Today in History for Year 1684

Months in Year 1684: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 6 of 6

Mar 5th - Emperor Leopold I, Poland & Venice sign Heilig Covenant of Linz
Apr 25th - Patent granted for thimble
Jun 21st - King Charles II revokes Massachusetts Bay Colony charter
Aug 15th - Spain & Germany sign cease fire with France
Oct 23rd - Colony Massachusetts under authority of English crown mounted
Dec 10th - Isaac Newton's derivation of Kepler's laws from his theory of gravity, contained in the paper De motu corporum in gyrum, is read to the Royal Society by Edmund Halley.

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 22 of 22

Jan 1st - Arnold Drakenborch, Dutch classical scholar (d. 1748)
Jan 14th - Jean-Baptiste Vanloo, French painter
Jan 14th - Johann Matthias Hase, German scientist (d. 1742)
Feb 16th - Bohuslav Matěj Černohorský, Nymburk, Bohemia, Czech monk/composer
Feb 21st - Justus van Effen, writer/founder (Holland Spectator)
Feb 22nd - William Pulteney, London, statesman (Earl of Bath)
Feb 24th - Catherine I, Empress of Russia 1725-27, Dorpat, Estonia
Feb 24th - Matthias Braun, Czech sculptor (d. 1738)
Mar 19th - Jean Astruc, French physician and scholar (d. 1766)
Mar 26th - Johann Graf, composer
Mar 31st - Francesco Durante, composer
Apr 15th - Catherine I, empress of Russia (1725-27)
Jun 22nd - Francesco Onofrio Manfredini, composer
Sep 18th - Johann Gottfried Walther, Erfurt Germany, composer/Musicographer
Sep 23rd - Johann Theodor Romhild, composer
Oct 5th - Johann Jacob de Neufville, composer
Oct 10th - Jean Antoine Watteau, French rococo painter (Onverschillige)
Oct 19th - Johann Christoph Fravenholtz, composer
Oct 26th - Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin, Prussian field marshal (d. 1757)
Nov 16th - Abraham Alewijn, Dutch poet/playwright (Puiterveense Helleveeg)
Dec 3rd - Ludvig Baron Holberg, founder (Danish & Norwegian literature)
Dec 22nd - Johann J Dillenius, [Dillen], German botanist (Historia Muscorum)

Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 1 of 1

Jan 12th - French king Louis XIV marries Madame Maintenon

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 18 of 18

Jan 5th - Claude Audran II, French painter/engraver, dies at 44
Jan 15th - Caspar Netscher, Dutch portrait painter, dies at about 48
Feb 12th - Pietro Andrea Ziani, composer, dies at 67
Feb 21st - Pieter van den Abeelen, Dutch medallist/jeweller, dies at about 75
Apr 5th - William Brouncker, 2nd viscount/1st pres of Royal Society, dies
Apr 18th - Gonzales Cocx, [Coques], painter, dies
Apr 19th - Roger Williams, English theologian and colonist (b. 1603)
May 4th - John Nevison, English highwayman (b. 1639)
May 8th - Henri Dumont, composer, dies
May 12th - Edme Mariotte, French physicist and priest
May 23rd - Adriaen Backer, Amsterdams painter buried at about 48
Jul 2nd - John Rogers, president of Harvard University (b. 1630)
Jul 6th - Peter Gunning, English royalist churchman (b. 1614)
Jul 26th - Elena Cornaro Piscopia, Italian mathematician (b. 1646)
Aug 8th - George Booth, 1st Baron Delamer (b. 1622)
Sep 5th - John Uytenhage van Lacks, lawyer/author, drowned at 48
Sep 18th - Jan A "Joannes" Antonides van der Goes, poet (Ystroom), dies at 37
Oct 1st - Pierre Corneille, Fr lawyer/dramatist (El Cid, Polyeucte), dies at 42