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March 2011 1684 1684 thumb|right|300px|August 7: Morean War: The Republic of Venice begins the bombardment the Ottoman Empire fortress on the island of Lefkada. thumb|300px|May 18: French Navy begins the Bombardment of Genoa and destroys most of the city in 10 days. 1684 Events January–March January 5 King Charles II of England gives the title Duke of St Albans to Charles Beauclerk, his illegitimate son by Nell Gwyn. The earliest form of what is now the University of Tokyo (formally chartered in 1877), the Tenmongata, is established in Japan.Poole Gregory S. https://books.google.com/books?id=Q30fEAAAQBAJ&q=%221684%22 The Japanese Professor: An Ethnography of a University Faculty 1 January 2010 BRILL 978-94-6091-166-8 15 en 3 April 2023湊御殿（夤賓閣）*の天文図を復元する https://web.archive.org/web/20240429163105/https://www7b.biglobe.ne.jp/~katogi0908/img/file9.pdf April 29, 2024 (in Japanese) Retrieved 30 April 2023. January 15 (January 5 O.S.) – To demonstrate that the River Thames, frozen solid during the Great Frost that started in December, is safe to walk upon, "a Coach and six horses drove over the Thames for a wager" and within three days "whole streets of Booths are built on the Thames and thousands of people are continually walking thereon." Sir Richard Newdigate, 2nd Baronet, records the events in his diary.Anne Emily Garnier Newdigate-Newdegate, ed., Cavalier and Puritan in the Days of the Stuarts: Compiled from the Private Papers and Diary of Sir Richard Newdigate, Second Baronet, with Extracts from Ms. News-letters Addressed to Him Between 1675 and 1689 (Smith, Elder, & Co., 1901) p. 234 January 26 – Marcantonio Giustinian is elected Doge of Venice.Gullino Giuseppe GIUSTINIAN, Marcantonio https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/marcantonio-giustinian_(Dizionario-Biografico)/ www.treccani.it 28 March 2023 it January – Edmond Halley, Christopher Wren and Robert Hooke have a conversation in which Hooke later claimed not only to have derived the inverse-square law, but also all the laws of planetary motion attributed to Sir Isaac Newton.Laurence Gardner, The Shadow of Solomon (HarperCollins, 2005) p. 64 Hooke's claim is that in a letter to Newton on 6 January 1680, he first stated the inverse-square law.Margaret 'Espinasse, Robert Hooke (University of California Press, 1956) p. 75 February 7 – Morocco retakes control of the city of Tangier from England, which had controlled the North African port since 1661.Elbl Martin Portuguese Tangier (1471-1662): Colonial Urban Fabric as Cross-Cultural Skeleton 27 December 2013 Baywolf Press 978-0-921437-50-5 14 https://books.google.com/books?id=AeTBAgAAQBAJ&dq=Tangier+%227+february+1684%22&pg=PA14 28 March 2023 en During the five months prior to evacuation of the English from the city, the Governor, Lord Dartmouth had ordered the destruction of the wall around the city, its fortifications and port facilities that had been built by the English during the occupation. February 8 – Prince Dumitrașcu Cantacuzino returns to the throne of the principality of Moldavia for a third reign but is overthrown 14 months later on June 25. In 1859, Moldavia will unite with neighboring Wallachia to form the Kingdom of Romania. February 15 (February 5 O.S.) – The Great Frost in Britain, during which the River Thames was frozen in London and the sea as far as 2 mi km out from land and which started the previous December, ends as the Thames begins to thaw. William Maitland later writes that the Frost, which started in December 1683, "congealed the river Thames to that degree that another city, as it were, was erected thereon; where by the great number of streets and shops, with their rich furniture, it represented a great fair, with a variety of carriages, and diversions of all sorts."William Andrews, Famous Frosts and Frost Fairs in Great Britain: Chronicled from the Earliest to the Present Time (G. Redway, 1887) pp. 17-18 During the freeze, there had been great loss of beast and of wildlife, especially birds, and similar reports from across Northern Europe.Agricultural Records Stratton J. M. John Baker 1969 0-212-97022-4 The Chipperfield's Circus dynasty began during the freeze, with James Chipperfield introducing performing animals to the country at the Frost Fair on the Thames in London. February 24 – A treaty