1684

This article is about the year 1684.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century – 17th century – 18th century
Decades:	1650s  1660s  1670s  – 1680s –  1690s  1700s  1710s
Years:	1681 1682 1683 – 1684 – 1685 1686 1687

1684 by topic:

Arts and Science

Architecture - Art - Literature - Music - Science

Lists of leaders

Colonial governors - State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments - Disestablishments

Works category

Works

1684 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1684 MDCLXXXIV
Ab urbe condita	2437
Armenian calendar	1133 ԹՎ ՌՃԼԳ
Assyrian calendar	6434
Bahá'í calendar	-160–-159
Bengali calendar	1091
Berber calendar	2634
English Regnal year	35 Cha. 2 – 36 Cha. 2
Buddhist calendar	2228
Burmese calendar	1046
Byzantine calendar	7192–7193
Chinese calendar	癸亥年十一月十五日 (4320/4380-11-15) — to — 甲子年十一月廿六日 (4321/4381-11-26)
Coptic calendar	1400–1401
Ethiopian calendar	1676–1677
Hebrew calendar	5444–5445
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1740–1741
- Shaka Samvat	1606–1607
- Kali Yuga	4785–4786
Holocene calendar	11684
Igbo calendar
- Ǹrí Ìgbò	684–685
Iranian calendar	1062–1063
Islamic calendar	1095–1096
Japanese calendar	Tenna 4Jōkyō 1 (貞享元年)
Juche calendar	N/A (before 1912)
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar	4017
Minguo calendar	228 before ROC 民前228年
Thai solar calendar	2227

Year 1684 (MDCLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Tuesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar.

Events

January–June

• January – Edmund Halley, Christopher Wren and Robert Hooke have a conversation in which Hooke later claimed not only to have derived the inverse-square law, but also all the laws of planetary motion.
• January 5 – King Charles II of England gives the title Duke of St Albans to Charles Beauclerk, his illegitimate son by Nell Gwyn.
• January 26 – Marcantonio Giustinian is elected Doge of Venice.
• March – End of the severe frost in Britain, starting the previous December, during which the Thames was frozen in London, and the sea as far as 2 miles (3.2 km) out from land freezes over. There was great loss of beast and of wildlife, especially birds. Similar reports from across Northern Europe.

July–December

• July 24 – René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle sails from France, again, with a large expedition designed to establish a French colony on the Gulf of Mexico, at the mouth of the Mississippi River.
• August 15 – France under Louis XIV makes the Truce of Ratisbon separately with the Holy Roman Empire (Habsburg) and Spain.
• October 7 – 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.
• 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.

Date unknown

• Pope Innocent XI forms a Holy League with the Habsburg Empire, Venice and Poland to end the Ottoman Turkish rule in Europe.
• 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.
• Tokyo University, formally registered as a university in 1877, had its predecessor established.
• 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.
• John Bunyan writes The Pilgrim's Progress, Part 2.
• The Chipperfield's Circus dynasty begins when James Chipperfield introduces performing animals to England at the River Thames frost fairs on the Thames in London.

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)
• May 5 – Françoise Charlotte d'Aubigné, niece of Madame de Maintenon and ancestress of the Heir to the Belgian throne (d. 1739)
• 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)

Deaths

• April 1 – Roger Williams, English theologian and colonist (b. 1603)
• April 5 – Lord William Brouncker, English mathematician (b. 1602)
• May 4 – John Nevison, English highwayman (b. 1639)
• May 12 – Edme Mariotte, French physicist and priest (b. c. 1620)
• 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)
• October – Dud Dudley, English ironmaster (b. 1600?)