1674 in History

Events in History

Jul 19 Court of Holland bans books of Hobbes, Spinoza and Meyer

Aug 18 Jean Racine's "Iphigénie" premieres in Versailles

Sep 20 2nd West Indies Company forms
Oct 11 Pierre Corneille's "Surena" premieres in Paris
Oct 15 Torsåker witch trials begin, largest witch trials in Sweden, 71 beheaded and burned
Oct 16 Emperor Leopold I fires chancellor Fürst Wenzel Lobkowitz
Oct 26 Prince Willem III occupies Grave
Nov 10 Dutch formally cede New Netherlands (New York) to the English
Dec 4 Father Marquette builds first dwelling in what is now Chicago

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, agricultural writer (Basildon), baptised
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)
Aug 2 Philippe II, Duke of Orléans and Regent of France (1715-23), born in Château de Saint Cloud, France (d. 1723)
Aug 9 František Maxmilián Kaňka, Czech architect and builder, born in Prague (d. 1766)
Sep 7 Ernest Augustus, Duke of York and Albany, German soldier and served under Emperor Leopold I, born in Osnabrück, Germany (d. 1728)
Dec 25 Thomas Halyburton, Scottish theologian (d. 1712)

Jan 10 Jacob de Witt, Dutch mayor (Dordrecht)/MP, dies at 84
Feb 22 Jean Chapelain, French writer and poet (La Pucelle), dies at 78
Mar 6 Johann Paul Schor, German baroque painter, dies at 58
Mar 8 Charles Sorel, sieur de Souvigny, French writer (b. 1597)
Apr 18 John Graunt, English statistician & founder of science of demography, dies at 53
Jun 4 John Lievens, Dutch painter, etcher and wood carver, dies at 66
Jun 11 Susanna van Baerle, Dutch poet/wife of Geeraert Burns, dies at 52
Jun 14 Marin le Roy de Gomberville, French writer (b. 1600)
Jul 2 Eberhard III, Duke of Württemberg (b. 1614)
Aug 12 Philippe de Champaigne, French painter, dies at 72
Aug 13 Lars Johnstown [Lasse Lucidor], Swedish poet, dies at 35
Sep 12 Nicolaas Tulp, Mayor of Amsterdam (1654-71), dies at 80
Sep 27 Robert Arnauld d'andilly, French literary figure, financier and translator, dies at 85
Sep 27 Thomas Traherne, English poet and mystic (Roman Forgeries), dies
Oct 15 Robert Herrick, English poet ('Gather ye rosebuds while ye may'), dies at 83
Oct 22 Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, Dutch painter, dies at 53
Oct 27 Hallgrímur Pétursson, Icelandic poet (b. 1614)
Nov 4 Kano Tanjoe, Japanese painter (palaces, portraits), dies at 72

Nov 8 John Milton, English poet and puritan (Paradise Lost), dies at 65