is signed between European German colonists in Brandenburg-Prussia, and the African chiefs in what is now Ghana to permit the German colonists to build a second fort on the Brandenburger Gold Coast, and the fortress of Dorotheenschanze is built. The area is now the Ghanaian city of Akwida.Ulrich van der Heyden, Rote Adler an Afrikas Küste: Die Brandenburgisch-preussische Kolonie Grossfriedrichsburg in Westafrika ("Red eagles on the African coast: the Brandenburg-Prussian colony of Grossfriedrichsburg in West Africa") (Selignow, 2001) p. 31 March 5 – Pope Innocent XI forms a Holy League with the Habsburg Empire, Venice and Poland, to end Ottoman Turkish rule in Europe.Setton Kenneth Meyer Venice, Austria, and the Turks in the Seventeenth Century 1991 American Philosophical Society 978-0-87169-192-7 271 https://books.google.com/books?id=XN51y209fR8C&dq=Pope+Innocent+XI+%225+march+1684%22&pg=PA271 28 March 2023 en March 19 – In Japan, the Tenna era ends on the 21st day of the 2nd month of the Chinese calendar of the 4th year of the Tenna era and the Jōkyō era begins as Japan's royal astronomer, Shibukawa Shunkai institutes the Jōkyō calendar to replace Chinese calendar which had been used in Japan since 859 AD, after calculating that the length of the solar year is 365.2417 days."Jōkyō-reki", in Japan Encyclopedia, ed. by Louis Frederic and translated by Kathe Roth (Belknap Press, 2002) p. 431 April–June April 25 – The Morean War begins as the Republic of Venice declares war on the Ottoman Empire for control of the Peloponnese area of Greece, a peninsula which includes Corinth and Sparta and has been referred to by the Ottomans as Morea. May 18 – The French Navy begins a 10-day bombardment of the Italian city of Genoa in the course of the War of the Reunions between France and the Republic of Genoa. During the fight, the French fleet, commanded by Abraham Duquesne, fires almost 13,000 cannonballs, pausing only during a cease-fire on May 21 and May 22, and uses the new technology of explosive bombs. When the bombardment ends on May 28, two-thirds of the city has been destroyed or damaged.John Lynn, The Wars of Louis XIV, 1667–1714 (Longman, 1999) p. 174 June 7 – After a siege of six weeks that began on April 27, Luxembourg City is taken by the French Army from control by Spain, and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, previously part of the Spanish Netherlands (now Belgium) is acquired by France. June 27 – Francisco de Távora, the Viceroy of Portuguese India, a small colony located in southwestern India at Goa, issues an order prohibiting indigenous residents from speaking their native language, Konkani, and directs them to learn Portuguese within the next three years.Fernandes Gonçalo Contributions of Cunha Rivara (1809–1879) to the Development of Konkani Journal of Portuguese Linguistics 3 January 2019 18 1 10.5334/jpl.204 165456291 https://jpl.letras.ulisboa.pt/article/id/5660/ 31 March 2023 en 2397-5563 free 10348/9041 free March 31, 2023 https://web.archive.org/web/20230331023659/https://jpl.letras.ulisboa.pt/article/id/5660/ live July–September July 21–August 6 – Morean War: Siege of Santa Maura – The Republic of Venice captures the Ottoman island fortress of Santa Maura.Finlay George The History of Greece Under Othoman and Venetian Domination 1856 William Blackwood 209 https://books.google.com/books?id=kg5CAAAAcAAJ&q=august%206th 1 April 2023 en July 24 – René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle sails again from France, with a large expedition designed to establish a French colony on the Gulf of Mexico, at the mouth of the Mississippi River.Burke James Wakefield A forgotten glory : the missions of old Texas 1979 Texian Press Waco 978-0-87244-049-4 38 https://archive.org/details/forgottenglorymi0000burk/page/38/mode/2up?q=24 1 April 2023 August – Edmond Halley goes to Cambridge to discuss the problem of planetary motion with Isaac Newton.Hall Alfred Rupert Philosophers at War: The Quarrel Between Newton and Leibniz 12 September 2002 Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-52489-6 24 https://books.google.com/books?id=DJnquszl8CUC&dq=Edmond+Halley+%22august+1684%22&pg=PA24 1 April 2023 en August 15 France under Louis XIV makes the Truce of Ratisbon separately with the Holy Roman Empire (Habsburg) and Spain.Bas Philippe Le Histoire de La Francia 