1681 – The Grey Earl INFO

1681 (MDCLXXXI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1681st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 681st year of the 2nd millennium, the 81st year of the 17th century, and the 2nd year of the 1680s decade. As of the start of 1681, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

In 1681 the last dodo was killed.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century 17th century 18th century
Decades:	1660s 1670s 1680s 1690s 1700s
Years:	1678 1679 1680 1681 1682 1683 1684

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1681 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	1681 MDCLXXXI
Ab urbe condita	2434
Armenian calendar	1130 ԹՎ ՌՃԼ
Assyrian calendar	6431
Balinese saka calendar	1602–1603
Bengali calendar	1088
Berber calendar	2631
English Regnal year	32 Cha. 2 – 33 Cha. 2
Buddhist calendar	2225
Burmese calendar	1043
Byzantine calendar	7189–7190
Chinese calendar	庚申年 (Metal Monkey) 4377 or 4317 — to — 辛酉年 (Metal Rooster) 4378 or 4318
Coptic calendar	1397–1398
Discordian calendar	2847
Ethiopian calendar	1673–1674
Hebrew calendar	5441–5442
Hindu calendars
– Vikram Samvat	1737–1738
– Shaka Samvat	1602–1603
– Kali Yuga	4781–4782
Holocene calendar	11681
Igbo calendar	681–682
Iranian calendar	1059–1060
Islamic calendar	1091–1092
Japanese calendar	Enpō 9 / Tenna 1 (天和元年)
Javanese calendar	1603–1604
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar	4014
Minguo calendar	231 before ROC 民前231年
Nanakshahi calendar	213
Thai solar calendar	2223–2224
Tibetan calendar	阳金猴年 (male Iron-Monkey) 1807 or 1426 or 654 — to — 阴金鸡年 (female Iron-Rooster) 1808 or 1427 or 655

. . . 1681 . . .

January 3– The Treaty of Bakhchisarai is signed, between the Ottoman vassal Crimean Khanate and the Russian Empire.
March 4–Charles II of England grants a land charter to William Penn, for the area that will later become Pennsylvania.
April– Following the death of its last count, the Palatinate-Landsberg passes to the King of Sweden.
May 15– The Canal du Midi in France is opened officially, as the Canal Royal de Languedoc.[1]

July 1–Oliver Plunkett, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, falsely convicted in June of treason, is hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn, London, the last Catholic martyr to die in England;[2] he is canonised in 1975.
July 23 – The Bombardment of Chios during the French-Tripolitania War (1681-1685) is part of a wider campaign by France against the Barbary Pirates in the 1680s.
August– English sea captain Robert Knox of the East India Company escapes prison in Ceylon, and details his adventures across Kandy, and life in the kingdoms of the Tamil country Vanni, in his book An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon.
August 12–Ahom King Gadadhar Singha (or Gadapani), who takes the Tai name Supaatphaa, ascends the throne.
August 31– English perjurer Titus Oates is told to leave his state apartments in Whitehall; his fame begins to wane, and he is soon arrested and imprisoned for sedition.
September 30– France annexes the city of Strasbourg (German: Strassburg), previously a free imperial city of the Holy Roman Empire.
December– Wu Shifan, grandson of Chinese general Wu Sangui, commits suicide in Yunnan province, ending the 8-year Revolt of the Three Feudatories against Qing dynasty authority in China, at this time led by the Kangxi Emperor.
December 22– King Charles II of England signs a warrant for the building of the Royal Hospital Chelsea in London for wounded and retired soldiers.

. . . 1681 . . .

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