1681

Events

• March 4 - Charles II of England grants a land charter to William Penn for the area that will later become Pennsylvania.
• October 12 - A London woman is publicly flogged for the crime of "involving herself in politics."
• August 31 - Titus Oates is told to leave his state apartments in the Whitehall - his fame begins to wane and he is soon arrested and imprisoned for sedition
• France annexes the city of Strasbourg
• The last Dodo is killed
• Collections made in England for needy French refugees

Births

• March 14 -Georg Philipp Telemann, German composer

Deaths

• May 25 - Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Spanish dramatist and poet
• August 22 - Philippe Delano, Pilgrim founder of the American House of Delano
• Gerard Terborch, Dutch painter