1841 Imprenta del Nacional 42 https://books.google.com/books?id=UvLFwbZf-asC&q=1684 es 2 Louis XIV decrees the foundation of the Maison royale de Saint-Louis, a boarding school for girls at Saint-Cyr, at the urging of Madame de Maintenon. September 21 – Morean War: The Republic of Venice captures the fortress town of Preveza from the Ottoman Empire. October–December October 7 – Japanese Chief Minister Hotta Masatoshi is assassinated, leaving Shōgun Tokugawa Tsunayoshi without any adequate advisors, leading him to issue impractical edicts and create hardships for the Japanese people. November 8 – James Renwick, a Scottish minister and one of the "Covenanters" challenging the attempt by Kings James VI and Charles I to take over churches in Scotland, posts his "Apologetical Declaration" on church doors and market crosses in and around Cambusnethan, Lanarkshire.Renwick, James [alias James Bruce] (1662–1688), covenanter https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-23382 3 April 2023 en 10.1093/ref:odnb/23382 November 19 – Richard Keigwin, who had arrested the East India Company's Governor of Bombay in 1683, Josiah Child and had taken over as the unauthorized administrator of Bombay, turns control back to the company and its envoy, Sir Thomas Grantham, receiving a general pardon.Cunha Joseph Gerson The Origin of Bombay 1900 Society's library Bombay 329 https://books.google.com/books?id=zbcOS42vZDgC&q=19th%20of%20november 3 April 2023 enDodwell Henry The Cambridge History of the British Empire 1929 Cambridge University Press 162–163 https://books.google.com/books?id=G-48AAAAIAAJ&q=Grantham 3 April 2023 en 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 Edmond Halley.Gondhalekar Prabhakar The grip of gravity : the quest to understand the laws of motion and gravitation 2001 Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-80316-8 89 https://archive.org/details/gripofgravityque0000gond/page/88/mode/2up?q=december 3 April 2023 December 17 – The Tibet–Ladakh–Mughal War, which had been going on since 1679, ends with the signing of the Treaty at Tingmosgang between the 5th Dalai Lama (Desi Sangye Gyatso) and King Delek Namgyal of Ladakh. The Ladakh kingdom agrees to not invite foreign armies into the area (now part of the Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir) in return for a respect for its sovereignty. Date unknown Japanese poet Ihara Saikaku composes 23,500 verses in 24 hours at the Sumiyoshi-taisha (shrine) at Osaka; the scribes cannot keep pace with his dictation and just count the verses.Solt John Shredding the Tapestry of Meaning: The Poetry and Poetics of Kitasono Katue (1902–1978) 23 March 2020 BRILL 978-1-68417-326-6 64 https://books.google.com/books?id=5KPaDwAAQBAJ&q=ihara 3 April 2023 en The British East India Company receives Chinese permission to build a trading station at Canton.Fleisher Benjamin Wilfried The Trans-Pacific 1922 B.W. Fleisher 55 https://books.google.com/books?id=hBvnAAAAMAAJ&dq=british+east+india+company++canton+%221684%22&pg=RA2-PA55 5 April 2023 en 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; hence smuggled tea is drunk much more than legally imported tea. John Bunyan publishes the second part of The Pilgrim's Progress.Swaim Kathleen M. Pilgrim's Progress, Puritan Progress: Discourses and Contexts 1993 University of Illinois Press 978-0-252-01894-7 301 https://books.google.com/books?id=ZGkcyQCitkYC&q=1684&pg=PP13 5 April 2023 en Births thumb|right|110px|Catherine I of Russia thumb|right|110px|Jean-Antoine Watteau thumb|right|110px|Edward Vernon January 1 – Arnold Drakenborch, Dutch classical scholar (d. 1748)Chalmers Alexander The General Biographical Dictionary Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons 1813 J. Nichols 315 https://books.google.com/books?id=zEhMAAAAcAAJ&dq=Arnold+Drakenborch+1+january+1684&pg=PA315 en January 4 Henry Coote, 5th Earl of Mountrath, British politician (d. 1720)COOTE, Hon. Henry (1684-1720), of Woodhill, Herts. http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1715-1754/member/coote-hon-henry-1684-1720 www.historyofparliamentonline.org 5 April 2023 June 2026 InternetArchiveBot Henry Grove, English nonconformist minister (d. 1738)Sell Alan P. F. 