6 September –
Cestui que Vie Act passed by
Parliament to provide for disposal of the property of missing persons.
10 October – a "day of humiliation and fasting" is held a month after the Great Fire of London.
23 October – the most intense tornado on record in English history, an F4 storm on the
Fujita scale or T8 on the
TORRO scale, strikes
Lincolnshire with a path of destruction through the villages of Welbourn, Wellingore, Navenby and Boothby Graffoe, with winds of more than 213 miles per hour (343 km/h).[3]
27 October –
Robert Hubert, a Frenchman who had made a false confession to having started the Great Fire of London, is executed. A royal proclamation banishes Catholic priests.[4]
Undated
Isaac Newton uses a prism to split sunlight (
Deus phos) into the component colours of the
optical spectrum, assisting understanding of the scientific nature of
light. He also develops differential
calculus. His discoveries this year lead to it being referred to as his Annus mirabilis or Newton's "Year of the Morning Star".
First
Burying in Woollen Act requires the dead, except plague victims and the destitute, to be buried in pure English woollen shrouds for the benefit of the home textile industry.[5]