Editing 1675

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[[File:Indians Attacking a Garrison House.jpg|thumb|right|300px|[[June 24]]: [[King Philip's War]] breaks out as the [[Wampanoag]] nation, led by Chief Metacomet, attacks English settlers in Massachusetts]]
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[[File:Schlacht bei Fehrbellin2.JPG|thumb|300px|[[June 28]]: The [[Battle of Fehrbellin]] in Germany is won by Brandenburg over Sweden.]]
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== Events ==
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=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 5]] &ndash; [[Franco-Dutch War]] &ndash; [[Battle of Turckheim]]: The French defeat [[Austria]] and [[Brandenburg]].
* [[January 29]] &ndash; [[John Sassamon]], an English-educated [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] [[Christians|Christian]], dies at Assawampsett Pond, an event which will trigger [[King Philip's War|a year-long war]] between the [[Colonial history of the United States|English American colonists]] of [[New England]], and the [[Algonquian peoples|Algonquian]] Native American tribes.
* [[February 4]] &ndash; The Italian opera ''[[La divisione del mondo]]'', by [[Giovanni Legrenzi]], is performed for the first time, premiering in Venice at the  [[Teatro Goldoni (Venice)|Teatro San Luca]].  The new opera, telling the story of the "division of the world" after the battle between the Gods of Olympus and the Titans, becomes known for its elaborate and expensive sets, machinery, and special effects and is revived 325 years later in the year 2000.
* [[February 6]] &ndash; [[Nicolò Sagredo]] is elected as the new [[Doge of Venice]] and leader of the [[Republic of Venice|Venetian Republic]], replacing [[Domenico II Contarini]], who had died 10 days earlier.
* [[February 11]] &ndash; French Army Marshal [[Louis Victor de Rochechouart de Mortemart|Louis Victor de Rochechouart]], Count of Vivonne, reinforces the rebels in the [[Messina revolt]] with eight additional warships and three fireships to bring to 20 the number of ships that France has against the 15 warships of Spain, and breaks the Spanish blockade that had prevented food from reaching Messina.
* [[February 25]] &ndash; Netherlands scientist [[Christiaan Huygens]] files drawings of his invention of the [[balance spring]], the key component to the accuracy of portable clocks and pocket watches, in a letter to the ''Journal des Sçavants''.
* [[February 27]] &ndash; [[Matthew Locke (composer)|Matthew Locke]]'s "[[semi-opera]]" ''[[Psyche (Locke)|Psyche]]'' premieres at the [[Dorset Garden Theatre|Duke's Theatre]] in London.
* [[March 4]] &ndash; [[John Flamsteed]] is appointed by King Charles II as England's "astronomical observator", in effect, becoming the first [[Astronomer Royal]].<ref name=CBH/><ref>{{cite ODNB|first=Frances|last=Willmoth|title=Flamsteed, John (1646–1719)|year=2004|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/9669 |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/9669|access-date=2011-02-04}}</ref>
* [[March 25]] &ndash; England's first royal yacht, [[HMY Mary|HMY ''Mary'']], strikes rocks off of the coast of [[Anglesey]] while traveling from [[Dublin]] to [[Chester]] with 74 passengers and crew, and quickly sinks, with the loss of 35 people.<ref>[https://coflein.gov.uk/en/site/391/  "HMY Mary", Coflein Database], Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales</ref> The other 39 are able to get to safety.  The wreckage is not discovered until almost 300 years later, on July 11, 1971.   
* [[March 30]] &ndash; The guild organisation ''[[Maîtresses couturières]]'' is founded in Paris.

=== April&ndash;June ===
* [[April 13]] &ndash; King [[Charles II of England]] suspends Parliament after just nine weeks when the members refuse to vote additional funding to him.<ref name=CBH>{{cite book|last1=Palmer|first1=Alan|last2=Palmer|first2=Veronica|year=1992|title=The Chronology of British History|publisher=Century Ltd|location=London|pages=191–192|isbn=0-7126-5616-2}}</ref>
* [[April 20]] &ndash; An uprising by the [[Chahars]] in the Chinese Empire region of Inner Mongolia, led by brothers Abunai Khan and Lubuzung Khan with 3,000 followers, is harshly put down by Imperial troops of the Manchu dynasty. Survivors of the battle, part of the [[Revolt of the Three Feudatories]], are put to death.  
* [[April 27]] &ndash; [[Lê Hy Tông]] becomes the new Emperor of [[Đại Việt|Vietnam]] at the age of 12, after being appointed as a figurehead by the warlord [[Trịnh Tạc]] upon the death of [[Lê Gia Tông]].