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Blackwood and sons 230 https://books.google.com/books?id=mW6AQ9dvEgoC&dq=Jean+Astruc+%2219+march+1684%22&pg=PA230 8 April 2023 en March 21 – Oley Douglas, English Member of Parliament (d. 1719)DOUGLAS, Oley (1684-1719), of Gray's Inn, London https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1690-1715/member/douglas-oley-1684-1719#footnote1_1d3jadj www.historyofparliamentonline.org 8 April 2023 September 9, 2018 https://web.archive.org/web/20180909185107/https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1690-1715/member/douglas-oley-1684-1719#footnote1_1d3jadj dead March 22 Matthias Bel, Hungarian pastor, polymath (d. 1749)Tibenský Ján Matej Bel: doba, život, dielo 1987 Veda 47 https://books.google.com/books?id=o_RKAAAAYAAJ&q=1684 8 April 2023 sk William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath, English noble (d. 1764)Stephen Leslie Lee Sir Sidney Dictionary of National Biography 1917 Oxford University Press 471 https://books.google.com/books?id=BfzXAAAAMAAJ&dq=William+Pulteney,+1st+Earl+of+Bath+%2222+march+1684%22&pg=PA471 8 April 2023 en March 24 – Samuel von Schmettau, Prussian field marshal (d. 1751) March 28 – Tekle Haymanot I, Emperor of Ethiopia (d. 1708) March 31 – Francesco Durante, Neapolitan composer (d. 1755)Swain Joseph P. Historical Dictionary of Baroque Music 6 June 2013 Scarecrow Press 978-0-8108-7825-9 97 https://books.google.com/books?id=TZKl9F_xnxkC&dq=Francesco+Durante+%2231+march+1684%22&pg=PA97 8 April 2023 en April 2 – Henry Somerset, 2nd Duke of Beaufort, English noble (d. 1714)Burke John Burke J. Bernard Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire 1848 Burke's Peerage Limited. 77 https://books.google.com/books?id=99lDAQAAMAAJ&dq=Henry+Somerset,+2nd+Duke+of+Beaufort+%222+april+1684%22&pg=PA77 9 April 2023 en April 10 – Joseph Paris Duverney, French banker (d. 1770) April 15 – Catherine I of Russia, empress consort (d. 1727)Catherine I empress of Russia https://www.britannica.com/biography/Catherine-I www.britannica.com August 3, 2023 en April 10, 2023 March 26, 2023 https://web.archive.org/web/20230326101000/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Catherine-I live April 25 – Marco Benefial, Italian painter (d. 1764)Bénézit Emmanuel Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays 1976 Gründ Paris 978-2-7000-0149-5 622 https://archive.org/details/dictionnairecrit01bene0/page/622/mode/2up fr 10 April 2023 May 2 – William Henry, Prince of Nassau-Usingen, Prince of Nassau-Usingen (1702–1718) (d. 1718)Der durchlauchtigen Welt 1740 Weigel 48 https://books.google.com/books?id=E5BAAAAAcAAJ&dq=Wilhelm+Heinrich++%222+may+1684%22&pg=RA3-PA48-IA1 10 April 2023 de May 5 – Françoise Charlotte d'Aubigné, French noble (d. 1739)Fraser Antonia Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King 25 June 2010 Doubleday Canada 978-0-385-67251-1 213 https://books.google.com/books?id=wyw0sAlCbrwC&dq=Fran%C3%A7oise+Charlotte+d%27Aubign%C3%A9+%225+may+1684%22&pg=PA213 10 April 2023 en May 23 – Hachisuka Muneteru, Japanese daimyō of the Edo period (d. 1743) May 27 – Wilhelm Reinhard von Neipperg, Austrian field marshal (d. 1774)Jährliches genealogisches Handbuch 1782 Gleditsch 51 https://books.google.com/books?id=K2liAAAAcAAJ&dq=Wilhelm+Reinhard+von+Neipperg+27+may+1684&pg=RA1-PA51 13 April 2023 de May 31 Timothy Cutler, American Episcopal clergyman, rector of Yale College (d. 1765)Chamberlain Joshua Lawrence Smith Charles Henry Lee Albert Yale University: Its History, Influence, Equipment and Characteristics, with Biographical Sketches and Portraits of Founders, Benefactors, Officers, and Alumni 1900 R. 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A - C. 1 1866 Oettinger 74 https://books.google.com/books?id=gW9OAAAAcAAJ&dq=Charles+Louis+Auguste+Fouquet+%2222+september+1684%22&pg=PA74 15 April 2023 de October 2 – Thomas Seaton, English religious writer (d. 1741)Seaton, Thomas (1684–1741) https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-24991 Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2004 15 April 2023 en 10.1093/ref:odnb/24991 October 8 – Karl Aigen, Austrian painter (d. 1762) October 9 – Christopher of Baden-Durlach, German prince (d. 1723)Sachs Johann Christian Einleitung in die Geschichte der Marggravschaft und des marggrävlichen altfürstlichen Hauses Baden: 5 1773 Lotter 176 https://books.google.com/books?id=qnwAAAAAcAAJ&q=1684&pg=PA176 15 April 2023 de October 10 – Jean-Antoine