February 15 Jean Baptiste Lully's opera "Armide," premieres in Paris April 4 English king James II publishes Declaration of Indulgence July 9 Germany, Sweden and Spain signs anti-French League of Augsburg July 22 City of Albany, New York chartered August 18 Cassini reports seeing a satellite orbiting Venus September 2 Habsburgse armies occupy Buda on Turks December 19 Robinson Crusoe leaves his island after 28 years (as per Defoe)
