Year 1674 (MDCLXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).
[edit] Events of 1674
[edit] January–June
[edit] July–December
[edit] Other events
[edit] Births
- 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)
- July 12 – Abigail Williams, American accuser in the Salem witch trials (d. 1765)
- July 17 – Isaac Watts, English hymnist (d. 1748)
- August 2 – Philip II, Duke of Orléans, regent of France (d. 1723)
- August 9 – František Maxmilián Kaňka, Czech architect (d. 1766)
- December 25 – Thomas Halyburton, Scottish theologian (d. 1712)
- Ki-Khosrow, Persian Governor of Kandahar (d. 1711)
- See also Category: 1674 births.
[edit] Deaths
- January 12 – Giacomo Carissimi Italian composer (b. 1605)
- February 22 – Jean Chapelain, French writer (b. 1595)
- February 24 – Matthias Weckmann, German composer (b. 1616)
- March 8 – Charles Sorel, sieur de Souvigny, French writer (b. 1597)
- June 14 – Marin le Roy de Gomberville, French writer (b. 1600)
- July 2 – Eberhard III, Duke of Württemberg (b. 1614)
- August 12 – Philippe de Champaigne, French painter (b. 1602)
- October – Robert Herrick, English poet (b. 1591)
- October 10 – Thomas Traherne, English poet (b. c. 1637)
- October 22 – Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, Dutch painter (b. 1621)
- October 27 – Hallgrímur Pétursson, Icelandic poet (b. 1614)
- November 8 – John Milton, English Puritan poet noted for Paradise Lost and other works including Lycidas; On His Blindness; L’Allegro; On The Late Massacre In Piedmont; Paradise Regained (b. 1608)
- December 9 – Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, English statesman and historian (b. 1609)
- See also Category: 1674 deaths.