Timeline March 1681

Events in March 1681 6

• 1635 – 1681 Frans van Mieris the Elder (1635-1681) Died 12 March 1681, aged 45 Dutch Golden Age genre and portrait painter of the Leiden fijnschilder school and a pupil of Gerrit Dou. He was known for small, very finely finished scenes of everyday life.
• 1635 – 1681 Frans van Mieris the Elder (1635-1681) Died 12 March 1681, aged 45 Dutch Golden Age genre and portrait painter of the Leiden fijnschilder school and a pupil of Gerrit Dou. He was known for small, very finely finished scenes of everyday life.
• 1642 – 1681 Zheng Jing (1642-1681) Died 17 March 1681, aged 38 Ruler of the Kingdom of Tungning on Taiwan and son of Koxinga. He kept up resistance to the Qing dynasty, but two years after his death the Qing conquered the kingdom.
• 1642 – 1681 Zheng Jing (1642-1681) Died 17 March 1681, aged 38 Ruler of the Kingdom of Tungning on Taiwan and son of Koxinga. He kept up resistance to the Qing dynasty, but two years after his death the Qing conquered the kingdom.
• 1681 Pennsylvania chartered Charles II grants William Penn a proprietary colony in America King Charles II of England issued a royal charter to William Penn on 4 March 1681, granting him a vast tract of land in North America as a proprietary colony. Penn intended the colony as a haven for Quakers and other persecuted religious groups, governed on principles of religious tolerance. The city of Philadelphia was founded the following year as its capital.
• 1681 Charles II dissolves the Oxford Parliament England enters a period of royal rule without Parliament On 28 March 1681, King Charles II abruptly dissolved the Oxford Parliament after it attempted to exclude his Catholic brother James from the succession. No new Parliament was summoned for the remainder of Charles II's reign, which ended in 1685. The episode marked the effective end of the Exclusion Crisis and a resurgence of royal authority.