1691 in England

Events from the year 1691 in England. == Incumbents == Monarchs – William III and Mary II == Events == 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. 3 September – HMS Coronation and HMS Harwich are lost in a storm while making for shelter in Plymouth Sound with 900 killed. 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. == Births == 27 February – Edward Cave, editor and publisher (died 1754) 29 September – Richard Challoner, Catholic prelate (died 1781) 1 October – Arthur Onslow, politician (died 1768) == Deaths == 13 January – George Fox, founder of the Quakers (born 1624) 17 January – Richard Lower, physician (born 1631) 11 May – John Birch, soldier (born 1615) 3 June – Tom Cox, "The Handsome Highwayman" (born c. 1666; hanged) 10 September – Edward Pococke, Orientalist and biblical scholar (born 1604) 9 October – William Sacheverell, statesman (born 1638) 8 December – Richard Baxter, clergyman (born 1615) probable – Elizabeth Polwheele, playwright (born c. 1651) == References ==