1684

This page relates to the year 1684 Gregorian Calendrier.

Events

Africa

Americas

  • 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.

Art & culture

  • 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

Science & technology

Births in 1684

Death in 1684

Easter Day

Be-X-old: 1684 Map-bms: 1684 Simple: 1684

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