.
• August 12 – The Ahom King Gadadhar Singha or Gadapani, who took the Tai name Supaatphaa, ascends the throne.
• August 31 – Titus Oates is told to leave his state apartments in the Whitehall; his fame begins to wane and he is soon arrested and imprisoned for sedition.
• October 28 – A London woman is publicly flogged for the crime of "involving herself in politics."
• December – Wu Shifan, grandson of Chinese general Wu Sangui, commits suicide in Yunnan province, ending the 8-year conflict of the Revolt of the Three Feudatories against Qing Dynasty authority in China, then led by the Kangxi Emperor.
• December 22 – King Charles II of England signs a warrant for the building of the Royal Hospital Chelsea.

Date unknown

• France annexes the city of Strasbourg.
• The last dodo bird is killed.
• Collections are made in England for needy French refugees.
• The Port of Honfleur in France is re-modelled by Abraham Duquesne.

Births

• March 14 – Georg Philipp Telemann, German composer (d. 1767)
• June 26 – Hedwig Sophia, duchess of Holstein-Gottorp, Swedish writer (d. 1708)
• September 11 – Johann Gottlieb Heineccius, German jurist (d. 1741)
• September 28 – Johann Mattheson, German composer (d. 1764)
• November 17 – Pierre François le Courayer, French theologian (d. 1776)
• November 28 – Jean Cavalier, French Protestant rebel leader (d. 1740)

Deaths

• January 28 – Richard Allestree, English royalist churchman (b. 1619)
• March 12 – Frans van Mieris, Sr., Dutch painter (b. 1635)
• May 25 – Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Spanish dramatist and poet (b. 1600)
• July 1 – Oliver Plunkett, Irish saint (b. 1629)
• July 25 – Urian Oakes, English-born President of Harvard University (b. 1631)
• August 22 – Philippe Delano, Dutch Plymouth Colony settler (b. 1602)
• December 22 – Richard Alleine, English Puritan clergyman (b. 1611)
• date unknown – Gerard ter Borch, Dutch painter (b. 1617)