* [[April]] &ndash; [[English people|English]] merchant [[Anthony de la Roché]], blown off course after rounding [[Cape Horn]] eastabout, makes the first discovery of land south of the [[Antarctic Convergence]], landing on [[South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands#South Georgia|South Georgia]] and (probably) [[Gough Island]].<ref>{{cite book|first=Robert|last=Headland|title=The Island of South Georgia|edition=2nd|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=1992|isbn=0-521-42474-7}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|first=Francisco|last=de Seixas y Lovera|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l7PWN7_1wAoC&q=Descripcion%20geographica%2C%20y%20derrotero%20de%20la%20region%20austral%20Magallanica&pg=PT96|title=Descripcion geographica, y derrotero de la region austral Magallanica|location=Madrid|publisher=Antonio de Zafra|year=1690}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Wace|first=N. M.|year=1969|title=The discovery, exploitation and settlement of the Tristan da Cunha Islands|journal=Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia (South Australian Branch)|volume=10|pages=11–40}}</ref>
* [[May 6]] &ndash; The [[Siege of Ponda]], an action by the [[Maratha Confederacy|Maratha Empire]] in southern India against the [[Adil Shahi dynasty|Sultanate of Bijapur]], ends after four weeks when the [[Mughal Empire]] fails to send reinforcements.  Most of the defenders are massacred after Emperor [[Shivaji]]'s troops storm the fortress in what is now a small city in the Indian state of [[Goa]].
* [[May 15]] &ndash; After [[Swedish invasion of Brandenburg (1674–75)|an invasion and attempt to take over]] the German principality of [[Margraviate of Brandenburg|Brandenburg]], the army of [[Sweden]] makes its first conquest, forcing the surrender of the fortress at [[Löcknitz]].
* [[May 18]] &ndash; Misirliohlu Ibrahim Pasha becomes the new ruler of [[Ottoman Tripolitania|Tripolitania]], a province of the Ottoman Empire at the time and now part of the North African nation of [[Libya]].  He reigns for 19 months as the Beylerbey of Tripoli.
* [[May 23]] &ndash; [[Sujinphaa]] becomes the new figurehead monarch of the [[Ahom kingdom]] in northeastern India, enthroned at the capital at [[Garhgaon]] (now in the Indian state of [[Assam]]), after [[Gobar Roja]] is deposed and executed by order of the nobles who control the nation.  
* [[June 1]] &ndash; The [[Torsåker witch trials]] is concluded in Sweden with the execution of 71 people (65 of them women) executed on the same day at the village of Häxberget. The condemned prisoners are beheaded and their bodies are then burned.<ref>Lars Guvå, ''Ångermanland'' (Almqvist & Wiksell, 1984) p. 135</ref><ref> ''Rättshistoriskt bibliotek'' ("Legal history library"), Vol. 48 (Institutet för rättshistorisk forskning, 1962)</ref> 
* [[June 8]] &ndash; [[John Sassamon]]'s alleged murderers are executed at [[Plymouth, Massachusetts]].
* [[June 11]] &ndash; Armed [[Wampanoag (tribe)|Wampanoag warriors]] are reported traveling around [[Swansea, Massachusetts]].
* [[June 14]] &ndash; Colonial authorities of [[Rhode Island]], [[Plymouth Colony|Plymouth]], and [[Massachusetts]] attempt a negotiation with [[Metacomet]] (King Philip), leader of the Wampanoags, and seek guarantees of fidelity from the [[Nipmuck]] and [[Narragansett (tribe)|Narragansett]] tribes.  The negotiations end after 11 days, closing on June 25.
* [[June 21]] &ndash; Reconstruction of [[St Paul's Cathedral]] begins in [[London]] under the direction of [[Christopher Wren]], to replace the portion destroyed by the [[Great Fire of London]] nine years earlier.<ref name="Pocket On This Day">{{cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-14-102715-0|year=2006}}</ref>
* [[June 24]] &ndash; [[King Philip's War]] breaks out, as the Wampanoags attack Swansea.
* [[June 26]] &ndash; The Wampanoag warriors begin a three-day assault on English colonial towns in the [[Massachusetts Bay Colony]] in North America, with an assault on the villages of [[Rehoboth, Massachusetts|Rehoboth]] and [[Taunton, Massachusetts|Taunton]].  At the same time, Massachusetts troops march to Swansea, to join the [[Plymouth Colony]] troops. The warriors elude colonial troops and leave Mount Hope for [[Pocasset, Massachusetts]]. The [[Mohegan]] tribe travels to [[Boston]], in order to assist the English colonists against the Wampanoags.
