Today in History for Year 1676

Months in Year 1676: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 19 of 19

Jan 29th - Feodor III succeeds his father and becomes Tsar of Russia.
Feb 10th - Wampanoag Indians under King Philip kill all men in Lancaster Mass
Feb 17th - Kings Charles II & Louis XIV sign secret treaty
Apr 18th - Sudbury, Mass attacked by Indians
Apr 22nd - Battle of Etna - Neth/Spain vs France, M de Ruyter fatally wounded
May 10th - Bacon's Rebellion, frontiersmen vs Virginia government begins
Jun 2nd - Battle at Palermo: French beats Dutch/Spanish fleet
Jun 11th - Battle at Öland: Danish & Dutch fleet under CM Tromp beats Sweden
Jul 29th - Nathaniel Bacon declared a rebel for assembling frontiersmen to protect settlers from Indians
Aug 3rd - Nathaniel Bacon publishes "Declaration of People of Virginia"
Aug 12th - 1st war between American colonists & Indians ends in New England
Sep 19th - Rebels under Nathaniel Bacon set Jamestown Va on fire
Sep 21st - Benedetto Odescalchi elected as Pope Innocent XI
Oct 27th - Poland & Turkey sign Peace of Warsaw
Nov 3rd - Kara Mustafa succeeds Ahmed Kiprulu as Turkish grand vizier
Nov 6th - King Carlos II of Spain comes of age (at 15)
Nov 16th - 1st colonial prision organized, Nantucket Mass
Dec 3rd - Battle at Lund: Sweden beats Denen
Dec 4th - Battle of Lund: A Danish army under the command of King Christian V of Denmark engages the Swedish army commanded by Field Marshal Simon Grundel-Helmfelt.

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 18 of 18

Jan 19th - John Weldon, composer
Mar 17th - Thomas Boston, Scottish church leader (d. 1732)
Mar 27th - Francis II Rákóczi, leader of the Hungarian uprising against the Habsburg (d. 1735)
Apr 14th - Ernst Chreistian Hesse, composer
Apr 17th - Frederik I, van Hessen Kassel, King of Sweden (1720-51)
Apr 23rd - King Frederick I of Sweden (d. 1751)
May 28th - Jacopo Riccati, Italian mathematician (d. 1754)
Jun 6th - Georg Reidel, composer
Jul 3rd - Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Prussian field marshal (d. 1747)
Jul 14th - Caspar Abel, German theologian, historian, and poet (d. 1763)
Jul 21st - Anthony Collins, English philosopher (A discourse on free-thinking)
Aug 26th - Robert Walpole, (Whig) British PM (1721-42) [NS=Sept 5]
Sep 13th - Élisabeth Charlotte of Orléans, Duchess of Lorraine (d. 1741)
Sep 18th - Eberhard Ludwig, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1733)
Oct 8th - Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro, Spanish scholar (d. 1764)
Nov 12th - Giovanni Antonio Pollarolo, composer
Dec 11th - Johann Georg Weichenberger, composer
Dec 19th - Louis-Nicholas Clerambault, Paris France, composer/organist

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 33 of 33

Jan 14th - Pier Francesco Cavalli, Italian (opera)composer, dies at 73
Jan 17th - Pier Francesco Cavalli, Italian opera composer, dies at 73
Jan 29th - Tsar Alexis I of Russia (b. 1629)
Feb 8th - Aleksei M Romanov, 1st Romanov-czar of Russia, dies at 46
Feb 14th - Abraham Bosse, French engraver and artist
Mar 21st - Henri Sauval, French historian (b. 1623)
Apr 5th - John Winthrop, the Younger, American politician (b. 1606)
Apr 29th - Michiel A de Ruyter, Dutch rear-admiral, (Newport), killed at 69
Jun 1st - Creutz, Swedish admiral (Öland), dies in battle
Jun 1st - Uggla, Swedish admiral (Öland), dies in battle
Jun 7th - Paul Gerhardt, German hymnist (b. 1606)
Jul 5th - Carl Gustaf Wrangel, Swedish soldier (b. 1613)
Jul 22nd - Clement X, [Emilio Altieri], Italian Pope (1670-76), dies at 86
Jul 25th - François Hédelin, abbé d'Aubignac, French writer (b. 1604)
Aug 12th - King Philip, [Metacomet], leader Wampanoag-indians, shot to death
Aug 17th - Grimmelshausen, writer, dies
Aug 28th - Joan Cererols, composer, dies at 57
Sep 9th - Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve, French army officer (b. 1612)
Sep 10th - Gerrard Winstanley, English religious reformer (b. 1609)
Sep 17th - Sabbatai Zevi, Montenegrin rabbi, kabbalist, and founder of the Jewish Sabbatean movement (b. 1626)
Oct 10th - Sebastian Knupfer, composer, dies at 43
Oct 18th - Nathaniel Bacon, rallied against Virginian government, killed at 29
Oct 20th - Christopher Gibbons, composer, dies at 61
Oct 25th - Justus G Schottel [Schottelius], German linguistic/poet, dies at 64
Oct 28th - Jean Desmarets, French writer (b. 1595)
Oct 30th - Ahmed Koprulu, Turkish great vizer (siege of Candia, Kreta), dies
Nov 1st - Gisbertus Voetius, Dutch theologian (b. 1589)
Dec 3rd - Daniel Stalpaert, Amsterdams master builder, buried
Dec 4th - Johann Georg Ebeling, composer, dies at 39
Dec 20th - John Galle, Flemish engraver/printer, dies at 76
Dec 25th - Matthew Hale, Lord Chief Justice of England (b. 1609)
Dec 25th - William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle, English soldier (b. 1592)
Dec 26th - Domenicus van Tol, Dutch painter, dies