1684 in England
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Events from the year 1684 in the Kingdom of England.
Incumbents
- Monarch - Charles II
Events
- January–March - England has its coldest winter in living memory; the River Thames and the sea as far as 2 miles out from land freezes over.[1][2] The Chipperfield's Circus dynasty begins when James Chipperfield introduces performing animals to England at the Frost Fair on the Thames in London.
- 5 January - Charles II gives the title Duke of St Albans to Charles Beauclerk, his illegitimate son by Nell Gwyn.
- 15 March - Highwayman John Nevison hanged for murder.[3]
- 10 May - Titus Oates arrested for perjury.[4]
- 31 July - The village of Churchill, Oxfordshire, is largely destroyed by fire.
- 10 December - Isaac Newton's derivation of Kepler's laws from his theory of gravity, contained in the paper De motu corporum in gyrum, is read to the Royal Society by Edmund Halley.
Undated
- The East India Company receives Chinese permission to build a trading station at Canton.[1]
- Robert Hooke invents the semaphore line.[3]
- John Bunyan writes the second part of The Pilgrim's Progress
Births
- 6 June - Nathanial Lardner, theologian (died 1768)
- 16 November - Allen Bathurst, 1st Earl Bathurst, politician (died 1775)
- date unknown - James Figg, first English bare-knuckle boxing champion (died 1734)
Deaths
- 5 February - Dorothy Spencer, Countess of Sunderland (born 1617)
- March - John Lambert, general (born 1619)
- 1 April - Roger Williams, theologian and colonist (born 1603)
- 5 April - Lord William Brouncker, mathematician (born 1602)
- 4 May - John Nevison, highwayman (born 1639)
- 6 July - Peter Gunning, royalist churchman (born 1614)
- 8 August - George Booth, 1st Baron Delamer (born 1622)
- October - Dud Dudley, ironmaster (born 1600?)
References
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