Watteau, French painter (d. 1721)Watteau 1684-1721 https://www.nga.gov/content/dam/ngaweb/research/publications/pdfs/watteau-1684-1721.pdf 16 National Gallery of Art 15 April 2023 November 22, 2022 https://web.archive.org/web/20221122132030/https://www.nga.gov/content/dam/ngaweb/research/publications/pdfs/watteau-1684-1721.pdf live October 16 – Peter Walkden, English Presbyterian minister and diarist (d. 1769)Sutton C. W. Benedict Jim Walkden, Peter https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-28464 2004 10.1093/ref:odnb/28464 15 April 2023 October 26 – Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin, Prussian Generalfeldmarschall (d. 1757)Zeughaus Das Königliche Führer durch das Königliche Zeughaus in Berlin 1887 W. Moeser Berlin 30 https://books.google.com/books?id=17s41PfMuwQC&dq=Kurt+Christoph+Graf+von+Schwerin+%2226+october+1684%22&pg=PA30 15 April 2023 de October 28 – Paul Alphéran de Bussan, French bishop (d. 1757)Archbishop Paul Alpheran de Bussan [Catholic-Hierarchy] http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bbussan.html www.catholic-hierarchy.org 15 April 2023 April 15, 2023 https://web.archive.org/web/20230415204608/http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bbussan.html live November 1 – Mikhail Mikhailovich Golitsyn, Russian admiral (d. 1764) November 11 – Algernon Seymour, 7th Duke of Somerset, English noble (d. 1750)SEYMOUR, Algernon http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1690-1715/member/seymour-algernon-1684-1750 www.historyofparliamentonline.org 15 April 2023 May 9, 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20210509232946/https://historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1690-1715/member/seymour-algernon-1684-1750 dead November 12 – Edward Vernon, English admiral (d. 1757) November 16 – Allen Bathurst, 1st Earl Bathurst, English noble (d. 1775)Burke's genealogical and heraldic history of peerage, baronetage and knightage 1914 Burke's Peerage Limited 199 https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_Pf8cAAAAYAAJ/page/198/mode/2up?q=%2216+Nov.+1684%22 17 April 2023 November 25 – Paul-Hippolyte de Beauvilliers, duke of Saint-Aignan, French diplomat and soldier (d. 1776)Aubert de La Chesnaye-Desbois François-Alexandre Dictionnaire de la noblesse 1770 La veuve Duchesne Paris 236 https://archive.org/details/dictionnairedela02aube_0/page/236/mode/2up fr 17 April 2023 December 3 – Ludvig Holberg, Norwegian historian and writer (d. 1754)Haakonssen Knud Olden-Jørgensen Sebastian Ludvig Holberg (1684-1754): Learning and Literature in the Nordic Enlightenment 17 February 2017 Routledge 978-1-317-10305-9 3 https://books.google.com/books?id=0U8lDgAAQBAJ&dq=Ludvig+Holberg+%223+december+1684%22&pg=PT18 17 April 2023 en December 9 – Abraham Vater, German anatomist (d. 1751)Rust Johann Nepomuk Theoretisch-praktisches Handbuch der Chirurgie mit Einschluss der syphilitischen und Augen-Krankheiten in alphabetischer Ordnung 1836 Enslin 18 https://books.google.com/books?id=je9nQdL0AVMC&dq=Abraham+Vater+%229+december+1684%22&pg=PA273 17 17 April 2023 de December 14 – Siwart Haverkamp, Dutch classical scholar (d. 1742) December 15 James Jurin, British mathematician, doctor (d. 1750)Jurin, James https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-15173 2004 17 April 2023 en 10.1093/ref:odnb/15173 August Friedrich Müller, German legal scholar, logician (d. 1761)Richter Friedrich Theodor Jahrbüchlein zur Geschichte Leipzigs und Kalender zu den Gedenktagen seiner merkwürdigsten Einwohner 1863 Klinkhardt 96 https://books.google.com/books?id=y3YAAAAAcAAJ&dq=August+Friedrich+M%C3%BCller+%2215+december+1684%22&pg=PA96 18 April 2023 de December 16 – Samuel Clark of St Albans, English theologian (d. 1750)Clarke, Samuel https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-5531 18 April 2023 en 10.1093/ref:odnb/5531 December 21 – Ippolito Desideri, Italian Tibetologist (d. 1733)Wessels Cornelius Early Jesuit Travellers in Central Asia: 1603-1721 1924 Hague 207 https://books.google.com/books?id=ktGAAAAAIAAJ&q=1684 18 April 2023 en December 31 – William Grimston, 1st Viscount Grimston, Irish noble (d. 1756)GRIMSTON (formerly LUCKYN), William https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1690-1715/member/grimston-william-1684-1756#footnote1_ud9f0f7 www.historyofparliamentonline.org 18 April 