1674

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Year '1674' ('MDCLXXIV') was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

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Events of 1674

January - June

July - December

Births

Deaths

Events of 1674

January - June

★ February 19 - England and the Netherlands sign the Treaty of Westminster. A provision of the agreement transfers the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam to England, which renamed it New York

★ May 21 - John Sobieski is elected by the nobility to be the King of Poland.

★ June 6 - Coronation of Shivaji as Chatrapati Shivaji at Raigad Fort.

July - December

★ August 11 - The French army under Louis II de Bourbon, Prince de Condé defeated the Dutch-Spanish-Austrian army under William III of Orange at Seneffe.

★ November 10 - Anglo-Dutch War: As provided in the Treaty of Westminster of 19 February, Netherlands cedes New Netherlands to England.

★ December 4 - Father Jacques Marquette founds a mission on the shores of Lake Michigan to minister to the Illinois Indians (the mission would later grow into the city of Chicago).

Births

★ January 15 - Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, French writer (d. 1762)

★ January 24 - Thomas Tanner, English bishop and antiquarian (d. 1735)

★ March - Jethro Tull, English agriculturist (d. 1741)

★ July 12 - Abigail Williams, American accuser in the Salem witch trials (d. 1765)

★ July 17 - Isaac Watts, English hymnist (d. 1748)

★ August 2 - Philip II, Duke of Orléans, regent of France (d. 1723)

★ August 9 - František Maxmilián Kaňka, Czech architect (d. 1766)

★ December 25 - Thomas Halyburton, Scottish theologian (d. 1712)
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Deaths

★ January 12 - Giacomo Carissimi Italian composer (born 1605)

★ February 22 - Jean Chapelain, French writer (born 1595)

★ February 24 - Matthias Weckmann, German composer (born 1616)

★ March 8 - Charles Sorel, sieur de Souvigny, French writer (born 1597)

★ June 14 - Marin le Roy de Gomberville, French writer (born 1600)

★ July 2 - Eberhard III, Duke of Württemberg (born 1614)

★ August 12 - Philippe de Champaigne, French painter (born 1602)

★ October - Robert Herrick, English poet (born 1591)

★ October 10 - Thomas Traherne, English poet (born c.1637)

★ October 22 - Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, Dutch painter (born 1621)

★ October 27 - Hallgrímur Pétursson, Icelandic poet (born 1614)

★ November 8 - John Milton, English poet (born 1608)

★ December 9 - Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, English statesman and historian (born 1609)
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