* [[June 28]] &ndash; [[Brandenburg]] defeats the [[Swedish Army]] in the [[Battle of Fehrbellin]].

=== July&ndash;September ===
* [[July 15]] &ndash; The [[Narragansett (tribe)|Narragansett tribe]] signs a peace treaty with [[Connecticut]].
* [[July 16]]&ndash;[[July 24|24]] &ndash; An envoy from [[Massachusetts]] attempts to negotiate with the [[Nipmuck]] tribe.
* [[August 2]]&ndash;[[August 4|4]] &ndash; The Nipmucks attack Massachusetts troops and besiege [[Brookfield, Massachusetts]].
* [[August 10]] &ndash; King [[Charles II of England]] places the foundation stone of the [[Royal Greenwich Observatory]] near [[London]]; construction begins.
* [[August 13]] &ndash; The Massachusetts Council orders that Christian Indians are to be confined to designated praying towns.
* [[September 1]]&ndash;[[September 2|2]] &ndash; While Wampanoags and Nipmucks attack [[Deerfield, Massachusetts]], Captain Samuel Moseley commands Massachusetts troops in an attack on the [[Pennacook]] tribe.
* [[September 12]] &ndash; English colonists abandon Deerfield, Squakeag, and Brookfield due to a coalition of Indian attacks.
* [[September 15]] &ndash; The [[Bremen-Verden Campaign]] of the [[Northern Wars]] begins, with the invasion of Amt Wildeshausen by the [[Münster]] army, and their advance on [[Verden (Aller)|Verden]] via the city of [[Bremen]].
* [[September 18]] &ndash; The Narragansetts sign a treaty with the English in Boston; meanwhile, Massachusetts troops are ambushed near [[Northampton, Massachusetts]].
* [[September 20]] &ndash; In England, a fire destroys most of the town of [[Northampton]].  According to a contemporary account, "the market place (which was a very goodly one), the stately church of Allhallows, 2 other parish churches and above three-fourth parts of the whole town was consumed and laid in ashes.".<ref> "Fires, Great", in ''The Insurance Cyclopeadia: Being an Historical Treasury of Events and Circumstances Connected with the Origin and Progress of Insurance'', Cornelius Walford, ed. (C. and E. Layton, 1876) p30 </ref> 

=== October&ndash;December ===
* [[October 5]] &ndash; The [[Pocomtuc]] tribe attacks and destroys the English settlement at [[Springfield, Massachusetts]].
* [[October 13]] &ndash; The Massachusetts Council convenes and agrees that all Christian Indians should be ordered to move to [[Deer Island (Massachusetts)|Deer Island]].
* [[October 29]] &ndash; [[Gottfried Leibniz]] makes the first use of the long s (∫) as a symbol of the integral in calculus.
* [[November 2]] &ndash; Commissioners of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and the Plymouth Colony (which are later merged into Massachusetts) begin a 10-day discussion on organizing a united force to attack the Narragansett tribe.
* [[November 11]]
** [[Guru Teg Bahadur]], ninth of the [[Sikh gurus]], is executed by Mughal rulers, proclaiming that he prefers death rather than disavowing the right of Hindus to practice their own religion. He is succeeded by [[Guru Gobind Singh]], who becomes the tenth [[Guru]].
** [[Gottfried Leibniz]] makes the earliest known use of [[infinitesimal calculus]] in the breaking down of a [[Function (mathematics)|function]].
* [[December 11]] &ndash; [[Antonio de Vea expedition]] enters [[San Rafael Lake]] in western Patagonia.<ref>{{Cite book|title=[[Anuario Hidrográfico de la Marina de Chile]]|year=1886|location=Valparaíso|pages=539–596|chapter=Expedición de Antonio de Vea|author-last=de Vea|author-first=Antonio|chapter-url=http://www.bibliotecanacionaldigital.gob.cl/visor/BND:74532|language=es}}</ref>
* [[December 19]] &ndash; United colonial forces attack the Narragansetts at the [[Great Swamp Fight]].
* [[December 24]] &ndash; [[1675–1676 Malta plague epidemic]] begins.

=== Date unknown ===
* [[Giovanni Domenico Cassini|Giovanni Cassini]] discovers the [[Cassini Division]] in the [[rings of Saturn]].
