| January 29 | Fjodor Aleksejevitsj becomes czar of Russia |
| February 10 | Wampanoag Indians under King Philip kill all men in Lancaster Mass |
| February 17 | Kings Charles II and Louis XIV sign secret treaty |
| April 18 | Sudbury, Mass attacked by Indians |
| April 22 | Battle of Etna - Netherlands/Spain vs France, M de Ruyter fatally wounded |
| May 10 | Bacon's Rebellion, frontiersmen vs Virginia government begins |
| June 2 | Battle at Palermo: French beats Dutch/Spanish fleet |
| June 11 | Battle at land: Danish and Dutch fleet under CM Tromp beats Sweden |
| July 29 | Nathaniel Bacon declared a rebel for assembling frontiersmen to protect settlers from Indians |
| August 3 | Nathaniel Bacon publishes "Declaration of People of Virginia" |
| August 12 | 1st war between American colonists and Indians ends in New England |
| September 19 | Rebels under Nathaniel Bacon set Jamestown Virginia on fire |
| September 21 | Benedetto Odescalchi elected as Pope Innocent XI |
| October 27 | Poland and Turkey sign Peace of Warsaw |
| November 3 | Kara Mustafa succeeds Ahmed Koprulu as Turkish grand vizier |
| November 6 | King Carlos II of Spain becomes of age (at 15) |
| November 16 | 1st colonial prision organized, Nantucket Mass |
| December 3 | Battle at Lund: Sweden beats Denen |
