1675 in England

1675 Events from the year 1675 in England. Incumbents Monarch – Charles II Events 27 February – Matthew Locke's "semi-opera" Psyche premieres at the Duke's Theatre in London. 4 March – John Flamsteed appointed as "astronomical observator", in effect, the first Astronomer Royal.Frances Willmoth Flamsteed, John (1646–1719) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxford University Press 2004 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/9669 2011-02-04 25 March – loss of HMY Mary off Anglesey; 35 die.https://coflein.gov.uk/en/site/391/ HMY Mary Coflein Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales 13 April – Parliament refuses to vote funds for Charles II and is suspended after sitting for just nine weeks.Palmer Alan Palmer Veronica 1992 The Chronology of British History Century Ltd London 191–192 0-7126-5616-2 21 June – reconstruction of St Paul's Cathedral in London under Christopher Wren begins to replace that destroyed by the Great Fire of London in 1666.Penguin Pocket On This Day Penguin Reference Library 0-14-102715-0 2006 April – English merchant Anthony de la Roché, blown off course after rounding Cape Horn eastabout, makes the first discovery of land south of the Antarctic Convergence, landing on South Georgia and (probably) Gough Island.Robert Headland The Island of South Georgia 2nd Cambridge University Press 1992 0-521-42474-7Francisco de Seixas y Lovera https://books.google.com/books?id=l7PWN7_1wAoC&q=Descripcion%20geographica%2C%20y%20derrotero%20de%20la%20region%20austral%20Magallanica&pg=PT96 Descripcion geographica, y derrotero de la region austral Magallanica Madrid Antonio de Zafra 1690Wace N. M. 1969 The discovery, exploitation and settlement of the Tristan da Cunha Islands Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia (South Australian Branch) 10 11–40 10 August – King Charles places the foundation stone of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich near London. 20 September – the Great Fire of Northampton occurs in the county town.The Fire of Northampton in September 20th 1675 http://www.firenorthampton.co.uk/introduction.htm Fire Northampton 2011-02-04 https://web.archive.org/web/20101022064107/http://www.firenorthampton.co.uk/introduction.htm 2010-10-22 dead December – King Charles issues a "Proclamation for the suppression of Coffee Houses" due to the political activity which is occurring in the newly popular establishments;http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-130276491.html The rise and fall of English coffee houses 2007-12-28 2008-03-25 https://web.archive.org/web/20080325081729/http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-130276491.html dead it is quickly rescinded. Undated The Green Ribbon Club founded; the earliest political club, based in Fleet Street. Bethlem Hospital, London, moves to new buildings in Moorfields, designed by Robert Hooke. Briggflatts Meeting House built near Sedbergh. Publications William Wycherley's satirical play The Country Wife. Births 1 April – George Shelvocke, privateer (died 1742) 29 May – Humphry Ditton, mathematician (died 1715) 2 September – William Somervile, poet (died 1742) 11 October – Samuel Clarke, philosopher (died 1729) 24 October – Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham, soldier and politician (died 1749) Edmund Curll, bookseller and publisher (died 1757) Deaths 28 July – Bulstrode Whitelocke, lawyer (born 1605) 28 November – Basil Feilding, 2nd Earl of Denbigh, English Civil War soldier (born c. 1608) 6 December – John Lightfoot, churchman and scholar (born 1602) Humphrey Henchman, Bishop of London (born 1592) References 1675 Category:Years of the 17th century in England England