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Year 1681 (MDCLXXXI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).
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Events of 1681
January - June
- March 14 - Charles II of England grants a land charter to William Penn for the area that will later become Pennsylvania.
July - December
- October 28 - 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.
- August 12 - The Ahom King Gadadhar Singha or Gadapani, who took the Tai name Supaatphaa, ascends the throne.
Undated
- France annexes the city of Strasbourg.
- The last dodo bird is killed.
- Collections are made in England for needy French refugees.
Births
- March 14 - Georg Philipp Telemann, German composer (died 1767)
- June 26 - Hedwig Sophia, duchess of Holstein-Gottorp, Swedish writer (died 1708)
- September 11 - Johann Gottlieb Heineccius, German jurist (died 1741)
- September 28 - Johann Mattheson, German composer (died 1764)
- November 17 - Pierre François le Courayer, French theologian (died 1776)
- November 28 - Jean Cavalier, French Protestant rebel leader (died 1740)
- See also .
Deaths
- January 28 - Richard Allestree, English royalist churchman (born 1619)
- March 12 - Frans van Mieris, Sr., Dutch painter (born 1635)
- May 25 - Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Spanish dramatist and poet (born 1600)
- July 1 - Oliver Plunkett, Irish saint (born 1629)
- July 25 - Urian Oakes, English-born President of Harvard University (born 1631)
- August 22 - Philippe Delano, Dutch Plymouth Colony settler (born 1602)
- December 22 - Richard Alleine, English Puritan clergyman (born 1611)
- date unknown - Gerard ter Borch, Dutch painter (born 1617)
- See also .