Deaths on January 10

Louis-Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont, French priest and historian (b. 1637)

Louis-Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont (30 November 1637 – 10 January 1698) was a French ecclesiastical historian.

2 Jul

Steam engine
Thomas Savery patents the first steam engine.
5 Sep

Peter I of Russia
In an effort to Westernize his nobility, Tsar Peter I of Russia imposes a tax on beards for all men except the clergy and peasantry.