1675

Decades: 1640s 1650s 1660s - 1670s - 1680s 1690s 1700s

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Science - State leaders - Literature - Music

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 12 - Afonso VI of Portugal (b. 1643)
September 18 - Charles III, 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 churchman (b. 1602)
December 15 - Johannes Vermeer, Dutch painter (b. 1632)
December 23 - Caesar, duc de Choiseul, French marshal and diplomat (b. 1602)

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