Today in History for Year 1672

Months in Year 1672: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 25 of 25

Jan 1st - Jean Racine's "Bajazet," premieres in Paris
Feb 8th - Isaac Newton reads 1st optics paper before Royal Society in London
Feb 23rd - Joan Blaeus publishers destroyed by fire in Amsterdam
Mar 15th - King Charles II enacts Declaration of Indulgence
Mar 17th - England declares war on Netherlands
Apr 6th - France declares war on Netherlands
Apr 29th - Franco-Dutch War: Louis XIV of France invades the Netherlands.
May 2nd - John Maitland becomes Duke of Lauderdale and Earl of March.
May 6th - Brandenburgs monarch Frederik Willem signs treaty with Netherlands
May 15th - 1st copyright law enacted by Massachusetts
May 17th - Frontenac becomes governor of New France (Canada)
Jun 7th - Battle by Solebay: Dutch adm M de Ruyter beats French/English fleet
Jun 12th - French army under Gen Turenne crosses Rhine at Lobith
Jun 21st - Dutch pension advisor Johan de Witt seriously wounded
Jun 21st - French troops under king Louis XIV occupy Utrecht
Jun 25th - 1st recorded monthly Quaker meeting in US held, Sandwich, Mass
Jul 4th - States of Holland declares "Eternal Edict" void
Jul 8th - Willem II becomes captain-/admiral-general
Jul 9th - Prince Willem III inaugurated as viceroy of Holland/Zealand
The Sun King Louis XIV Aug 20th - Former Grand Pensionary Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis are brutally murdered by an angry mob in The Hague.
Sep 6th - Willem III's troops reconquer Naarden on France
Oct 18th - Poland & Turkey sign Peace of Buczacz
Dec 10th - NY Gov Lovelace announces monthly mail service between NY & Boston
Dec 23rd - Giovanni Cassini discovers Rhea, a satellite of Saturn
Dec 30th - Baron Karl Rabenhaupt occupies Coevorden Neth

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 14 of 14

Jan 4th - Hugh Boulter, Irish Archbishop of Armagh (d. 1742)
Jan 16th - Francesco Mancini, composer
Jan 18th - Antoine Houdar de la Motte, French writer (d. 1731)
Feb 13th - Étienne François Geoffroy, French chemist (d. 1731)
Feb 26th - Antoine Augustine Calmet, French theologian (d. 1757)
Mar 12th - Richard Steele, Irish writer and politician (d. 1729)
Apr 6th - Andre Cardinal Destouches, composer
Apr 21st - Johann Philipp Kafer, composer
May 1st - Joseph Addison, England, essayist (Spectator)
Jun 9th - Peter the Great [Pyotr Alexeyevich Romanov], tsar of Russia (1682-1725)
Jun 11th - Francesco Antonio Bonporti, composer
Aug 2nd - Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Swiss scholar (d. 1733)
Sep 8th - Nicolas de Grigny, composer
Oct 11th - Pylyp Orlyk, Ukrainian Zaporozhian Cossack starshina, diplomat (d. 1742)

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 26 of 26

Jan 15th - John Cosin, English clergyman (b. 1594)
Jan 28th - Pierre Séguier, Chancellor of France (b. 1588)
Feb 19th - Charles Chauncy, English-born president of Harvard College (b. 1592)
Apr 22nd - Georg Stiernhielm, Swed scholar/author/poet (Hercules), dies at 73
May 5th - Samuel Cooper, English painter (b. 1609)
May 8th - Jean-Armand du Peyrer, Comte de Tréville and French Officer (b. 1598)
May 11th - Charles Seton, 2nd Earl of Dunfermline, English royalist (b. 1615)
May 28th - John Trevor, English politician (b. 1626)
Jun 7th - Willem J van Gendt, admiral/governor of Breda, dies at about 37
Jun 17th - Orazio Benevoli, Italian composer, dies at 67
Jun 27th - Roger Twysden, English antiquarian (b. 1597)
Jul 3rd - Francis Willughby, English biologist (b. 1635)
Jul 4th - Ambrosius Reiner, composer, dies at 67
Jul 4th - Govert D Camphuysen, (court)painter, dies at about 48
Aug 9th - Jose Ximenez, composer, dies at 70
Aug 20th - Cornelis de Witt, Dutch, statesman, lynched at 49
Aug 20th - Johan de Witt, advisor of Holland, lynched
Sep 12th - Tanneguy Lefebvre, French classical scholar (b. 1615)
Sep 16th - Anne Bradstreet, New England's first published poet, dies (birth date unknown)
Oct 12th - Frederik of Nassau, count of Buren, slain in battle
Oct 24th - John Webb, English architect (b. 1611)
Nov 1st - Heinrich Schutz, composer, dies at 87
Nov 19th - John Wilkins, English Bishop of Chester (b. 1614)
Dec 7th - Richard Bellingham, English-born Massachusetts colonial magistrate (b. 1592)
Dec 13th - Jan II Kazimierz, king of Poland (1648-68), dies at 63
Dec 16th - John II Casimir Vasa, cardinal/king of Poland (1648-68), dies at 63