1691 in England
List of events
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Incumbents
- Monarchs â William III and Mary II
Events
- April â John Tillotson enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury.
- 9 April â a fire at the Palace of Whitehall in London destroys its Stone Gallery.
- June â first performance of the semi-opera King Arthur with a libretto by John Dryden and music by Henry Purcell.[1]
- 3 September â HMS Coronation and HMS Harwich are lost in a storm while making for shelter in Plymouth Sound with 900 killed.[2]
- 18 September â War of the Grand Alliance: English and Dutch forces defeated by the French at the Battle of Leuze.
- 3 October â the Treaty of Limerick ends the Williamite War in Ireland. The Flight of the Wild Geese â the departure of the Jacobite army â follows.
Births
- 27 February â Edward Cave, editor and publisher (died 1754)
- 29 September â Richard Challoner, Catholic prelate (died 1781)
- 1 October â Arthur Onslow, politician (died 1768)
Deaths
- 13 January â George Fox, founder of the Quakers (born 1624)
- 17 January â Richard Lower, physician (born 1631)
- 11 May â John Birch, soldier (born 1615)
- 3 June â Tom Cox, "The Handsome Highwayman" (born c. 1666; hanged)
- 10 September â Edward Pococke, Orientalist and biblical scholar (born 1604)
- 9 October â William Sacheverell, statesman (born 1638)
- 8 December â Richard Baxter, clergyman (born 1615)[3]
- probable â Elizabeth Polwheele, playwright (born c. 1651)