1684 in England

1684 in England

Events from the year 1684 in the Kingdom of England.

Incumbents

*Monarch - Charles II of England

Events

* 15 March - Highwayman John Nevison hanged for murder.cite book |last=Palmer |first=Alan & Veronica |year=1992 |title= The Chronology of British History|publisher= Century Ltd|location=London|pages= 194-196|isbn= 0-7126-5616-2]
* 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."1684." The People's Chronology. Ed. Jason M. Everett. Thomson Gale, 2006. eNotes.com. 2006. 6 Jun, 2007]
* England has its coldest winter in living memory; the River Thames and the sea as far as 2 miles out from land freezes over.
* John Bunyan writes the second part of "The Pilgrim's Progress"
* The Chipperfield's Circus dynasty begins when James Chipperfield introduces performing animals to England at the Frost Fair on the Thames.
* Robert Hooke invents the semaphore line.

Births

* 16 November - Allen Bathurst, 1st Earl Bathurst, politician (died 1775)
* Nathanial Lardner, theologian (died (1768)

Deaths

* 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)

References

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