Events in History
- Feb 9 English reconquer NY from Netherlands
- Feb 19 Netherlands & England sign Peace of Westminster (NYC becomes English)
- Apr 22 Netherlands & Munster sign peace treaty
- May 11 Netherlands & Cologne sign peace treaty
- May 21 General John Sobieski chosen King of Poland
- Jul 1 Spain, France & Netherlands form Triple Alliance
- Jul 19 Court of Holland bans books of Hobbes, Spinoza and Meyer
- Aug 11 1st Battle of at Seneffe (Louis II Condé vs Willem III)
- Aug 18 Jean Racine's "Iphigénie" premieres in Versailles
- Sep 20 2nd West Indies Company forms
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Historical Figures Born in 1674
- Jan 13 Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, French tragic poet and playwright (Rhadamiste et Zénobie), born in Dijon, France (d. 1762)
- Jan 24 Thomas Tanner, English bishop (d. 1735)
- Mar 30 Jethro Tull, English agricultural writer, born in Basildon, England (d. 1741) baptism date
- Jun 20 Nicholas Rowe, English poet and playwright (Tamerlane), Poet Laureate (1715-18), born in Little Barford, Bedfordshire (d. 1718)
- Jun 22 Jean Philippe Eugène de Mérode, Belgian marquis of Westerloo, born in Brussels (d. 1732)
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