1674

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Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century – 17th century – 18th century
Decades:	1640s 1650s 1660s – 1670s – 1680s 1690s 1700s
Years:	1671 1672 1673 – 1674 – 1675 1676 1677

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February 19 – England and the Netherlands sign the Treaty of Westminster. A provision of the agreement transfers the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam to England, which renames it New York, in exchange for the British colonies of Berbice and Essequibo.
May 21 – John III Sobieski is elected by the nobility as King of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (to 1696).
June 6 – Shivaji is crowned as Chatrapati Shivaji at Raigad Fort in India.

August 11 – Battle of Seneffe: The French army under Louis II de Bourbon, Prince de Condé defeats the Dutch-Spanish-Austrian army under William III of Orange.
November 10 – Anglo-Dutch War: As provided in the Treaty of Westminster of 19 February, Netherlands cedes New Netherlands to England.
December 4 – Father Jacques Marquette founds a mission on the shores of Lake Michigan to minister to the Illinois people (the mission would later grow into the city of Chicago).

The Duke of York (later James II) becomes increasingly unpopular in England because of his Catholicism; agitation heightens throughout the country with a petition to exclude him from the succession.
The East India Company arranges a trading treaty with the Maratha Empire that has recently been founded by Shivaji Bhonsle in central India.
Two skeletons of children are discovered at the White Tower (Tower of London) and believed at this time to be the remains of the Princes in the Tower.

January 15 – Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, French writer (d. 1762)
January 24 – Thomas Tanner, English bishop and antiquarian (d. 1735)
March – Jethro Tull, English agriculturist (d. 1741)
July 12 – Abigail Williams, American accuser in the Salem witch trials (d. 1765)
July 17 – Isaac Watts, English hymnist (d. 1748)
August 2 – Philip II, Duke of Orléans, regent of France (d. 1723)
August 9 – František Maxmilián Kaňka, Czech architect (d. 1766)
December 25 – Thomas Halyburton, Scottish theologian (d. 1712)
date unknown – Ki-Khosrow, Persian Governor of Kandahar (d. 1711)

January 12 – Giacomo Carissimi Italian composer (b. 1605)
February 22 – Jean Chapelain, French writer (b. 1595)
February 24 – Matthias Weckmann, German composer (b. 1616)
March 8 – Charles Sorel, sieur de Souvigny, French writer (b. 1597)
June 14 – Marin le Roy de Gomberville, French writer (b. 1600)
July 2 – Eberhard III, Duke of Württemberg (b. 1614)
August 12 – Philippe de Champaigne, French painter (b. 1602)
October – Robert Herrick, English poet (b. 1591)
October 10 – Thomas Traherne, English poet (b. c. 1637)
October 22 – Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, Dutch painter (b. 1621)
October 27 – Hallgrímur Pétursson, Icelandic poet (b. 1614)
November 8 – John Milton, English Puritan poet noted for Paradise Lost and other works including Lycidas; On His Blindness; L’Allegro; On The Late Massacre In Piedmont; Paradise Regained (b. 1608)
December 9 – Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, English statesman and historian (b. 1609)

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