1684
This page relates to the year 1684 Gregorian Calendrier.
Events
Africa
Americas
- February 24th: Beginning of the Revolt of Beckman with the Brazil.
- July 24th: Departure of La Rochelle of a forwarding of Cavelier of the Room towards the mouth of the the Mississippi.
- Prohibition by the France to create sugar refineries to the the Antilles.
- With the Quebec, Pierre-Spirit Radisson, a Runner of wood, betrays France and helps the English of the Compagnie of Hudson Bay to seize the Strong Bourbon.
Asia
- October 7th, Japan: Hotta Masayoshi, the main thing adviser of the Shogun, is assassinated hand of one of his/her cousins in the room of the Council, without the reasons of his act being included/understood. Affected, Tokugawa Tsunayoshi refuses from now on to go to the assemblies of the Council in person. It ignores the businesses gradually, being pressed on its new adviser of modest origin Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu (1658 - 1714). Under its government, the shogounat knows financial problems.
- Siamese Embassy with Versailles: Narai, king of the Siam and its advised Greek Constantin Phaulkon requests the French assistance to resist the attempts of the Dutchmen to monopolize the foreign trade of the country.
Europe
- the winter, length and rigorous, involves bad harvests followed by food shortages.
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March 5th: The Holy-League made up of the Holy roman Empire, of the Poland of Venice and Malta is formed by the Othoman Pope Innocent XI to fight the . The war costs a dozen million guilders per annum.
- April 28th: beginning of the head office of Luxembourg.
- 17 - May 23rd: Bombardment of Genoa by Abraham Duquesne on order of Louis XIV which wishes to detach it from Spanish alliance.
- May 25th: Saint Jean-Baptiste of the Room founds the laic religious congregation of the Frères of the Christian Schools dedicated to the education of popular environments.
- June 4th: The marshal of Créquy takes Luxembourg defended by the prince of Chimay.
- July 4th: Convention of $the Hague between the France and the United Provinces. The Spain accepts a twenty years truce.
- August 6th: Venice takes Leucade with the Othoman .
- August 15th: Truce of Ratisbon between the France and the emperor Léopold Ier: the meetings carried out by France since 1680 are accepted for twenty years, but cannot continue.
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Second austro-Turkish war (1684 - 1698): reconquest of the Hungary and the Slavonia by the Austrian .
- the imperial ones take again Visegrád, Vác and Pest in Hungary.
- Rupture enters the Savoy and the France.
- Rochester becomes Lord governor of Ireland (fine in 1687)
Art & culture
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Pierre Bayle creates the News of the Republic of the Letters .
- Speech with Madam of the Sand pit of the Fountain.
- Life of Pascal of Gilberte Périer.
- Precise of the campaigns of Louis XIV of Jean Root.
- Newspaper of Dangeau (1684 - 1720).
- Andronic , tragedy of Campistron.
- A tentative a universal dictionary of Antoine Furetière, which is excluded from the French Academy in 1685 for this publication.
See also: 1684 with the theater
- Of the origin of the fables , Fontenelle.
- Persée and Andromède of Pierre Puget.
- Jules Hardouin-Mansart completes the Galerie of the Ices to Versailles.
Science & technology
- June 16th: startup of the Machine of Marly.
- the Astronomer Jean-Dominique Cassini, director of the Observatory of Paris, discovers two news the moons of Saturn: Téthys and Dioné.
- Acta Eruditorum , of Leibniz (Infinitesimal calculus).
- the Small Torch of the sea , guide of Coastal traffic of Bougard.
Births in 1684
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June 22nd: Francesco Manfredini, violinist and Italian type-setter († October 6th 1762)
- October 10th: Antoine Watteau, painter French
- December 22nd: Johann Jacob Dillenius or Dillen, English botanist of origin German († 1747)
- François d' Agincourt, musician French
Death in 1684
- January 4th: Isaac Lemaistre de Sacy, theologist and humanistic French.
- May 8th: Henry Of the Mount, French musician (1610 -1684).
- May 12th: Edme Mariotte, physicist and monk French (v. 1620-1684).
- October 1st: Pierre Corneille, playwright French
- December 29th: Antoine Gombaud, knight of Mother.
Easter Day
- April 2nd: Easter Sunday
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