* [[Antonie van Leeuwenhoek]] begins to use a [[microscope]] for observing  human tissues and liquids.</onlyinclude>

== Births ==
[[File:Guillaume Deslile AGE 1802.jpg|110px|thumbnail|right|[[Guillaume Delisle]]]]
* [[January 16]] &ndash; [[Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon]], French writer (d. [[1755]])
* [[January 27]] &ndash; [[Erik Benzelius the younger]], Swedish priest (d. [[1743]])
* [[February 21]] &ndash; [[Franz Xaver Josef von Unertl]], Bavarian politician (d. [[1750]])
* [[February 28]] &ndash; [[Guillaume Delisle]], French cartographer (d. [[1726]])
* [[March 31]] &ndash; [[Pope Benedict XIV]] (d. [[1758]])
* [[May 29]] &ndash; [[Humphry Ditton]], English mathematician (d. [[1715]])
* [[June 1]] &ndash; [[Francesco Scipione, marchese di Maffei]], Italian archaeologist (d. [[1755]])
* [[July 5]] &ndash; [[Mary Walcott]], American accuser at the Salem witch trials
* [[July 12]] &ndash; [[Evaristo Abaco]], Italian composer (d. [[1742]])
* [[July 14]] &ndash; [[Claude Alexandre de Bonneval]], French soldier (d. [[1747]])
* [[September 2]] &ndash; [[William Somervile]], English poet (d. [[1742]])
* [[September 3]] &ndash; [[Paul Dudley (jurist)|Paul Dudley]], Attorney-General of Massachusetts (d. [[1751]])
* [[September 27]] &ndash; [[Dorothea Krag]], Danish General Postmaster and noble (d. [[1754]]) 
* [[October 11]] &ndash; [[Samuel Clarke]], English philosopher (d. [[1729]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Samuel Clarke|title=Samuel Clarke: A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God: And Other Writings|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TY6ywd__pIoC&pg=PR11|date=13 April 1998|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-59995-5|pages=11}}</ref>
* [[October 21]] &ndash; [[Emperor Higashiyama]] of Japan (d. [[1710]])
* [[October 24]] &ndash; [[Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham]], English soldier and politician (d. [[1749]])
* ''date unknown'' 
** [[William Jones (mathematician)|William Jones]], Welsh mathematician (d. [[1749]])<ref>{{cite DWB |title=JONES, WILLIAM (1675?-1749), mathematician |id=s-JONE-WIL-1675 |access-date=27 October 2021}}</ref>
** [[Tarabai]], Indian queen regent of the Maratha Empire (d. [[1761]])
** [[Cille Gad]], Norwegian poet (d. [[1711]])

== Deaths ==
[[File:Dou, Gerard - Self-Portrait - c. 1665 no background.png|thumb|right|110px|[[Gerrit Dou]]]]
[[File:18th century painting of Guru teg bahadur.jpg|110px|thumbnail|right|[[Guru Tegh Bahadur]]]]
[[File:Cropped version of Jan Vermeer van Delft 002.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Johannes Vermeer]]]]
* [[January 9]] &ndash; [[Francesco Maria Brancaccio]], Catholic cardinal (b. [[1592]])
* [[January 26]] &ndash; [[Domenico II Contarini]], Doge of Venice (b. [[1585]])
* [[February 8]] &ndash; [[Anna Moroni (educator)|Anna Moroni]], Italian educator (b. [[1613]])
* [[February 9]] &ndash; [[Gerhard Douw]], Dutch painter (b. [[1613]])
* [[February 10]] &ndash; [[Gervase Holles]], English Member of Parliament (b. [[1607]])
* [[March 14]] &ndash; [[Francis Davies (bishop)|Francis Davies]], British bishop (b. [[1605]])
* [[March 18]] &ndash; [[Arthur Chichester, 1st Earl of Donegall]], Irish soldier (b. [[1606]])
* [[April 8]] &ndash; [[Veit Erbermann]], German theologian (b. [[1597]])
* [[April 10]] &ndash; [[Dorothea of Saxe-Altenburg]], Duchess of Saxe-Altenburg by births and by marriage Duchess of Saxe-Eisenach (b. [[1601]])
* [[April 12]] &ndash; [[Richard Bennett (Governor)|Richard Bennett]], British Colonial Governor of Virginia (b. [[1609]])
* [[May 1]] &ndash; [[Jonathan Rashleigh (1591–1675)|Jonathan Rashleigh]], English politician (b. [[1591]])
* [[May 6]] &ndash; [[August Philipp, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck]], Danish-German prince and member of the House of Oldenburg (b. [[1612]])
* [[May 18]] 
** [[Stanisław Lubieniecki]], Polish Socinian theologian (b. [[1623]])
** Father [[Jacques Marquette]], French missionary and explorer (b. [[1636]])
* [[May 27]] &ndash; [[Gaspard Dughet]], French painter (b. [[1613]])
