Events
- January - Matthew Prior, English poet, enters Parliament as MP for East Grinstead.
- September 7 - The Treaty of Den Haag is the catalyst for the War of the Spanish Succession, which would continue and have frequent discussion in literature until 1713.
- George Granville's The Jew of Venice, an adaptation of The Merchant of Venice, receives its première at Lincoln's Inn Fields, with Thomas Betterton as Bassanio. The adaptation is so popular that it displaces the original from the stage for the next four decades.
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