Historical Events In 1674
Friday, 15 May 2026
Jan 10 Jacob de Witt, Dutch mayor (Dordrecht)/MP, dies at 84. 


Jan 11 Jan Zoet, actor/playwright/poet (Brutal-Roffel), dies at 58. 


Jan 12 Giacomo Carissimi, Italian bandmaster/composer (Jephta), dies at 68. 


Jan 12 Reinhard Keiser, composer. 


Feb 09 English re-conquer New York from Netherlands 


Feb 09 English reconquer NY from Netherlands 


Feb 19 Netherlands and England sign Peace of Westminster (NYC is recorded as becoming English) 


Feb 21 Johann Augustin Kobelius, composer 


Feb 22 John Wilson, composer, dies at 78 


Mar 06 Johann Paul Schor, German barok painter, dies at 58. 


Mar 30 Jethro Tull, agricultural writer (Basildon), baptised 


Apr 22 Netherlands and Munster sign peace treaty. 


May 11 Netherlands and Cologne sign peace treaty 


May 21 General John Sobieski chosen King of Poland. 


May 28 German Parliament declares war on France. 


May 31 Friedrich Erhard Niedt, composer. 


Jun 04 John Lievensz, painter/etcher/wood carver, dies at 66 


Jun 11 Susanna van Baerle, Dutch poet/wife of Geeraert Burns, dies at 52 


Jun 20 Nicholas Rowe, England, poet laureate (Jane Shore, Tamerlane). 


Jun 22 Eugene J P, Earl of Merode, Belgian marquis of Westerloo. 


Jul 01 Spain, France and Netherlands form Triple Alliance 


Jul 17 Isaac Watts, England, writer/preacher/hymnist (Horae Lyrican). 


Jul 19 Court of Holland bans books of Hobbes/Spinoza/Meyer. 


Aug 11 1st Battle of at Seneffe (Louis II Condé vs Willem III). 


Aug 12 Philippe de Champaigne, painter, dies. 


Aug 13 Lars Johnstown, [Lasse Lucidor], Swedish poet, dies at 35. 


Aug 18 Jean Racine's "Iphigénie," premieres in Versailles 


Sep 12 Claes P "Nicolas" Tulip, mayor of Amsterdam, dies at 80 


Sep 20 2nd West Indie Company forms. 


Sep 27 Robert Arnauld d'andilly, French literary/financier/translator, dies. 


Sep 29 Jacques Hotteterre, composer 


Oct 11 Pierre Corneille's "Surena," premieres in Paris. 


Oct 15 Robert Herrick, Mass, British poet (Together). 


Oct 16 Emperor Leopold I fires chancellor Furst Wenzel Lobkowitz. 


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