Year 1674 (MDCLXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar.

Events

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January–June

• 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 renames it New York.
• May 21 – John III Sobieski is elected by the nobility as King of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (to 1696).
• June 6 – Shivaji is crowned as Chatrapati Shivaji at Raigad Fort in India.

July–December

• August 11 – Battle of Seneffe: The French army under Louis II de Bourbon, Prince de Cond defeats the Dutch-Spanish-Austrian army under William III of Orange.
• November 10 – Anglo-Dutch War: As provided in the Treaty of Westminster of 19 February, 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 people (the mission would later grow into the city of Chicago).

Date unknown

• The Duke of York (later James II) becomes increasingly unpopular in England because of his Catholicism; agitation heightens throughout the country with a petition to exclude him from the succession.
• The East India Company arranges a trading treaty with the Maratha Empire that has recently been founded by Shivaji Bhonsle in central India.
• The bones of the Princes in the tower were supposedly found

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Births

• January 15 – Prosper Jolyot de Cr billon, French writer (d. 1762)
• January 24 – Thomas Tanner, English bishop and antiquarian (d. 1735)
• March – Jethro Tull, English agriculturist (d. 1741)
• July 12 – Abigail Williams, American accuser in the Salem witch trials (d. 1765)
• July 17 – Isaac Watts, English hymnist (d. 1748)
• August 2 – Philip II, Duke of Orl ans, regent of France (d. 1723)
• August 9 – Franti ek Maxmili n Ka ka, Czech architect (d. 1766)
• December 25 – Thomas Halyburton, Scottish theologian (d. 1712)
• date unknown – Ki-Khosrow, Persian Governor of Kandahar (d. 1711)

Deaths

• January 12 – Giacomo Carissimi Italian composer (b. 1605)
• February 22 – Jean Chapelain, French writer (b. 1595)
• February 24 – Matthias Weckmann, German composer (b. 1616)
• March 8 – Charles Sorel, sieur de Souvigny, French writer (b. 1597)
• June 14 – Marin le Roy de Gomberville, French writer (b. 1600)
• July 2 – Eberhard III, Duke of W rttemberg (b. 1614)
• August 12 – Philippe de Champaigne, French painter (b. 1602)
• October – Robert Herrick, English poet (b. 1591)
• October 10 – Thomas Traherne, English poet (b. c. 1637)
• October 22 – Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, Dutch painter (b. 1621)
• October 27 – Hallgr mur P tursson, Icelandic poet (b. 1614)
• November 8 – John Milton, English Puritan poet noted for Paradise Lost and other works including Lycidas; On His Blindness; L Allegro; On The Late Massacre In Piedmont; Paradise Regained (b. 1608)
• December 9 – Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, English statesman and historian (b. 1609)

References

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