2023 August 28, 2018 https://web.archive.org/web/20180828035632/https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1690-1715/member/grimston-william-1684-1756#footnote1_ud9f0f7 dead Date unknown Celia Grillo Borromeo, Genovese scientist and mathematician (d. 1777)Grillo Borromeo Arese Clelia http://scienzaa2voci.unibo.it/biografie/56-grillo-borromeo-arese-clelia Scienza a due voci it 18 April 2023 11 March 2012 https://web.archive.org/web/20120311204509/http://scienzaa2voci.unibo.it/biografie/56-grillo-borromeo-arese-clelia March 11, 2012 Jaime de la Té y Sagau, Spanish composer (d. 1736)Music in Spain During the Eighteenth Century Malcolm Boyd, Juan José Carreras - 2006 "D. 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Deaths thumb|right|110px|Pieter de Hooch thumb|right|110px|Pierre Corneille thumb|right|110px|Géraud de Cordemoy January 4 – Louis-Isaac Lemaistre de Sacy, French Bible translator (b. 1613) January 11 – Cornelis Speelman, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (b. 1628)Cornelis Speelman https://www.vocsite.nl/geschiedenis/personalia/speelman.html De VOC Site 20 April 2023 May 12, 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20210512174606/https://www.vocsite.nl/geschiedenis/personalia/speelman.html dead January 13 – Henry Howard, 6th Duke of Norfolk, English noble (b. 1628)Robinson John Martin The Dukes of Norfolk: A Quincentennial History 1982 Oxford University Press 978-0-19-215869-7 131 https://books.google.com/books?id=CnlnAAAAMAAJ&q=1684 20 April 2023 en January 15 – Alvise Contarini, Doge of Venice (b. 1601)Benzoni Gino CONTARINI, Alvise https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/alvise-contarini_res-212b1cdf-87eb-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_(Dizionario-Biografico) www.treccani.it it-IT April 22, 2023 August 2, 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20210802201746/https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/alvise-contarini_res-212b1cdf-87eb-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_(Dizionario-Biografico) live January 21 – Queen Myeongseong, Korean royal consort (b. 1642) January 29 – Angélique de Saint-Jean Arnauld d'Andilly, French Jansenist nun (b. 1624)Arnauld Jeanne-Catherine-Agnès de Saint-Paul Lettres de la Mère Agnès Arnauld, abbesse de Port-Royal 1858 Imprimerie Bonaventure et Ducessois 139 https://books.google.com/books?id=_68PAAAAQAAJ&dq=29+de+Janvier+1684+%22Ang%C3%A9lique+de+Saint-Jean+Arnauld+d%27Andilly%22&pg=PA139 20 April 2023 fr February 6 – Ernst Bogislaw von Croÿ, German Lutheran administrator (b. 1620)Erbstein Julius Die Ritter-von-Schulthess-Rechberg'sche Münz- und Medaillen-Sammlung: als Anhang zum Thaler-Cabinet des verstorbenen Herrn K. G. Ritter von Schulthess-Rechberg 1869 Selbstverl. 180 https://books.google.com/books?id=NZ5MAAAAcAAJ&dq=Ernst+Bogislaw+von+Cro%C3%BF+%226+Februar+1684%22&pg=PA180 20 April 2023 de February 11 – Sir Thomas Peyton, 2nd Baronet, English politician (b. 1613)PEYTON, Sir Thomas, 2nd Bt. https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1660-1690/member/peyton-sir-thomas-1613-84#footnote5_w522p9x www.historyofparliamentonline.org 20 April 2023 April 22, 2023 https://web.archive.org/web/20230422223018/https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1660-1690/member/peyton-sir-thomas-1613-84#footnote5_w522p9x dead February 25 – Dorothy Spencer, Countess of Sunderland, English noblewoman (b. 1617)Ady Julia Mary Cartwright Sacharissa; some account of Dorothy Sidney, countess of Sunderland, her family and friends, 1617-1684 1893 London, Seeley and Co. 305 https://archive.org/details/sacharissasomeac00adyj/page/304/mode/2up?q=1684 20 April 2023 March 24 Pieter de Hooch, Dutch painter (b. 1629)Giltaij Jeroen Hecht Peter Senses and Sins: Dutch Painters of Daily Life in the Seventeenth Century 2004 Hatje Cantz 978-3-7757-1523-2 227 https://books.google.com/books?id=d8DqAAAAMAAJ&q=24%20march 22 April 2023 en Elizabeth Ridgeway, English poisoner (burned at the stake)Croom Geo. A True Relation of FourMmost Barbarous and Cruel Murders Committed in Leicestershire by Elizabeth Ridgeway. 