Robert Plot publishes The Natural History of Oxford-shire, being an essay toward the natural history of England, in which he describes the fossilised femur of a human giant, now known to be from the
dinosaurMegalosaurus.
Fabian Stedman publishes Tintinnalogia, or, the Art of Ringing.
Births
17 September –
Stephen Hales, physiologist, chemist and inventor (died 1761)