Eighteenth-Century Chronology: 1691
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Literature
Theatre
- John Vanbrugh begins writing his first play, The Provok'd Wife,
in the Bastille
Art
Music
Science, Technology, & Medicine
Politics & Law
- Treaty of Limerick
- Sir William Petty, The Political Anatomy of Ireland,
restates need for English priests and language to avoid English
massacres
- Plymouth Colony and the Massachusetts Bay Colony merge
- Peter Schuyler leads a force of English and Dutch colonists
to La Prairie, near Montréal, Canada
Philosophy & Theology
- Sor Juana Inéz de la Cruz composes Respuesta a sor
Filotea (published posthumously)
Milestones
Miscellaneous
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