Eighteenth-Century Chronology: 1696
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Literature
Theatre
- John Vanbrugh, The Relapse
- Colley Cibber, Love's Last Shift
- Mary Pix, The Spanish Wives
- Jeremy Collier outlawed for his opposition to William III
Art
Music
Science, Technology, & Medicine
Politics & Law
- Jeremy Collier outlawed for his opposition to William III
- Workhouses are established by an Act of Parliament
- The Royal Africa Company loses its monopoly on the slave
trade; American colonists begin to engage in slave trading for
profit
- The Navigation Act of 1696 requires that all trade in
England's North American colonies be conducted in English-built
ships, and expands the powers of the colonial customs
commissioners
Philosophy & Theology
- John Toland, Christianity Not Mysterious
Milestones
- Birth of Alphonsus Liguori
Miscellaneous
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