Today in History for Year 1675

Months in Year 1675: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 23 of 23

Jan 1st - Don Carlos de Gurrea/Aragon becomes Spanish land guardian of S Neth
Jan 5th - Battle at Turkheim (Colmar): French army beats Brandenburg
Jan 8th - 1st American commercial corporation chartered (NY Fishing Co)
Jan 31st - Cornelia/Dina Olfaarts found not guilty of witchcraft
Feb 21st - Prince Willem III appointed viceroy of Gelderland
Mar 2nd - Prince William III installed as governor of Overijssel
Mar 4th - John Flamsteed appointed 1st Astronomer Royal of England
Jun 20th - Abenaki, Massachusetts, Mohegan & Wampanoag indians form anti-English front under Metacom
Jun 22nd - Royal Greenwich Observatory established in England by Charles II
Jun 25th - Battle at Rathenow: Brandenburgers beat Sweden
Jun 28th - Battle at Fehrbellin: Brandenburgs army beats Sweden
Aug 6th - Russian Czar Aleksei bans foreign hairs cut
Aug 10th - King Charles II lays foundation stone of Royal Observatory, Greenwich
Aug 10th - Portuguese-Jewish synagogue opens in Amsterdam
Sep 6th - Swedish admiral Stenbock sails out with fleet of 66 ships
Sep 9th - New England colonies declare war on Wampanoag indians
Oct 4th - Christian Huygens patents pocket watch
Oct 29th - Leibniz makes the first use of the long s, ∫, for integral.
Nov 2nd - A combined attack by the Plymouth, Rhode Island, Massachusetts Bay and Connecticut colonies attacks the Great Swamp Fort, owned by the Narragansetts during King Philip's War.
Nov 4th - Storm hits Western Europe: flood in Amsterdam
Nov 11th - Gottfried Leibniz demonstrated integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the graph of y = f(x) function.
Nov 14th - Pope Clemens X declares Gorcumse martyrs divine
Nov 22nd - English king Charles II adjourns parliament

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 19 of 19

Jan 16th - Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, French writer (d. 1755)
Feb 17th - Johann Melchior Conradi, composer
Feb 21st - Franz Xaver Josef von Unertl, Bavarian politician (d. 1750)
Feb 26th - Johann Philipp Treiber, composer
Feb 28th - Guillaume Delisle, French cartographer (d. 1726)
Mar 17th - Petrus Laurentius Wockenfuss, composer
Mar 31st - Benedict XIV, [Prospero L Lambertini], Italy, Pope (1740-58)
May 29th - Humphry Ditton, English mathematician (d. 1715)
Jun 1st - Francesco Scipione, marchese di Maffei, Italian archaeologist (d. 1755)
Jul 5th - Mary Walcott, American accuser at the Salem witch trials
Jul 12th - Evaristo E Felice dall' Abaco, Italian cellist/composer
Jul 14th - Claude Alexandre de Bonneval, French soldier (d. 1747)
Aug 14th - Johann Georg Christian Storl, composer
Sep 2nd - William Somervile, English poet (d. 1742)
Sep 3rd - Paul Dudley, Attorney-General of Massachusetts (d. 1751)
Oct 11th - Samuel Clarke, English philosopher (d. 1729)
Oct 21st - Emperor Higashiyama of Japan (d. 1710)
Oct 24th - Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham, English soldier and politician (d. 1749)
Nov 11th - Guru Teg Bahadur Ji, 9th sikh guru

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 26 of 26

Feb 9th - Gerrit Dou / Gerard Douw, Dutch painter (b. 1613)
Mar 18th - Arthur Chichester, 1st Earl of Donegall, Irish soldier (b. 1606)
Apr 12th - Richard Bennett, British Colonial Governor of Virginia (b. 1609)
May 18th - Jacques Marquette jesuit/missionaries (Chicago), dies at 37
May 18th - Stanisław Lubieniecki, Polish astronomer (b. 1623)
May 27th - Gaspard Dughet, French painter (b. 1613)
Jun 12th - Charles Emanuel II, Duke of Savoy (1638-75), dies at 40
Jul 25th - Nicolas Saboly, composer, dies at 61
Jul 27th - Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne Vicomte de Turenne, gen (France), dies
Jul 28th - Bulstrode Whitelocke, English lawyer (b. 1605)
Aug 12th - Karl Rabenhaupt, German/Neth baron of Sucha/army leader, dies at 73
Aug 16th - Bogdan Chmilnicki, cosack leader/murderer of 300,000 Jews, dies
Sep 3rd - Pieter Boel, Flemish painter/etcher, dies
Sep 8th - Amalia, countess of Solms-Braunfels, dies at 73
Sep 18th - Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1604)
Sep 23rd - Valentin Conrart, founder of the Académie Française (b. 1603)
Oct 26th - William Sprague, English co-founder of Charlestown, Massachusetts (b. 1609)
Oct 27th - Gilles de Roberval, French mathematician (b. 1602)
Nov 5th - Kurt S Adeler, Danish admiral/ship designer, dies at 52
Nov 20th - Francisco de Moura y Cortereal, Span land guardian of Neth (1664-68)
Nov 28th - Leonard Hoar, American President of Harvard University (b. 1630)
Nov 28th - Basil Feilding, 2nd Earl of Denbigh, English Civil War soldier (c. 1608)
Nov 30th - Cæcilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, colonial Governor of Maryland (b. 1605)
Dec 5th - John Lightfoot, English theologist (Horae Hebraicae), dies at 73
Painter Jan Vermeer (Dec 15th) Dec 15th - Jan Vermeer, Dutch painter (Love Letter), dies at 43
Dec 23rd - Caesar, duc de Choiseul, French marshal and diplomat (b. 1602)