1675
Encyclopedia : 1 : 16 : 167 : 1675
| Decades: 1640s 1650s 1660s - 1670s - 1680s 1690s 1700s | |||||||||
| : | |
| Arts and Science | |
| [[0s in architecture|Architecture]] - Art - Literature - Music - Science | |
| Lists of leaders | |
| Colonial governors - State leaders | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| - | |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories | |
| - | |
Events
- January 5 - The Battle of Turckeim
- June 18 - Battle of Fehrbellin
- August 10 - King Charles II of England places the foundation stone of the Royal Greenwich Observatory in London - construction begins
- November 11 - Guru Gobind Singh becomes the Tenth Guru of the Sikhs.
- Cassini discovers Saturn's Cassini Division
- King Philip's War between the settlers in New England and the indigenous tribes led by Metacomet begins.
Births
- January 16 - Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, French writer (d. 1755)
- February 21 - Franz Xaver Josef von Unertl, Bavarian politician (d. 1750)
- February 28 - Guillaume Delisle, French cartographer (d. 1726)
- March 31 - Pope Benedict XIV (d. 1758)
- May 29 - Humphry Ditton, English mathematician (d. 1715)
- June 1 - Francesco Scipione, marchese di Maffei, Italian archaeologist (d. 1755)
- July 5 - Mary Walcott, American accuser at the Salem witch trials
- July 12 - Evaristo Abaco, Italian composer (d. 1742)
- July 14 - Claude Alexandre de Bonneval, French soldier (d. 1747)
- September 2 - William Somervile, English poet (d. 1742)
- September 3 - Paul Dudley, Attorney-General of Massachusetts (d. 1751)
- October 11 - Samuel Clarke, English philosopher (d. 1729)
- October 21 - Emperor Higashiyama of Japan (d. 1710)
- October 24 - Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham, English soldier and politician (d. 1749)
Deaths
- February 9 - Gerhard Douw, Dutch painter (b. 1613)
- March 18 - Arthur Chichester, 1st Earl of Donegall, Irish soldier (b. 1606)
- May 18 - Stanisław Lubieniecki, Polish astronomer (b. 1623)
- May 18 - Father Jacques Marquette, French missionary and explorer (b. 1636)
- May 27 - Gaspard Dughet, French painter (b. 1613)
- June 12 - Charles Emmanuel II of Savoy (b. 1634)
- July 27 - Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne, Marshal of France (b. 1611)
- July 28 - Bulstrode Whitelocke, English lawyer (b. 1605)
- September 18 - Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1604)
- September 23 - Valentin Conrart, founder of the Académie Française (b. 1603)
- October 27 - Gilles de Roberval, French mathematician (b. 1602)
- November 28 - Basil Feilding, 2nd Earl of Denbigh, English Civil War soldier
- November 28 - Leonard Hoar, American President of Harvard University (b. 1630)
- November 30 - Cæcilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, colonial Governor of Maryland (b. 1605)
- December 6 - John Lightfoot, English church goer (b. 1602)
- December 15 - Johannes Vermeer, Dutch painter (b. 1632)
- December 23 - Caesar, duc de Choiseul, French marshal and diplomat (b. 1602)
From Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Original article here. Support Wikipedia by contributing or donating.
All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License See Wikipedia Copyrights for details.