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Year '1675' ('MDCLXXV') was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

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Events of 1675

January - June

July - December

Undated

Births

Deaths

Events of 1675

January - June

★ January 5 - The Battle of Turckeim

★ June 28 - Battle of Fehrbellin

★ June - King Philip's War breaks out between the settlers in New England and the indigenous tribes led by Metacomet.

July - December

★ August 10 - King Charles II of England places the foundation stone of the Royal Greenwich Observatory in London - construction begins.

★ November 11 - Guru Gobind Singh becomes the Tenth Guru of the Sikhs.

Undated

★ Cassini discovers Saturn's Cassini Division.

★ Antony Van Leewenhook discovers a microscope used for observation of human tissues and liquids.

Births

★ January 16 - Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, French writer (d. 1755)

★ February 21 - Franz Xaver Josef von Unertl, Bavarian politician (d. 1750)

★ February 28 - Guillaume Delisle, French cartographer (d. 1726)

★ March 31 - Pope Benedict XIV (d. 1758)

★ May 29 - Humphry Ditton, English mathematician (d. 1715)

★ June 1 - Francesco Scipione, marchese di Maffei, Italian archaeologist (d. 1755)

★ July 5 - Mary Walcott, American accuser at the Salem witch trials

★ July 12 - Evaristo Abaco, Italian composer (d. 1742)

★ July 14 - Claude Alexandre de Bonneval, French soldier (d. 1747)

★ September 2 - William Somervile, English poet (d. 1742)

★ September 3 - Paul Dudley, Attorney-General of Massachusetts (d. 1751)

★ October 11 - Samuel Clarke, English philosopher (d. 1729)

★ October 21 - Emperor Higashiyama of Japan (d. 1710)

★ October 24 - Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham, English soldier and politician (d. 1749)

★ November 14 - Falicas de luvitas, fay de saint-Mark, Author/painter (d. 1756}
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Deaths

★ February 9 - Gerhard Douw, Dutch painter (b. 1613)

★ March 18 - Arthur Chichester, 1st Earl of Donegall, Irish soldier (b. 1606)

★ May 18 - Stanisław Lubieniecki, Polish astronomer (b. 1623)

★ May 18 - Father Jacques Marquette, French missionary and explorer (b. 1636)

★ May 27 - Gaspard Dughet, French painter (b. 1613)

★ June 12 - Charles Emmanuel II of Savoy (b. 1634)

★ July 27 - Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne, Marshal of France (b. 1611)

★ July 28 - Bulstrode Whitelocke, English lawyer (b. 1605)

★ September 18 - Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1604)

★ September 23 - Valentin Conrart, founder of the Académie Française (b. 1603)

★ October 27 - Gilles de Roberval, French mathematician (b. 1602)

★ November 28 - Basil Feilding, 2nd Earl of Denbigh, English Civil War soldier

★ November 28 - Leonard Hoar, American President of Harvard University (b. 1630)

★ November 30 - Cæcilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, colonial Governor of Maryland (b. 1605)

★ December 6 - John Lightfoot, English church goer (b. 1602)

★ December 15 - Johannes Vermeer, Dutch painter (b. 1632)

★ December 23 - Caesar, duc de Choiseul, French marshal and diplomat (b. 1602)

★ November 1 - Guru Teg Bahadur, 9th Sikh Guru (b. 1621)
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