1676

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Year '1676' ('MDCLXXVI') was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Saturday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

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Events of 1676

January - June

July - December

Undated

Births

Deaths

Events of 1676

January - June

★ January 29 - Feodor III becomes Tsar of Russia.

★ May 26 - a fire destroys the Town Hall and 624 houses in Southwark in England.

★ June - Beginning of Bacon's Rebellion in the Virginia Colony.

July - December

★ July 17 - In France, Marie-Madeleine-Marguerite d'Aubray, Marquise de Brinvilliers is executed for poisoning his father and brothers. Case also scares the king Louis XIV to start a series of investigations about possible poisonings and witchcraft, later called the Poison affair.

★ September 21 - Pope Innocent XI succeeds Pope Clement X as the 240th pope.

★ November 16 - The Nantucket Island Prison founded on Nantucket Island in the English colony of Massachusetts.

★ December - Ole Rømer makes the first quantitative measurements of the speed of light.

Undated

★ First measurement of the speed of light, by Ole Rømer.

★ King Philip's War continues, between the settlers in New England and the indigenous tribes led by Metacomet.

★ First actions in the Russo-Turkish Wars.

★ Emperor Yohannes I decrees that Muslims must live separately from Christians throughout Ethiopia.

★ Anton van Leeuwenhoek discovers microorganisms.

★ Turku was the meeting place of the States of Finland.

Births

★ May 8 - Frederick I of Sweden (died 1751)

★ March 17 - Thomas Boston, Scottish church leader (died 1732)

★ March 27 - Francis II Rákóczi, leader of the Hungarian uprising against the Habsburg (died April 8, 1735)

★ April 23 - King Frederick I of Sweden (died 1751)

★ May 28 - Jacopo Riccati, Italian mathematician (died 1754)

★ June 21 - Anthony Collins, English philosopher (died 1729)

★ July 3 - Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Prussian field marshal (died 1747)

★ July 14 - Caspar Abel, German theologian, historian, and poet (died 1763)

★ August 26 - Robert Walpole, first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1745)

★ September 19 - Eberhard Ludwig, Duke of Württemberg (died 1733)

★ October 8 - Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro, Spanish scholar (died 1764)
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Deaths

★ January 14 - Francesco Cavalli, Italian composer (born 1602)

★ January 29 - Tsar Alexis I of Russia (born 1629)

★ February 14 - Abraham Bosse, French engraver and artist (born c.1604)

★ March 21 - Henri Sauval, French historian (born 1623)

★ April 5 - John Winthrop, the Younger, Governor of Connecticut (born 1606)

★ April 29 - Michiel Adriaanszoon de Ruijter, Dutch admiral (born 1607)

★ June 7 - Paul Gerhardt, German hymnist (born 1606)

★ July 5 - Carl Gustaf Wrangel, Swedish soldier (born 1613)

★ July 22 - Pope Clement X (born 1590)

★ July 25 - François Hédelin, abbé d'Aubignac, French writer (born 1604)

★ August 11 - Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen, German writer (born 1621)

★ September 10 - Gerrard Winstanley, English religious reformer (born 1609)

★ October 28 - Jean Desmarets, French writer (born 1595)

★ November 1 - Gisbertus Voetius, Dutch theologian (born 1589)

★ December 25 - Matthew Hale, Lord Chief Justice of England (born 1609)

★ December 25 - William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle, English soldier, politician, and writer (born 1592)
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