Robinson Crusoe Published
Apr 25 Daniel Defoe publishes "Robinson Crusoe", regarded as the 1st English novel
- Jun 10 Jacobite Rising: Battle of Glen Shiel - Jacobite army defeated by British forces
- Nov 20 Sweden & Hannover sign for peace Treaty of Stockholm
- Dec 11 1st recorded display of Aurora Borealis in north American colonies (New England)
- Dec 18 Thomas Fleet publishes "Mother Goose's Melodies For Children" in Boston, Massachusetts