1674 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1674?
- February 19, 1674 – England and the Netherlands sign the Treaty of Westminster, ending the Third Anglo-Dutch War. A provision of the agreement transfers the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam to England, and it is renamed New York.
- May 21, 1674 – The nobility elect John Sobieski King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania.
- June 6, 1674 – Shivaji, founder of the Maratha empire is crowned.
- September 24, 1674 – Second Tantrik Coronation of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj.
- November 10, 1674 – Anglo-Dutch War: As provided in the Treaty of Westminster, Netherlands cedes New Netherlands to England.
- December 4, 1674 – Father Jacques Marquette founds a mission on the shores of Lake Michigan to minister to the Illiniwek (the mission would later grow into the city of Chicago, Illinois).
Who Were Born In The Year 1674?
- January 15, 1674 – Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, French writer (d. 1762)
- January 24, 1674 – Thomas Tanner, English bishop (d. 1735)
- July 17, 1674 – Isaac Watts, English hymnwriter (d. 1748)
- August 2, 1674 – Philip II, Duke of Orléans, Regent of France (d. 1723)
- August 9, 1674 – František Maxmilián Kaňka, Czech architect (d. 1766)
- September 7, 1674 – Ernest Augustus, Duke of York and Albany (d. 1728)
- December 25, 1674 – Thomas Halyburton, Scottish theologian (d. 1712)
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