The Don Uprising led by Kondraty Bulavin.
29 June — Johann Sebastian Bach takes up the post of organist at St. Blaise’s Church in Mühlhausen, and four months later marries his cousin Maria Barbara.
16 December — the beginning of the last recorded eruption of Mount Fuji in Japan.
Isaac Newton’s collection of lectures on algebra, titled *Universal Arithmetic*, is published. The numerical methods presented in it marked the birth of a new promising discipline—numerical analysis.