| January 24 | Czar Peter the Great begins civil system |
| January 24 | Edward Wigglesworth appointed 1st U.S. divinity professor (Harvard) |
| March 8 | Afghan monarch Mir Mahmud occupies Persia |
| March 17 | Willem K. H. Friso appointed mayor of Drente |
| April 5 | Jacob Roggeveen discovers Easter Island |
| April 6 | Peter the Great ends tax on men with beards |
| April 22 | 19 VOC "komplotteurs" in Batavia executed |
| April 30 | Game of Billiards is mentioned in New England Courant |
| May 3 | Pierre de Marivaux' "La Double Inconstance," premieres in Paris |
| June 30 | Hungarian Parliament condemns emperor Karel VI's Pragmatic Sanctions |
| September 12 | Russian troops occupy Baku and Derbent on Persia |
| October 19 | French C. Hopffer patents fire extinguisher |
| November 2 | Willem KH Friso (11) appointed viceroy of Gelderland |
| November 7 | Richard Steele's "Conscious Lovers," premieres in London |
