1691 in England

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April - John Tillotson enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury.
9 April - A fire at the Palace of Whitehall in London destroys its Stone Gallery.
June - First performance of the semi-opera King Arthur with a libretto by John Dryden and music by Henry Purcell.^[1]
18 September - War of the Grand Alliance: English and Dutch forces defeated by the French at the Battle of Leuze.
3 October - The Treaty of Limerick ends the Williamite War in Ireland. The Flight of the Wild Geese — the departure of the Jacobite army — follows.

George Fox is buried under an appropriately simple grave marker (11th month 1690 translates to January 1691 in the new style calendar)

↑ Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. p. 285. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.

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