1684 London 1 https://books.google.com/books?id=buVbAAAAQAAJ&q=Elizabeth+Ridgeway 22 April 2023 en April 3 – Marc Restout, French painter (b. 1616) April 5 Lord William Brouncker, English mathematician (b. 1602) Karl Eusebius, Prince of Liechtenstein (b. 1611)Sommer Johann Das Königreich Böhmen: bd. Chrudimer kreis 1837 Calve 141 https://books.google.com/books?id=K9ZmTcNSPqcC&q=1684 28 April 2023 de April 6 – Domenico Maria Canuti, Italian Baroque painter (b. 1625)Bellini Paolo Storia dell'incisione italiana: il Seicento 1992 Ed. Tip. Le. Company 110 https://books.google.com/books?id=3KRNAAAAYAAJ&q=Domenico+Maria+Canuti+%226+aprile+1684%22 28 April 2023 it April 12 – Nicola Amati, Cremonese violin-maker (b. 1596)Violin Makers: Nicolò Amati (1596–1684) and Antonio Stradivari (1644–1737) https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/strd/hd_strd.htm www.metmuseum.org October 2003 2019-07-26 December 20, 2017 https://web.archive.org/web/20171220005259/https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/strd/hd_strd.htm live April 13 – Nicolás Antonio, Spanish bibliographer (b. 1617)Francisco Dominguez Juan Diccionario biografico y bibliografico del humanismo espanol (siglos XV-XVII) 2012 Ediciones Clasicas Madrid 79 https://investigacion.us.es/docs/web/files/2013_01_28_nicolasantoniodicbibhumesp.pdf 28 April 2023 es March 4, 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20160304134629/https://investigacion.us.es/docs/web/files/2013_01_28_nicolasantoniodicbibhumesp.pdf live April 24 – Johann Olearius, German hymnwriter (b. 1611) May 4 – John Nevison, English highwayman (hanged) (b. 1639) May 10 – Anne Carr, Countess of Bedford, English noble (b. 1615)Cokayne George E. Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct Or Dormant 1887 G. Bell & sons 300 https://books.google.com/books?id=27EKAAAAYAAJ&dq=Anne+Russell+%2210+may+1684%22&pg=PA300 28 April 2023 en May 12 – Edme Mariotte, French physicist and priest (b. c. 1620)Haydn Joseph A Dictionary of Biography Past and Present 1877 E. Moxon, Son 383 https://books.google.com/books?id=mMHIiGDL5psC&dq=Edme+Mariotte+%2212+may+1684%22&pg=PA383 28 April 2023 en June 9 – Peregrine Palmer, English politician (b. 1605)https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1660-1690/member/palmer-peregrine-1605-84 PALMER, Peregrine (1605-84), of Fairfield, Stogursey, Som. History of Parliament Online Irene Cassidy 25 December 2025 December 7, 2024 https://web.archive.org/web/20241207105857/http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1660-1690/member/palmer-peregrine-1605-84 live June 24 – Sir Edward Dering, 2nd Baronet, Irish politician (b. 1625)Haslewood Francis Genealogical memoranda relating to the family of Dering of Surrenden-Dering 1876 London 17 https://archive.org/details/genealogicalmem00haslgoog/page/n16/mode/2up?q=1684 28 April 2023 English July 6 – Peter Gunning, English royalist churchman (b. 1614)Mason Francis A Vindication of the Church of England, and of the Lawful Ministry Thereof 1728 London 78 https://books.google.com/books?id=-7PmyWmxfQIC&dq=Peter+Gunning+%226+july+1684%22&pg=PR78 28 April 2023 en July 12 – John Rogers, American President of Harvard University (b. 1630)John Rogers http://www.harvard.edu/about-harvard/harvard-glance/history-presidency/john-rogers harvard.edu 28 April 2023 6 September 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20150906143405/http://www.harvard.edu/about-harvard/harvard-glance/history-presidency/john-rogers September 6, 2015 July 26 – Elena Cornaro Piscopia, Venetian philosopher of noble descent (b. 1646)Herbermann Charles George The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the Constitution, Doctrine, Discipline, and History of the Catholic Church 1908 Encyclopedia Press 373 https://books.google.com/books?id=dNAbQfIWE7EC&dq=Elena+Cornaro+Piscopia+%2226+july+1684%22&pg=PA373 28 April 2023 en August 8 – George Booth, 1st Baron Delamer, English royalist politician, soldier and landowner (b. 1622)Burke Bernard A Genealogical History of the Dormant: Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire 1866 Harrison 61 https://books.google.com/books?id=K3MaAAAAYAAJ&q=George%20Booth,%201st 28 April 2023 en August 20 – Maria d'Este, Italian noble (b. 1644)Monti Lorenzo Almanacco Codognese: Per L'Anno 1821 Contenente Alcune Notizie Storiche Appartenenti Alle Comuni Del Distretto Di Codogno E Corconvicine 1821 Cairo 113 https://books.google.com/books?id=fjxRAAAAcAAJ&dq=Maria+d%27Este+%2220+agosto+1684%22&pg=PA113 3 28 April 2023 it September 9 – Jakob Thomasius, German