- 1674 in England
Events from the year
1674 in theKingdom of England .Incumbents
*Monarch -
Charles II of England Events
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19 February - England and theNetherlands sign the Treaty of Westminster ending theThird Anglo-Dutch War . A provision of the agreement transfers the Dutch colony ofNew Amsterdam to England, which renames itNew York .cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-141-02715-0|year=2006]
*26 March -Theatre Royal, Drury Lane re-opens, having been rebuilt after theGreat Fire of London .cite book |last=Palmer |first=Alan & Veronica |year=1992 |title= The Chronology of British History|publisher= Century Ltd|location=London|pages= 191-192|isbn= 0-7126-5616-2]
*10 November - As provided in the Treaty of Westminster of19 February ,Netherlands cedesNew Netherlands to England.Undated
* Two skeletons of children discovered in the White Tower believed at the time to be the remains of the
Princes in the Tower . The skeletons were subsequently buried inWestminster Abbey . [cite web|url=http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/Page49.asp|title=>History of the Monarchy > The Yorkists > Edward V|accessdate=2007-10-28]Births
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24 January - Thomas Tanner, bishop and antiquarian (d. 1735)
* March - Jethro Tull, agriculturist (d. 1741)
*18 April -Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend , statesman (d. 1738)
*20 June - Nicholas Rowe, dramatist (d. 1718)
*17 July -Isaac Watts , hymnist (d. 1748)
*18 October -Beau Nash , dandy (d. 1762)
* Unknown date -Henry Sacheverell , churchman and politician (d. 1724)
* Approximate date of birth ofJeremiah Clarke , composer (d. 1707) and John Potter,Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1747)Deaths
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23 March -Henry Cromwell , soldier, politician and lord lieutenant of Ireland (born 1628)
* October - Robert Herrick, poet (born 1591)
*10 October -Thomas Traherne , poet (born c.1637)
*8 November -John Milton , poet (born 1608)
*9 December -Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon , statesman and historian (born 1609)References
ee also
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