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Events from the year
1684 in the
Kingdom of England
.
Contents
1
Incumbents
2
Events
2.1
Undated
3
Births
4
Deaths
5
References
6
See also
Incumbents
Monarch
-
King Charles II
Events
15 March - Highwayman
John Nevison
hanged for murder.
[
1
]
10 May -
Titus Oates
arrested for
perjury
.
[
2
]
31 July - The village of
Churchill, Oxfordshire
, is largely destroyed by fire.
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
.
Undated
England has its coldest
winter
in living memory; the
River Thames
and the sea as far as 2 miles out from land freezes over.
[
3
]
The
Chipperfield's Circus
dynasty begins when James Chipperfield introduces performing animals to England at the
Frost Fair on the Thames
.
The
East India Company
receives
Chinese
permission to build a trading station at
Canton
.
[
3
]
Robert Hooke
invents the
semaphore line
.
[
1
]
John Bunyan
writes the second part of
The Pilgrim's Progress
Births
6 June -
Nathanial Lardner
, theologian (died (
1768
)
16 November -
Allen Bathurst, 1st Earl Bathurst
, politician (died
1775
)
Deaths
5 February -
Dorothy Spencer, Countess of Sunderland
, (born
1617
)
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
)
October -
Dud Dudley
, ironmaster (born
1600
?)
References
^
a
b
Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992).
The Chronology of British History
. London: Century Ltd. pp. 194–196.
ISBN
0-7126-5616-2.
^
Marshall, Alan (2004).
"Oates, Titus (1649–1705)"
.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
. Oxford University Press
.
http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/20437
. Retrieved 2011-03-22
.
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UK public library membership
required
^
a
b
Everett, Jason M., ed (2006). "1684".
The People's Chronology
. Thomson Gale.
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