Major Events
- Mar 5 Emperor Leopold I, Poland & Venice sign Heilig Covenant of Linz
- Apr 25 Patent granted for thimble
- Jul 24 Expedition to establish French colony in Louisiana leaves La Rochelle with four ships led by René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle (expedition is disastrous with only 15 survivors) [1]
- Aug 15 Spain, Germany and France sign Truce of Ratisbone, ending the War of Reunions - meant to last 20 years, lasts only four
- Oct 10 Advisement to view a rhinoceros in a tavern in Ludgate Hill, London published - 1st rhinoceros in Europe since 1515 [1]
- Oct 23 English King Charles II revokes the Massachusetts Bay Colony charter due to repeated violations of the charter’s terms including trading with other countries and running an illegal mint
- Dec 10 Isaac Newton's derivation of Kepler's laws from his theory of gravity, contained in the paper “De motu corporum in gyrum” (On the motion of bodies in an orbit), is read to the Royal Society by Edmond Halley.
Born in 1684
- Jan 1 Arnold Drakenborch, Dutch classical scholar (d. 1748)
- Jan 14 Jean-Baptiste Vanloo, French painter, born in Aix-en-Provence, France (d. 1745)
- Jan 14 Johann Matthias Hase, German mathematician & astronomer, born in Augsburg, Germany (d. 1742)
- Feb 16 Bohuslav Matěj Černohorský, Czech monk and composer, born in Nymburk, Bohemia (d. 1742)
- Feb 21 Justus van Effen, Dutch writer (founded Holland Spectator), born in Utrecht (d. 1735)
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