1691

This page lists news articles and events for the year 1691.

Events that happen on the specified date are listed under Events: entries. News articles that were published on the specified date are listed under News: entries. Events that only happened in fiction on the specified date are listed under Fiction: entries and are written in italics.

Centuries:	16th Century		17th Century			18th Century
Decades:	1660s	1670s	1680s	1690s	1700s	1710s	1720s
Years:	1688	1689	1690	1691	1692	1693	1694

Undated

• Ongoing: Nine Years' War (France vs the rest of Europe)
• Ongoing: Leisler's Rebellion (colonial New York)
• Event: Thiess of Kaltenbrun witnesses a robbery of a church.
• Event: Thiess of Kaltenbrun testifies in the robbery trial, and accidentally reveals that he is a Livonian Werewolf. Having now done this twice (the first time in 1681), the court decides they have no choice but to put him on trial for lycanthropy and witchcraft next year.
• Event: Massachusetts Bay Colony and Plymouth Colony official merge
• Event: the Qing Dynasty secures its control over Mongolia

January

February

March

• March 15 to April 10:
  • Event: Siege of Mons in Nine Years' War
• March 20:
  • Event: Leisler's Rebellion ends when Jacob Leisler surrenders.

April

• April 9:
  • Event: A major fire at the Palace of Whitehall in London

May

• May 6:
  • Event: Spanish Inquisition forcibly baptizes 219 in Palma de Mallorca, and 37 are burned at the stake for refusing to be baptized.
• May 16:
  • Event: Jacob Leisler is hanged for treason.

June

July

• July 12:
  • Event: Battle of Aughrim in the Williamite War in Ireland

August

September

• September 18:
  • Event: Battle of Leuze in the Nine Years' War

October

• October 3:
  • Event: Treaty of Limerick ends the Williamite War in Ireland.

November

December