1684

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Events

• December 10 - 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.

• France under Louis XIV makes Truce of Ratisbon separately with the Empire and Spain.
• Pope Innocent XI forms a Holy League with the Habsburg Empire, Venice and Poland to liberate Europe from the Ottoman Turkish rule.
• Japanese Chief Minister Hotta Masatoshi is assassinated, leaving Shogun Tsunayoshi without any adequate advisors, leading him to issue impractical edicts and create hardships for the Japanese people
• The Japanese poet Saikaku composes 23,500 verses in 24 hours at the Sumiyoshi Shrine at Osaka; the scribes cannot keep pace with his dictation and just count the verses
• The British East India Company receives Chinese permission to build a trading station at Canton. Tea sells in Europe for less than a shilling a pound, but the import duty of 5 shillings makes it too expensive for most English people to afford
• Smuggled tea is drunk much more than legally imported tea
• England has its coldest winter in living memory; the River Thames and the sea as far as 2 miles out from land freezes over
• John Bunyan writes The Pilgrim's Progress Part 2

Years: 1681 1682 1683 - 1684 - 1685 1686 1687

Decades: 1650s 1660s 1670s - 1680s - 1690s 1700s 1710s

Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century Template:C17YearInTopic

Births

• January 1 - Arnold Drakenborch, Dutch classical scholar (d. 1748)
• January 14 - Jean-Baptiste van Loo, French painter (d. 1745)
• February 24 - Matthias Braun, Czech sculptor (d. 1738)
• March 15 - Francesco Durante, Italian composer (d. 1755)
• March 19 - Jean Astruc, French physician and scholar (d. 1766)
• April 15 - Catherine I of Russia (d. 1727)
• June 22 - Francesco Manfredini, Italian composer (d. 1762)
• September 18 - Johann Gottfried Walther, German music theorist, organist, and composer (d. 1748)
• October 10 - Antoine Watteau, French painter (d. 1721)
• October 26 - Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin, Prussian field marshal (d. 1757)
• December 3 - Ludvig Holberg, Norwegian historian and writer (d. 1754)
• Johann Jacob Dillenius, German botanist (d. 1747)

Deaths

• April 1 - Roger Williams, English theologian and colonist (b. 1603)
• April 5 - Lord William Brouncker, English mathematician
• May 4 - John Nevison, English highwayman (b. 1639)
• May 12 - Edme Mariotte, French physicist and priest
• July 2 - John Rogers, American President of Harvard University (b. 1630)
• July 6 - Peter Gunning, English royalist churchman (b. 1614)
• August 8 - George Booth, 1st Baron Delamer (b. 1622)
• October 1 - Pierre Corneille, French playwright (b. 1606)
• October 11 - James Tuchet, 3rd Earl of Castlehaven (b. 1617)af:1684

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