1684
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Centuries: | 16th century · 17th century · 18th century |
Decades: | 1650s 1660s 1670s 1680s 1690s 1700s 1710s |
Years: | 1681 1682 1683 1684 1685 1686 1687 |
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Gregorian calendar | 1684 MDCLXXXIV |
Ab urbe condita | 2437 |
Armenian calendar | 1133 ԹՎ ՌՃԼԳ |
Chinese calendar | 4320/4380-11-15 (癸亥年十一月十五日) — to —
4321/4381-11-26(甲子年十一月廿六日) |
Ethiopian calendar | 1676 – 1677 |
Hebrew calendar | 5444 – 5445 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1739 – 1740 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1606 – 1607 |
- Kali Yuga | 4785 – 4786 |
Iranian calendar | 1062 – 1063 |
Islamic calendar | 1095 – 1096 |
Japanese calendar | Tenna 4 (天和4年) — changed to —
Jōkyō 1(貞享元年) |
- Imperial Year | Kōki 2344 (皇紀2344年) |
- Jōmon Era | 11684 |
Thai solar calendar | 2227 |
1684 (MDCLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Tuesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).
[edit] Events
- 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.
- France under Louis XIV makes 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 liberate Europe from the Ottoman Turkish rule.
- 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
- The 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 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 Frost Fair on the Thames.
[edit] Births
- January 1 - Arnold Drakenborch, Dutch classical scholar (died 1748)
- January 14 - Jean-Baptiste van Loo, French painter (died 1745)
- February 24 - Matthias Braun, Czech sculptor (died 1738)
- March 15 - Francesco Durante, Italian composer (died 1755)
- March 19 - Jean Astruc, French physician and scholar (died 1766)
- April 15 - Catherine I of Russia (died 1727)
- June 22 - Francesco Manfredini, Italian composer (died 1762)
- September 18 - Johann Gottfried Walther, German music theorist, organist, and composer (died 1748)
- October 10 - Antoine Watteau, French painter (died 1721)
- October 26 - Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin, Prussian field marshal (died 1757)
- December 3 - Ludvig Holberg, Norwegian historian and writer (died 1754)
- Johann Jacob Dillenius, German botanist (died 1747)
[edit] Deaths
- April 1 - Roger Williams, English theologian and colonist (born 1603)
- April 5 - Lord William Brouncker, English mathematician (born 1602)
- May 4 - John Nevison, English highwayman (born 1639)
- May 12 - Edme Mariotte, French physicist and priest (born c.1620)
- July 2 - John Rogers, American President of Harvard University (born 1630)
- July 6 - Peter Gunning, English royalist churchman (born 1614)
- August 8 - George Booth, 1st Baron Delamer (born 1622)
- October 1 - Pierre Corneille, French playwright (born 1606)
- October 11 - James Tuchet, 3rd Earl of Castlehaven (born 1617)