1684 in England
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Events from the year 1684 in the Kingdom of England.
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[edit] Incumbents
- Monarch - Charles II of England
[edit] Events
- 15 March - Highwayman John Nevison hanged for murder.[1]
- 10 December - 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.
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- The East India Company receives Chinese permission to build a trading station at Canton.[2]
- England has its coldest winter in living memory; the River Thames and the sea as far as 2 miles out from land freezes over.[2]
- John Bunyan writes the second part of The Pilgrim's Progress
- The Chipperfield's Circus dynasty begins when James Chipperfield introduces performing animals to England at the Frost Fair on the Thames.
- Robert Hooke invents the semaphore line.[1]
[edit] Births
- 16 November - Allen Bathurst, 1st Earl Bathurst, politician (died 1775)
- Nathanial Lardner, theologian (died (1768)
[edit] Deaths
- March - John Lambert, general (born 1619)
- 1 April - Roger Williams, theologian and colonist (born 1603)
- 5 April - Lord William Brouncker, mathematician (born 1602)
- 4 May - John Nevison, highwayman (born 1639)
- 6 July - Peter Gunning, royalist churchman (born 1614)
- 8 August - George Booth, 1st Baron Delamer (born 1622)
[edit] References
- ^ a b Palmer, Alan & Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd, 194-196. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
- ^ a b "1684." The People's Chronology. Ed. Jason M. Everett. Thomson Gale, 2006. eNotes.com. 2006. 6 Jun, 2007
