Person report

★02 Jan 1680
Trunajaya rebellion: Amangkurat II of Mataram of Java and his courtiers stabbed Trunajaya to death a week after the rebel leader surrendered to the Dutch.

★07 May 1685
Great Turkish War: Ottoman forces prevailed over Venetian irregulars in the Battle on Vrtijeljka.

★11 Jan 1693
An intensity XI earthquake, the most powerful in Italian history, struck the island of Sicily.

★07 May 1697
Stockholm's royal castle, dating back to the 13th century, was destroyed in a huge fire; the plans for the current royal palace was presented within a year.

★26 Jan 1699
The signing of the Treaty of Karlowitz to conclude the Great Turkish War marked the end of Ottoman control in much of Central Europe and the rise of the Habsburg Monarchy as the dominant power in the region.

★27 Nov 1703
The Great Storm of 1703, one of the most severe storms to strike southern Great Britain, destroyed the first Eddystone Lighthouse off Plymouth.

★26 Dec 1709
The opera Agrippina by George Frideric Handel premiered in Venice.

★19 Apr 1713
With no living male heirs, Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI issued the Pragmatic Sanction to ensure one of his daughters would inherit the Habsburg lands.

★05 Aug 1716
Austro-Turkish War: The Ottoman army were defeated in their attempt to capture the Habsburgs-controlled Petrovaradin Fortress despite having double the number of soldiers.

★13 Apr 1742
Messiah, an oratorio by baroque composer George Frideric Handel, premiered in Dublin.

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