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Year 1674 (MDCLXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

Events of 1674

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.
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 Honourable East India Company arranges a trading treaty with the Maratha Empire that has recently been founded by Shivaji Bhonsle in central India.

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 - Franti?ek Maxmilián Ka?ka, Czech architect (d. 1766)
December 25 - Thomas Halyburton, Scottish theologian (d. 1712)
Ki-Khosrow, Persian Governor of Kandahar (d. 1711)

See also Category: 1674 births.

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)

See also Category: 1674 deaths.

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