Software
Free
Download
Audio
Graphics
Utilities
Internet
Screen Savers
Games
Development Tools
Business
Audio
Home/Hobby
Education
|
Events
February 19 - England and the Netherlands sign the Treaty of Westminster. A provision of the agreement transfers the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam to England, which renamed it New York
May 21 - John Sobieski is elected by the nobility to be the King of Poland.
June 6 - Shivaji is crowned King of the Maratha lands.
November 10 - Anglo-Dutch War: As provided in the Treaty of Westminster of Feb 19, Netherlands cedes New Netherlands to England.
December 4 - Father Jacques Marquette founds a mission on the shores of Lake Michigan to minister to the Illinois Indians (the mission would later grow into the city of Chicago, Illinois).
Births
July 17 - Isaac Watts, hymn-writer
August 2 - Philippe II, Duke of Orléans
Deaths
January 12 - Giacomo Carissimi Baroque era composer and musician
Robert Herrick - poet
November 8 - John Milton
Category:1674
|