1684
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| 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 in topic: |
| Subjects: Archaeology – Architecture – |
| Art – Literature – Music – Science |
| Leaders: State leaders – Colonial governors |
| Category: Establishments – Disestablishments |
| Births – Deaths – Works |
Year 1684 (MDCLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Tuesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).
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[edit] Events of 1684
[edit] January–June
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[edit] 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.
- 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.
[edit] Undated
- France under Louis XIV makes the Truce of Ratisbon separately with the Holy Roman Empire (Habsburg) and Spain.
- 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.
- 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 (3.2 km) out from land freezes over.
- 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.
[edit] Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1684 MDCLXXXIV |
| Ab urbe condita | 2437 |
| Armenian calendar | 1133 ԹՎ ՌՃԼԳ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -160 – -159 |
| Berber calendar | 2634 |
| 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 | 1739 – 1740 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1606 – 1607 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4785 – 4786 |
| Holocene calendar | 11684 |
| Iranian calendar | 1062 – 1063 |
| Islamic calendar | 1095 – 1096 |
| Japanese calendar | Tenna 4Jōkyō 1 (貞享元年) |
| Korean calendar | 4017 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2227 |
- 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)
- See also Category: 1684 births.
[edit] 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)
- See also Category: 1684 deaths.
