1684 in England

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Events from the year 1684 in England.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Charles II

Events

• January–March – England has its coldest winter in living memory; the River Thames and the sea as far as 2 miles out from land freezes over.[1][2] The Chipperfield's Circus dynasty begins when James Chipperfield introduces performing animals to England at the Frost Fair on the Thames in London.
• 5 January – Charles II gives the title Duke of St Albans to Charles Beauclerk, his illegitimate son by Nell Gwyn.
• 15 March – highwayman John Nevison hanged in York for murder.[3]
• 10 May – Titus Oates arrested for perjury.[4]
• 31 July – the village of Churchill, Oxfordshire, is largely destroyed by fire.
• 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.[1]
• Robert Hooke invents the semaphore line.[3]
• John Bunyan writes the second part of The Pilgrim's Progress

Births

• 6 June – Nathanial Lardner, theologian (died 1768)
• 16 November – Allen Bathurst, 1st Earl Bathurst, politician (died 1775)
• date unknown – James Figg, first English bare-knuckle boxing champion (died 1734)

Deaths

• 5 February – Dorothy Spencer, Countess of Sunderland (born 1617)
• 24 March – Elizabeth Ridgeway, poisoner (burned at the stake)
• 28 March (bur.) – 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; hanged)
• 6 July – Peter Gunning, royalist churchman (born 1614)
• 8 August – George Booth, 1st Baron Delamer (born 1622)
• October – Dud Dudley, ironmaster (born 1600?)

References

1. Everett, Jason M., ed. (2006). "1684". The People's Chronology. Thomson Gale.
2. Stratton, J. M. (1969). Agricultural Records. John Baker. ISBN 0-212-97022-4.
3. Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 194–196. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
4. Marshall, Alan (2004). "Oates, Titus (1649–1705)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 2011-03-22. (subscription or UK public library membership required)