philosopher (b. 1622)Bottin Francesco Models of the History of Philosophy: From its Origins in the Renaissance to the 'Historia Philosophica': Volume I 1993 Springer Science & Business Media 978-0-7923-2200-9 411 https://books.google.com/books?id=FJ7UBP_jYeMC&dq=Jakob+Thomasius+%229+september+1684%22&pg=PA411 29 April 2023 en October 1 – Pierre Corneille, French playwright (b. 1606)Jal Auguste Dictionnaire critique de biographie et d'histoire : errata et supplément pour tous les dictionnaires historiques 1872 Henri Plon Paris 428 https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5441746s/f444.image.r=octobre%201684 29 April 2023 fr April 29, 2023 https://web.archive.org/web/20230429170753/https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5441746s/f444.image.r=octobre%201684 live October 11 – James Tuchet, 3rd Earl of Castlehaven, Anglo-Irish noble and soldier (b. c. 1617)Touchet, James, third earl of Castlehaven https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-27577 2004 29 April 2023 en 10.1093/ref:odnb/27577 Kelsey Sean October 12 – William Croone, English physician, an original Fellow of the Royal Society (b. 1633)Worthington John The Diary and Correspondence of Dr. John Worthington 1886 Chetham Society 288–289 https://books.google.com/books?id=wpsJAQAAIAAJ&dq=William+Croone+%2212+october+1684%22&pg=PA288 29 April 2023 en October 15 Géraud de Cordemoy, French historian, philosopher and lawyer (b. 1626)Ablondi Fred Géraud de Cordemoy https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2014/entries/cordemoy/ 29 April 2023 8 January 2005 July 27, 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20200727033205/https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2014/entries/cordemoy/ live Julius Siegmund, Duke of Württemberg-Juliusburg, German noble (b. 1653)Juten W. J. F. Het Groothertogelijk Huis Mecklenburg 1902 Gebr. Juten 95 https://books.google.com/books?id=WmKd5Kr5D3MC&dq=Julius+Siegmund+%2215+october+1684%22&pg=PA95 29 April 2023 nl October 24 – Duchess Marie Elisabeth of Saxony (b. 1610)Bricka Carl Frederik Dansk biografisk Lexikon 1897 F. Hegel & Søn 131 https://runeberg.org/dbl/11/0133.html 29 April 2023 da February 14, 2012 https://web.archive.org/web/20120214094833/https://runeberg.org/dbl/11/0133.html live October 25 – Dud Dudley, English ironmaster (b. 1600?)Society Staffordshire Record Collections for a History of Staffordshire 1889 William Salt Archaeological Society 37 https://books.google.com/books?id=qIblzMObF7sC&dq=Dud+Dudley+%22october+1684%22&pg=RA1-PA37 29 April 2023 en November 20 Bartolomé Garcia de Escañuela, Spanish Catholic prelate and bishop (b. 1627)Bancroft Hubert Howe History of the North Mexican States 1884 A.L. Bancroft 339 https://books.google.com/books?id=BQETAAAAYAAJ&dq=Bartolom%C3%A9+Garcia+de+Esca%C3%B1uela+20+november+1684&pg=PA339 29 April 2023 en Cornelius Van Steenwyk, American politician (b. 1626)Shonnard Frederic Spooner Walter Whipple History of Westchester County, New York: From Its Earliest Settlement to the Year 1900 1900 New York History Company 148 https://books.google.com/books?id=qUgVAAAAYAAJ&dq=Cornelius+Steenwyk+20+november+1684&pg=PA148 29 April 2023 en November 23 – William Cavendish, 3rd Earl of Devonshire, English noble (b. 1617)Cavendish, William, third earl of Devonshire https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-4947 2004 29 April 2023 en 10.1093/ref:odnb/4947 December 10 – Sir Thomas Sclater, 1st Baronet, English politician (b. 1615)Cokayne George E. Complete baronetage 1900 W. Pollard & co., ltd. Exter 96 https://archive.org/details/cu31924092524390/page/n115/mode/2up?view=theater 29 April 2023 December 22 – Francis Hawley, 1st Baron Hawley, English politician (b. 1608)Lodge John The Peerage of Ireland; Or, a Genealogical History of the Present Nobility of that Kingdom; with Their Paternal Coats of Arms 1754 William Johnston London 148 https://books.google.com/books?id=CAWhR9N6jDQC&dq=Francis+Hawley+%2222+december+1684%22&pg=PA148 29 April 2023 4 en date unknown – Alexandra Mavrokordatou, Greek intellectual, salonist (b. 1605)Uglow J. https://books.google.com/books?id=i8OHDAAAQBAJ&q=Mavrokordatou The Palgrave Macmillan Dictionary of Women's Biography Hendry M. 8 March 2005 Springer 978-0-230-50577-3 392 en 29 April 2023 References Category:Leap years in the Gregorian calendar