| January 21 | Count Miklos of Zrinyi sets out to battle Turkish invasion army |
| March 6 | King Louis XIV and Emperor of Brandenburg signs covenant |
| March 12 | 1st naturalization act in American colonies |
| March 12 | New Jersey becomes a British colony |
| March 24 | Roger Williams is granted a charter to colonize Rhode Island |
| April 6 | France and Saksen sign alliance |
| May 14 | Turkish great Koprulu attacks 120,000 Donau soldiers |
| May 28 | 1st Baptist Church organizes (Boston) |
| June 4 | Viceroy Willem Frederik conquerors Dijlerschans |
| June 6 | New Amsterdam renamed New York City |
| June 15 | New Jersey established |
| July 23 | 4 British ships to drive Dutch out of New York, arrive in Boston |
| July 31 | Pierre Corneille's "Othon," premieres in Paris |
| August 1 | Battle at St. Gotthard: Earl Raimondo Montecucculi beats Ahmed Koprulu |
| August 10 | Austria/Turkey signs Peace of Vasvar |
| August 29 | Adriaen Pieck/Gerrit de Ferry patent wooden firespout in Amsterdam |
| September 8 | Dutch surrender New Amsterdam (NY) to 300 English soldiers |
| September 20 | Maryland passes 1st anti-amalgamation law to stop intermarriage of English women and black men |
| September 24 | Dutch Fort Orange (Albany New York) surrenders to English |
| December 15 | English colonizing Connecticut |