* [[June 5]] &ndash; [[John Mordaunt, 1st Viscount Mordaunt]], English politician (b. [[1626]])
* [[June 11]] 
** [[Sir Anthony Cope, 4th Baronet]], English Member of Parliament (b. [[1632]])
** [[Dorothea Maria of Saxe-Weimar, Duchess of Saxe-Zeitz]], by marriage Duchess of Saxe-Zeitz (b. [[1641]])
* [[June 12]] &ndash; [[Charles Emmanuel II, Duke of Savoy]] (b. [[1634]])
* [[July 14]] &ndash; [[Daniel Hallé]], French painter (b. [[1614]])
* [[July 20]] &ndash; [[Giles Strangways]], English politician (b. [[1615]])
* [[July 25]] &ndash; [[Johan Stiernhöök]], Swedish lawyer (b. [[1596]])
* [[July 27]] &ndash; [[Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne]], Marshal of France (b. [[1611]])
* [[July 28]] &ndash; [[Bulstrode Whitelocke]], English lawyer (b. [[1605]])
* [[August 5]] &ndash; [[Brynjólfur Sveinsson]], Icelandic bishop and scholar (b. [[1605]])
* [[August 16]] &ndash; [[António Luís de Meneses, 1st Marquis of Marialva]], Portuguese general and noble (b. [[1596]])
* [[August 29]] &ndash; [[Joachim Irgens von Westervick]], Dano&ndash;Norwegian nobleman (b. [[1611]])
* [[September 8]] 
** [[Amalia of Solms-Braunfels]], Princess consort to [[Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange|Frederick Henry]] (b. [[1602]])
** [[Frederick, Count of Nassau-Weilburg]], ruling Count of Nassau-Weilburg (b. [[1640]])
* [[September 18]] &ndash; [[Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine]] (b. [[1604]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Charles III (or IV) {{!}} duke of Lorraine [1604–1675] |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Charles-III-duke-of-Lorraine-1604-1675 |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=20 September 2021 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[September 23]] &ndash; [[Valentin Conrart]], French founder of the ''[[Académie française]]'' (b. [[1603]])
* [[October 10]] &ndash; [[Tommaso Tamburini]], Italian theologian (b. [[1591]])
* [[October 15]] &ndash; [[William Wadsworth (patriarch)|William Wadsworth]], American colonial pioneer (b. [[1594]])
* [[October 26]] &ndash; [[William Sprague (1609–1675)|William Sprague]], English co-founder of Charlestown, Massachusetts (b. [[1609]])
* [[October 27]] &ndash; [[Gilles de Roberval]], French mathematician (b. [[1602]])
* [[November]] &ndash; [[Feodosia Morozova]], Russian religious dissident martyr  (b. [[1632]])
* [[November 1]] &ndash; [[Guru Tegh Bahadur]], 9th Sikh Guru (b. [[1621]])
* [[November 4]] &ndash; [[Remigius van Leemput]], painter from the Southern Netherlands (b. [[1607]])
* [[November 10]] &ndash; [[Leopoldo de' Medici]], Italian Catholic cardinal (b. [[1617]])
* [[November 11]] &ndash; [[Thomas Willis]], English doctor who played an important part in the history of anatomy (b. [[1621]])
* [[November 15]] &ndash; [[Preben von Ahnen]], German-born civil servant and landowner in Norway (b. [[1606]])
* [[November 21]] &ndash; [[George William, Duke of Liegnitz]] (b. [[1660]])
* [[November 28]] &ndash; [[Basil Feilding, 2nd Earl of Denbigh]], English Civil War soldier (b. c. [[1608]])
* [[November 28]] &ndash; [[Leonard Hoar]], American President of Harvard University (b. [[1630]])
* [[November 30]] 
** [[Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore]], colonial Governor of Maryland (b. [[1605]])
** [[Sir John Lowther, 1st Baronet, of Lowther]], English politician (b. [[1605]])
* [[December 6]] &ndash; [[John Lightfoot]], English churchman, scholar (b. [[1602]])
* [[December 15]] ''(bur.)'' &ndash; [[Johannes Vermeer]], Dutch painter (b. [[1632]])
* [[December 16]] &ndash; [[Armand-Nompar de Caumont, duc de La Force]], Marshal of France (b. [[1580]])
* [[December 23]] &ndash; [[Caesar, duc de Choiseul]], French marshal and diplomat (b. [[1602]])
* ''date unknown'' &ndash; [[Margareta Beijer]], director of the Swedish Royal Post Office (b. [[1625]])

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