1674

(Arcadia Publishing, 2002) p. 66</ref> Father Marquette founds a mission (which will in time grow into the city of Chicago) on the shores of Lake Michigan, in order to create a Christian ministry to convent native Americans in the Illinois Confederation.

Date unknown

The first Dutch West India Company is dissolved.

Births

January 12 – Alexis Simon Belle, French portrait painter (d. 1734)
January 15 – Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, French writer (d. 1762)
January 24 – Thomas Tanner, English bishop and antiquarian (d. 1735)
March – Jethro Tull, English agriculturist (d. 1741)
June 3 – Matthias Buchinger, German artist (d. 1740)
July 12 – Abigail Williams, American accuser in the Salem witch trials (d. 1765)
July 17 – Isaac Watts, English hymnist (d. 1748)
August 2 – Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, regent of France (d. 1723)
August 9 – František Maxmilián Kaňka, Czech architect (d. 1766)
August 16 – Catharine Trotter Cockburn, English novelist, dramatist and philosopher (d. 1749)
December 25 – Thomas Halyburton, Scottish theologian (d. 1712)
Date unknown
- Jeremiah Clarke, English baroque composer (suicide 1707)
- Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington, Prime Minister of Great Britain (d. 1743)

Deaths

January 3 – Claude Maltret, French Jesuit (b. 1621)
January 5 – Ebba Brahe, Swedish countess, landowner, and courtier (b. 1596)
January 10 – Jacob de Witt, Mayor of Dordrecht (b. 1589)
January 12 – Giacomo Carissimi Italian composer (b. 1605)
January 21
- Cornelis Bisschop, Dutch painter (b. 1630)
- Henri de La Trémoille, French general and noble (b. 1598)
February 13 – Jean de Labadie, 17th-century French pietist (b. 1610)
February 14 – Carlo de Tocco, Italian nobleman (b. 1592)
February 22
- Jean Chapelain, French writer (b. 1595)
- John Wilson, English composer (b. 1595)
February 24 – Matthias Weckmann, German composer (b. 1616)
February 26 – Jean Pecquet, French anatomist (b. 1622)
March 2 – Salomon Sweers, Dutch businessman (b. 1611)
March 8 – Charles Sorel, sieur de Souvigny, French writer (b. 1597)
March 15 – Edward Digges, English barrister and colonist, Colonial Governor of Virginia (b. 1620)
March 19 – Queen Inseon, Korean royal consort (b. 1619)
March 23 – Henry Cromwell, 4th son of Oliver Cromwell and Elizabeth Bourchier (b. 1628)
March 29 – Ove Bjelke, Norwegian civil servant (b. 1611)
April 18 – John Graunt, English demographer (b. 1620)
April 24 – Frances Seymour, Duchess of Somerset (b. 1599)
June 1 – Beata Rosenhane, Swedish writer (b. 1638)
June 4 – Jan Lievens, Dutch painter (b. 1607)
June 8 – Henry Hildyard, English Member of Parliament (b. 1610)
June 14 – Marin le Roy de Gomberville, French writer (b. 1600)
June 16 – Empress Xiaochengren, Chinese Qing Dynasty empress (b. 1653)
June 25
- Sir Orlando Bridgeman, 1st Baronet, of Great Lever (b. 1606)
- Mauritia Eleonora of Portugal, Princess of Portugal and countess consort of Nassau-Siegen (b. 1609)
July 2 – Eberhard III, Duke of Württemberg (b. 1614)
July 29 – Eva Krotoa, Khoi translator and interpreter (b. 1643)
July 30
- Hans Conrad Werdmüller, Swiss military commander (b. 1606)
- Francisco Ignacio Alcina, Jesuit missionary and historian (b. 1610)
August 8 – Maeda Toshitsugu, Japanese daimyō of the early Edo period (b. 1617)
August 12 – Philippe de Champaigne, French painter (b. 1602)
September 12 – Nicolaes Tulp, Dutch anatomist and politician (b. 1593)
September 17 – Hyeonjong of Joseon, 18th monarch of the Korean Joseon Dynasty (b. 1641)
September 22 – Herman Egon, Prince of Fürstenberg, High Chamberlain of the Elector of Bavaria (b. 1627)
September 27 – Robert Arnauld d'Andilly, French writer (b. 1589)
September 29 – Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, Dutch painter (b. 1621)
October 2 – George Frederick of Nassau-Siegen, officer in the Dutch Army (b. 1606)
October 12 – Jeremias van Rensselaer, Dutch colonial governor (b. 1632)
October 15 – Robert Herrick, English poet (b. 1591)
October 27 – Hallgrímur Pétursson, Icelandic poet (b. 1614)
November 8 – John Milton, English Puritan poet (b. 1608)
November 16 – Isbrand van Diemerbroeck, Dutch physician (b. 1609)
November 18 – Charles Lallemant, French Jesuit (b. 1587)
December 9 – Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, English statesman and historian (b. 1609)
December 10 – John Vaughan, English judge (b. 1603)
December 28 – John Oxenbridge, English Nonconformist divine (b. 1608)
Date unknown
- Hu Zhengyan, Chinese artist, printmaker, calligrapher and publisher (b. c. 1584)
- Thomas Traherne, English poet (b. c. 1637)

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